Gateley named 'Best Legal Adviser'

National law firm, Gateley has been named 'Best Legal Adviser' in an independent report on client satisfaction. The top 50 firm achieved the top score for personal/partner relationships in the Legal Week Intelligence Client Satisfaction Report 2011. The report assesses client satisfaction levels within 75 law firms by surveying more than 1,000 senior in-house lawyers.   In the national category the firm also beat benchmarks for commercial and legal advice, IT/knowledge management and service delivery. Clients were most impressed with the firm's in-depth knowledge of their sectors, flexibility and approachable nature.   The news comes as Gateley breaks through the £2 billion barrier for aggregate value of corporate deal transactions. This follows a successful year which saw the company post a record increase in turnover attributed to the opening of its Manchester office in July 2010. The firm also entered the top 50 UK law firms by revenue for the first time and rose from a position of 20 to 8 in the Experian Corpfin national league table of corporate deals.