- SRA number
- 401322
- Authorisation
- Recognised body
- Authorised since
- 1 November 2011
- Organisation type
- Recognised body, authorised
- Constitution
- Limited liability partnership
- Practising offices
- 17 (16 branches)
- Head office
- London EC1A 4HT
- Branch towns
- Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Shanghai, Bruxelles, Antwerp, Cologne and 7 more
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- 10: Financial services, Litigation, Commercial property, Intellectual Property, Corporate (listed), Wills and trusts, Planning, Employment, Corporate (non-listed), Landlord and tenant
- Website (SRA record)
- dlapiper.com
- Head office phone
- 020 7349 0296
- Companies House status
- Active (OC307847, file 1 May 2026)
- Incorporated
- 4 May 2004
- Company type
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Previous names (SRA)
- Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP; Dla LLP
- SRA firms in City of London
- 754 (178 residential property)
Dla Piper UK LLP is a recognised body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since November 2011 and recorded under SRA number 401322. The SRA record lists 17 practising offices: the head office at 160 Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4HT, plus 16 further offices in Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Shanghai and Bruxelles and 9 other towns. The register carries 2 previous names, most recently Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP. Its constitution is recorded as limited liability partnership.
In its most recent annual return the firm told the SRA it delivered work in 10 areas of law: Financial services, Litigation, Commercial property, Intellectual Property, Corporate (listed), Wills and trusts, Planning, Employment, Corporate (non-listed) and Landlord and tenant. Residential property is not among the reported areas, so the firm does not appear in the conveyancing lists on this site's town and city pages.
The head office postcode EC1A 4HT falls within City of London (London), where the SRA register lists 754 authorised firms with a practising office, 178 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are Dla Piper France LLP (same postcode, London), Dla Piper International LLP (same postcode, London), Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP (100 m, London), RW Blears LLP (100 m, London) and Paytons Solicitors (100 m, London). 0 of those 5 report residential property work.
Companies House records the firm as DLA PIPER UK LLP (company number OC307847), a limited liability partnership incorporated on 4 May 2004, 22 years before this snapshot. Its status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026 is "Active". Companies House also lists 1 earlier registered name, most recently DLA PIPER RUDNICK GRAY CARY UK LLP. The registered office town is LONDON, the same as the head office.
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | 160 Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4HT | City of London | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | Elshaw House, 51 Carver Street, Sheffield, S1 4FT | Sheffield | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | City Square House, 11 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL | Leeds | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | Two Chamberlain Square, Paradise, Birmingham, B3 3AX | Birmingham | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | The Plaza, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L3 9QJ | Liverpool | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | 36/F Shanghai World Financial, 100 Century Avenue, Pudong Shanghai, Shanghai (China) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | 70 Rue aux Laines, Bruxelles, 1000 Brussels (Belgium) | outside England and Wales | 0322 629 6969 |
| Branch | Uitbreidingstraat 2, 2600, Antwerp (Belgium) | outside England and Wales | 07971 142315 |
| Branch | Augustinerstraße 10, 50667, Cologne (Germany) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | Maximilianstraße, 80539, Munich (Germany) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | Joachimstaler Strasse 12, D - 10719, Berlin (Germany) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | Alter Wall 4, 20457, Hamburg (Germany) | outside England and Wales | 0494 018 8880 |
| Branch | Neue Mainzer Strasse 6-10, 60311, Frankfurt (Germany) | outside England and Wales | 0496 927 1330 |
| Branch | Unit 2017-2012, 20F South Tower Beijing, Kerry Centre Office Tower, No 1 Guang Hua Road, Beijing, 100020 (China) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | 1 St. Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3DE | Manchester | 020 7349 0296 |
| Branch | DLA Piper UK LLP, Stilwerk, Grünstrasse 15, Düsseldorf, 40212 (Germany) | outside England and Wales | |
| Branch | 20th Floor, South Tower, Chaoyang District, Beijing (China) | outside England and Wales |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Companies House record
DLA PIPER UK LLP, company number OC307847, limited liability partnership, incorporated 4 May 2004. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Last accounts made up to 30 April 2025 (full). Registered office town: LONDON. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.
Nearest SRA-regulated firms
- Dla Piper France LLP · Londonsame postcode
- Dla Piper International LLP · Londonsame postcode
- Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP · London100 m
- RW Blears LLP · London100 m
- Paytons Solicitors · London100 m
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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 28 August 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.