Mills & Reeve is a leading UK law firm and trusted legal adviser to over 130 universities, colleges, academies and education-focused organisations across England and Wales.
We work closely with university finance teams, supporting the issues that sit at the heart of financial sustainability. Our advice covers all forms of borrowing including bank facilities, private placements and public bond issues. It also includes restructurings, collaborations and shared services, procurement and subsidy control, funding and regulatory compliance, estates and capital projects, and disputes, always with a focus on managing risk, cost, and delivery.
We’ve partnered with BUFDG for over 20 years, delivering workshops, briefings and insights for finance professionals. We are also leading work on financial resilience, having launched Radical Collaboration: A Playbook with KPMG UK (commissioned by Universities UK Transformation and Efficiency Taskforce) which offers timely and practical guidance for university leaders exploring new models of radical transformations and integration.
We also invest heavily in our people. We've been ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list for the last two years running and we have been ranked in the top 8 for the last 10 years by RollonFriday for the Best Law Firm to Work At and in 2026, we are ranked 5th. Our Band 1 ranking in legal directories reflects our deep and broad expertise across the education sector.
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