# Winston Taylor UK LLP (formerly Taylor Wessing) - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.winstontaylor.com - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) The UK law firm formerly called Taylor Wessing, renamed Winston Taylor in a 2026 merger with US firm Winston & Strawn, with a Chambers-ranked data protection team. ## Winston Taylor UK scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 3/5 Chambers Band 3 ranking and self-described breach/regulatory-inquiry defence work, but the firm's own 2017 Court of Appeal loss on a subject access request shows a documented compliance shortfall. ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 4/5 SRA-recognised body since 2011 with no published disciplinary record; Chambers-ranked individual lawyer Christopher Jeffery, Band 5, in UK data protection. ### What it publishes about fees: 2/5 Firm states it publishes SRA-mandated fee-transparency data, but core data-protection advisory rates were not found published; consistent with bespoke City-firm hourly billing. ### Knowledge of your sector: 4/5 Dedicated Privacy & Data Security practice page, 20+ years' team claim, named partners Jeffery and Joyce, and a Chambers-ranked specialism. ### Independence from what it sells: 5/5 Traditional law-firm billing model; no evidence found of tied software-product sales or funnel-style monetisation of the advisory relationship. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 3/5 SRA regulation imposes mandatory indemnity-insurance rules on recognised bodies, but no specific UK cover amount is publicly disclosed by the firm. ## Sources for Winston Taylor UK Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Companies House record for the LLP that traded as Taylor Wessing - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OC322935 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - SRA recognised-body record for Winston Taylor UK LLP (formerly Taylor Wessing LLP) - Source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/organisation/?sraNumber=463016 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - A second, newer SRA-recognised entity now also carries on the UK practice post-merger - Source: https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/organisation/?sraNumber=8015022 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Taylor Wessing completed a transatlantic merger with US firm Winston & Strawn, forming Winston Taylor - Source: https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/06/transatlantic-tie-up-creating-winston-taylor-goes-live/ - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Firm's own regulatory page states it publishes SRA-mandated fee/pricing information - Source: https://www.winstontaylor.com/regulatory-and-legal-information - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Firm's Privacy & Data Security practice page self-describes team experience and services - Source: https://www.winstontaylor.com/practice-areas/privacy-data-security - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Chambers UK 2026 ranks the firm's Data Protection & Information Law practice and a named partner - Source: https://chambers.com/department/taylor-wessing-data-protection-information-law-uk-1:2666:11805:1:407 - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Court of Appeal case in which the firm itself, as a data controller, was respondent to a subject access request dispute - Source: https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Dawson-Damer_v_Taylor_Wessing_LLP_Informati.pdf - Checked: 2026-09-19 - Winston Taylor publishes hourly rates for the services the solicitors' regulator requires it to price (probate, residential conveyancing, immigration and employment tribunal claims): "These range from £290 plus VAT for a paralegal to £1,030 plus VAT for a senior partner." It publishes no figure for data protection work. - Source: https://www.winstontaylor.com/information-on-our-fees-and-pricing - Checked: 2026-09-29 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Not published ## Strengths - SRA-recognised body since 2011 (SRA 463016) with no disciplinary or regulatory decisions currently published on the register - Dedicated, named Data Protection & Information Law practice ranked Band 3 by Chambers UK, with partner Christopher Jeffery individually ranked Band 5 - Firm states on its own site that it publishes SRA-mandated fee/pricing transparency information - Practice page claims over 20 years' team experience across breach response, regulatory-inquiry defence and international data protection, spanning sectors including financial services, life sciences and technology ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - The entity historically known as 'Taylor Wessing' has been renamed and restructured following a 2026 transatlantic merger, so the firm as originally named no longer trades under that name. - Basis: Companies House OC322935 was renamed from 'Taylor Wessing Limited Liability Partnership' to 'Winston Taylor UK LLP' on 14 Apr 2026, and the UK practice is now also carried on via a separate new SRA-recognised entity, Winston Taylor International LLP (SRA 8015022, recognised 25/03/2026). - The firm itself has litigated, and lost at the Court of Appeal, over its own handling of a subject access request from a client's beneficiary. - Basis: Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2017] EWCA Civ 74: the Court of Appeal held there was no 'no other purpose' bar to relief and that the firm had not shown compliance would involve disproportionate effort, reversing the High Court's dismissal of the claimants' application. - No professional indemnity insurance cover amount is publicly disclosed for the UK entity or entities carrying on the practice. - Basis: Winston Taylor's own regulatory-and-legal-information page addresses professional indemnity insurance only for its French Avocats entity via the Paris Bar; no equivalent UK PII disclosure was found on the pages checked. ## Where this firm appears - [After a data breach: what UK law asks of you](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/post-breach) - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Which data protection, AI governance and cyber security providers publish a price?](https://theassurancedesk.com/lists/providers-that-publish-a-price) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.