Focus on: A jam packed year in Oxford

The firm signed a one year commitment with Business & Innovation magazine which covers a wide area around Oxfordshire, to have a feature in each publication. This has been a brilliant relationship and has allowed us to gain some great coverage in the region - view them here!

Our real estate team also hosted the first ‘away day’ from the new office in September 2022 with David Williams, Senior Commercial Manager, Harwell ARC delivering the closing keynote on the state of the local market and the opportunities for Mills & Reeve.

And on 7 March over 50 of our life sciences team came together in Oxford at the brand new SuperLab for the Life Sciences Sector Away Day.. We secured Professor Chas Bountra, Vice Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford as our keynote and it was a really productive and innovative day, full of ideas and inspiring conversations.

As a thanks to those across Oxfordshire who supported our move, introduced us to new contacts in the area and continue to invite us to events and networking opportunities, we were really pleased to host a drinks event in

October in local bar and restaurant, Wilding. We were blown away when over 80 people attended. (Pictures above)

To celebrate one year in Oxford, we will be hosting an ‘Oxford turns one’ party in May and can’t wait to see all the hard work from the events team come to life!

Award wins

Despite having only had a physical presence in Oxford for a matter of months, we were overjoyed to get an award win under our belt winning ‘law firm of the year’ at OxProp Fest 2022 for the second year in a row!

We were also highly commended for our use of technology in the Thames Valley Business Awards 2022.

We have signed up to the Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s Collective Business Fund to make our county a better place to live and work and through the Mills & Reeve Charitable Trust, made a considerable donation to the Oxford Food Hub.

We’ve also created Oxfordshire Unlimited with the following initial objectives: o To bring together the senior local decision makers of the professional service firms to create a group that showcases Oxford and Oxfordshire as a world-leading innovation region that contributes to UK’s competitiveness and local prosperity o To minimise the leakage of work out of Oxfordshire and keep more in the county o To bring together a cohort of business leaders who can share ideas and network in a collaborative and collegiate community

What’s next?

Our move to Oxford has been very successful so far and I think it’s safe to say that we have all fallen in love with the city.

We can’t wait to see what we can achieve with this initiative and look forward to all that is still to come for Mills & Reeve in Oxford.