Slater & Gordon Lawyers is a law firm in Australia. The firm was founded in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1935 by a barrister and solicitor from Irymple, Victoria, Hugh Lyons Gordon, and Labor politician Bill Slater. Since April 2023, the law firm has been owned by private equity firm Allegro Funds.[1]
The firm is one of Australia's largest consumer law firms, and in May 2007 the firm incorporated and was one of the first law firms in the world to go public when its shares were quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange. In 2012, Slater & Gordon entered the UK market with the acquisition of several UK based law firms, and became one of the UK's largest consumer law firms.[2] In 2014 the firm was ranked as the 7th largest international law firm operating in the UK by revenue.[3]
In December 2017, Slater & Gordon's lenders and shareholders approved a recapitalisation of the company via a Scheme of Arrangement.