About Us
Preparing for tomorrow's challenges starts today. That's why CMS adopts a Future Facing approach, ensuring our clients stay ahead in an ever-evolving landscape. Global expertise, local insights, always with your commercial goals in mind.
Industries can rapidly change, business models can be disrupted, and regulation can force organisations to change course almost overnight. By continually scanning the horizon, CMS helps its clients to anticipate both the challenges and the opportunities headed this way. This is Future Facing Law.
In a world where innovation is business as usual, our mission is to deliver practical, business-focused advice that helps clients of every size to face the future with confidence.
Our lawyers immerse themselves in our clients' worlds, and as genuine experts in their fields, offer a grasp of detail that is second to none. We combine this with a next-generation mindset that means we can deliver innovative processes and solutions at speed, and at scale.
We are client-centric, have world vision and are performance driven.Client-centric - Being immersed in the industry sectors our clients operate in is at the heart of what we do. Our business is structured according to the industries our clients work in, delivering technically excellent lawyers who talk your language.
You can benefit from added value services such as Law-Now which provides practical and timely knowledge relevant to your business and from webinars for training at your desk. To help you manage your account, we deliver reporting information such as invoicing, matter progress, fees, work in progress and bespoke reports.
We have deep local expertise in many jurisdictions and major global centers. CMS has a track record of expanding to meet client needs, moving into countries such as Turkiye and Oman to support infrastructure and energy projects.
CMS lawyers are part of organizations such as the CMS Lifesciences Asia-Pacific Network and the African Legal Network. We understand how macro trends, such as the fall in oil price, affect your business and stay on top of the news agenda, regulatory discussions and new legislation.
Performance driven - CMS takes pride in first-class execution and project management – we deliver results, not just opinions. This approach to service delivery is the same everywhere, based on a common training program and a shared understanding of what our clients value.
All CMS lawyers, both those we recruit and those we train in-house, are focused on providing quality advice and quality service. We recruit, value and nurture top talent and through regular, independent evaluations, we identify opportunities to make improvements in our service and feed this back to our lawyers.
What this means in practice
Being Future Facing means staying one step ahead of industry trends and legal developments, allowing our lawyers to provide legal advice that is rooted in deep sector expertise and rich legal knowledge. It means agility is hardwired into the way we work and the way we think, delivering bespoke, innovative solutions to tackle the biggest legal and commercial challenges.
It means being a true business partner, keeping an eye out for both threats and opportunities. It means incorporating ethical and sustainable business practices that include diversity, inclusion and compliance as well as viewing all our operations from an ESG perspective.
It means creating a culture and work environment that encourages new ways of thinking and welcomes the perspectives and contributions of all.
Being Future Facing means caring about the future of our clients, our people, and the world around us.