Ronald Fletcher Baker Solicitors

Ronald Fletcher Baker Solicitors: Legal advice for individuals and businesses

Ronald Fletcher Baker Solicitors (RFB Legal) is a British law firm with over 75 years of activity. The firm presents itself as a practice that advises individuals, investors, and businesses both in the UK and internationally, with a focus on providing clear and practical legal solutions. Its activity dates back to 1948, the year the firm itself cites as its founding date.

The firm operates from four offices: London (Holborn), Richmond, Manchester, and Exeter. The firm is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and has office identification numbers 512598 (London) and 63015 (Manchester).

Practice areas for individuals

The firm structures its offering into two main blocks: services for individuals and services for businesses. In the personal sphere, RFB Legal covers the following areas:

• Residential property: buying and selling homes, remortgaging, informal lease extensions, Islamic finance, and Right to Buy.
• Property litigation: residential property disputes, residential lease extensions, leasehold enfranchisement, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
• Employment: employment matters and worker status.
• Immigration: British citizenship, family visas, indefinite leave to remain, pre-settled and settled status.
• Wills, trusts, and probate: drafting wills and codicils, estate planning and lifetime gifts, estate administration, deed of variation (changing a will after death), overseas assets and cross-border estates, discretionary trusts, life interest trusts, vulnerable beneficiary trusts, bare trusts for minors, offshore trusts, and declarations of trust over property interests.
• Powers of attorney and court protection: powers of attorney and court protection applications.
• Contentious trusts and probate: disputes related to wills and trusts.
• Divorce and family: divorce and separation, financial claims and consent orders, children law, international family law, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, cohabitants and unmarried families, domestic violence and emotional abuse, surrogacy, fertility, and adoption.

Services for businesses

In the corporate and commercial sphere, the firm advises in the following areas:

• Corporate and commercial law: commercial contracts, investing in businesses, loans and equity, setting up a business, regulated sectors, corporate real estate and corporate wrapper transactions, franchising, mergers and acquisitions.
• Commercial property: commercial property conveyancing, commercial real estate finance, commercial property development, commercial property litigation, commercial property disputes, commercial lease extensions, commercial property alternative dispute resolution, construction disputes, and corporate occupiers.
• Commercial litigation: insolvency, energy and utilities, commercial alternative dispute resolution, copyright, media and IP, charity litigation, and higher education litigation.
• Employment: employment tribunal litigation.
• Business immigration: asylum appeals, creative worker visa, global talent visa, and skilled worker visa.

Team and structure

The firm has a management team and partners specialising in different areas. Among the names highlighted on the website are Afsheen Nasr (managing partner), Deniz Oguzkanli (senior partner), Rudi Ramdarshan and David Burns (senior litigation partners), Victoria Huxley, Mustafa Abbas, Ben Frost, Jonathan Chan, and Berivan Erdogan (partners), Ali Chouhdry (property partner), Devorah Ormonde (private client partner), and Rebecca Roberts (partner and head of compliance).

Recognitions and ratings

The firm states that it has been recommended by The Legal 500 in the 2024, 2025, and 2026 editions, and that it has accumulated more than 1,000 five-star reviews. The website includes client testimonials highlighting the attention received in home purchases and sales, disputes with commercial tenants, and property matters. The firm presents itself as worthy of industry awards and accreditations, although it does not detail in the analysed material which specific awards these are.

Presence and contact

Ronald Fletcher Baker Solicitors maintains offices in London (Holborn), Richmond, Manchester, and Exeter. The firm serves both national and international clients and offers a contact form on its website to direct enquiries to the corresponding office. For media enquiries, the firm provides a specific press email.

Offices and locations

Holborn Office: New Derwent House, 69-73 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8TA

Richmond Office: 5 The Green, Richmond, TW9 1PL

Manchester Office: 111 Piccadilly Manchester M1 2HY

Exeter Office: Ground Floor, Sterling Court 16-18 Dix’s Field Exeter EX1 1QA