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Manches new article content ... Manches & Co (later, from 1990, Manches) was a firm of solicitors in London, Oxford (from 1982) and Reading (from 2008). It merged in 2013 with Penningtons, forming Penningtons Manches LLP

The firm was founded in 1936 by Sidney Manches in a single room in what is now Broadgate. He and his wife Judith were the first husband and wife to practise in partnership. In 1956 they moved to 10 Duke Street, W1, on the corner with Wigmore Street: the premises had been occupied by the Free French government during the Second World War, and earlier Simon Bolivar had lived there. In 1990 the firm's London office moved to Aldwych House.

Sidney and Judith's son, Louis Manches, trained at the firm and became head of real estate and then senior partner in the London office. Their daughter, Jane Simpson, was chair of the firm until her retirement in 2011. Her husband, Alasdair Simpson, was senior partner during the 1980s and 1990s.