Comparative Guide
Restructuring & Insolvency
United Kingdom
Contribution fromPaul Hastings LLP08 July 2025
Corporate restructuring & insolvency
Rankings
- 1
Akin
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 1
Clifford Chance LLP
Sector knowledgeNPS ® - 1
Freshfields
- 1
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 1
Latham & Watkins (London) LLP
Lawyer & team qualityBilling & efficiencySector knowledgeNPS ® - 1
Linklaters LLP
Sector knowledge - 1
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP
Lawyer & team quality - 1
White & Case LLP
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 1
A&O Shearman
Tier 1
- 2
Hogan Lovells International LLP
- 2
Milbank
- 2
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Lawyer & team qualityBilling & efficiencySector knowledgeNPS ® - 2
Slaughter and May
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge
Tier 2
- 4
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledgeNPS ® - 4
CMS
- 4
Dentons
- 4
DLA Piper
- 4
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
- 4
Macfarlanes LLP
- 4
Norton Rose Fulbright
- 4
Paul Hastings LLP
Lawyer & team quality - 4
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 4
Sidley Austin LLP
Lawyer & team qualityBilling & efficiencySector knowledgeNPS ® - 4
Pinsent Masons LLP
Tier 4
- 5
Addleshaw Goddard
Billing & efficiency - 5
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- 5
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- 5
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 5
Goodwin
- 5
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- 5
McDermott Will & Schulte
Billing & efficiency - 5
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Sector knowledgeNPS ® - 5
Simmons & Simmons
- 5
Stephenson Harwood
Tier 5
- 6
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
- 6
Fieldfisher
Billing & efficiency - 6
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Lawyer & team qualityBilling & efficiencySector knowledgeNPS ® - 6
Winston Taylor
Lawyer & team quality
Tier 6
- 7
Alston & Bird LLP
- 7
Baker McKenzie
- 7
Bird & Bird LLP
Billing & efficiency - 7
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sector knowledge - 7
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
- 7
HFW
NPS ® - 7
K&L Gates LLP
Lawyer & team qualityBilling & efficiency - 7
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Sector knowledge - 7
Osborne Clarke LLP
- 7
Shoosmiths LLP
- 7
Squire Patton Boggs
- 7
DAC Beachcroft LLP
- 7
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- 7
Reed Smith LLP
Tier 7
- 8
Ashfords LLP
- 8
Druces LLP
- 8
Enyo Law LLP
Lawyer & team quality - 8
Fladgate LLP
- 8
Howard Kennedy LLP
- 8
Isadore Goldman
Sector knowledge - 8
Keidan Harrison
- 8
Keystone Law
- 8
King & Spalding LLP
Lawyer & team qualityNPS ® - 8
LK Law LLP
- 8
Marriott Harrison LLP
Lawyer & team quality - 8
Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
- 8
Ropes & Gray LLP
Sector knowledge - 8
RPC
- 8
Seladore Legal
- 8
Stewarts Law LLP
Lawyer & team qualitySector knowledge - 8
TLT
- 8
Wedlake Bell LLP
- 8
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP