2020 Law Firm Shortlist
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Addleshaw Goddard (Yorkshire and the Humber)
CMS (North West)
DMH Stallard (South East)
Eversheds Sutherland (West Midlands)
Mills & Reeve (East Anglia)
Muckle (North)
Shoosmiths (East Midlands)
TLT (South West)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Addleshaw Goddard (Private equity: mid-market)
Charles Russell Speechlys (Commercial contracts)
Euclid Law (EU and competition)
Hempsons (Partnership)
Kirkland & Ellis (Corporate tax)
Paul Hastings (Mergers and acquisitions)
Shoosmiths (Venture capital)
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Private equity: high-value transactions)
White & Case (Equity capital markets)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Victoria Sigeti (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)
Carl Fernandes (Latham & Watkins)
Nicole Kar (Linklaters)
Aedamar Comiskey (Linklaters)
Damien Crossley (Macfarlanes)
Lisa O’Neill (McDermott, Will & Emery)
Anu Balasubramanian (Paul Hastings)
Helen Croke (Ropes & Gray)
Amy Mahon (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Michael Walby (Burnetts)
Noel Haywood (DLA Piper)
Abigail Owen (DMH Stallard)
Jon Cox-Brown (Eversheds Sutherland)
David Bowcock (Fieldfisher)
Paula Eckton (Steele Raymond)
Debbie Jackson (Walker Morris)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Birds Solicitors
Brown Rudnick
Byrne and Partners
DLA Piper
Hickman & Rose
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Burges Salmon (South West)
David Gray Solicitors (North)
IBB Solicitors (South East)
JMW (Manchester)
Kangs Solicitors (West Midlands)
Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar (East Anglia)
Opus Law (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Poppleston Allen (East Midlands)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Blackfords (Crime: general)
Harris Hagan (Gaming and betting)
Mishcon de Reya LLP (Fraud: white-collar crime)
Poppleston Allen (Licensing)
Signature Litigation (Fraud: civil)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Eve Giles (Allen & Overy)
Jasvinder Nakhwal (Peters & Peters)
Sue Prevezer (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
David Hall (Burges Salmon)
Mark Harrison (Hay & Kilner)
John Milner (IBB Solicitors)
Paul Haycock (Irwin Mitchell)
Hamraj Kang (Kangs Solicitors)
Matthew Claughton (Olliers)
Kevin McGrath (Smith Partnership)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Herbert Smith Freehills
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
RPC
Stewarts Law
White & Case
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Addleshaw Goddard (North West)
Archers Law (North )
Ashtons Legal (East Anglia)
Croft Solicitors (South West)
DLA Piper (West Midlands)
Freeths (East Midlands)
Stevens & Bolton (South East)
Stewarts Law (Yorkshire and the Humber)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Bates Wells (Professional discipline)
Debevoise & Plimpton (Public international law)
Slaughter and May (Competition litigation)
Stewarts Law (Banking litigation: investment and retail)
Three Crowns LLP (International arbitration)
White & Case (Commercial litigation)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Mark Molyneux (Addleshaw Goddard)
Helen Carty (Clifford Chance)
Lianne Craig (Hausfeld)
Rupert Lewis (Herbert Smith Freehills)
Kim Dietzel (Herbert Smith Freehills)
Sherina Petit (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Richard Swallow (Slaughter and May)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Simon Young (Clarion)
Ed Weeks (Cripps Pemberton Greenish)
David Summerhayes (DWF)
Andrew Leach (DWF)
Lauren Day (Ellis Jones)
Lloyd Smith (Fraser Brown)
Julian Diaz-Rainey (Pinsent Masons)
FINANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Milbank
Kirkland & Ellis
Norton Rose Fulbright
White & Case
FINANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Addleshaw Goddard (North West)
Charles Russell Speechlys (South West)
DLA Piper (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Eversheds Sutherland (West Midlands)
Gateley (East Midlands)
Pennington Manches Cooper (South East)
Penningtons Manches Cooper (East Anglia)
Womble Bond Dickinson (North)
FINANCE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft (Structured products and securitisation)
Clyde & Co LLP (Commodities disputes)
Kirkland & Ellis (Acquisition finance)
Milbank (Asset finance)
Milbank (High yield)
Morgan Lewis & Bockius (Asset based lending)
Norton Rose Fulbright (Derivatives including commodities)
Norton Rose Fulbright (Trade finance)
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Debt capital markets)
White & Case (Emerging markets)
FINANCE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Stephen Day (Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft)
Rita Lowe (CMS)
Penny Angell (Hogan Lovells)
Apostolos Gkoutzinis (Milbank)
Georgia Quenby (Morgan Lewis & Bockius)
Nigel Dickinson (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Andrew Wood (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Luke McDougall (Paul Hastings)
Danny Tricot (Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom)
Jason Kerr (White & Case)
FINANCE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Andrew Fordham (Addleshaw Goddard)
Shaun McCabe (Browne Jacobson)
Andrew Eaton (Burges Salmon)
Matthew Christmas (DLA Piper)
Amy Flavell (Pinsent Masons)
Julie Harrison (Ward Hadaway)
Graham Jeffries (Womble Bond Dickinson)
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Clifford Chance
GQ Littler
Lewis Silkin
Mishcon de Reya
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
BDB Pitmans (South East)
Birketts (East Anglia)
Burges Salmon (South West)
Gowling WLG (West Midlands)
Howes Percival (East Midlands)
Walker Morris (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Womble Bond Dickinson (North)
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Clifford Chance (Employers)
DLA Piper (Health and safety)
Irwin Mitchell (Employment: employees/unions)
Sacker & Partners (Pensions: non-contentious)
Travers Smith (Employee share schemes)
Wesley Gryk Solicitors (Immigration)
HUMAN RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Paul Randall (Hogan Lovells)
Elspeth Guild (Kingsley Napley)
Nicola Rabson (Linklaters)
Joanna Blackburn (Mishcon de Reya)
Jennifer Millins (Mishcon de Reya)
Barbara Allen (Stephenson Harwood)
HUMAN RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Nic Elliott (Actons)
Sally Hulston (Addleshaw Goddard)
Tim Copplestone (Clarke Willmott)
Glyn Ryland (Gowling WLG)
Simon Rhodes (Trethowans)
Jamie Gamble (Ward Hadaway)
INSURANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Clyde & Co
DAC Beachcroft
Fieldfisher
Irwin Mitchell
Kennedys
INSURANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Bridge McFarland (East Midlands)
Collins Solicitors (South East)
Irwin Mitchell (North)
Irwin Mitchell (West Midlands)
Morgan Jones Pett (East Anglia)
Thompsons Solicitors (South West)
INSURANCE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Arnold & Porter (Product liability)
Beale & Co (Professional negligence)
Clyde & Co (Insurance and reinsurance litigation)
Hogan Lovells (Corporate and regulatory)
Irwin Mitchell (Personal Injury)
Pinsent Masons (Insurance: insolvency and restructuring)
Russell-Cooke (Clinical Negligence)
INSURANCE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Louisa Caswell (Addleshaw Goddard)
Geraldine Quirk (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)
Catherine Bennett (Capsticks)
Katherine Coates (Clifford Chance)
Richard Harrison (Clyde & Co)
Jill Greenfield (Fieldfisher)
Alison Eddy (Irwin Mitchell)
James Mee (RPC)
INSURANCE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Francis Lacy Scott (asb law)
Victoria Wanless (Beechams)
Sarah Erwin-Jones (Browne Jacobson)
Lisa Jordan (Irwin Mitchell)
Paul Rumley (Royds Withy King)
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Akin Gump
Debevoise & Plimpton
Goodwin
Kirkland & Ellis
Proskauer Rose
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Eversheds Sutherland (Real estate funds)
Schulte Roth & Zabel (Hedge funds)
Simpson Thacher (Private funds)
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Cathy Pitt (CMS)
Kate Downey (Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson)
Richard Watkins (Kirkland & Ellis)
Christopher Good (Macfarlanes)
Nigel Van Zyl (Proskauer Rose)
Jason Glover (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett)
NORTHERN IRELAND
FIRM OF THE YEAR
A&L Goodbody
Carson McDowell
TLT
Tughans
OFFSHORE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Cains Advocates
Carey Olsen
Collas Crill
Dickinson Gleeson
Ferbrache & Farrell
Mourant
Ogier
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Farrer & Co
Forsters
Maurice Turnor Gardner
Mishcon de Reya
Payne Hicks Beach
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Clarion (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Mills & Reeve (West Midlands)
Nelsons Solicitors (East Midlands)
Penningtons Manches Cooper (South East)
Taylor Vinters (East Anglia)
Tilly Bailey & Irvine (North)
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Bates Wells (Charities and not-for-profit)
Burges Salmon (Agriculture and estates)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors (Court of Protection)
Family Law in Partnership (Family)
Mishcon de Reya (Personal tax, trusts and probate)
Payne Hicks Beach (Contentious trusts and probate)
Stephenson Harwood (Art and cultural property)
PRIVATE CLIENT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Rosamund McCarthy (Bates Wells)
Andrea Zavos (Boodle Hatfield)
Pierre Valentin (Constantine Cannon)
Anne-Marie Hutchinson (Dawson Cornwell)
Julia Lomas (Irwin Mitchell)
Michelle Uppal (Miles & Partners)
Sandra Davis (Mishcon de Reya)
PRIVATE CLIENT
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Lyn Ayrton (Lake Legal)
Philippa Morgan (Lyons Davidson )
Marc Saunderson (Mills & Reeve)
Kevin Modiri (Nelsons Solicitors)
Michael Cash (Penningtons Manches Cooper)
Kath Hill (Swinburne Maddison)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Allen & Overy
DLA Piper
Gowling WLG
Herbert Smith Freehills
White & Case
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Gowling WLG (West Midlands)
Michelmores (South West)
Pinsent Masons (North West)
Prospect Law (East Midlands)
Squire Patton Boggs (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Ward Hadaway (North)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Allen & Overy (Infrastructure)
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Water)
DLA Piper (Power)
Latham & Watkins (Oil and gas)
White & Case (Mining and minerals)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Yann Alix (Ashurst)
Audley Sheppard QC (Clifford Chance)
Danielle Beggs (Dentons)
Silke Goldberg (Herbert Smith Freehills)
Simon Tysoe (Latham & Watkins)
Jessamy Gallagher (Linklaters)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Anja Beriro (Browne Jacobson)
Darren Walsh (DLA Piper)
Gus Wood (Gowling WLG)
Carol McCormack (Michelmores)
Libbie Henderson (Muckle)
Melanie Grimmitt (Pinsent Masons)
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Bates Wells
Bevan Brittan
Bindmans
Farrer & Co
Leigh Day
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Bevan Brittan (South West)
Brachers (South East)
Browne Jacobson (East Midlands)
Browne Jacobson (North West)
JG Poole & Co (East Anglia)
Mills & Reeve (West Midlands)
Muckle (North)
Walker Morris (Yorkshire and the Humber)
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
BDB Pitmans (Infrastructure)
Bevan Brittan (Local government)
Bhatt Murphy (Civil liberties and human rights)
Browne Jacobson (Healthcare)
Deighton Pierce Glynn (Administrative and public law)
Farrer & Co (Education)
ITN Solicitors (Civil liberties and human rights)
Sinclairslaw Incorporating Match Solicitors and John Ford Solicitors (Education)
PUBLIC SECTOR
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Nick Evans (BDB Pitmans)
Rosemary Jago (Bevan Brittan)
Harriet Wistrich (Birnberg Peirce and Partners)
Bruce Potter (Blake Morgan)
Diane Gilhooley (Eversheds Sutherland)
Ravi Naik (ITN Solicitors)
Rosa Curling (Leigh Day)
Joanne Ellis (Pinsent Masons)
Hilary Blackwell (Trowers & Hamlins)
PUBLIC SECTOR
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Laxmi Patel (Boyes Turner)
Oliver Pritchard (Browne Jacobson)
Natalie Ruane (Burnetts)
Sarah Bell (DLA Piper)
Laura Guntrip (Lester Aldridge)
Victoria Goddard (Pinsent Masons)
Smita Jamdar (Shakespeare Martineau)
REAL ESTATE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
DLA Piper
Lewis Silkin
Mayer Brown
Norton Rose Fulbright
REAL ESTATE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Browne Jacobson (East Midlands)
Burges Salmon (South West)
CMS (North West)
Greene & Greene (East Anglia)
Penningtons Manches Cooper (South East)
Pinsent Masons (West Midlands)
Shulmans (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Womble Bond Dickinson (North)
REAL ESTATE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Addleshaw Goddard (Construction: non-contentious)
Ashurst (Commercial property: development)
Brecher (Property finance)
Bristows (Commercial property: corporate occupiers)
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Commercial property: hotels and leisure)
Capsticks (Social housing: local authorities and registered providers)
DLA Piper (Commercial property: investment)
Farrer & Co (Residential property)
Leigh Day (Environment)
Lewis Silkin (Commercial property: retail)
Pinsent Masons (Planning)
REAL ESTATE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Andy McVeigh (Addleshaw Goddard)
Ruth Harris (Ashurst)
Simon Bromwich (Ashurst)
Shaima Jillood (Boodle Hatfield)
Angela Kearns (Clifford Chance)
Ian Painter (Clifford Chance)
Manjinder Kaur Atwal (Duncan Lewis Solicitors)
David Sinclair (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Robbie Owen (Pinsent Masons)
REAL ESTATE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Simon Tilling (Burges Salmon)
Nancy Brown (Eversheds Sutherland)
Martino Giaquinto (Mills & Reeve)
Richard Thurling (Shakespeare Martineau)
Paul Earnshaw (Short Richardson & Forth)
Andrew Sprake (Squire Patton Boggs)
Alex Watt (Stevens & Bolton)
RISK ADVISORY
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Allen & Overy (Brexit)
Clintons (Reputation management)
Herbert Smith Freehills (Corporate governance)
Latham & Watkins (Data protection)
Macfarlanes (Regulatory investigations and corporate crime)
RISK ADVISORY
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Marc Dautlich (Bristows)
Philip Souta (Clifford Chance)
Caroline Black (Dechert)
Laura Summerfield (Travers Smith)
SCOTLAND
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Burness Paull
Brodies
Anderson Strathern
Harper Macleod
Morton Fraser
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
RPC
Allen & Overy
Bristows
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Browne Jacobson (West Midlands)
Centrefield (North West)
Gateley (East Midlands)
Haseltine Lake Kempner (Yorkshire and the Humber)
Michelmores (South West)
Mincoffs (North)
Moore Law (South East)
Stobbs IP (East Anglia)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Bird & Bird (Sport)
DLA Piper (Brand management)
Fieldfisher (Franchising)
Hogan Lovells (Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology)
Kilburn & Strode (PATMA: trade mark attorneys and patent attorneys)
Kirkland & Ellis (Intellectual property)
Latham & Watkins (Media and entertainment)
Norton Rose Fulbright (Fintech)
RPC (IT and telecoms)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Jonathan Taylor QC (Bird & Bird)
Charles Kerrigan (CMS)
John Pratt (Hamilton Pratt)
Nicola Dagg (Kirkland & Ellis)
Nicholas Berry (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Peter McInerney (Sheridans)
Julius Stobbs (Stobbs IP)
Niri Shanmuganathan (Taylor Wessing)
Anna Carboni (Wiggin)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Louise Handley (3volution)
Mark Daniels (Browne Jacobson)
Matthew Talbot (Howes Percival)
Nick McAleenan (JMW Solicitors)
Antony Hall (Mincoffs)
Clare Robinson (Osborne Clarke)
Joanne Vengadesan (Penningtons Manches Cooper)
TRANSPORT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Burges Salmon
Kennedys
Norton Rose Fulbright
Stephenson Harwood
TRANSPORT
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
DLA Piper (Yorkshire and the Humber)
DLA Piper (North West)
Dorade Law (South West)
DWF (West Midlands)
Gotelee Solicitors (East Anglia)
Shoosmiths (South East)
Womble Bond Dickinson (North)
TRANSPORT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Burges Salmon (Rail)
Fox Williams (Travel: regulatory and commercial)
HFW (Shipping)
Norton Rose Fulbright (Aviation)
TRANSPORT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Sophie Eyre (Bird & Bird)
Chris Jackson (Burges Salmon)
Rob Lawson QC (Clyde and Co)
Claire Bowler (DWF)
TRANSPORT
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Paul Hirst (Addleshaw Goddard)
Brioney Thomas (Burges Salmon)
Darren Kenny (DWF)
Adrian Marsh (Hill Dickinson)
Tim Reynolds (Verisona Law)
David Rewcastle (Womble Bond Dickinson)
WALES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Acuity Law
Blake Morgan
Eversheds Sutherland
Geldards
Hugh James