2013 WINNERS: LAW FIRM AWARDS
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM
Allen & Overy LLP
Clifford Chance – WINNER
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Travers Smith LLP — Commercial contracts
NGM Tax Law — Corporate tax
Baker & McKenzie LLP — ECM (UK)
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP — ECM (US)
SJ Berwin LLP — EU & competition
Simmons & Simmons — Financial services
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP — M&A
Nabarro LLP — M&A (mid-market)
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — Partnership
Fox Williams LLP — Partnership – WINNER
Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP — Partnership
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia – WINNER
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — North West
Stevens & Bolton LLP — South East
Thomas Eggar LLP — South East
Eversheds LLP — West Midlands
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM
BCL Burton Copeland – WINNER
Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Harris Hagan — Gaming – WINNER
Jeffrey Green Russell Limited — Gaming
Joelson Wilson LLP — Gaming
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP — Licensing
Thomas & Thomas Partners LLP — Licensing
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Birketts LLP — East Anglia
Poppleston Allen — East Midlands (licensing) – WINNER
Cartwright King — East Midlands/West Midlands
David Gray Solicitors — North
Hay & Kilner — North
Pearson Caulfield — North
Olliers — North West
Pannone, part of Slater & Gordon — North West
Edward Hayes LLP — South East
IBB (Iliffes Booth Bennett) — South East
Kelcey & Hall Solicitors and Advocates — South West
Sansbury Douglas — South West
Challinors — West Midlands
Glaisyers LLP — West Midlands
O’Garra’s — Yorkshire and the Humber
Rahman Ravelli Solicitors — Yorkshire and the Humber
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM
Allen & Overy LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP – WINNER
Hogan Lovells International LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Stewarts Law LLP — Banking litigation
Clyde & Co — Commercial litigation
Atkins Thomson — Defamation and privacy
Carter-Ruck — Defamation and privacy
Simons Muirhead & Burton — Defamation and privacy
WilmerHale — International arbitration – WINNER
Blake Lapthorn — Professional discipline
RadcliffesLeBrasseur — Professional discipline
Volterra Fietta — Public international law
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Birketts LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Flint Bishop LLP — East Midlands
Ward Hadaway — North
DLA Piper UK LLP — North West
Blake Lapthorn — South East
TLT LLP — South West
Wragge & Co LLP — West Midlands
Walker Morris LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber – WINNER
FINANCE
FIRM
Allen & Overy LLP – WINNER
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Hogan Lovells International LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Latham & Watkins — Acquisition finance – WINNER
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP — Asset finance and leasing
Reed Smith LLP — Commodities
Bingham McCutchen (London) LLP — Corporate restructuring and insolvency
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP — Debt capital markets
Mayer Brown International LLP — Derivatives and structured products
Baker & McKenzie LLP — Emerging markets
Cahill Gordon & Reindel — High yield
Shearman & Sterling LLP — High yield
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP — High yield
Schulte Roth & Zabel International LLP — Investment funds
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP — Investment funds
King & Spalding International LLP — Islamic finance
Weil, Gotshal & Manges — Securitisation
Reed Smith LLP — Trade finance
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Gateley — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — North West/Yorkshire and the Humber – WINNER
Osborne Clarke — South East
DLA Piper UK LLP — West Midlands
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM
Allen & Overy LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP – WINNER
Hogan Lovells International LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Linklaters LLP — Employee share schemes
Lewis Silkin LLP — Employment
Kennedys — Health and safety
Bates Wells Braithwaite — Immigration
Sacker & Partners LLP — Pensions – WINNER
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Greenwoods Solicitors LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North
DWF LLP — North West
Doyle Clayton Solicitors — South East
Osborne Clarke — South West – WINNER
DLA Piper UK LLP — West Midlands
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber
INSURANCE
FIRM
Clyde & Co – WINNER
DAC Beachcroft LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Hogan Lovells International LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP — Clinical negligence: claimant
Hempsons — Clinical negligence: defendant
CMS — Insurance/reinsurance
Clifford Chance — Insurance: corporate and regulatory
K&L Gates LLP — Insurance: for policyholders
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP — Insurance: insolvency
Stewarts Law LLP — PI: claimant – WINNER
Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP — PI: defendant
Greenwoods Solicitors — PI: defendant
Leigh Day — Product liability: claimant
Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP — Product liability: defendant
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Ashton KCJ — East Anglia (claimant)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia (defendant)
Barratt Goff & Tomlinson — East Midlands (claimant)
Freeth Cartwright LLP — East Midlands (claimant)
Thompsons Solicitors LLP — East Midlands (claimant)
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands (defendant)
Irwin Mitchell — North (claimant)/West Midlands (claimant)/Yorkshire and the Humber (claimant)
DAC Beachcroft LLP — North (defendant)/South East (defendant)/South West (defendant)/Yorkshire and the Humber (defendant) – WINNER
Pannone, part of Slater & Gordon — North West (claimant)
Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP — North West (defendant)
Boyes Turner — South East (claimant)
Withy King LLP — South West (claimant)
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM
Boodle Hatfield LLP
Farrer & Co – WINNER
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Forsters LLP — Agriculture and estates
Hunters — Agriculture and estates
Thrings LLP — Agriculture and estates
HowardKennedyFsi — Art and cultural property
Mishcon de Reya — Art and cultural property
Bates Wells Braithwaite — Charities and not-for-profit – WINNER
Taylor Wessing LLP — Contentious trusts and probate
Hughes Fowler Carruthers — Family
Payne Hicks Beach — Family
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP — Personal tax, trusts and probate
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia/Yorkshire and the Humber
Hewitsons — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North – WINNER
Brabners LLP — North West
Blake Lapthorn — South East
Stone King — South West
SGH Martineau LLP — West Midlands
Gordons LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM
Allen & Overy LLP
Linklaters LLP – WINNER
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP — Infrastructure
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP — Mining – WINNERSullivan & Cromwell LLP — Mining
CMS — Oil and gas
Hogan Lovells International LLP — PFI
Chadbourne & Parke LLP — Power
Watson, Farley & Williams LLP — Power
Pinsent Masons LLP — Water
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia
Eversheds LLP — East Midlands
Ward Hadaway — North
DLA Piper UK LLP — North West
Bond Dickinson LLP — South East
Bevan Brittan LLP — South West
Wragge & Co LLP — West Midlands – WINNER
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM
DAC Beachcroft LLP
Eversheds LLP – WINNER
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP — Administrative and public
Bhatt Murphy — Civil liberties and human rights
Leigh Day — Civil liberties and human rights
Farrer & Co — Education
Capsticks LLP — Healthcare
Trowers & Hamlins LLP — Local government – WINNER
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Ward Hadaway — North
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — North West
DMH Stallard LLP — South East
Veale Wasbrough Vizards — South West – WINNERPinsent Masons LLP — West Midlands
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber
REAL ESTATE
FIRM
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP – WINNER
Eversheds LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Fenwick Elliott LLP — Construction
White & Case LLP — Construction – WINNER
Leigh Day — Environment
Bircham Dyson Bell — Planning
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — Property finance
Jones Day — Property finance
Paul Hastings LLP — Property finance
Sidley Austin LLP — Property finance
Olswang LLP — Property litigation
Devonshires — Social housing
Trowers & Hamlins LLP — Social housing
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands – WINNER
Bond Dickinson LLP — North
Eversheds LLP — North West
Charles Russell LLP — South East
Osborne Clarke — South West
Eversheds LLP — West Midlands
Walker Morris LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber
TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS
FIRM
Bird & Bird LLP – WINNER
Hogan Lovells International LLP
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Lewis Silkin LLP — Brand management
Hunton & Williams — Data protection
Travers Smith LLP — Franchising
Powell Gilbert LLP — Intellectual property – WINNER
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP — IT & telecoms
Bray & Krais, Solicitors — Media and entertainment
Clintons — Media and entertainment
Lee & Thompson LLP — Media and entertainment
Russells Solicitors — Media and entertainment
Sheridans — Media and entertainment
Wiggin LLP — Media and entertainment
Reed Smith — Media finance
Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP — Pharmaceuticals and biotech
Pinsent Masons LLP — Sport
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Mills & Reeve LLP — East Anglia
Browne Jacobson LLP — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North
Addleshaw Goddard LLP — North West
DMH Stallard LLP — South East
Osborne Clarke — South West
Wragge & Co LLP — West Midlands
DLA Piper UK LLP — Yorkshire and the Humber – WINNER
TRANSPORT
FIRM
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP – WINNER
FIRM (SPECIALISM)
Kennedys — Aviation – WINNER
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP — Rail
Ince & Co — Shipping
Stewarts Law LLP — Travel
FIRM (REGIONAL)
Birketts LLP — East Anglia
Rothera Dowson — East Midlands
Bond Dickinson LLP — North – WINNERHill Dickinson LLP — North West
Weightmans LLP — North West
asb law LLP — South East
Shoosmiths LLP — South East
Lester Aldridge LLP — South East
Ashfords LLP — South West
Eversheds LLP — West Midlands
Andrew Jackson — Yorkshire and the Humber
Ford & Warren — Yorkshire and the Humber
SCOTTISH
Burness Paull LLP – WINNER
WELSH
NORTHERN IRISH
Arthur Cox – WINNER