{"id":17417,"date":"2020-02-12T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=17417"},"modified":"2020-02-19T14:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:33:26","slug":"2020-law-firm-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/the-legal-500-uk-awards-2020\/2020-law-firm-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Law Firm Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Latham &amp; Watkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Linklaters<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Milbank<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett<\/p>\n<h4>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Addleshaw\u00a0Goddard\u00a0(Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">CMS (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DMH Stallard (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Eversheds Sutherland (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mills &amp; Reeve (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Muckle\u00a0(North)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shoosmiths (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">TLT (South West)<\/p>\n<h4>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Addleshaw Goddard (Private equity: mid-market)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Charles Russell Speechlys (Commercial contracts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Euclid Law (EU and competition)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hempsons (Partnership)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis (Corporate tax)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul Hastings (Mergers and acquisitions)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shoosmiths (Venture capital)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett (Private equity: high-value transactions)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case (Equity capital markets)<\/p>\n<h4>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Victoria Sigeti (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Carl Fernandes (Latham &amp; Watkins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nicole Kar (Linklaters)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Aedamar Comiskey (Linklaters)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Damien Crossley (Macfarlanes)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lisa O\u2019Neill (McDermott, Will &amp; Emery)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Anu Balasubramanian (Paul Hastings)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Helen Croke (Ropes &amp; Gray)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Amy Mahon (Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett)<\/p>\n<h4>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Michael Walby (Burnetts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Noel Haywood (DLA Piper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Abigail Owen (DMH Stallard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jon Cox-Brown\u00a0 (Eversheds Sutherland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David Bowcock\u00a0 (Fieldfisher)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paula Eckton (Steele Raymond)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Debbie Jackson (Walker Morris)<\/p>\n<h4>CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Birds Solicitors<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Brown Rudnick<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Byrne and Partners<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hickman &amp; Rose<\/p>\n<h4>CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David Gray Solicitors (North)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">IBB Solicitors (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">JMW (Manchester)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kangs Solicitors (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Metcalfe Copeman &amp; Pettefar (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Opus Law (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Poppleston\u00a0Allen\u00a0 (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<h4>CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Blackfords (Crime: general)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Harris Hagan (Gaming and betting)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mishcon de Reya LLP (Fraud: white-collar crime)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Poppleston Allen (Licensing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Signature Litigation (Fraud: civil)<\/p>\n<h4>CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Eve Giles (Allen &amp; Overy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jasvinder Nakhwal (Peters &amp; Peters)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sue Prevezer (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan)<\/p>\n<h4>CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David Hall (Burges Salmon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mark Harrison (Hay &amp; Kilner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">John Milner (IBB Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul Haycock (Irwin Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hamraj Kang (Kangs Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Matthew\u00a0Claughton\u00a0 (Olliers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kevin McGrath (Smith Partnership)<\/p>\n<h4>DISPUTE RESOLUTION<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Herbert Smith Freehills<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">RPC<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stewarts Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case<\/p>\n<h4>DISPUTE RESOLUTION<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Addleshaw Goddard (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Archers Law\u00a0 (North\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ashtons Legal (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Croft Solicitors (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Freeths (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stevens &amp; Bolton (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stewarts Law (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<h4>DISPUTE RESOLUTION<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bates Wells (Professional discipline)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Debevoise &amp; Plimpton (Public international law)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Slaughter and May (Competition litigation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stewarts Law (Banking litigation: investment and retail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Three Crowns LLP (International arbitration)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case (Commercial litigation)<\/p>\n<h4>DISPUTE RESOLUTION<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mark Molyneux (Addleshaw Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Helen Carty (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lianne Craig (Hausfeld)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rupert Lewis (Herbert Smith Freehills)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kim Dietzel (Herbert Smith Freehills)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sherina Petit (Norton Rose Fulbright)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Richard Swallow (Slaughter and May)<\/p>\n<h4>DISPUTE RESOLUTION<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simon Young (Clarion)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ed Weeks (Cripps Pemberton Greenish)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David\u00a0Summerhayes\u00a0 (DWF)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrew Leach (DWF)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lauren Day (Ellis Jones)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lloyd Smith (Fraser Brown)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Julian Diaz-Rainey (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<h4>FINANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Milbank<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case<\/p>\n<h4>FINANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Addleshaw Goddard (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Charles Russell Speechlys (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper\u00a0 (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Eversheds Sutherland (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gateley (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pennington Manches Cooper (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Penningtons Manches Cooper (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Womble Bond Dickinson (North)<\/p>\n<h4>FINANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Cadwalader Wickersham &amp; Taft (Structured products and securitisation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clyde &amp; Co LLP (Commodities disputes)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis (Acquisition finance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Milbank (Asset finance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Milbank (High yield)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Morgan Lewis &amp; Bockius (Asset based lending)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright (Derivatives including commodities)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright (Trade finance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Skadden Arps Slate Meagher &amp; Flom (Debt capital markets)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case (Emerging markets)<\/p>\n<h4>FINANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stephen Day (Cadwalader Wickersham &amp; Taft)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rita Lowe (CMS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Penny Angell (Hogan Lovells)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Apostolos Gkoutzinis (Milbank)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Georgia Quenby (Morgan Lewis &amp; Bockius)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nigel Dickinson (Norton Rose Fulbright)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrew Wood (Norton Rose Fulbright)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Luke McDougall (Paul Hastings)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Danny Tricot (Skadden Arps Slate Meagher &amp; Flom)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jason Kerr (White &amp; Case)<\/p>\n<h4>FINANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrew Fordham (Addleshaw Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shaun McCabe\u00a0 (Browne Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrew Eaton (Burges Salmon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Matthew Christmas (DLA Piper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Amy Flavell (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Julie Harrison (Ward\u00a0Hadaway)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Graham Jeffries (Womble Bond Dickinson)<\/p>\n<h4>HUMAN RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clifford Chance<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">GQ Littler<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lewis Silkin<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mishcon de Reya<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP<\/p>\n<h4>HUMAN RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">BDB Pitmans (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Birketts (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gowling WLG (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Howes Percival (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Walker Morris (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Womble Bond Dickinson (North)<\/p>\n<h4>HUMAN RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clifford Chance (Employers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (Health and safety)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Irwin Mitchell (Employment: employees\/unions)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sacker &amp; Partners (Pensions: non-contentious)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Travers Smith (Employee share schemes)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Wesley Gryk Solicitors (Immigration)<\/p>\n<h4>HUMAN RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul Randall (Hogan Lovells)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Elspeth Guild (Kingsley Napley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nicola Rabson (Linklaters)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Joanna Blackburn (Mishcon de Reya)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jennifer Millins (Mishcon de Reya)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Barbara Allen (Stephenson Harwood)<\/p>\n<h4>HUMAN RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nic\u00a0Elliott (Actons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sally Hulston (Addleshaw Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Tim Copplestone (Clarke Willmott)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Glyn Ryland (Gowling WLG)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simon Rhodes (Trethowans)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jamie Gamble (Ward Hadaway)<\/p>\n<h4>INSURANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clyde &amp; Co<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DAC Beachcroft<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Fieldfisher<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Irwin Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kennedys<\/p>\n<h4>INSURANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bridge McFarland (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Collins Solicitors (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Irwin Mitchell (North)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Irwin Mitchell (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Morgan Jones Pett (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Thompsons Solicitors (South West)<\/p>\n<h4>INSURANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Arnold &amp; Porter (Product liability)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Beale &amp; Co (Professional negligence)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clyde &amp; Co (Insurance and reinsurance litigation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hogan Lovells (Corporate and regulatory)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Irwin Mitchell (Personal Injury)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pinsent Masons (Insurance: insolvency and restructuring)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Russell-Cooke (Clinical Negligence)<\/p>\n<h4>INSURANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Louisa Caswell (Addleshaw Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Geraldine Quirk (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Catherine Bennett (Capsticks)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Katherine Coates (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Richard Harrison (Clyde &amp; Co)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jill Greenfield (Fieldfisher)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Alison Eddy (Irwin Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">James Mee (RPC)<\/p>\n<h4>INSURANCE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Francis Lacy Scott (asb law)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Victoria Wanless (Beechams)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sarah Erwin-Jones (Browne Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lisa Jordan (Irwin Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul Rumley (Royds Withy King)<\/p>\n<h4>INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Akin Gump<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Debevoise &amp; Plimpton<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Goodwin<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Proskauer Rose<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett<\/p>\n<h4>INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Eversheds Sutherland (Real estate funds)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Schulte Roth &amp; Zabel (Hedge funds)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simpson Thacher (Private funds)<\/p>\n<h4>INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Cathy Pitt (CMS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kate Downey (Fried Frank Harris Shriver &amp; Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Richard Watkins (Kirkland &amp; Ellis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Christopher Good (Macfarlanes)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nigel Van Zyl (Proskauer Rose)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jason Glover (Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett)<\/p>\n<h4>NORTHERN IRELAND<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">A&amp;L Goodbody<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Carson McDowell<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">TLT<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Tughans<\/p>\n<h4>OFFSHORE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Cains Advocates<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Carey Olsen<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Collas Crill<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Dickinson Gleeson<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ferbrache &amp; Farrell<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mourant<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ogier<\/p>\n<h4>PRIVATE CLIENT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Farrer &amp; Co<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Forsters<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Maurice Turnor Gardner<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mishcon de Reya<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Payne Hicks Beach<\/p>\n<h4>PRIVATE CLIENT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clarion (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mills &amp; Reeve (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nelsons Solicitors (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Penningtons Manches Cooper (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Taylor Vinters (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Tilly Bailey &amp; Irvine (North)<\/p>\n<h4>PRIVATE CLIENT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bates Wells (Charities and not-for-profit)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon (Agriculture and estates)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Duncan Lewis Solicitors (Court of Protection)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Family Law in Partnership (Family)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mishcon de Reya (Personal tax, trusts and probate)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Payne Hicks Beach (Contentious trusts and probate)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stephenson Harwood (Art and cultural property)<\/p>\n<h4>PRIVATE CLIENT<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rosamund McCarthy (Bates Wells)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrea Zavos (Boodle Hatfield)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pierre Valentin (Constantine Cannon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Anne-Marie Hutchinson (Dawson Cornwell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Julia Lomas (Irwin Mitchell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Michelle Uppal (Miles &amp; Partners)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sandra Davis (Mishcon de Reya)<\/p>\n<h4>PRIVATE CLIENT<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lyn Ayrton (Lake Legal)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Philippa Morgan\u00a0 (Lyons Davidson\u00a0\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Marc Saunderson (Mills &amp; Reeve)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kevin Modiri (Nelsons Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Michael Cash (Penningtons Manches Cooper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kath Hill (Swinburne Maddison)<\/p>\n<h4>PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Allen &amp; Overy<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gowling WLG<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Herbert Smith Freehills<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case<\/p>\n<h4>PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gowling WLG (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Michelmores (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pinsent Masons (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Prospect Law (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Squire Patton Boggs (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ward\u00a0Hadaway (North)<\/p>\n<h4>PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Allen &amp; Overy (Infrastructure)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Water)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (Power)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Latham &amp; Watkins (Oil and gas)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">White &amp; Case (Mining and minerals)<\/p>\n<h4>PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Yann Alix (Ashurst)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Audley Sheppard QC (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Danielle Beggs (Dentons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Silke Goldberg (Herbert Smith Freehills)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simon Tysoe (Latham &amp; Watkins)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jessamy Gallagher (Linklaters)<\/p>\n<h4>PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Anja Beriro (Browne Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Darren Walsh (DLA Piper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gus Wood (Gowling WLG)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Carol McCormack (Michelmores)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Libbie\u00a0Henderson\u00a0 (Muckle)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Melanie Grimmitt (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<h4>PUBLIC SECTOR<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bates Wells<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bevan Brittan<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bindmans<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Farrer &amp; Co<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Leigh Day<\/p>\n<h4>PUBLIC SECTOR<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bevan Brittan (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Brachers\u00a0 (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Browne Jacobson (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Browne Jacobson (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">JG Poole &amp; Co (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mills &amp; Reeve (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Muckle (North)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Walker Morris (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<h4>PUBLIC SECTOR<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">BDB Pitmans (Infrastructure)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bevan Brittan (Local government)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bhatt Murphy (Civil liberties and human rights)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Browne Jacobson (Healthcare)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Deighton Pierce Glynn (Administrative and public law)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Farrer &amp; Co (Education)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">ITN Solicitors (Civil liberties and human rights)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sinclairslaw Incorporating Match Solicitors and John Ford Solicitors (Education)<\/p>\n<h4>PUBLIC SECTOR<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nick Evans (BDB Pitmans)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rosemary Jago (Bevan Brittan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Harriet Wistrich (Birnberg Peirce and Partners)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bruce Potter (Blake Morgan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Diane Gilhooley (Eversheds Sutherland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ravi Naik (ITN Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rosa Curling (Leigh Day)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Joanne Ellis (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hilary Blackwell (Trowers &amp; Hamlins)<\/p>\n<h4>PUBLIC SECTOR<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Laxmi Patel (Boyes Turner)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Oliver Pritchard (Browne Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Natalie Ruane (Burnetts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sarah Bell (DLA Piper)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Laura Guntrip (Lester Aldridge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Victoria Goddard (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Smita Jamdar (Shakespeare Martineau)<\/p>\n<h4>REAL ESTATE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lewis Silkin<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mayer Brown<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright<\/p>\n<h4>REAL ESTATE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Browne Jacobson (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">CMS (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Greene &amp; Greene (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Penningtons Manches Cooper (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pinsent Masons (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shulmans (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Womble Bond Dickinson (North)<\/p>\n<h4>REAL ESTATE<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Addleshaw Goddard (Construction: non-contentious)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ashurst (Commercial property: development)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Brecher (Property finance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bristows (Commercial property: corporate occupiers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Commercial property: hotels and leisure)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Capsticks (Social housing: local authorities and registered providers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (Commercial property: investment)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Farrer &amp; Co (Residential property)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Leigh Day (Environment)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Lewis Silkin (Commercial property: retail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Pinsent Masons (Planning)<\/p>\n<h4>REAL ESTATE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andy McVeigh (Addleshaw Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ruth Harris (Ashurst)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simon Bromwich (Ashurst)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shaima Jillood (Boodle Hatfield)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Angela Kearns (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Ian Painter (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Manjinder Kaur Atwal (Duncan Lewis Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David Sinclair (Norton Rose Fulbright)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Robbie Owen (Pinsent Masons)<\/p>\n<h4>REAL ESTATE<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Simon Tilling (Burges Salmon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nancy Brown (Eversheds Sutherland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Martino Giaquinto (Mills &amp; Reeve)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Richard\u00a0Thurling\u00a0 (Shakespeare Martineau)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul Earnshaw (Short Richardson &amp; Forth)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Andrew Sprake (Squire Patton Boggs)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Alex Watt (Stevens &amp; Bolton)<\/p>\n<h4>RISK ADVISORY<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Allen &amp; Overy (Brexit)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clintons (Reputation management)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Herbert Smith Freehills (Corporate governance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Latham &amp; Watkins (Data protection)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Macfarlanes (Regulatory investigations and corporate crime)<\/p>\n<h4>RISK ADVISORY<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Marc Dautlich (Bristows)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Philip Souta (Clifford Chance)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Caroline Black (Dechert)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Laura Summerfield (Travers Smith)<\/p>\n<h4>SCOTLAND<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burness Paull<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Brodies<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Anderson Strathern<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Harper Macleod<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Morton Fraser<\/p>\n<h4>TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Latham &amp; Watkins<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">RPC<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Allen &amp; Overy<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bristows<\/p>\n<h4>TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Browne Jacobson (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Centrefield (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gateley\u00a0 (East Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Haseltine Lake Kempner (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Michelmores (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mincoffs (North)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Moore Law\u00a0 (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stobbs IP (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<h4>TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Bird &amp; Bird (Sport)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (Brand management)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Fieldfisher (Franchising)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hogan Lovells (Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kilburn &amp; Strode (PATMA: trade mark attorneys and patent attorneys)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kirkland &amp; Ellis (Intellectual property)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Latham &amp; Watkins (Media and entertainment)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright (Fintech)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">RPC (IT and telecoms)<\/p>\n<h4>TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Jonathan Taylor QC (Bird &amp; Bird)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Charles Kerrigan (CMS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">John Pratt (Hamilton Pratt)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nicola Dagg (Kirkland &amp; Ellis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nicholas Berry (Norton Rose Fulbright)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Peter McInerney (Sheridans)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Julius Stobbs (Stobbs IP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Niri Shanmuganathan (Taylor Wessing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Anna Carboni (Wiggin)<\/p>\n<h4>TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Louise Handley (3volution)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Mark Daniels (Browne Jacobson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Matthew Talbot (Howes Percival)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Nick\u00a0McAleenan\u00a0 (JMW\u00a0Solicitors)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Antony Hall (Mincoffs)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Clare Robinson (Osborne Clarke)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Joanne Vengadesan (Penningtons Manches Cooper)<\/p>\n<h4>TRANSPORT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Kennedys<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Stephenson Harwood<\/p>\n<h4>TRANSPORT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (Yorkshire and the Humber)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DLA Piper (North West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Dorade Law (South West)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">DWF (West Midlands)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Gotelee Solicitors (East Anglia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Shoosmiths (South East)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Womble Bond Dickinson (North)<\/p>\n<h4>TRANSPORT<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Burges Salmon (Rail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Fox Williams (Travel: regulatory and commercial)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">HFW (Shipping)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Norton Rose Fulbright (Aviation)<\/p>\n<h4>TRANSPORT<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Sophie Eyre (Bird &amp; Bird)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Chris Jackson (Burges Salmon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Rob Lawson QC (Clyde and Co)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Claire Bowler (DWF)<\/p>\n<h4>TRANSPORT<\/h4>\n<h5>INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Paul\u00a0Hirst\u00a0 (Addleshaw\u00a0Goddard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Brioney Thomas (Burges Salmon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Darren Kenny (DWF)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Adrian Marsh (Hill Dickinson)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Tim Reynolds\u00a0 (Verisona Law)<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">David Rewcastle (Womble Bond Dickinson)<\/p>\n<h4>WALES<\/h4>\n<h5>FIRM OF THE YEAR<\/h5>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Acuity Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Blake Morgan<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Eversheds Sutherland<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Geldards<\/p>\n<p class=\"firmname\">Hugh James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL FIRM OF THE YEAR Kirkland &amp; Ellis Latham &amp; Watkins Linklaters Milbank Simpson Thacher &amp; 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