Rising stars

Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Brian Butterwick

William Fry LLP

Brian is a Partner in our Corporate / M&A Department, advising on a broad range of corporate matters, with extensive experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs and other capital markets transactions.  In addition to transactional representations, Brian also advises clients on governance matters and ongoing regulatory compliance.

Leading individuals

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Ivor Banim

William Fry LLP

Ivor is the Head of the London Office of William Fry. He is a Corporate Partner with significant transactional expertise in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder structuring matters, corporate reorganisations and venture capital/debt. Ivor has particular experience in advising technology clients.

Hugh Beattie

Hugh Beattie

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Hugh is the lead partner in the London Office of McCann FitzGerald LLP. Hugh specialises in investment funds, debt capital markets, restructuring, structured finance, secured lending and enforcement, bank/financial services regulation, securitisation and corporate treasury. As well as being lead counsel in respect of debt capital markets matters to two of the six Irish credit institutions covered by the Irish Government Guarantee scheme, he has, at one time or another, acted for or advised most bank, investment firm and major capital markets participants who have dealt in the Irish market in relation to various transactions and/or Irish company, securities and financial services laws.