2020 Law Firm Winners
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Kirkland & Ellis
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Mills & Reeve (East Anglia)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Private equity: high-value transactions)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Lisa O’Neill (Milbank)
CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Jon Cox-Brown (Eversheds Sutherland)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Byrne and Partners
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Burges Salmon (South West)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Mishcon de Reya LLP (Fraud: white-collar crime)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Jasvinder Nakhwal (Peters & Peters)
CRIME, FRAUD AND LICENSING
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Hamraj Kang (Kangs Solicitors)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM OF THE YEAR
White & Case
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Stevens & Bolton (South East)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Slaughter and May (Competition litigation)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Lianne Craig (Hausfeld)
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Ed Weeks (Cripps Pemberton Greenish)
FINANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Milbank
FINANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Gateley (East Midlands)
FINANCE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Kirkland & Ellis (Acquisition finance)
FINANCE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Luke McDougall (Paul Hastings)
FINANCE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Andrew Eaton (Burges Salmon)
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Lewis Silkin
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Birketts (East Anglia)
HUMAN RESOURCES
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Sacker & Partners (Pensions: non-contentious)
HUMAN RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Jennifer Millins (Mishcon de Reya)
HUMAN RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Glyn Ryland (Gowling WLG)
INSURANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Clyde & Co
INSURANCE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Collins Solicitors (South East)
INSURANCE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Hogan Lovells (Corporate and regulatory)
INSURANCE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Alison Eddy (Irwin Mitchell)
INSURANCE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Francis Lacy Scott (asb law)
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Goodwin
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Schulte Roth & Zabel (Hedge funds)
INVESTMENT FUND FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Christopher Good (Macfarlanes)
NORTHERN IRELAND
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Tughans
OFFSHORE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Ogier
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Payne Hicks Beach
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Penningtons Manches Cooper (South East)
PRIVATE CLIENT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Bates Wells (Charities and not-for-profit)
PRIVATE CLIENT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Anne-Marie Hutchinson (Dawson Cornwell)
PRIVATE CLIENT
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Marc Saunderson (Mills & Reeve)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
DLA Piper
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Michelmores (South West)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
White & Case (Mining and minerals)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Silke Goldberg (Herbert Smith Freehills)
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Melanie Grimmitt (Pinsent Masons)
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Leigh Day
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Bevan Brittan (South West)
PUBLIC SECTOR
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Farrer & Co (Education)
PUBLIC SECTOR
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Harriet Wistrich (Birnberg Peirce and Partners)
PUBLIC SECTOR
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Smita Jamdar (Shakespeare Martineau)
REAL ESTATE
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Norton Rose Fulbright
REAL ESTATE
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Womble Bond Dickinson (North)
REAL ESTATE
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Leigh Day (Environment)
REAL ESTATE
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Ruth Harris (Ashurst)
REAL ESTATE
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Nancy Brown (Eversheds Sutherland)
RISK ADVISORY
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Macfarlanes (Regulatory investigations and corporate crime)
RISK ADVISORY
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Philip Souta (Clifford Chance)
SCOTLAND
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Brodies
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Bristows
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Stobbs IP (East Anglia)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Bird & Bird (Sport)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Anna Carboni (Wiggin)
TMT (TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS)
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Matthew Talbot (Howes Percival)
TRANSPORT
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Stephenson Harwood
TRANSPORT
FIRM OF THE YEAR (OUTSIDE LONDON)
DLA Piper (Yorkshire and the Humber)
TRANSPORT
FIRM (SPECIALISM) OF THE YEAR
Norton Rose Fulbright (Aviation)
TRANSPORT
INDIVIDUAL (LONDON)
Rob Lawson QC (Clyde and Co)
TRANSPORT
INDIVIDUAL (OUTSIDE LONDON)
Paul Hirst (Addleshaw Goddard)
WALES
FIRM OF THE YEAR
Hugh James