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Legal 500 ESG Awards 2025: Shortlist

Best Environmental/Sustainability Strategy

Bates Wells
Weightmans
Dentons
Roythornes Solicitors
Gowling WLG
RPC
BCLP
Pinsent Masons
E.ON

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Clean Energy

A&O Shearman
White & Case
Pinsent Masons
Linklaters
Eversheds Sutherland
TLT
Baker McKenzie
Ashfords

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Environmental Protection

White & Case
A&O Shearman
Michelmores
Weightmans
Clifford Chance

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: ESG Regulatory and Compliance

Pinsent Masons
Travers Smith
Kirkland & Ellis
Macfarlanes
Eversheds Sutherland
Linklaters
Hogan Lovells
Herbert Smith Freehills
Jones Day
Debevoise & Plimpton

Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Sustainable Finance

A&O Shearman
Reed Smith
Taylor Wessing
King & Spalding
Paul Hastings
BCLP
White & Case

DE&I: Bar Champion

Grace Brown, Garden Court Chambers
Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC, Fountain Court Chambers
Tamara Oppenheimer KC, Fountain Court Chambers
Lynne McCafferty KC, 4 Pump Court
Mass Ndow-Njie, 7BR

DE&I: In-house Champion

Lisa Ardley-Price, NatWest
Andrew Yorston, Vodafone UK
Rani Wynn, LiveScore
Jessica Winter, Wise

DE&I: Private Practice Champion

Jessica Kerslake, A&O Shearman
Karl Brown, Clarke Willmott
Susi Fish, Boult Wade Tennant
Shama Gupta, Freeths
Caroline East, Penningtons Manches Cooper
Nina Goswami, Clifford Chance
Allison Soilihi, Morgan Lewis

DE&I: Law Firm Initiative

Clyde & Co
DWF
Gowling WLG
Murgitroyd
A&O Shearman
Bates Wells
RPC
Mishcon de Reya

DE&I: In-house Initiative

BAE Systems
Sky Legal
Monzo
Bank of England
InterLaw Diversity Forum
Aviva
UBS

DE&I: Rising Star

Niamh Cleary, Fountain Court Chambers
Jenny Lloyd, Linklaters
Godwin Tan, A&O Shearman
Teena Patel, KPMG Law
Flora Caroline Sitwell, Herbert Smith Freehills
Netanya Clixby, Sidley

Disability/Neurodiversity: Best Initiative to Attract and Retain Talent

Womble Bond Dickinson
Addleshaw Goddard
Legal Neurodiversity Network
Herbert Smith Freehills
Neurodiversikey

Disability/Neurodiversity Champion

Jonathan Andrews, Reed Smith
James Smither, Freshfields
Reena Parmar, Freshfields
Sinead Mallinson, DWF
Chris Fawcett, Clifford Chance
Demi Rixon, Gateley
Daniel Holt, Farrar’s Building

Environmental/Sustainability Champion

Rachel Barrett, Linklaters
Ruth Knox, Paul Hastings
Clare Harman Clark, Taylor Wessing
Abhay Srivastava, Weightmans
Natasha Luther-Jones, DLA Piper
Sharpe Pritchard, Steve Gummer
Osborne Clarke, Matthew Germain
Norton Rose Fulbright, Caroline May

ESG: Private Practice Champion

Matthew Townsend, A&O Shearman
Sukhvir Basran, King & Spalding
Simon Colvin, Weightmans
Sonali Siriwardena, Simmons & Simmons
Wynne Lawrence, Clyde & Co
Laura Houët, CMS
Silke Goldberg, Herbert Smith Freehills
Adrian Walker, Hogan Lovells

ESG: In-house Champion

Vanessa Kitching, Teva UK
Stuart Brown, Bupa
Jennifer Guilfoyle, Maybourne Hotel Group
Paul Lister, Associated British Foods

ESG: Law Firm Initiative

Weil Gotshal & Manges
DWF
Weightmans
RPC
Freeths
Shoosmiths
Burges Salmon
Macfarlanes

Ethnicity: Best Initiative to Attract and Retain Talent

Browne Jacobson
Garden Court Chambers
DWF

Ethnicity: Champion

Grace Brown, Garden Court Chambers
Bridget Tatham, Browne Jacobson
Samuel Clague, The Stephen James Partnership
Brin Rajathurai, A&O Shearman
Gayathri Kamalanathan, Slaughter and May
David Ziyambi, Latham & Watkins
Barbara Mills KC, 4PB
Laurie-Anne Power KC, 25 Bedford Row, and Simon Regis CBE, Govt Legal Department

Governance: Initiative/Team

Bates Wells
Clear Channel
Savannah Energy
Weightmans
Wellcome Trust

LGBTQ+: Champion

Patrick McCann, Linklaters
Jacqui Rhule-Dagher, Hogan Lovells
Daisy Reeves, BCLP
Richard Fisk, Addleshaw Goddard

LGBTQ+: Initiative

The LLP
Legally Lesbians
The Queer City Law Career 2.0 event – A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Linklaters, Slaughter and May
RPC
General Counsel for Diversity and Inclusion

Mental Health & Wellbeing Initiative

The Mindful Business Charter – DAC Beachcroft, Dentons, DLA Piper, Freshfields, Mills & Reeve, One Peloton, Palmers Law, PPF, Simmons & Simmons, Shoosmiths, TLT
The Mindful Business Charter – A&O Shearman & Pinsent Masons
DWF
Courtney Legal
Banco Santander

International Pro bono Initiative

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
BCLP
Baker McKenzie
3 Verulam Buildings
Simmons & Simmons
Milbank

UK Pro bono Initiative

Travers Smith
School Inclusion Project – Garden Court Chambers, Coram Children’s Legal Centre and Law Centres Network
Akin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Clifford Chance, Cooley and Skadden
Baker McKenzie
Green Tech Legal Collaborative
Addleshaw Goddard and HSBC

Social Mobility: Best Initiative to Attract and Retain Talent

Clyde & Co
Garden Court Chambers
Baker McKenzie
Latham & Watkins
Bates Wells
Perkins Coie
Slaughter and May
Inclusie Club

In-house Social Mobility Initiative

Aviva
BAE Systems
Compass Group
E.ON
Lloyds Banking Group

Social Mobility: Champion

Caroline Green, Browne Jacobson
Natalie Thomas, Perkins Coie
Emma Levin, Inclusie Club
Chris Schwer, Birketts
Matthew Spencer, Boult Wade Tennant

Women in Law: Best Initiative to Attract and Retain Talent

Obelisk Support
Dentons
A&O Shearman
E.ON

Women in Law: Best Initiative to Improve Female Representation within Senior Ranks

Birketts
Michelmores
Womble Bond Dickinson
Mishcon de Reya
The Eagle Club

Women in Law: Champion

Leigh-Ann Mulcahy KC, Fountain Court Chambers
Tamara Oppenheimer KC, Fountain Court Chambers
Louise Skinner, Morgan Lewis
Anja Beriro, Browne Jacobson
Maybo Chong, E.ON
Diane Gilhooley, Eversheds Sutherland
Nadia Raphael, Raphael Law