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Norton Rose Fulbright

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Norton Rose Fulbright has a ‘highly experienced financial services regulatory team combined with astute commercial litigators’, acting for major banks on contentious regulatory matters, corporate crime investigations, and a range of high-profile banking mandates. Patrick Bourke is the head of the team that consists of Harriet Jones-Fenleigh, who is ’highly recommended for her legal skills and commercial approach’, ‘model litigator’ Radford Goodman, and the ’understated and very effective’ James Lockwood. At associate level the ‘particularly impressive’ Aditya Badami is recognised, along with the ’insightful’ Samson Spanier.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Radford Goodman is calm, thoughtful, rigorous, and focused - the model litigator. James Lockwood is a brilliant up-and-coming partner - understated and very effective.’
  • ‘Aditya Badami is particularly impressive. He works incredibly hard, while displaying constant good humour. In the midst of a heavy dispute, he shows consistently excellent judgment and perfect understanding of procedural tactics.’
  • ‘Highly experienced financial services regulatory team combined with astute commercial litigators.’
  • ‘Harriet Jones-Fenleigh and James Lockwood are both very smart and also pleasant to work with. Radford Goodman is reliable, experienced, personable and a very safe pair of hands.’
  • ‘What stands out about NRF is the accessibility, the immediate feedback regardless of the time and their friendliness and pragmatic thinking.’
  • ‘The team we work with are excellent and work exceptionally well with their colleagues in capital markets to provide well thought through advice.’
  • 'Samson Spanier operates at the level of a partner in my view, is insightful and provides thoughtful and clear advice. He is also able to articulate very difficult concepts and issues in a straight forward and clear way, which is incredibly helpful.’
  • ‘ is an outstanding partner - highly recommended for her legal skills and commercial approach.’

Key clients

  • HSBC
  • Republic of Angola
  • Citibank, N.A. and Citigroup Global Markets Limited
  • Citicorp Trustee Company Ltd
  • Bank of Scotland plc, which is part of Lloyds Banking Group
  • Société Générale
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Barclays
  • BNP Paribas
  • Emirates NBD Bank

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Patrick Bourke

Other key lawyers

Harriet Jones-Fenleigh, Radford Goodman, Aditya Badami, James Lockwood, Samson Spanier