Advancing healthcare through PPPs has now become international best practice and plays a crucial role in how hospitals are managed. Humber River Hospital in Canada will be one of the country’s largest acute care facilities when it opens in 2015. Dr Rueben Devlin and Mike Marasco explain how assembling best-in-class partners and a unique financing solution have facilitated the development of a technologically advanced, sustainable hospital which will serve the needs of its community.
Year: 2013
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah on leadership | MAG Group
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah is the world’s 16th most influential Arab according to the Arabian Business Review’s Power 500 survey. His company, MAG Group, controls 50 companies across the Middle East, operating in a broad range of sectors. He explains the importance of having a diverse investment foundation and how his ability to “translate vision into reality” has brought success after success.
World Finance: First, give me an overview of MAG Group: the size of your business, and the sectors you’re working in.
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: The MAG Group was founded and started in the UAE in 1978. We began in the field of spare parts for vehicles: a small enterprise. We developed and grew with the local and regional market, and have developed within the last 10 years into the international market.
As we developed in stages, we gradually entered into other fields; industry, commerce, hotel services and maritime shipment. Praise be to God, we achieved successes in all these fields and in industry, such as the manufacture of oils, metals, pharmaceuticals and the development of real estate.
The basis for the principles and strength of the company is increasing annual growth. From our beginning to 2011 or 2012, we have always achieved better results than the previous year. Now, if God wills, we will have investments outside the region, such as in the US or in some European markets.
Every year we are always able – if God wills – to start something new.
“You must always think of innovation. Without this you will be waiting for opportunities, instead of creating opportunities”
World Finance: You’ve described leadership as “the ability to translate vision into reality”. Where does that idea come from, and what does it mean to you?
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: Before doing any work, you must have a vision. But vision is not enough to achieve your goals. Vision requires a very important element. That is the element of follow-up.
With any vision we have in any project, we set out the vision. The follow-up comes after that, together with the people appropriate for that work. By this means we have been able, praise be to God, to achieve all or most of our visions. We have brought them into reality. What began as a vision was followed by work, follow-up, and results. This achieves the result, and the result has been good and satisfying.
This has encouraged us to once again fulfil our vision and open up new projects, and achieve satisfying results from them.
In general, we always seek to complete this circle, and not develop part of a circle; and praise be to God, we have achieved this. Therefore when starting a new project that will be crowned with success – if God wills – and achieve the objectives we have prescribed for it.
World Finance: Tell us about your commercial and industrial businesses. How important is it to have this strong foundation to build upon?
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: Naturally any investment group must have a varied basket for the stability and strength of the group. After the success we achieved during our first 20 years, we found that we must have a very secure base.
A secure base in the economy requires first of all a variety in commercial, industrial, and service fields, as well as others. Now our industrial, commercial and services projects are among the successful projects that have achieved excellent results. During most periods we have seen the development and opening up of projects in this field. But we must repeat the same point: any economically strong group must operate in various fields.
“We are initiating an average of two projects each year with total value that might reach AED 1bn in our future plan”
World Finance: The UAE is well-known for its real estate sector; how is MAG Group involved?
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: We were among the groups that participated and entered into the Emirates market, and Dubai in particular, in property. We were among the companies that contributed to the development of many excellent property projects. This market – Dubai – is a leading market in all senses of the word. It is a leader in initiating projects; a leader in quality; a leader in size.
At MAG Group we have contributed to the opening up of some excellent projects. We have completed our projects and handed over the largest part. Now we are initiating an average of two projects each year with total value that might reach AED 1bn in our future plan.
World Finance: You also have an investment company, investing elsewhere in the world. Tell me about the work it’s doing.
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: The Overseas Investment Group is an affiliate company of one of our companies. It was established to construct a major distinctive project in Damascus with the Iamaar Property Company.
The total value of the project was about $1.5bn. It is an integrated town consisting of a financial district, or securities market, for the city of Damascus. It also has a residential area with the largest financing in Syria and the region. It was a factor of great attraction for many companies, banks, and petroleum companies and their head offices, in this town.
The Investment Group also operated other projects such as the Nobles 101 project. This is a high quality housing project. It also operated pastureland projects in Syria
It is now moving towards specialisation in foodstuffs, and in restaurants. This is because the group bought The Club of the East, a very old established club and one of the oldest restaurants in Syria.
The Group also manages businesses outside the UAE, and it operates in other fields in a number of European countries and in America.
“Our vision is that in the future we will have no limits”
World Finance: Innovation is an important part of leadership; what are you doing differently?
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: Success always demands that you think in a way that is different from others, so that your name is always successful: and you are not successful merely for a short period of time.
You must always think of innovation. Without this you will be a traditional man or leader like others: waiting for opportunities, instead of creating opportunities. We adopt the principle that we will create the opportunity, not wait for it or copy others.
This is always my principal objective that I personally have. I try to have a team of workers and the group with the same objective.
Our vision in the group is that we are transformed, so that in the future we will have no limits. In a number of years time, to be transformed into company that has operations in most countries around the world, that is developing locally, regionally and internationally; distinguished by our business, always able to be inventive, always able to perform and able to achieve results.
World Finance: Mr Al Gaddah: thank you, shukran.
Moafaq Ahmed Al Gaddah: Thank you, you’re welcome.
Anthony Coumidis on sustainable builds | McBains Cooper
The UK’s Gloucestershire constabulary headquarters was commissioned through a PPP project with a focus on sustainability. Leading interdisciplinary consultancy McBains Cooper Group acted as consultant to ensure these needs were met several years after occupation. Anthony Coumidis explains how it has future-proofed the building against energy rises, at a time when green measures were considered risky and expensive, by introducing sustainability at an early design stage.
World Finance: Tell me about McBains Cooper, and how this project gave you the opportunity to utilise such a sustainable initiative.
Anthony Coumidis: Let me start by explaining that McBains Cooper is a leading interdisciplinary consultancy in the UK. We have national coverage, and we also have five international offices. The awards from World Finance this year cover projects in Latin America, in Mediterranean rim, and also in the UK. We’re very proud of these awards, and these are all areas for future expansion for us as McBains Cooper internationally.
We’re particularly proud of the Gloucester Police project because it was one of the earliest projects that I was able to introduce sustainability at an early design stage, when green was considered risky and expensive, and passive design was not part of the agenda.
Our approach was based on sound design principles, and our main aim was to protect our clients against energy increases in the 25 year concession period.
The simple answer was to minimise energy demand, and at the same time benefit from the earth’s constant temperature by coupling it to a ground-source heat-pump solution. The solution was adopted because it was the best method of meeting the client’s stringent requirements, and at the same time we worked very closely with other members of the design team in order to bring other sustainable solutions.
For example, we used the structure to control solar gains by positioning the building columns on the outside of the building envelope, and therefore provide solar shading at no extra cost. I was able to do that purely because my engineers worked very closely with our in-house architects and structural engineers from an early design stage.
“We find cost-effective and innovative solutions that protect our clients from future price increases”
World Finance: How has the Gloucester programme been a spring-board to other projects?
Anthony Coumidis: The Gloucester project was one of the very first projects where a ground-source heat-pump solution was applied for at such a big scale. That offered us the opportunity to then explore opportunities in other sectors. One such sector was the B&Q New Malden project, where we applied very many different green technologies that worked very well together.
Nowadays we have a lot of policies in London in particular that drive sustainability, but also across the UK we have a general drive to reduce carbon emissions. This means that we have to find cost-effective solutions and innovative solutions that will protect our clients, occupiers, and owners of these buildings, from future price increases.
Our ability to predict energy accurately and also to monitor the consumption of energy from various buildings, puts us in a very good place to advise clients on green designs, and also to find cost-effective green initiatives for the buildings.
Even when we don’t have to apply sustainability as a policy requirement, we always use our lean, clean, green mantra to make sure that we don’t miss any opportunities from an early design stage.
“The long-term nature of a PPP gives the ideal opportunity to introduce energy-efficient and green solutions”
World Finance: Sustainability measures often have high up-front costs; what opportunities did this technology offer to the Gloucester police project, and other PPP projects?
Anthony Coumidis: The installed heating system at Gloucester Police was lean, was green, and was 75 percent free, and was the largest installed system at the time. The system when it was first envisaged had a pay-back period of just over 14 years when compared with a conventional boiler-chiller solution. However, because of recent price increases in electricity, that pay-back dropped to just over eight years.
You think PPP: you think conventional, you think tried-and-tested. No wonder, because consortia have to finance and look after these buildings for the whole concession period of, typically, 25 years. The long-term nature of a PPP gives me the ideal opportunity to introduce energy-efficient solutions and green solutions in these projects, because we have to take into account the whole life-cycle cost of the building.
These solutions future-proof the buildings against energy rises, and offer reductions in energy and facilities management costs, that result in a lower unitary charge, which far outweighs any initial outlay on these projects.
At the end of the day, implementing sustainability measures boils down to reducing resources, be it energy, be it water, materials, or waste. This is straightforward, as long as it is integrated as part of the original design, and is not an add-on at a later stage. And this is exactly what we specialise in at McBains Cooper, and why our submission stood out at the World Finance awards.
World Finance: Anthony, thank you.
Anthony Coumidis: Thank you Nick.
Michael Thirkettle on Mexican prisons | McBains Cooper
In 2010, the Mexican Ministry of Security set out to develop eight prisons, each housing 2,500 inmates, the biggest PPP project in Latin America at the time. UK consultancy McBains Cooper Group was brought in as technical advisor. Chief Executive Michael Thirkettle explains how its role went far beyond construction to establish a new design and structure in prison management.
Thomas Maier, Sue Barrett on PPPs in Russia | EBRD | Video
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has become the largest financial investor in a region that stretches from central Europe and the Western Balkans to central Asia. Thomas Maier and Sue Barrett discuss St Petersburg’s Western High Speed Diameter road project; the challenges of developing PPP projects in Russia, and the expertise that the EBRD brings to such agreements.
Magdalene Apenteng and Fifi Kwetey on PPPs in Ghana
In 2012, the World Bank pledged $30m to help Ghana develop capacity for public-private partnerships, generate bids, and execute projects to an international standard. Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Economic Strategy Fifi Kwetey, and the Director of the Ministry’s Public Investment Division Magdalene Apenteng, discuss the country’s PPP framework, their efforts to forge partnerships with domestic and international partners, and the current project pipeline.
Clive Docwra on PPPs in Greece | McBains Cooper Group
The construction of 14 school units in the Attica region of Greece was one of the first schools PPP projects in the country. McBains Cooper Group acted as lender’s technical advisor and independent certifier. Clive Docwra outlines the challenges and rewards of bringing UK expertise in the educational model to Greece, and the advantages of McBains Cooper’s interdisciplinary way of working in the successful delivery of the project.
World Finance: Tell us a bit more about this project.
Clive Docwra: The project in question is the programme of 14 schools that are being delivered in the Attica region in Greece. It’s one of the first schools projects within Greece, albeit not one of the first PPPs. It had a number of challenges, not least language, but also time constraints, which meant that we had to turn around our advice very very quickly.
And being one of the first projects of that sector in the region, it required us to bring to bring to bear our UK expertise. It was a fascinating project because within Greece, while as I mentioned they have the PPP expertise, there perhaps wasn’t so much experience in the educational model. Clearly within the UK, through the Building Schools for the Future programme, there’s an immense wealth of knowledge in that sector. So we were able to apply that experience we had here, through these local group resources and benefit the project overall in making it not only technically, but also commercially, acceptable from a funding perspective.
“North America is an area that I think we will look to invest in, early in 2013”
World Finance: Can you explain how this expertise in the UK and Greece is being applied elsewhere in the world?
Clive Docwra: As I’ve alluded to, it’s a case of bringing the UK expertise to bear in other regions, and to that degree it’s exactly what we did in Greece, but similarly we’re doing elsewhere.
Historically, perhaps an example that predates that for McBains Cooper, is our involvement in the South America region. Starting exactly as I’ve described in the Greek example, but in that instance it’s a more mature office that we have out there now, and consequently they were able to provide the PPP services internally within the local team that’s already there, so they’ve gone through that process of learning.
Looking forward, we see the North American market being an area that we’re very keen on. I and colleagues have spent time in North America attending conferences, meeting plenty of people to establish the pipeline of work coming out of that region, and it’s an area that I think we will look to invest in, early in 2013. And again, by taking across expertise from the UK, blending that with local resources in North America and looking to develop an operation out there that reflects our offering within the UK and Greece now.
“This is ultimately key to any successful project delivery: that information flows around a team quickly and effectively”
World Finance: So what sets McBains Cooper apart when it comes to its PPP projects?
Clive Docwra: I think it’s clearly experience. That’s undoubtedly a key attribute within the PPP sector. But notably I would mention the interdisciplinary way of working that we offer within McBains.
Bear in mind the PPP industry is such a blend of so many different skills, and any service that we as a company – or people in our arena – offer, requires a blend of architects; mechanical, electrical, civil, and structural engineers; facilities managers and so on. Rather than having to use external consultants to plug in to deliver the overall PPP service, we are able to do that all under one umbrella, because we have all of those skills in-house.
I think the benefit not only is in having those skills to hand, but also through our way of working, we’re able to harness all of those skills and deliver them in a very seamless and effective manner. And again, because the services are under one roof, the level of communication is always there. This is ultimately key to any successful project delivery: that information flows around a team quickly and effectively. So because we already know each other, because we’re all under one roof, that line of communication is there. So undoubtedly I would say, McBains Cooper’s interdisciplinary way of working is key.
World Finance: Clive, thank you.
Clive Docwra: Pleasure. Thank you Nick.
Ayuli Jemide on Nigeria | Detail Commercial Solicitors
PPPs are an emerging practice area in Nigeria, with governments at both the federal and state level working hard to ensure the environment is more robust. Recognised for its innovative approach, Detail Commercial Solicitors has taken a pioneering role in the market. Lead Partner Ayuli Jemide describes the rewards in seeing a tangible outcome of PPP projects, and the recent regulatory developments in the country.
World Finance: Why is the World Finance Legal Award for Best PPP Firm in Nigeria 2013 significant to Detail?
Ayuli Jemide: I think that pioneers need to be rewarded, and Detail has been a pioneer on two fronts.
One, that as a firm we have broken the traditional way of practising law in Nigeria. All the other firms are full-service firms, and we decided to stay as a corporate and commercial boutique, which means we don’t go to court at all, we just stay with the clients on the business side, and focus on being pro-active.
On the second front, we’ve tried to push emerging practice areas. And before the other law firms know it, there’s a new practice area, and Detail is the pioneer of it. And PPPs is one of those areas that we’ve really brought out into the market.
World Finance: What are Detail’s areas of focus, and what sets it apart from other legal service providers?
Ayuli Jemide: About five or six things we focus on: PPPs, finance, real estate, capital markets, power, and corporate and commercial. What sets us apart? I think it’s three things.
It’s innovation: we’re a firm that is known to be innovative, and Chambers and Partners in their last research actually mentioned that Detail is an innovative law firm.
Number two is focus. We realised as a firm that we can’t be everything to everybody, so we picked our areas, we pick our clients, and we stay focused at all times.
The third thing is quality service. In a book about Marvin Bower, the gentleman who built McKinsey to be a top management consulting firm today, he was quoted as saying, “If you focus on making money, you will lose the client. But if you focus on serving the client, you will make money and you will keep the client.” And that’s what Detail really stands for.
“Infrastructure projects are tangible. f I’m working on a railway project and I’m up all night, I hear the trains in my head. And it keeps me going”
World Finance: Why did Detail decide to focus on PPPs within Nigeria?
Ayuli Jemide: First and foremost it was a marketing strategy. We wanted to develop an emerging practice because we tried to develop areas where we’re not competing with other people. So we’re competing with them in their traditional areas, and they were developing areas where we’re not competing with them, and we’re more or less the only players on that field.
But when we got into it, we found out that it was actually rewarding. Because infrastructure projects are tangible. You can see what happens at the end of the day. So if I’m working on a railway project and I’m up all night, I hear the trains in my head. And it keeps me going.
World Finance: Have there been any recent regulatory amendments regarding PPP laws?
Ayuli Jemide: PPP in Nigeria is actually emerging, and the governments put at the federal and state level have been very bullish with making sure that the legal and regulatory environment is more robust.
At the federal level they’ve passed an act that sets up the regulatory commission, and that commission has come up with a lot of guidelines, and they’re in the process of drafting regulations. There’s also the infrastructure finance policy that is currently being drafted, and my firm happens to be part of the consortium drafting that policy.
At the state level, many states have passed PPP laws and have passed procurement laws to support PPP procurement. They’ve also set up PPP units, headed by very intelligent people, who understand project finance and have been trained in PPPs. So there’s a lot going on.
“If we think we would suffer a reputational risk from taking on a particular client, it’s not relevant how much they’d pay us. We’ll turn them down”
World Finance: Tell us: as lead partner of Detail, what drives you, and what defines your actual practice?
Ayuli Jemide: I think it’s three things. First and foremost, the need to build an institution that’s transparent, that’s process-driven, and that will leave a legacy.
The other thing is organic growth. At the end of the day, a law practice is about people, so we’re very strong on how you grow your people, how you train them, how you help them to create their own individual spheres of influence. How you bring them in, and let them see the bigger picture, and where they can actually get to.
The third thing is reputation. We’re very strong about reputation. We don’t take on every client. If we think we would suffer a reputational risk from taking on a particular client, it’s not relevant how much they’d pay us. We’ll turn them down.
World Finance: And finally, where do you see Detail in the near future?
Ayuli Jemide: I think to answer that question, let’s start with where we are now. Detail is probably in the top ten of firms in Nigeria, and I can say this based on the rankings and the research from Chambers and Partners, and IFLR. So what we want to do is just keep our focus, keep doing what we’re doing right, and hope to be at the top – the number one corporate and commercial law firm – in another five years.
World Finance: Ayuli, thank you very much for your time.
Ayuli Jemide: Thank you so much Eleni. It was my pleasure.
Dr Alex Otti on empowering SMEs | Diamond Bank | Video
Nigeria’s Diamond Bank has weathered the recent financial crisis well, returning to profitability this year and occupying a strong position in the market. Dr Alex Otti outlines its principled stand to empower people and grow small businesses, without sacrificing its leading role in the country’s large energy sector.
Rohit Walia on GCC investment | Alpen Capital | Video
Strategic investors are lining up to back a wave of infrastructure projects across the GCC, and the IMF cites strong external balances and rising oil prices in what it terms a “positive short-to-medium term economic outlook” for the region. Rohit Walia discusses what differentiates Alpen Capital in this overbanked market, its focus on the GCC-India business corridor, and its involvement in one of the largest transactions the UAE has seen.
The uncertainty principle
Since neoclassical economics was invented in the late 19th century, economics has modelled itself after physics and engineering. Economists have sought mechanistic ‘laws’, which do for money what Newton’s laws did for motion. As Lawrence Summers put it in 1991, while chief economist at the World Bank: “Spread the truth – the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.”
But is it really possible to describe the economy in terms of mathematical laws? It seems instead that economic ‘laws’ hold only loosely and for a certain set of conditions.
Plotting the future
The archetype for an economic law is the law of supply and demand. This is usually illustrated by plotting two intersecting lines, showing how supply and demand change as a function of price for a particular product or service. If price goes up, then demand usually decreases, so a plot of demand versus price slopes down. However, a higher price typically attracts more firms into the market, so a plot of supply versus price slopes up. The two lines intersect at a single point. Neoclassical economists claimed that in a competitive market, prices will be driven to this point, which represents the unique stability of supply and demand in perfect equilibrium.
The idea of a balance between supply and demand seems intuitively reasonable, and captures a basic property of markets. The problem occurs when it is labelled law, and treated as a mathematical truth. In his 1871 Theory of Political Economy, the economist William Stanley Jevons wrote that economics is “as sure and demonstrative as that of kinematics or statics, nay, almost as self-evident as are the elements of Euclid, when the real meaning of the formulae is fully seized”. But the reality is a little more complicated.
For one thing, the idea that supply and demand can be plotted as independent curves isn’t quite right. Economists can only measure the number of transactions, taking place at a certain number of price points. But supply and demand affect one another in complicated ways, meaning prices may never reach equilibrium.
A good example is the price of gold. It is often asked whether the price of gold is in a bubble or not, but it’s not the right question, because gold is basically always in a bubble. The worth of the metal is created mostly by the fact that people think it has worth, now and in the future. It doesn’t make sense to talk about an equilibrium value for gold: instead it is sustained by a bubble of human belief, which is constantly rising and falling. If the price of gold goes up, then rather than reduce demand, its relative costliness may strengthen the perception that gold is holding its value and will continue to climb, fuelling further price rises. Conversely, a dip in prices may make nervous – or over-leveraged – investors dump their holdings. The result is boom or bust behaviour, with no stable, long-term equilibrium in sight.
Just as there is no law for the price of gold, so there is no law for the price of other important items. It is thus hard to predict price fluctuations for anything, from oil to houses. The economy is not a stable mechanical system governed by exact laws. It is better viewed as a complex system, in which prices are emergent properties that cannot be precisely calculated.
Understanding the process
The definition of emergence is itself somewhat fuzzy, but the basic idea is that a system can exhibit properties that cannot be understood by reducing a system to its components. The term was first used to describe properties of living systems by philosophers such as Samuel Alexander, who wrote in 1920: “Physical and chemical processes of a certain complexity have the quality of life. The new quality life emerges with this constellation of such processes, and therefore life is at once a physio-chemical complex and is not merely physical and chemical… The existence of emergent qualities thus described is something to be noted, as some would say, under the compulsion of brute empirical fact.”
Emergent properties are in fact characteristic of complex systems in general, including biological, social, or physical systems. Sometimes emergent properties are so exact that they appear to represent a fundamental law, even though this is not the case. An example is phase changes, such as the freezing of water to ice, which cannot be deduced from a study of individual molecules. Some physicists, such as Robert Laughlin, even believe that Newton’s laws of motions are the emergent result of some finer-scale dynamics.
The emergent properties that characterise systems such as the weather, biology, or the economy are different in that they are general tendencies, which elude precise prediction. There is no precise law for a cloud, and there is no law for a market. All we can do is make some rough estimates. Complex systems, it seems, have their own inbuilt uncertainty, rather like the uncertainty principle in quantum physics, but without the neat mathematical equations.
Of course, this doesn’t necessarily mean that economics should stop incorporating techniques from physics. The methods just need updating, from Newtonian mechanics to the world of complexity, emergence, and uncertainty.
This might seem disappointing to those who want more certainty. But as shown by the minutes from the meetings of the Federal Reserve, one asset that was in remarkably strong supply prior to the crash that began in 2007 was certainty in the strength of the economy.
At one such get-together it was described as “a lot like a tennis racquet with a gigantic sweet spot”. In fact, studies have shown that economic forecasters consistently overestimate the accuracy of their predictions, and tend to be too optimistic. This naturally imbues policy makers with a pleasant but potentially dangerous feeling of false confidence. A little less certainty might actually help make the economy a safer place.
Dr Orlando Smith on offshore services | BVI IFC | Video
The British Virgin Islands is one of the most well-known offshore financial centres in the world: second to the Cayman Islands in assets under management, but first in number of businesses present. Dr Orlando Smith explains how the BVI International Finance Centre keeps the BVI an attractive jurisdiction for businesses and high net-worth individuals, and outlines the country’s plans for financial services in 2013 and beyond.
Public-Private Partnerships Awards 2013
Europe
Best Technical Advisor, Europe
McBains Cooper | Clive Docwra accepts the award for McBains Cooper
Best Financial Advisor, Europe
Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild
Best Infrastructure Fund, Europe
European Investment Bank
Best Debt Funder, Europe
VTB Capital | Oleg Pankratov accepts the award for VTB Capital
Best Project Sponsor, Europe
VTB Capital | Oleg Pankratov accepts the award for VTB Capital
Best Green Project, Europe
Gloucester Police | Anthony Coumidis accepts the award for McBains Cooper
Best Design Project, Europe
Tours – Bordeaux High Speed Line
Best Transport Project, Europe
Larnaka & Pafos Airports | Alecos Michaelides accepts the award for the Cyprus Ministry of Communications and Works/a>
Best Urban Development, Europe
Western High Speed Diameter
Best Education Project, Europe
Irish Schools
Best Healthcare Project, Europe
Royal London Hospital
Best Correctional Facilities, Europe
New Prison Haran suburb of Brussels
Best Social Project, Europe
Limassol Marina
Best Water Project, Europe
Sofia Water System Concession, EBRD | Jean-Patrick Marquet accepts the award for EBRD
Best Project Financier, Europe
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development | Thomas Maier and Sue Barrett accept the award for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Middle East & Africa
Best Technical Advisor, Middle East & Africa
PPP Advisory Division, Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning – Ghana | Fifi Kwetey and Magdalene Apenteng accepts the award for Ghana Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Best Financial Advisor, Middle East & Africa
Colliers International
Best Infrastructure Fund, Middle East & Africa
MENA Infrastructure Fund
Best Debt Funder, Middle East & Africa
MENA Infrastructure Fund
Best Project Sponsor, Middle East & Africa
IFC
Best Green Project, Middle East & Africa
Bujagali Hydropower Project
Best Design Project, Middle East & Africa
Mediterranean Solar Plan
Best Transport Project, Middle East & Africa
Madinah Airport Saudi Arabia
Best Urban Development, Middle East & Africa
Mafraq-Al Ghweifat highway Abu Dhabi
Best Education Project, Middle East & Africa
Partnerships for Education (PfE)
Best Healthcare Project, Middle East & Africa
Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital
Best Correctional Facilities, Middle East & Africa
Kimberley Correctional Centre
Best Social Project, Middle East & Africa
Mediterranean Solar Plan
Best Water Project, Middle East & Africa
New Cairo Wastewater
Best Project Financier, Middle East & Africa
InfraMed
Asia Pacific
Best Technical Advisor, Asia Pacific
Mott McDonald
Best Financial Advisor, Asia Pacific
KPMG
Best Infrastructure Fund, Asia Pacific
BDO Capital and Investment Corporation
Best Debt Funder, Asia Pacific
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Best Project Sponsor, Asia Pacific
Gammon Capital
Best Green Project, Asia Pacific
Lopburi Solar Park Project
Best Design Project, Asia Pacific
ITE College West
Best Transport Project, Asia Pacific
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Best Urban Development, Asia Pacific
Chief Minister’s Office, Government Project of Gujarat
Best Education Project, Asia Pacific
ITE College West
Best Healthcare Project, Asia Pacific
New Royal Adelaide Hospital Project
Best Correctional Facilities, Asia Pacific
Department of Justice, Philippines
Best Social Project, Asia Pacific
DBFOM of Rajasthan Border-Salasar section of NH-65
Best Water Project, Asia Pacific
Mundaring Weir Water Treatment Plant
Best Project Financier, Asia Pacific
ILF&
North America
Best Technical Advisor, North America
Booze Allen Hamilton
Best Financial Advisor, North America
Goldman Sachs
Best Infrastructure Fund, North America
Macquarie
Best Debt Funder, North America
Meridiam Infrastructure
Best Project Sponsor, North America
Plenary Group | Mike Marasco accepts the award for Plenary Group
Best Green Project, North America
Zero Energy Homes US
Best Design Project, North America
IH 635 Managed Lanes Project US
Best Transport Project, North America
Port of Miami Tunnel
Best Urban Project, North America
Turks and Caicos Islands Hospital
Best Education Project, North America
ABC Schools Partnership
Best Healthcare Project, North America
Humber River Hospital | Dr. Rueben Devlin accepts the award for Humber River Hospital
Best Correctional Facilities, North America
CCA
Best Social Project, North America
King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Redevelopment Project | Robert Wotherspoon and James Campbell accept the award for King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Redevelopment Project
Best Water Project, North America
North Shelby County Wasterwater System
Best Project Financier, North America
Meridiam Infrastructure
Latin America
Best Technical Advisor, Latin America
McBains Cooper
Best Financial Advisor, Latin America
IFC
Best Infrastructure Fund, Latin America
FONADIN Mexico’s National Infrastructure Fund
Best Debt Funder, Latin America
Banobras
Best Project Sponsor, Latin America
InterHealth Canada
Best Green Project, Latin America
Mexico Ministry of Security
Best Design Project, Latin America
Rodoanel Oeste
Best Transport Project, Latin America
Chinchero Airport
Best Urban Development Project, Latin America
Puerto Rico PR-22 & PR-5 Toll Roads
Best Education Project, Latin America
Universidad Politécnica de San Luis Potosí
Best Healthcare Project, Latin America
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Banobras
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Argentina
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Key individuals: Roberto Lizondo, Hugo Bruzone, Mariano Rovelli
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Banking, finance, dispute resolution
Website: www.bfmyl.com
Contact: studio@bfmyl.com
Best M&A Firm
Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal
Key individuals:
Founded: 1923
Practice areas: Banking, finance, capital markets, commercial, competition
Website: www.marval.com.ar
Contact: marvel@marval.com.ar
Best Tax Firm
Grupo GNP
Key individuals: Guillermo N Perez
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.grupognp.com.ar
Contact: Guillermo.perez@grupognp.com
Best Tax Consultant
Guillermo N Perez, Grupo GNP
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.grupognp.com.ar
Contact: Guillermo.perez@grupognp.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
M & M Bomchil
Key individuals: Tomas Miguel Araya, Ariadna Laura Artopoulos
Founded: 1923
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial
Website: www.bomchil.com
Contact: tomas.araya@bomchil.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Estudio Beccar Varela
Key individuals: Horacio E Beccar Varela
Founded: 1897
Practice areas: M&A, banking, capital markets
Website: www.ebv.com.ar
Contact: estudio@ebv.com.ar
Best Property Firm
Zang, Bergel y Viñes
Key individuals: Pablo Crescimbeni,
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance
Website: www.zbv.com.ar
Contact: zbvabogados@zbv.com.ar
Best Intellectual Property Firm
G Breuer
Key individuals: Alejandro M. Breuer Moreno, Peter C. Breuer Moreno
Founded: 1869
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, finance, energy, property
Website: http://www.gbreuer.com.ar/
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Allende & Brea
Key individuals: Pablo Germán Louge
Founded: 1957
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, IP, insurance, competition, anti-trust
Website: www.allendebrea.com
Contact: INFO@ALLENDEBREA.COM.AR
Best Energy Firm
Heredia, Oneto Gaona, Lede Pizzurno & Terrel Abogados (HOLT)
Key individuals: Florencia Heredia, Regina Oneto Gaona, Maria Laura Lede Pizzurno, Maria Paula Terrel
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, energy, environment, regulatory
Website: www.holtlegal.com
Contact: holt@holtlegal.com.ar
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Julio César Rivera Abogados
Key individuals: Julio Cesar Rivera, Beltran Fernando Louge, Giatti Gustavo Javier, Gustavo Parodi
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Insolvency, corporate, litigation
Website: www.rivera.com
Contact: +54 11 4373-0309
Best Lawyer
Funes de Rioja & Asociados
Key individuals: Daniel C. L. Funes de Rioja, Rodrigo Funes de Rioja
Founded: 1981
Practice areas: Labour, industrial, corporate
Website: www.funes.com
Contact: estudio@funes.com.ar
Best Lawyer
Enrique Bruchou, Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Practice areas: Banking, corporate, M&A
Website: www.bfmyl.com
Contact: +54 11 4021 2319
Best Transfer Pricing Firm
Goldemberg & Associates
Key individuals: Cecilia Goldemberg, Beatriz S. González de Rechter, Gabriel Hermida, Gabriela Clerc, Karina Ernst
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Tax consulting
Website: http://www.goldemberg-asoc.com.ar
Contact: info@goldemberg-asoc.com.ar
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Allende & Brea
Key individuals: Pablo Germán Louge
Founded: 1957
Practice areas: Foreign investment, antitrust, finance, commercial, corporate, IP, insurance
Website: www.allendebrea.com
Contact: INFO@ALLENDEBREA.COM.AR
Best Capital Markets Firm
King & Wood Mallesons
Key individuals: Wang Junfeng, Stuart Fuller
Founded: 2012
Practice areas: Finance, IP, tax, corporate, capital markets
Website: www.kwm.com
Contact: marketing@cn.kwm.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Lewis Baach P
Key individuals: Cristián Francos
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, finance, insurance, white collar, corporate
Website: http://www.lewisbaach.com
Contact: +54 11 4850 1220
Best Private Equity Firm
Errecondo, Salaverri, Dellatorre, González & Burgio
Key individuals: Javier Errecondo, Baruki González
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, insolvency, real estate, litigation
Website: www.esdgyb.com
Contact: estudio@esdgyb.com
Best Litigation Firm
Herbert Smith Freehills
Key individuals: Jonathan Scott, Mark Crean
Founded: 2012
Practice areas: Corporate, competition, Dispute resolution, employment, pensions, finance, real estate
Website: http://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com
Contact: Michael.Back@hsf.com
Australia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Arthur Allens Robinson
Key individuals: Ian Wallace, Michael Rose
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, real estate, energy, consumer, arbitration, insurance, litigation
Website: www.allens.com.au
Contact: +61 2 9230 4000
Best M&A Firm
King & Wood Mallesons
Key individuals: Wang Junfeng Global, Stuart Fuller, Tony O’Malley
Founded: 2012
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, infrastructure, M&A
Website: http://www.mallesons.com
Contact: marketing@cn.kwm.com
Best Tax Firm
Johnson Winter & Slattery
Key individuals: Peter Slattery
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, dispute resolution, finance, construction,
Website: www.jws.com.au
Contact: peter.slattery@jws.com.au
Best Tax Consultant
Richard Gelski, Johnson Winter & Slattery
Practice areas: Corporate structuring, cross border investment, tax effective financing, capital raising, M&A, property trust structures
Website: www.jws.com.au
Contact: richard.gelski@jws.com.au
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Minter Ellison
Key individuals: Russell Miller, John Weber
Founded: 1827
Practice areas: Infrastructure, dispute resolution, finance, real estate, tax, corporate, industrial relations
Website: http://www.minterellison.com
Contact: john.weber@minterellison.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Key individuals: John WH Denton
Founded: 1841
Practice areas: Finance, capital markets, dispute resolution, construction, IP, infrastructure, real estate, tax, media, insolvency
Website: www.corrs.com.au
Contact: eddie.scuderi@corrs.com.au
Best Property Firm
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Key individuals: John WH Denton
Founded: 1841
Practice areas: Finance, capital markets, dispute resolution, construction, IP, infrastructure, real estate, tax, media, insolvency
Website: www.corrs.com.au
Contact: eddie.scuderi@corrs.com.au
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Griffith Hack
Key individuals: David Hughes, Steve parker, David Madigan, Stuart Boyer, Debbie Beadle, Kate Spargo
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: IP
Website: www.griffithhack.com.au
Contact: +61 2 9925 5900
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Gilbert & Tobin
Key individuals: Danny Gilbert
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Finance, regulation, corporate, IP, real estate, anti-trust, dispute resolution, consumer, energy
Website: www.gtlaw.com.au
Contact: email@gtlaw.com.au
Best Energy Firm
Gilbert & Tobin
Key individuals: Danny Gilbert
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Finance, regulation, corporate, IP, real estate, anti-trust, dispute resolution, consumer, energy
Website: www.gtlaw.com.au
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Henry Davis York
Key individuals: Sharon Cook
Founded: 1959
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, insolvency, construction
Website: http://www.hdy.com.au
Contact: info@hdy.com.au
Best Lawyer
Norton Rose Australia
Key individuals: Wayne Spanner
Founded: 2010
Practice areas: Finance, energy, infrastructure, technology, pharmaceuticals
Website: http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/
Contact: samantha.magnusson@nortonrosefulbright.com
Best Lawyer
Richard Bunting, Ashurst
Practice areas: Litigation, employment, M&A
Website: www.ashurst.com
Contact: +61 3 9679 3597
Best PPP Firm
Clayton Utz
Key individuals: Darryl D McDonough, Stuart Clark
Founded: 1833
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, energy, dispute resolution
Website: www.claytonutz.com
Contact: webmaster@claytonutz.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Minter Ellison
Key individuals: Russell Miller, John Weber
Founded: 1827
Practice areas: Infrastructure, dispute resolution, finance, real estate, tax, corporate, industrial relations, foreign investment
Website: http://www.minterellison.com
Contact: john.weber@minterellison.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Sidley Austin
Key individuals: Thomas A Cole, Chares W Douglas
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, tax, consumer, energy, dispute resolution, IP, insurance
Website: www.sidley.com
Contact: kamorgan@sidley.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Buse Heberer Fromm
Key individuals: Christian Pothe
Practice areas: Corporate, IP, real estate, IT, tax, finance, litigation
Website: http://en.buse.de/home.html
Contact: sydney@buse.de
Best Private Equity Firm
Gilbert & Tobin
Key individuals: Danny Gilbert
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Finance, regulation, corporate, IP, real estate, anti-trust, dispute resolution, consumer, energy
Website: www.gtlaw.com.au
Bahrain
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Attorneys at Law & Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Sheikha Haya Rashid Al Khalifa
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, litigation, construction, real estate
Website: www.hraklf.com
Contact: info@hraklf.com
Best M&A Firm
Qays H Zu’bi, Attorneys & Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Qays H.Zu’bi, Hatim Q Zu’bi, Mamoon Tayeb
Founded: 1981
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, corporate, IP, insurance, energy, insurance, construction
Website: http://www.qayszubilaw.com/index.php
Contact: qzubi@qayszubilaw.com
Best Tax Firm
Trowers & Hamlins
Key individuals: Dominic O’Neil
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, dispute resolution, energy, real estate, tax, infrastructure
Website: www.trowers.com
Contact: doneil@trowers.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Hassan Radhi & Associates
Key individuals: Hassan Ali Radhi, Noor Hassan Radhi, Safa Ahmed Al-Satrawi
Founded: 1974
Practice areas: Finance, IP, corporate, litigation, commercial
Website: www.hassanradhi.com
Contact: info@hassanradhi.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Hatim S Zu’bi & Partners
Key individuals: Hatim Sharif Zu’bi, Hamid Abdulrahman Al Mahmood, Ma’awia El Tahir El Nayal
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, litigation, insurance, commercial, IP
Website: www.hatimzubilaw.com
Contact: enquiries@hatimzubilaw.com
Best Property Firm
Zeenat Al Mansoori & Associates
Key individuals: Zeenat Al Mansoori
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate, IP
Website: www.zeenatalmansoori.com
Contact: info@zeenatalmansoori.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Mohamed M Alkhateeb & Associates
Key individuals: Mohamed M. Alkhateeb, Nawaf Mohamed Alkhateeb
Practice areas: Commercial, energy, finance, real estate, litigation, IP, employment, construction
Website: www.khateeblaw.com
Contact: info@khateeblaw.com
Best Energy Firm
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Key individuals: William Lawes, ted Burke, Stephan Eilers
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, IP, real estate, tax, disputes, antitrust, energy
Website: www.freshfields.com
Contact: enquiries@freshfields.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Trowers & Hamlins
Key individuals: Jonathan Adlington
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: Corporate, construction, real estate, litigation, pensions, insolvency
Website: www.trowers.com
Contact: enquiries@trowers.com
Best Lawyer
Elham Ali Hassan & Associates
Key individuals: Elham Ali Hassan, Essa Jawahery, Sara Jawahery
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Corporate, dispute resolution, insurance, infrastructure, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate, employment
Website: www.elhamlaw.com
Contact: info@elhamlaw.com
Best Lawyer
Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Haya Rashed Al Khalifa Attorneys at Law & Legal Consultants
Website: www.hraklf.com
Contact: h.alkhalifa@hraklf.com
Best Litigation Firm
Taqi & Mohamed Ahmed Attorneys
Key individuals: Mohammed Ahmed, Hussain Taqi
Contact: taqimohd@batelco.com.bh
Belgium
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Allen & Overy
Key individuals: Dirk Meeus, David Morley, Wim Dejonghe
Founded: 1930
Practice areas: Antitrust, finance, corporate, employment, IP, litigation
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: information@allenovery.com
Best M&A Firm
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Key individuals: Mark Leddy
Founded: 1960
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, real estate, IP, energy, M&A
Website: www.clearygottlieb.com
Contact: +1 212 225 2000
Best Tax Firm
Afschrift
Key individuals: Thierry Afschrift, Inès Wouters, Martin Van Beirs, Anne Rayet, Sylvie Leyder
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Tax, white collar crime
Website: www.afschrift.com
Contact: +32 2 646 46 36
Best Tax Consultant
Jacques Malherbe, Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, finance, estate, litigation
Website: www.jacques-malherbe.com
Contact: +32 2 551 15 15
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Key individuals: Mark Leddy
Founded: 1960
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, IP, real estate,
Website: www.clearygottlieb.com
Contact: +1 212 225 2000
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Hanotiau & Van den Berg
Key individuals: Bernard Hanotiau, Albert Jan Van Den Berg, Paul Lefebvre, Pascal Hollander, Niuscha Bassiri
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, IP, commercial, energy, finance, antitrust
Website: www.hvdb.com
Contact: info@hvdb.com
Best Property Firm
Stibbe
Key individuals: Heleen Kersten, Jan Peeters
Founded: 1911
Practice areas: Property, finance, dispute resolution, IP, real estate, energy, insolvency
Website: www.stibbe.com
Contact: info@stibbe.be
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Altius
Key individuals: Carine Van Regenmortel
Founded: 2002
Practice areas: IP, corporate, litigation, real estate, commercial
Website: www.altius.com
Contact: carine.vanregenmortel@altius.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Arnold & Porter
Key individuals: Silvio Cappellari, Tim Frazer, Luc Gyselen, Annette Luise Schild, Marleen Van Kerckhove
Founded: 1946
Practice areas: Antitrust, corporate, IP, litigation, real estate, finance
Website: www.arnoldporter.com
Contact: +32 2 290 7800
Best Energy Firm
Foley & Lardner
Key individuals: Howard Fogt, Rouget Henschel, Richard Peet, Michele Simkin
Founded: 1969
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, litigation, IP, public policy
Website: www.foley.com
Contact: +32 2 78 79 700
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Morrison & Foerster
Key individuals: Rony Gerrits, Jonathan Gowdy, Tom McQuail, Christopher Norall, Karin Retzer
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Insolvency, finance, IP, litigation, corporate, real estate
Website: www.mofo.com
Contact: info@mofo.com
Best Lawyer
Claeys & Engels
Key individuals: Chris Engels, Eric Carlier, Olivier Debray, Luc Bihain
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Employment, commercial
Website: www.claeysengels.be
Contact: info@claeysengels.be
Best Lawyer
Thierry Afschrift, Afschrift
Practice areas: Tax, M&A, finance
Website: www.afschrift.com
Contact: thierry.afschrift@afschrift.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Van Bael & Bellis
Key individuals: Jean-François Bellis
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: Foreign investment, regulatory, competition, trade
Website: www.vbb.com
Contact: vbb@vbb.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Jones Day
Key individuals: Bernard Amory
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Capital markets, finance, corporate, antitrust, energy, real estate, IP
Website: www.jonesday.com
Contact: info@jonesday.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Afschrift
Key individuals: Thierry Afschrift, Inès Wouters, Martin Van Beirs, Anne Rayet, Sylvie Leyder
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Tax, white-collar crime
Website: www.afschrift.com
Contact: +32 2 646 46 36
Best Litigation Firm
Linklaters
Key individuals: Robert Elliott, Simon davies
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Litigation, corporate, IP, finance, insolvency, real estate, commercial, antitrust
Website: www.linklaters.com
Contact: +32 2 501 94 11
Bolivia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Indacochea & Asociados, Abogados
Key individuals: Ricardo Indacochea, Mariana Pereira
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Finance, energy, corporate, labour, dispute resolution, IP, anti-trust, competition
Website: www.indacochea-abogados.com
Contact: indacochea@indacochea.com.bo
Best M&A Firm
Guevara & Gutiérrez S C Servicios Legales
Key individuals: Ramiro Guevara, primitive Gutierrez
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Litigation, energy, finance, labour, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution
Website: www.gg-lex.com
Contact: abogados@gg-lex.com
Best Tax Firm
Araujo & Forgues
Best Tax Consultant
José Luis Tufiño, Tufiño y Villegas
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Bufete Aguirre Soc Civ
Key individuals: Ignacio M Aguirre, Fernando Aguirre
Founded: 1940
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, labour, litigation, regulation
Website: www.bufeteaguirre-lawfirm.com
Contact: abogados@bufeteaguirre-lawfirm.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Guevara & Gutiérrez S C Servicios Legales
Key individuals: Ramiro Guevara, primitive Gutierrez
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Litigation, energy, finance, labour, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, foreign investment
Website: www.gg-lex.com
Contact: abogados@gg-lex.com
Best Property Firm
Urenda Abogados Sociedad Civil
Website: www.urenda.bo
Contact: secretaria@urenda.bo
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Moreno Baldivieso Estudio de Abogados
Key individuals: Ramiro Moreno Baldivieso, Andres Moreno Gutierrez, Luis F Moreno Gutierrez
Founded: 1931
Practice areas: corporate, energy, finance, labour, dispute resolution,
Website: www.emba.com.bo
Contact: AMORENOG@emba.com.bo
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Indacochea & Asociados Abogados Sociedad Civil
Key individuals: Ricardo Indacochea, Mariana Pereira
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Finance, energy, corporate, labour, dispute resolution, IP, anti-trust, competition
Website: www.indacochea-abogados.com
Contact: indacochea@indacochea.com.bo
Best Energy Firm
Quintanilla, Soria & Nishizawa
Key individuals: Eduardo Quintanilla Ballivián, Mauricio Torrico Galindo, Santiago Nishizawa Takano
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Energy, commercial, corporate, regulation
Website: www.qsn.bo
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
CR & F Rojas Abogados
Key individuals: Casto Rojas, Rene Rojas, Fernando Rojas
Founded: 1900
Practice areas: Commercial, construction, finances, IP, real estate, energy, labour, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.rojas-lawfirm.com
Contact: fernando@rojas-lawfirm.com
Best Lawyer
CR & F Rojas Abogados
Key individuals: Casto Rojas, Rene Rojas, Fernando Rojas
Founded: 1900
Practice areas: Commercial, construction, finances, IP, real estate, energy, labour, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.rojas-lawfirm.com
Contact: fernando@rojas-lawfirm.com
Best Lawyer
Ramiro Moreno Baldivieso, Moreno Baldivieso Estudio de Abogados
Practice areas: Corporate, IP, international arbitration, oil and gas
Website: www.emba.com.bo
Contact: rmb@emba.com.bo
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Guevara & Gutierrez S C Servicios Legales
Key individuals: Ramiro Guevara, primitive Gutierrez
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Litigation, energy, finance, labour, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, foreign investment
Website: www.gg-lex.com
Contact: abogados@gg-lex.com
Best Litigation Firm
Urenda Abogados Sociedad Civil
Key individuals: Juan Carlos Urenda Diaz
Website: www.urenda.bo
Contact: secretaria@urenda.bo
Brazil
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice
Key individuals: Antonio Corrêa Meyer, José Roberto Opice, Moshe Sendacz
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, infrastructure, real estate, labour, litigation, compliance
Website: www.machadomeyer.com
Contact: mmso@mmso.com.br
Best M&A Firm
Leal Cotrim Advogados
Key individuals: Márcio Leal, Aurea d’Avila Mello Cotrim
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, energy, litigation, labour, tax, commercial
Website: www.lealcotrim.com.br
Contact: + 55 21 3550 8080
Best Tax Firm
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Website: www.sevilha.com.br
Best Tax Consultant
Leonardo Braune, Intercorp
Practice areas: International tax, real estate planning, wealth preservation
Website: www.intercorpgroup.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Leal Cotrim Advogados
Key individuals: Márcio Leal, Aurea d’Avila Mello Cotrim
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, energy, litigation, labour, tax, commercial
Website: www.lealcotrim.com.br
Contact: + 55 21 3550 8080
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Andrade & Fichtner Advogados
Key individuals: Joel Alves De Andrade, Mauro Fichtner
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Property, corporate, tax, energy, arbitration, IP
Website: www.afadv.com.br
Contact: +55 21 2215 1733
Best Property Firm
Campos Mello Advogados
Key individuals: Luiz Antônio Campos Mello, Fabio Perrone Campos Mello
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: Property, commercial, corporate, real estate, employment, energy, litigation, regulatory
Website: www.camposmello.adv.br
Contact: selecao@camposmello.adv.br
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira
Key individuals: Peter Dirk Siemsen, José Antonio B L Faria Correa, Luiz Henrique O do Amaral, Gustavo de Freitas Morais, Peter Eduardo Siemsen
Founded: 1919
Practice areas: IP, property, environmental
Website: http://www.dannemann.com.br
Contact: mail@dannemann.com.br
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Advocacia José Del Chiaro
Key individuals: José Del Chiaro Ferreira da Rosa, Maria Augusta Fidalgo, Maurílio Monteiro de Abreu, Ademir Antonio Pereira Júnior, Maria Fernanda Pallerosi Suplicy
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Competition, anti-trust, consumer, trade, regulatory
Website: www.josedelchiaro.com.br
Contact: advocacia@josedelchiaro.com.br
Best Energy Firm
Advocacia Waltenberg
Key individuals: David A M Waltenberg, Cristiana Reis, André Edelstein, Gerusa Magalhães, Ana Amélia Santos Galli
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, commercial, arbitration, tax
Website: www.waltenberg.com.br
Contact: adv@waltenberg.com.br
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Felsberg, Pedretti e Mannrich Advogados e Consultores Legais
Key individuals: Thomas Benes Felsberg, Maria da Graça Pedretti, Nelson Mannrich, Roberto Wilson, David Meiler
Founded: 1970
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, labour, litigation, finance, real estate, trade
Website: www.felsberg.com.br
Contact: mail@felsberg.com.br
Best Lawyer
Demarest e Almeida
Key individuals: Naum Rotenberg, Tatiana Campello, Edimara Iansen Wieczorek
Founded: 1948
Practice areas: Employment, finance, corporate, energy, IP, labour, regulatory, litigation
Website: www.demarest.com.br
Contact: comunicacao@demarest.com.br
Best Lawyer
Estêvão Mallet, Mallet Advogados Associados
Practice areas: Employment,
Website: www.mallet.com.br
Contact: estevao@mallet.adv.br
Best PPP Firm
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga
Key individuals: Roberto Quiroga Mosquera,
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: PPP, real estate, finance, corporate, energy, insolvency, labour, insurance, infrastructure
Website: www.mattosfilho.com.br
Contact: mattosfilho@mattosfilho.com.br
Best Transfer Pricing Firm
Deloitte
Key individuals: Carlos Nicacio
Founded: 1845
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, regulatory, transfer pricing, tax
Website: www.deloitte.com
Contact: jcarvalhojr@deloitte.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown
Key individuals: Alexandre Chequer
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Energy, foreign investment, corporate, finance, litigation,
Website: www.tauilchequer.com.br
Contact: +55 21 2271 4210
Best Capital Markets Firm
Lefosse Advogados
Key individuals: Geraldo Lefosse
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, capital markets, litigation, insolvency, employment, anti-trust
Website: www.lefosse.com
Contact: lefosseadvogados@lefosse.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
Key individuals: Andoni Hernández, maria da Paz Tierno Lopes
Founded: 1917
Practice areas: Arbitration, white-collar crime, finance, corporate, litigation, public law, IP
Website: www.cuatrecasas.com
Contact: +55 11 5184 4650
Best Litigation Firm
Ferro, Castro Neves, Daltro & Gomide Advogados
Key individuals: Marcelo Roberto Ferro
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Litigation, dispute resolution, bankruptcy, consultancy
Website: www.fcdg.com.br
Contact: fcdg@fcdg.com.br
Canada
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Key individuals: Brock W Gibson, Robert M Granatstein
Founded: 1856
Practice areas: Finances, energy, corporate, IP, litigation, anti-trust, PPP
Website: www.blakes.com
Contact: toronto@blakes.com
Best M&A Firm
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Key individuals: DShawn McReynolds, Pierre-André Themens, Richard D Cherney, Peter A Glicklich
Founded: 1862
Practice areas: Tax, finance, commercial, real estate, corporate, insolvency, litigation, infrastructure, M&A
Website: www.dwpv.com
Contact: info@dwpv.com
Best Tax Firm
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Key individuals: Clay Horner, Dale R Ponder
Founded: 1862
Practice areas: Finance, tax, corporate, employment, energy, litigation, IP, insolvency, real estate
Website: www.osler.com
Contact: counsel@osler.com
Best Tax Consultant
John Ulmer, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Practice areas: Tax, corporate finance, real estate transactions
Website: www.dwpv.com
Contact: julmer@dwpv.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Stikeman Elliott
Key individuals: William Braithwaite, André J Roy, Jay Kellerman, Stuart McCormack
Founded: 1952
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, insolvency, energy, infrastructure
Website: www.stikeman.com
Contact: aroy@stikeman.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Bennett Jones
Key individuals: Hugh L MacKinnon, C Perry Spitznagel, Stephen W Bowman, Enzo J Barichello, Timothy N Ross
Founded: 1922
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, finance, energy, litigation, trade, infrastructure, public policy
Website: www.bennettjones.com
Contact: spitznagelp@bennettjones.com
Best Property Firm
McCarthy Tétrault
Key individuals: Marc-André Blanchard, Herman Van Ommen, Sean Smyth, Kim Thomassin, Robert Brant
Founded: 1855
Practice areas: Property, energy, finance, litigation, real estate, infrastructure
Website: www.mccarthy.ca
Contact: info@mccarthy.ca
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Gowlings
Key individuals: R Scott Jolliffe, Stephen A Pike, Lorne W Segal
Founded: 1887
Practice areas: IP, corporate, finance, infrastructure
Website: www.gowlings.com
Contact: peter.lukasiewicz@gowlings.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Key individuals: Brock W Gibson, Robert M Granatstein
Founded: 1856
Practice areas: Finances, energy, corporate, IP, litigation, anti-trust, PPP
Website: www.blakes.com
Contact: toronto@blakes.com
Best Energy Firm
Borden Ladner Gervais
Key individuals: Sean Weir, David C Whelan, John Murphy, Marc Jolicoeur, Frank Callaghan, Donald Bird, Neil Henderson
Founded: 1936
Practice areas: Energy, commercial, employment, infrastructure, finance, corporate, litigation
Website: www.blg.com
Contact: info@blg.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Goodmans
Key individuals: Dale Lastman, Paul Goldman, Bruce Wright
Founded: 1899
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, corporate, finance, litigation
Website: www.goodmans.ca
Contact: info@goodmans.ca
Best Lawyer
Baker & McKenzie
Key individuals: Eduardo C Leite
Founded: 1949
Practice areas: Employment, finance, dispute resolution, IP, real estate, trade, infrastructure
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com
Contact: inquire@bakermckenzie.com
Best Lawyer
John West, Norton Rose Canada
Practice areas: Employment
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Contact: john.west@nortonrosefulbright.com
Best PPP Firm
Blake, Cassels & Graydon
Key individuals: Brock W Gibson, Robert M Granatstein
Founded: 1856
Practice areas: Finances, energy, corporate, IP, litigation, anti-trust, PPP
Website: www.blakes.com
Contact: toronto@blakes.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Miller Thomson
Key individuals: Gerald D Courage
Founded: 1957
Practice areas: Foreign investment, finance, infrastructure, corporate, commercial, litigation, IP, labour
Website: www.millerthomson.com
Contact: toronto@millerthomson.com
Best Litigation Firm
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt
Key individuals: Dale R Ponder
Founded: 1862
Practice areas: Litigation, corporate, finance, employment, IP, litigation, cross-border
Website: www.osler.com
Contact: counsel@osler.com
China
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Fangda Partners
Key individuals: Yang Gao
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, IP, dispute resolution, commercial, corporate, anti-trust
Website: www.fangdalaw.com
Contact: email@fangdalaw.com
Best M&A Firm
Norton Rose
Key individuals: Kenneth L Stewart
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, finance, IP, infrastructure, employment
Website: www.fulbright.com
Contact: +86 10 6535 3100
Best Tax Firm
Hwuason Law Firm
Key individuals: Liu Tianyong, Gongliang Tang
Practice areas: Tax, corporate
Website: www.hwuason.com
Contact: Beijing@hwuason.com
Best Tax Consultant
Liu Ding Fa, Jun He Law Offices
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, M&A
Website: www.junhe.com
Contact: liudf@junhe.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Run Ming Law Office
Key individuals: Liu Yi Wang Yadong
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, foreign investment, IP, labour
Website: www.runminglaw.com
Contact: liux@runminglaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Dacheng Law Offices
Key individuals: Aiqun Duan, Baodong Zhao, Aloysius Wee Meng Seng
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, IP, labour, real estate, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.dachengnet.com
Contact: beijing@dachenglaw.com
Best Property Firm
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Key individuals: Xuebing Zhang, Jason Liu
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Property, real estate, corporate, dispute resolution,
Website: www.zhonglun.com
Contact: jasonliu@zhonglun.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office
Key individuals: Hao Ma
Founded: 1957
Practice areas: Patent, trademark, IP
Website: www.ccpit-patent.com.cn
Contact: mail@ccpit-patent.com.cn
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Jun He Law Offices
Key individuals: Xiao Wei
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Competition, anti-trust, real estate, finance, corporate, dispute resolution
Website: www.junhe.com
Contact: junhebj@junhe.com
Best Energy Firm
Jingtian & Gongcheng
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Energy, IP, dispute resolution, real estate, finance, foreign investment
Website: www.jingtian.com
Contact: jingtianbj@jingtian.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Dacheng Law Offices
Key individuals: Aiqun Duan, Baodong Zhao, Aloysius Wee Meng Seng
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, IP, labour, real estate, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.dachengnet.com
Contact: beijing@dachenglaw.com
Best Lawyer
Norton Rose
Key individuals: Kenneth L Stewart
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, finance, IP, infrastructure, employment
Website: www.fulbright.com
Contact: +86 10 6535 3100
Best Lawyer
Ji Nuo, Fangda Partners
Practice areas: Construction, real estate, commercial litigation and arbitration, bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate governance
Website: www.fangdalaw.com
Contact: nji@fangdalaw.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Haiwen & Partners
Key individuals: Hao Bian, Qiang Chen, Fan He, Liping Yang
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, dispute resolution
Website: www.haiwen-law.com
Contact: haiwenbj@haiwen-law.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Andrews Kurth
Key individuals: Hong Irwin, Jerry Jie Li, Timothy Unger
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: White collar crime, corporate, infrastructure, real estate
Website: www.andrewskurth.com
Contact: +86 10 8486 2699
Best Private Equity Firm
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Key individuals: Li Chen, Stephen Kho, William Rosoff
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Private equity, corporate, M&A, trade, IP, employment, antitrust
Website: www.akingump.com
Contact: beijinginfo@akingump.com
Best Litigation Firm
Blank Rome Solicitors
Key individuals: Kristi Lynn Swartz
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Litigation, infrastructure, IP, corporate, finance
Website: www.blankrome.com
Contact: KSwartz@BlankRome.com
Colombia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Rodriguez-Azuero Asociados
Key individuals: Sergio Rodríguez Azuero
Founded: 1980
Practice areas: Finance, compliance, commercial, litigation,
Website: www.rodriguezazuero.com
Contact: abogados@rodriguezazuero.com
Best M&A Firm
Posse, Herrera & Ruiz Abogados
Key individuals: Herrera Jaime, Ruiz Juan Guillermo, Posse Mariana, Posse Daniel
Founded: 1927
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, finance, dispute resolution, infrastructure, real estate, IP
Website: www.phrlegal.com
Contact: phr@phrlegal.com
Best Tax Firm
Ernst & Young
Key individuals: Luz Maria Jaramillo
Practice areas: Infrastructure, real estate, energy, tax
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: +57 1 484 7000
Best Tax Consultant
Ricardo Ruiz, Ernst & Young
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: ricardo.ruiz@co.ey.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Parra, Rodriguez & Cavelier
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Labour, litigation, finance, corporate, commercial, energy, employment
Website: www.prc-laws.com
Contact: +57 1 3764200
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Martínez Neira Abogados
Key individuals: Nestor Humberto Martinez
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, litigation
Website: www.martinezneira.com
Contact: nhmartinezneira@cable.net.co
Best Property Firm
Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta
Key individuals: Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Álvaro Andrés Díaz, Andrés Hoyos- Ramírez
Founded: 2009
Practice areas: Property, finance, corporate, IP, investment, dispute resolution, infrastructure
Website: www.gpzlegal.com
Contact: gpz@gpzlegal.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Brigard & Castro
Key individuals: Juan Pablo Cadena, Martín Torres
Founded: 1934
Practice areas: IP, copyright, patents
Website: www.bc.com.co
Contact: bricas@bc.com.co
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Rubio Escobar Abogados Consultores
Key individuals: Rubio Jairo Escobar, Germán González, Gustavo Niño
Practice areas: Competition, anti-trust, administrative, IP
Website: www.rubioescobar.com
Best Energy Firm
Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta
Key individuals: Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Álvaro Andrés Díaz, Andrés Hoyos- Ramírez
Founded: 2009
Practice areas: Energy, finance, IP, corporate, dispute resolution, Labour, investment
Website: www.gpzlegal.com
Contact: gpz@gpzlegal.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Norton Rose Colombia S A S
Key individuals: Glenn Faass
Founded: 2010
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, employment, finance, litigation, regulatory
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Contact: +57 1 746 4666
Best Lawyer
AESCA S A
Key individuals: Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Alberto Escandón Villota, Claudia Lievano
Practice areas: Employment, dispute resolution, litigation, social security
Website: www.alvarezescandonlievano.com
Contact: +57 1 236 2411
Best Lawyer
Carlos Urrutia, Brigard & Urrutia
Practice areas: Commercial, energy, finance, litigation and arbitration
Website: bu.com.co
Contact: currutia@itam.mx
Best PPP Firm
Brigard & Urrutia
Key individuals: Carlos Urrutia, Carlos Umaña, Sergio Michelsen, Carlos Fradique, Luis Alfredo Barragán
Founded: 1934
Practice areas: PPP, corporate, commercial, finance, IP, M&A, securities
Website: www.bu.com.co
Contact: servicioalcliente@bu.com.co
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Araujo Ibarra & Asociados S A
Key individuals: Martín Gustavo Ibarra Pardo, Patricia Arce Rojas, Ricardo López Sánchez
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Foreign investment, trade, infrastructure, corporate, administrative
Website: www.araujoibarra.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Esguerra Barrera Arriaga
Key individuals: Carlos Darío Barrera Tapias, Héctor Arriaga Diaz, Alfonso Miranda Londoño
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Capital markets, anti-trust, finance, infrastructure, litigation, corporate
Website: www.esguerrabarrera.com
Contact: info@esguerrabarrera.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli
Key individuals: George Fowler, Antonio Rodriguez
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: White collar crime, litigation, regulatory, finance, corporate, real estate
Website: www.frfirm.com
Contact: +1 504 523 2600
Best Litigation Firm
Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli
Key individuals: George Fowler, Antonio Rodriguez
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: White collar crime, litigation, regulatory, finance, corporate, real estate
Website: www.frfirm.com
Contact: +1 504 523 2600
Cyprus
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Kinanis Multidisciplinary law Firm
Key individuals: Christos P. Kinanis, Charalambos Meivatzis,
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, accounting, litigation, property
Website: www.kinanis.com
Contact: KinanisLLC@kinanis.com
Best M&A Firm
Andreas Neocleous & Co
Key individuals: Andreas Neocleous
Founded: 1965
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, competition
Website: www.neocleous.com
Contact: info@neocleous.com
Best Tax Firm
Areti Charidemou & Associates
Key individuals: Areti Charidemou
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Tax, property, corporate, M&A, commercial
Website: http://www.aretilawyers.com
Contact: +357 25508000
Best Tax Consultant
Lambros Soteriou, Michael Kyprianou & Co
Practice areas: Corporate
Website: www.kyprianou.com.cy
Contact: lambros@kyprianou.com.cy
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Areti Charidemou & Associates
Key individuals: Areti Charidemou
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Tax, property, corporate, M&A, commercial
Website: http://www.aretilawyers.com
Contact: +357 25508000
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Ioannides Demetriou
Key individuals: Pambos Ch. Ioannides, Andrew Demetriou, Christina Ioannidou, Christos P. Frakalas, Elena Michail
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, M&A, finance, construction, administrative
Website: www.idlaw.com.cy
Contact: info@idlaw.com.cy
Best Property Firm
George Z Georgiou & Associates
Key individuals: George Z. Georgiou
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate, IP
Website: www.gzg.com.cy
Contact: admin@gzg.com.cy
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Protopapa, Demetriou & Co
Key individuals: Louiza Protopapa, Charis Demetriou
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: IP, corporate, commercial, finance, insolvency, property, employment, restructuring
Website: www.pd-legal.com
Contact: info@pd-legal.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Lellos P Demetriades Law Office
Key individuals: Lellos P. Demetriades, Joanna Loizides, Achilleas L. Demetriades
Founded: 1955
Practice areas: Energy, competition, anti-trust, IP, litigation, commercial, corporate
Website: www.ldlaw.com.cy
Contact: info@ldlaw.com.cy
Best Energy Firm
Lellos P Demetriades Law Office
Key individuals: Lellos P. Demetriades, Joanna Loizides, Achilleas L. Demetriades
Founded: 1955
Practice areas: Energy, competition, anti-trust, IP, litigation, commercial, corporate
Website: www.ldlaw.com.cy
Contact: info@ldlaw.com.cy
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Protopapa, Demetriou & Co
Key individuals: Louiza Protopapa, Charis Demetriou
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: IP, corporate, commercial, finance, insolvency, property, employment, restructuring
Website: www.pd-legal.com
Contact: info@pd-legal.com
Best Lawyer
Der Arakelian-Merheje
Key individuals: Nairy Der Arakelian-Merheje
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Employment, real estate, tax
Website: www.nmerhejelaw.com
Contact: enlaw1@cytanet.com.cy
Best Lawyer
Andreas L Haviaras, Haviaras & Philippou
Practice areas: Tax planning
Website: www.hphlaw.eu
Contact: Andreas.Haviaras@hphlaw.eu
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Scordis, Papapetrou & Co Advocates & Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Andis Scordis, Michalis Papapetrou, Adamos Adamides, Kyriacos Scordis
Founded: 1973
Practice areas: Foreign investment, corporate, M&A, dispute resolution, employment, IP, finance
Website: www.scordispapapetrou.com
Contact: info@scordispapapetrou.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
LC Law Stylianou & Drakou
Key individuals: Lora Stylianou, Christina Drakou
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, commercial, finance, IP, property
Website: www.lclaw.com.cy
Contact: info@LCLAW.com.cy
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Anastasios Antoniou
Key individuals: Anastasios Antoniou
Practice areas: White-collar crime, dispute resolution, energy, IP, investment, competition
Website: http://www.antoniou.com.cy
Contact: info@antoniou.com.cy
Best Litigation Firm
Kinanis Multidisciplinary law Firm
Key individuals: Christos P. Kinanis, Charalambos Meivatzis,
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, accounting, litigation, property
Website: www.kinanis.com
Contact: KinanisLLC@kinanis.com
Georgia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
VBAT (Vashakidze & Bazerashvili – Attorneys in Tbilisi G P)
Key individuals: David Kikaleishvili, David Bazerashvili, David Kvachantiradze, Sophie Chachava, Giorgi Melikishvili, Nana Amisulashvili
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, real estate, employment, litigation, criminal
Website: www.vbat.ge
Contact: office@vbat.ge
Best M&A Firm
Mgaloblishvili, Kipiani, Dzidziguri (MKD)
Key individuals: Irakli Mgaloblishvili, Victor Kipiani, David Dzidziguri, Archil Kbilashvili, Vakhtang Shevardnadze
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, cross-border, litigation
Website: www.mkd.ge
Contact: info@mkd.ge
Best Tax Firm
Getsadze & Pateishvili Law Office
Key individuals: Gia Getsadze, Levan Pateishvili, Maka Japaridze
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Tax, IP, employment, civil, property, litigation, investment
Website: www.g-p.ge
Contact: office@g-p.ge
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Eristavi Law Group | Watch the award presentation
Key individuals: John Hall
Founded: 2009
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, dispute resolution, IP, real estate, anti-trust, infrastructure
Website: www.elg.ge
Contact: info@elg.ge
Best Property Firm
BGI Legal
Key individuals: Lasha Gogiberidze, Zaza Bibilashvili
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Property, finance, energy, trade, IP, litigation, corporate, PPP
Website: www.bgi.ge
Contact: bgilegal@bgi.ge
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Mikadze, Gegetchkori, Taktakishvili,
Key individuals: Alexander Mikadze, Gela Mikadze, Alexander Gegetchkori, Giorgi Taktakishvili
Founded: 1968
Practice areas: IP, trademarks, litigation, patents, copyright
Website: www.mikadze.ge
Contact: mikadze@mikadze.ge
Best Lawyer
Getsadze & Pateishvili Law Office
Key individuals: Gia Getsadze, Levan Pateishvili, Maka Japaridze
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Tax, IP, employment, civil, property, litigation, investment
Website: www.g-p.ge
Contact: office@g-p.ge
Best Lawyer
Revaz Beridze, Eristavi Law Group | Watch the award presentation
Practice areas: Transport, commercial, procurement
Website: www.elg.ge
Contact: rberidze@elg.ge
Best PPP Firm
BGI Legal
Key individuals: Lasha Gogiberidze, Zaza Bibilashvili
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Property, finance, energy, trade, IP, litigation, corporate, PPP
Website: www.bgi.ge
Contact: bgilegal@bgi.ge
Best Litigation Firm
Mgaloblishvili, Kipiani, Dzidziguri (MKD)
Key individuals: Irakli Mgaloblishvili, Victor Kipiani, David Dzidziguri, Archil Kbilashvili, Vakhtang Shevardnadze
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, cross-border, litigation
Website: www.mkd.ge
Contact: info@mkd.ge
Germany
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Key individuals: Gabriele Apfelbacher, Thomas Buhl, Werner Meier, Hanno Sperlich
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, litigation, anti-trust, capital markets, competition
Website: www.cgsh.com
Contact: +49 69 97103 0
Best M&A Firm
Hengeler Mueller
Key individuals: Daniela Favoccia, Matthias Hentzen
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, finance, employment, regulatory, real estate, litigation, infrastructure
Website: www.hengeler.com
Contact: hengeler.mueller@hengeler.com
Best Tax Firm
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Key individuals: Thomas Ingenhoven, Rainer Magold, peter Memminger, Norbort Rieger
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, finance, competition
Website: www.milbank.com
Contact: +49 69 71914 3400
Best Tax Consultant
Prof Dr Alexander Hemmelrath, WTS Group
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Contact: alexander.hemmelrath@nortonrosefulbright.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
WTS Group
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, tax, real estate, M&A
Website: www.wts-alliance.com
Contact: karsten.gnuschke@wts.de
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
CMS
Key individuals: Hubertus Kolster
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, commercial, corporate, IP, real estate, energy
Website: www.cms-hs.com
Contact: berlin@cms-hs.com
Best Property Firm
Olswang
Key individuals: Stefan Lütje, Christian Schede
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Media, property, infrastructure, technology
Website: www.olswang.com
Contact: reception.germany@olswang.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Anwaltskanzlei Schultz-Süchting
Key individuals: Rolf Schultz Süchting, Lars Kröner, Dirk Bruhn, Torsten Spiegelhalder, Ivo Millarg, Marc-Oliver Srocke
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: IP, pharmaceutical, copyright
Website: www.schusue.de
Contact: consulting@chusue.de
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Oppenländer Rechtsanwälte
Key individuals: Albrecht Bach, Christopher Frhr. Von Hutten, Heinz-Uwe Dettling, Thomas Baumann
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Competition, anti-trust, IP, M&A, corporate, media, administrative
Website: www.oppenlaender.de
Contact: info@oppenlaender.de
Best Energy Firm
Becker Büttner Held
Key individuals: Thies Hartmann, Thomas Straßer
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Energy, compliance, IP, tax, public, labour, auditing, corporate
Website: www.beckerbuettnerheld.de
Contact: +49 30 611 28 40-0
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Görg Rechtsanwälte
Key individuals: Thomas Bezani, Michael Dolfen, Clemens Scholz-Remes
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, corporate, energy, real estate, dispute resolution, tax
Website: www.goerg.de
Contact: berlin@goerg.de
Best Lawyer
Küttner Rechtsanwälte
Key individuals: Wolfdieter Küttner, Klaus-Dietrich Küttner, Jürgen Röller
Founded: 1973
Practice areas: Employment, Litigation, restructuring
Website: www.kuettner-rechtsanwaelte.de
Contact: info@kuettner-rechtsanwaelte.de
Best Lawyer
Prof Dr Alexander Hemmelrath, WTS Group
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Contact: alexander.hemmelrath@nortonrosefulbright.com
Best PPP Firm
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Key individuals: William Lawes, Ted Burke, Stephan Eilers
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: PPP, corporate, employment, finance, disputes, real estate
Website: www.freshfields.com
Contact: enquiries@freshfields.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
P+P Pöllath + Partners
Key individuals: Matthias Bruse, Stefan Lebek, Amos Veith
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Foreign investment, corporate, tax, real estate, dispute resolution, private funds
Website: www.pplaw.com
Contact: ber@pplaw.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Key individuals: William Lawes, Ted Burke, Stephan Eilers
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Capital markets, finance, real estate, corporate, antitrust, employment, IP
Website: www.freshfields.com
Contact: enquiries@freshfields.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Wessing & Partner
Key individuals: Jürgen Wessing, Helga Wessing, Heiko Ahlbrecht
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: White collar crime, corporate, trade, insolvency, corruption, tax
Website: www.strafrecht.de
Contact: info@strafrecht.de
Best Private Equity Firm
Gleiss Lutz
Key individuals: Rainer Loges
Founded: 1949
Practice areas: Private equity, finance, antitrust, compliance, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, energy, IP, real estate
Website: www.gleisslutz.com
Contact: melina.merz@gleisslutz.com
Best Litigation Firm
Latham & Watkins
Key individuals: Christoph Baus, Okko Hendrick Behrends
Founded: 1934
Practice areas: Litigation, real estate, employment, finance, antitrust, IP, arbitration, M&A
Website: www.lw.com
Contact: thomas.fox@lw.com
Greece
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Karatzas & Partners
Key individuals: Catherine-Marie Karatzas
Founded: 1963
Practice areas: Finance, litigation, IP, corporate, competition
Website: www.karatza-partners.gr
Contact: mail@karatza-partners.gr
Best M&A Firm
KGDI Law Firm
Key individuals: Leonidas Georgopoulos, Anthony Hadjioannou, Nikolaos Panou
Founded: 1933
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, litigation, real estate, energy, employment, antitrust
Website: www.kgdi.gr
Contact: kg.law@kglawfirm.gr
Best Tax Firm
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Key individuals: Dimitris Zepos, Yerassimos Yannopoulos
Founded: 1893
Practice areas: Tax, finance, commercial, corporate, litigation, IP, employment, PPP
Website: www.zeya.com
Contact: y.yannopoulos@zeya.com
Best Tax Consultant
John Dryllerakis, Dryllerakis & Associates
Practice areas: Tax, litigation, competition, M&A, corporate, arbitration
Website: www.dryllerakis.gr
Contact: jcd@dryllerakis.gr
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
M & P Bernitsas Law Offices
Key individuals: Panayotis Bernitsas
Founded: 1946
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, energy, employment, litigation, real estate
Website: www.bernitsaslawoffices.gr
Contact: bernitsas@bernitsaslawoffices.gr
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Apostolos Georgiades & Associates
Key individuals: Apostolos Georgiades, Angela Georgiades, George Papacharalambous
Founded: 1969
Practice areas: Property, finance, corporate, IP, commercial, trade
Website: www.georgiades.com
Contact: info@georgiades.com
Best Property Firm
Alexiou & Kosmopoulos Law Firm
Key individuals: Constantine Alexiou, Maria Alexiou, Alexandros Kosmopoulos
Founded: 1891
Practice areas: Property, finance, commercial, corporate, dispute resolution, energy, employment, insolvency, real estate
Website: www.aklawfirm.gr
Contact: info@aklawfirm.gr
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
D N Tzouganatos & Partners
Key individuals: Dimitris Tzouganatos, Nikos S. Kosmidis
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, litigation
Website: www.tzouganatoslaw.gr
Contact: info@tzouganatoslaw.gr
Best Energy Firm
Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates
Key individuals: Theodore Pistiolis, Anastasios Triantafyllos, Dimitris Antoniou, Vanita Kiriakouli,
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Energy, competition, real estate, regulatory, corporate, commercial, technology, employment
Website: www.ptlegal.eu
Contact: info@ptlegal.eu
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Karatzas & Partners
Key individuals: Catherine-Marie Karatzas
Founded: 1963
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, litigation, corporate, banking, competition
Website: www.karatza-partners.gr
Contact: mail@karatza-partners.gr
Best Lawyer
Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates
Key individuals: Theodore Pistiolis, Anastasios Triantafyllos, Dimitris Antoniou, Vanita Kiriakouli,
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Energy, competition, real estate, regulatory, corporate, commercial, technology, employment
Website: www.ptlegal.eu
Contact: info@ptlegal.eu
Best Lawyer
Theodore Pistiolis, Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, telecoms, media, technology
Website: www.ptlegal.eu
Contact: pistiolis@ptlegal.eu
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Nomos Law Firm
Key individuals: Constantine Hadjiyannakis, Georgios Chatzigiannakis, Maria Vastaroucha
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Foreign investment, corporate, employment, insolvency, contract, debt
Website: www.nomos.gr
Contact: info@nomos.gr
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Ikonomopoulos & Partners
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: White collar crime, real estate, infrastructure, energy, finance, IP, labour
Best Litigation Firm
KGDI Law Firm
Key individuals: Leonidas Georgopoulos, Anthony Hadjioannou, Nikolaos Panou
Founded: 1933
Practice areas: Litigation, energy, real estate, IP, corporate, finance
Website: www.kgdi.gr
Contact: kg.law@kglawfirm.gr
India
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Trilegal
Key individuals: Anand Prasad, Karan Singh, Rahul Matthan
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Finance, restructuring, energy, litigation, competition, employment
Website: www.trilegal.com
Contact: +91 80 43434646
Best M&A Firm
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
Key individuals: Rajiv Luthra, Mohit Saraf
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, dispute resolution, infrastructure, IP, real estate, employment, finance, capital markets
Website: www.luthra.com
Contact: bangalore@luthra.com
Best Tax Firm
Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan
Key individuals: Lakshmi Kumaran, Sridharan
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, IP
Website: www.lakshmisri.com
Contact: Isdel@lakshmisri.com
Best Tax Consultant
Rohan Shah, Economic Laws Practice
Practice areas: Litigation, trade, tax, corporate
Website: www.elplaw.in
Contact: rohanshah@elp-in.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
J Sagar & Associates
Key individuals: Jyoti Sagar
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, commercial, finance, regulatory, dispute resolution, energy
Website: www.jsalaw.com
Contact: gurgaon@jsalaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Karanjawala & Co
Key individuals: RN Karanjawala, Manik Karanjawala
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, litigation, arbitration
Contact: karanjawala@karanjawala.in
Best Property Firm
AZB & Partners
Key individuals: Ajay Bahl, Essaji Vahanvati, Varoon Chandra
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Property, finance, infrastructure, employment, litigation
Website: www.azbpartners.com
Contact: mumbai@azbpartners.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
K&S Partners
Key individuals: Dr A Yamuna, A. C. Marbaniang, D Calab Gabriel
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: IP, patents, copyright, trademark
Website: www.knspartners.com
Contact: gurgaon@knspartners.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Dhall Law Chambers
Founded: 2008
Website: www.dhall-lawchambers.com
Contact: contact@dhall-lawchambers.com
Best Energy Firm
J Sagar Associates
Key individuals: Jyoti Sagar
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, commercial, finance, regulatory, dispute resolution, energy, private equity
Website: www.jsalaw.com
Contact: gurgaon@jsalaw.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Dhir & Dhir Associates
Key individuals: Laxmi Paul Dhir, Alok Dhir, Maneesha Dhir
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, finance, corporate, commercial, IP, real estate, infrastructure, employment
Website: www.dhirassociates.com
Contact: contact@dhirassociates.com
Best Lawyer
Arss Legal
Key individuals: Amit Saraogi
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Employment, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate, IP
Website: www.arsslegal.com
Contact: kolkata@arsslegal.com
Best Lawyer
Shardul Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
Practice areas: Finance, acquisition, corporate, mutual funds, banking
Contact: shardul.shroff@amarchand.com
Best PPP Firm
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Website: www.milbank.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
APJ-SLG Law Offices
Key individuals: T S Vishwanath, Prashant Kumar, Jitendra Singh
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Foreign investment, litigation, finance, corporate, real estate, IP, infrastructure
Website: www.apjslg.com
Contact: consulting@apjslg.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Luthra & Luthra Law Offices
Key individuals: Rajiv Luthra, Mohit Saraf
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, dispute resolution, infrastructure, IP, real estate, employment, finance, capital markets
Website: www.luthra.com
Contact: bangalore@luthra.com
Best Private Equity Firm
J Sagar & Associates
Key individuals: Jyoti Sagar
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, commercial, finance, regulatory, dispute resolution, energy, private equity
Website: www.jsalaw.com
Contact: gurgaon@jsalaw.com
Best Litigation Firm
Karanjawala & Co
Key individuals: RN Karanjawala, Manik Karanjawala
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, litigation, arbitration
Contact: karanjawala@karanjawala.in
Israel
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Herzog Fox & Neeman
Key individuals: Meir Linzen
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: Finance, banking, infrastructure, litigation, real estate, corporate, commercial, IP, employee
Website: www.hfn.co.il
Contact: hfn@hfn.co.il
Best M&A Firm
Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co
Key individuals: Eldad Koresh, Yonatan Altman
Founded: 1956
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, commercial, finance, litigation, real estate, infrastructure
Website: ww.apm-law.com
Contact: apm@apm-law.com
Best Tax Firm
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co
Key individuals: David Hodak, Eytan Greenberg
Founded: 1979
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, commercial, litigation, IP, labour, infrastructure, real estate, antitrust
Website: www.gkh-law.com
Contact: law@gkh-law.com
Best Tax Consultant
Meir Akunis, Meitar Liquornik Geva & Leshem Brandwein
Practice areas: Tax, M&A, corporate restructuring
Website: www.meitar.com
Contact: makunis@meitar.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Caspi & Co
Key individuals: Ram Caspi, Yair Caspi, Guy Caspi
Founded: 1927
Practice areas: corporate, commercial, finance, competition, litigation, real estate
Website: www.caspilaw.com
Contact: office@caspilaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
S Horowitz & Co
Key individuals: Ruth Oren
Founded: 1921
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, commercial, finance, antitrust, property
Website: www.s-horowitz.co.il
Contact: info@s-horowitz.co.il
Best Property Firm
Fischer, Behar, Chen, Well, Orion & Co
Key individuals: Amir Chen, Isachar Fischer, Reuven Behar, Avraham Well, Gil Orion, Israel Fischer
Founded: 1958
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, antitrust, IP, energy, employment, property, corporate
Website: www.fbclawyers.com
Contact: fbc@fbclawyers.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Gilat, Bareket & Co, a member of The Reinhold Cohn Group
Key individuals: David Gilat, Eran Bareket, Daphna Gilat, Roy Kornick
Practice areas: IP, copyright, trademarks, patents
Website: www.rcip.co.il
Contact: info@rcip.co.il
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Agmon, Rosenberg, Hacohen, Goddard & Ephrat
Key individuals: Zvi Agmon, Uri Rosenberg, Dan Hacohen, Amir Goddard,
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, infrastructure, finance, commercial, real estate, litigation
Website: www.agmon-law.co.il
Contact: agmon@agmon-law.co.il
Best Energy Firm
Gornitzky & Co
Key individuals: Pinhas Rubin, Moriel Matalon, Zvi Ephrat
Founded: 1938
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, finance, real estate, insolvency, resturcturing
Website: www.gornitzky.com
Contact: office@gornitzky.co.il
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Gornitzky & Co
Key individuals: Pinhas Rubin, Moriel Matalon, Zvi Ephrat
Founded: 1938
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, finance, real estate, insolvency, resturcturing
Website: www.gornitzky.com
Contact: office@gornitzky.co.il
Best Lawyer
Greenberg Traurig
Key individuals: Gary Epstein, Robert Grossman
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: Employment, dispute resolution, IP, commercial
Website: www.gtlaw.com
Contact: info@gtlaw.com
Best Lawyer
Alan Sacks, Herzog Fox & Neeman
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, insolvency and restructuring, M&A, investment banking, private clients
Website: www.hfn.co.il
Contact: sacksa@hfn.co.il
Best PPP Firm
M Firon & Co
Key individuals: Zvi Firon, Itzhak Narkiss
Founded: 1950
Practice areas: PPP, dispute resolution, commercial, corporate, real estate, finance, IP, finance
Website: www.firon.co.il
Contact: firon@firon.co.il
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo
Key individuals: Yael Biran
Founded: 1933
Practice areas: Foreign investment
Website: www.mintz.com
Contact: +972 0 9 773 6346
Best Capital Markets Firm
Goldfarb Seligman & Co Law Offices
Key individuals: Eli Zohar, Yehuda Levy
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, commercial, real estate, infrastructure, regulatory
Website: www.goldfarb.com
Contact: info@goldfarb.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co
Key individuals: David Hodak, Eytan Greenberg
Founded: 1979
Practice areas: White collar crime, corporate, commercial, litigation, labour, IP, infrastructure, real estate
Website: www.gkh-law.com
Contact: law@gkh-law.com
Best Litigation Firm
Luzzatto & Luzzatto
Key individuals: Kfir Luzzatto, Esther Luzzatto
Founded: 1869
Practice areas: Litigation, patent, trademark
Website: www.luzzatto.co.il
Contact: mail@luzzatto.co.il
Italy
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Latham & Watkins
Key individuals: Riccardo Agostinelli, Tommaso Amirante, Matteo Bay
Founded: 1934
Practice areas: Finance, antitrust, corporate, energy, property
Website: www.lw.com
Contact: +39 02 3046 2000
Best M&A Firm
Chiomenti Studio Legale
Key individuals: Carlo Croff, Francesco Tedeschini, Filippo Modulo, Paolo Giacometti, Annalisa Reale, Massimiliano Nitti
Founded: 1948
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, real estate, litigation, finance, employment, infrastructure
Website: www.chiomenti.net
Contact: roma@chiomenti.net
Best Tax Firm
Di Tanno e Associati
Key individuals: Tommaso Di Tanno, Ottavia Alfano, Renzo Amadio, Fabio Brunelli, Francesco Capitta
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: Tax, M&A, private equity
Website: www.ditanno.it
Contact: ditannoeass@ditanno.it
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners
Key individuals: Tomaso Cenci
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, energy, IP, labourlitigation, real estate
Website: www.gop.it
Contact: fgianni@gop.it
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Lombardi Molinari e Associati
Key individuals: Giuseppe Lombardi, Ugo Molinari
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, finance, real estate, IP, competition, energy
Website: www.lmlaw.it
Contact: info@lmlaw.it
Best Property Firm
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners
Key individuals: Tomaso Cenci
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Corporate, property, regulatory, finance, energy, labour, litigation, insolvency
Website: www.gop.it
Contact: fgianni@gop.it
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Avvocati Associati Franzosi Dal Negro Setti
Key individuals: Mario Franzosi, Ombretta Fabe Dal Negro, Francesco Setti, Piercarlo Antonelli
Founded: 1963
Practice areas: IP, pharmaceutical, corporate, M&A, restructuring
Website: www.franzosi.com
Contact: info@franzosi.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Key individuals: Marcello Giustiniani, Stefano Simontacchi
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, finance, litigation, employment, real estate, IP, energy
Website: www.beplex.com
Contact: name.surname@beplex.com
Best Energy Firm
Chiomenti Studio Legale
Key individuals: Carlo Croff, Francesco Tedeschini, Filippo Modulo, Paolo Giacometti, Annalisa Reale, Massimiliano Nitti
Founded: 1948
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, finance, real estate, insolvency, IP, employment
Website: www.chiomenti.net
Contact: milano@chiomenti.net
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Paul Hastings (Europe)
Key individuals: Bruno Cova, Alberto Del Din
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, insolvency, tax
Website: www.paulhastings.com
Contact: +39 02 30414 000
Best Lawyer
LABLAW Studio Legale
Key individuals: Luca Failla, Francesco Rotondi, Olimpio Stucchi, Nicola Petracca, Piergiovanni Mandruzzato
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Employment, litigation, corporate governance, arbitration, restructuring
Website: www.lablaw.com
Contact: info@lablaw.com
Best Lawyer
Adriano Vanzetti, Avv Prof Adriano Vanzetti e Associati
Practice areas: IP, competition, antitrust, commercial litigation
Website: www.vanzettieassociati.it
Contact: studio@vanzettieassociati.it
Best Capital Markets Firm
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Key individuals: Roberto Bonsignore, Marco D’ostuni
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Capital markets, antitrust, corporate, energy, IP, finance, litigation, real estate
Website: www.cgsh.com
Contact: +39 06 69 52 21
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati
Key individuals: Giuseppe Pirola, Sergio Pennuto,Massimo Cremona, Maurizio Bernardi, Franco Barro
Founded: 1980
Practice areas: White collar crime, corporate, finance, litigation, employment, IP, energy
Website: www.pirolapennutozei.it
Contact: info@studiopirola.com
Best Private Equity Firm
NCTM Studio Legale Associato
Key individuals: Paolo Montironi, Alberto Toffoletto, Piermauro Carabellese, Vittorio Noseda
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, private equity, energy, trade, real estate, insurance
Website: www.nctm.it
Contact: info@nctm.it
Best Litigation Firm
Lombardi Molinari e Associati
Key individuals: Giuseppe Lombardi, Ugo Molinari
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Litigation, corporate, commercial, finance, IP, real estate, energy, antitrust
Website: www.lmlaw.it
Contact: info@lmlaw.it
Jordan
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Khalifeh & Partners
Key individuals: Ala’Khalifeh
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, infrastructure, real estate, litigation
Website: www.khalifehlaw.com
Contact: info@khalifehlaw.com
Best M&A Firm
Ali Sharif Zu’bi Advocates & Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Sharif Ali Zu’bi, Khaled Asfour
Founded: 1921
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, commercial, litigation
Website: www.zubilaw.com
Contact: info@zubilaw.com
Best Tax Firm
Hadidi & Co
Key individuals: Rajaa Mughrabi, Yara A. Mar’ie, Dima A. Khlaifat
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Tax, litigation, corporate, commercial, real estate
Website: www.hadidilaw.com
Contact: info@hadidilaw.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Dajani & Associates Attorneys and Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Rajai Dajani, Yousef Khalilieh
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, arbitration, finance, IP, labour, trade
Website: www.dajanilaw.com
Contact: info@dajanilaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Nabulsi & Associates Counselors & Attorneys at Law
Key individuals: Omar Nabulsi, Zaid Nabulsi, Rand Hannun
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, infrastructure, finance, real estate
Website: www.nabulsilaw.com
Contact: +962 6 4654411
Best Property Firm
IBLAW
Key individuals: Mohannad Jarar
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Property, corporate, commercial, energy IP, litigation,
Website: www.iblaw.com.jo
Contact: contact@iblaw.com.jo
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Hammouri and Partners
Key individuals: Mohammad Hammouri, Tariz Hammouri
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: IP, corporate, commercial, employment, litigation, real estate, construction
Website: www.hammourilaw.com
Contact: info@hammourilaw.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
SNR Denton
Key individuals: Ala’ George
Musleh, Lara
Saraireh
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Energy, employment, competition, antitrust, corporate, litigation, real estate
Website: www.dentons.com
Contact: +962 6 577 7400
Best Lawyer
JC Law
Key individuals: Lana Salameh
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Employment, finance, litigation, IP, commercial, corporate
Website: www.jclaw.jo
Contact: info@jclaw.jo
Best Lawyer
Haitham Hawashin, Khalifeh & Partners
Website: www.khalifehlaw.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Aljazy & Co
Key individuals: Ibrahim Aljazy, Omar Aljazy
Practice areas: Capital markets, antitrust, corporate governance, IP, litigation, trade, insurance
Website: www.aljazylaw.com
Contact: info@aljazylaw.com
Best Litigation Firm
Rajai KW Dajani & Associates
Key individuals: Rajai Dajani, Yousef Khalilieh
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Litigation, finance, corporate, commercial, IP, labour
Website: www.dajanilaw.com
Contact: info@dajanilaw.com
Kazakhstan
Best Banking & Finance Firm
VSB Partners
Key individuals: Gregory Vojack, Kairat Serikpayev
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: M&A, finance, energy, dispute resolution, capital markets
Website: www.vsbpartnersllp.com
Contact: info@vsbpartnersllp.com
Best M&A Firm
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Key individuals: Aset Shyngyssov
Founded: 2012
Practice areas: M&A, energy, IP, employment, real estate, antitrust
Website: www.morganlewis.com
Contact: +7 727 250 7575
Best Tax Firm
GRATA Law Firm
Key individuals: Tlek Baigabulov, Aidar Sarymsakov, Akhmetzhan Abdullayev
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, employment, finance, real estate, IP, trade
Website: www.gratanet.com
Contact: info@gratanet.com
Best Property Firm
Michael Wilson & Partners
Key individuals: Michael Wilson
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Property, IP, employment, litigation, corporate, finance
Website: www.mwp.kz
Contact: info@mwp.kz
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners
Key individuals: Nikolai Egorov, Stanislav Puginsky, Dimitry Afanasiev
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: IP, finance, employment, competition, energy, litigation,
Website: www.epam.ru
Contact: Mow_office@epam.ru
Best Energy Firm
SNR Denton
Key individuals: Aigoul Kenjebayeva, Maria Valdez
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Energy, employment, arbitration, real estate, finance, corporate
Website: www.dentons.com
Contact: +7 727 258 2380
Best Lawyer
Marla Valdez, SNR Denton
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, corporate governance, employment, IP, M&A, securities, corporate finance
Website: www.dentons.com
Contact: +7 727 258 1950
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Salans
Best Capital Markets Firm
VSB Partners
Key individuals: Gregory Vojack, Kairat Serikpayev
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: M&A, finance, energy, dispute resolution, capital markets
Website: www.vsbpartnersllp.com
Contact: info@vsbpartnersllp.com
Kuwait
Best Banking & Finance Firm
ASAR – Al Ruwayeh & Partners
Key individuals: Ahmed Al-Ruwayeh, Sam Habbas, Ahmed Barakat
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, real estate, trade, energy, foreign investment, capital markets
Website: www.asarlegal.com
Contact: asar@asarlegal.com
Best M&A Firm
DLA Piper in Association with (NEN) Al-Wagayan, Al Awadhi and Al-Saif
Key individuals: Abdul Aziz A. Al-Yaqout, Edoardo Betto, Tarek Yehya, Rami Zayat
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, finance, IP, real estate, regulatory
Website: www.dlapiper.com
Contact: +965 2291 5800
Best Tax Firm
Abdullah Kh Al-Ayoub & Associates
Key individuals: Abdullah Kh. Al-Ayoub
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, energy, capital markets, IP, labour, finance, litigation, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.al-ayoub.org
Contact: alayoub@al-ayoub.org
Best Tax Consultant
Abdullah KH, Al-Ayoub & Associates
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.al-ayoub.org
Contact: alayoub@al-ayoub.org
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Al Markaz Law Firm
Key individuals: Fawwaz Al-Saeed, Yousef Al-Harbish, Osama Helal Atteya
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, construction, finance, dispute resolution
Website: www.markazlaw.com
Contact: info@markazlaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Law Office of Dr Ahmad Al-Samdan in association with SNR Denton & Co
Key individuals: David Pfeifer
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, finance,
Website: www.dentons.com
Contact: www.snrdenton.com
Best Property Firm
Alsarraf, Almutawa & Partners
Key individuals: Faisal Alsarraf,
Practice areas: Property, litigation, corporate, finance, employment, IP, real estate, energy
Website: www.smplawfirm.com
Contact: alsarraf@smplawfirm.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
AlBisher Legal Group – Anwar AlBisher, Talal Albisher & Partners
Key individuals: Anwar Nasser AlBisher, Nassif Yousef Mikaeel Amasha
Founded: 1980
Practice areas: IP, corporate, dispute litigation, finance, employment, competition, antitrust
Website: www.albisherlaw.com
Contact: anwar@albisherlaw.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
AlBisher Legal Group Anwar AlBisher, Talal AlBisher & Partners Attorneys-at-Law
Key individuals: Anwar Nasser AlBisher, Nassif Yousef Mikaeel Amasha
Founded: 1980
Practice areas: IP, corporate, dispute litigation, finance, employment, competition, antitrust
Website: www.albisherlaw.com
Contact: anwar@albisherlaw.com
Best Energy Firm
International Counsel Bureau
Key individuals: Abdul Rahman R. Al Haroun, Ghazi M. Al Qahtani
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, commercial employment, IP, real estate, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.icbkuwait.com.kw
Contact: icb@icbkuwait.com.kw
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Abdullah Kh Al-Ayoub & Associates
Key individuals: Abdullah Kh. Al-Ayoub
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, energy, capital markets, IP, labour, finance, litigation, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.al-ayoub.org
Contact: alayoub@al-ayoub.org
Best Lawyer
Law Offices of Jamal Ahmed Abdullah
Key individuals: Jamal Ahmed Abdullah
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Employment, corporate, commercial, litigation, energy, real estate
Website: www.jamalandjamal.com
Contact: info@jamalandjamal.com
Best Lawyer
Yaqoub Al Munayae, Yacoub Yousuf Al Munayae & Partners, Lawyers & International Legal
Practice areas: Criminal, civil, commercial
Website: www.kuwaitilawyer.com
Contact: +965 5322131
Best PPP Firm
Taher Group Law Firm
Key individuals: AbdulAziz Taher Al-Khateeb
Founded: 1969
Practice areas: PPP, litigation, commercial, insurance, real estate
Website: www.tahergrp.org
Contact: tahergrp@gmail.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
ASAR -Al Ruwayeh & Partners
Key individuals: Ahmed Al-Ruwayeh, Sam Habbas, Ahmed Barakat
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, real estate, trade, energy, foreign investment, capital markets
Website: www.asarlegal.com
Contact: asar@asarlegal.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
ASAR -Al Ruwayeh & Partners
Key individuals: Ahmed Al-Ruwayeh, Sam Habbas, Ahmed Barakat
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, real estate, trade, energy, foreign investment, capital markets
Website: www.asarlegal.com
Contact: asar@asarlegal.com
Best Litigation Firm
Al-Hekook Advocates & Legal Consultants
Key individuals: Mesha’al Al-Namash, Nedhal Al-Humaidan,
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Litigation, corporate, commercial, finance, real estate, litigation, infrastructure, employment
Website: www.alhekook.com
Contact: Alhekook@Alhekook.com
Lebanon
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm
Key individuals: Salim Meouchi, Chadia El Meouchi
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate, energy
Website: www.elmeouchi.com
Contact: +961 1 995900
Best M&A Firm
Alem & Associates
Key individuals: Mohamed Y Alem
Founded: 1953
Practice areas: M&A, arbitration, finance, real estate, corporate, energy, litigation
Website: www.alemlaw.com
Contact: contact@alemlaw.com
Best Tax Firm
Ernst & Young Lebanon
Key individuals: Ramzi Ackawi
Founded: 1947
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, business advisory
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: Beirut@lb.ey.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Slim & Associates Law Firm
Key individuals: Mohamad Slim, Dalia Chalhoub, Mohamad Habhab
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, arbitration, construction
Website: www.slimlaw.com
Contact: office@slimlaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Moghaizel Law Offices
Key individuals: Fadi Moghaizel
Founded: 1953
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, arbitration, commercial, corporate, education, construction, foreign investment
Website: www.mlof.com
Contact: +961 1 425222
Best Property Firm
Airut Law Offices
Key individuals: Marie Antoinette Airut, Charles Airut
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Litigation, finance, commercial, corporate, IP, property
Website: www.airutlaw.com
Contact: offices@airutlaw.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
The Levant Lawyers
Key individuals: Mohammad Mattar, Rafic M. Mouawad, Rabeh F. Matar
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: IP, litigation, finance, corporate, commercial, labour, real estate
Website: www.levantlp.com
Contact: +961 1 360136
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
El-Aref International Law Office
Key individuals: Oussama El-Aref, Aref El-Aref
Founded: 1942
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, finance, energy, litigation, corporate,
Website: www.elareflaw.com
Contact: inquiries@elaref.com
Best Energy Firm
El-Aref International Law Office
Key individuals: Oussama El-Aref, Aref El-Aref
Founded: 1942
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, finance, energy, litigation, corporate,
Website: www.elareflaw.com
Contact: inquiries@elaref.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Mena City Lawyers
Key individuals: Fady Jamaleddine, Mubarak Al Sulaiti, Hanadi El Hajj, Hussein Kazan,
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, IP, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate
Website: www.menacitylawyers.com
Contact: rita.kelijian@mcl-lb.com
Best Lawyer
Nabil Abdel-Malek’s Law Offices
Key individuals: Nabil Abdel-Malek, Hana Salaam Abdel-Malek
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Finance, Employment, IP, labour, litigation, real estate
Website: www.abdel-malek.com
Contact: info@abdel-malek.com
Best Lawyer
Carlos Abou Jaoude, Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, M&A, capital markets, tax, finance, restructuring, insolvency, media and tech, project development, privatisation
Website: www.ajalawfirm.com
Contact: c.aboujaoude@ajalawfirm.com
Best Tax Consultant
Walid Fakhour, Ernst & Young
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.ey.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Moghaizel Law Office
Key individuals: Fadi Moghaizel
Founded: 1953
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, arbitration, commercial, corporate, education, construction, foreign investment
Website: www.mlof.com
Contact: +961 1 425222
Best Capital Markets Firm
Abouhamad, Merheb, Nohra, Chamoun, Chedid
Key individuals: Antoine Merheb, Elie Chamoun, Nassib Chedid, Nada Abouhamad, Rachid Farah
Founded: 1963
Practice areas: Capital markets,
Website: www.amncc-lawfirm.com
Contact: amncc@amncc-lawfirm.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Raphaël & Associés
Key individuals: Moussa Raphaël, Adel Nassar, Hala Raphaël Abillama, Nada Abdelsater Abusamra
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: White collar crime, finance, corporate, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.raphaelandassociates.com
Contact: info@raphaelandassociates.com
Best Litigation Firm
Obeid Law Firm
Key individuals: Nayla Comair-Obeid, Nayla Comair-Obeid
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: Litigation, IP, corporate, real estate, finance, construction
Website: www.obeidlawfirm.com
Contact: info@obeidlawfirm.com
Libya
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Zahaf Law Firm
Key individuals: Saleh Zahaf
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, construction, corporate, IP
Website: www.zahaflaw.com
Contact: info@zahaflaw.com
Best M&A Firm
Ben Abderrahmane & Partners International Law Firm
Key individuals: Dahman Ben Abderrahmane, Taïeb Ben Abderrahmane, Vanina Torok
Practice areas: M&A, tax, investment
Website: www.benlawyers.com
Contact: ba@benlawyers.com
Best Tax Firm
Al-Kilani & Gheblawi Law Firm
Key individuals: Messrs Mohamed Al-Kilani, Abdalla Ghebawi
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Tax, energy, corporate, investment, litigation, commercial, employment
Website: www.kilanigheblawi.com
Contact: info@kilanigheblawi.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Tumi Law Firm
Key individuals: Mohammed Tumi, Mazen Tumi
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, commercial, litigation, energy, employment, IP
Website: www.tumilawfirm.com
Contact: mtumi@tumilawfirm
Best Property Firm
P & A Legal
Key individuals: Paolo Greco, Mohamed Bara, Salah Zarug
Founded: 2002
Practice areas: Property, construction, investment
Website: www.palegal.it
Contact: office@palegal.it
Best Intellectual Property Firm
MTL Law Office
Key individuals: Salah Marghani, Fituri Tabet, Khaled Ellafi
Practice areas: IP, investment, corporate, finance, litigation, commercial, energy
Website: www.mtllawoffice.ly
Contact: info@mtllawoffice.com
Best Lawyer
Al-Kilani & Gheblawi Law Firm
Key individuals: Messrs Mohamed Al-Kilani, Abdalla Ghebawi
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Employment, energy, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, commercial, regulatory
Website: www.kilanigheblawi.com
Contact: info@kilanigheblawi.com
Best Lawyer
Mahmud Mukhtar, MKE, Attorneys at Law
Practice areas: Energy, finance, banking, foreign investment
Website: www.mkelawyers.com
Luxembourg
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Bonn & Schmitt
Key individuals: Guy Arendt, Alain Grosjean, Andreas Heinzmann
Founded: 1898
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, investment, litigation, dispute resolution,
Website: www.bonnschmitt.net
Contact: mail@bonnschmitt.net
Best M&A Firm
Arendt & Medernach
Key individuals: Guy Harles, Claude Niedner, Jean-Marc Ueberecken Paul Mousel
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, commercial, competition, IP, property
Website: www.arendt.com
Contact: info@arendt.com
Best Tax Firm
NautaDutilh
Key individuals: Michaëla Ulrici
Founded: 1724
Practice areas: Tax, finance, corporate, employment, IP, real estate, litigation
Website: www.nautadutilh.com
Contact: info@nautadutilh.com
Best Tax Consultant
Jean Marc Groelly, NautaDutilh
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.nautadutilh.com
Contact: +352 26 12 29 95
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Wildgen, Partners in Law
Key individuals: Pierre Metzler
Founded: 1923
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, labour, real estate, litigation
Website: www.wildgen.lu
Contact: lawyers@wildgen.lu
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Schiltz et Schiltz
Key individuals: Jean-Louis Schiltz, Franz Schiltz
Founded: 1932
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, litigation, corporate, labour, real estate, commercial
Website: ww.schiltz.lu
Contact: schiltz@schiltz.lu
Best Property Firm
Arendt & Medernach
Key individuals: Guy Harles, Claude Niedner, Jean-Marc Ueberecken Paul Mousel
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, commercial, competition, IP, property
Website: www.arendt.com
Contact: info@arendt.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Philippe & Partners
Key individuals: Denis Philippe, François Cautaerts, Marc Gouden
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: IP, arbitration, energy, real estate, construction, commercial, finance, arbitration
Website: www.philippelaw.eu
Contact: brussels@philippelaw.eu
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
DSM Di Stefano Moyse
Key individuals: Mario Di Stefano, Mario Di Stefano, François Moyse
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, real estate, finance, employment, dispute resolution
Website: www.dsmlegal.com
Contact: contact@dsmlegal.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Kleyr Grasso Associes
Key individuals: Marc Kleyr
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, finance, regulatory, litigation, employment, real estate
Website: www.kckg.com
Contact: marc.kleyr@kckg.com
Best Lawyer
Allen & Overy Luxembourg
Key individuals: Fabian Beullekens, Marc Feider, Katia Manhaeve, Andre Marc
Practice areas: Employment, antitrust, IP, real estate, regulatory, finance, foreign investment
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +352 44 44 55 1
Best Lawyer
Michel Molitor, MOLITOR Avocats à la Cour
Practice areas: Finance, employment, pensions, banking, litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.molitorlegal.lu
Contact: michel.molitor@molitorlegal.lu
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Allen & Overy Luxembourg
Key individuals: Fabian Beullekens, Marc Feider, Katia Manhaeve, Andre Marc
Practice areas: Employment, antitrust, IP, real estate, regulatory, finance, foreign investment
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +352 44 44 55 1
Best Capital Markets Firm
Loyens & Loeff
Key individuals: Véronique Hoffeld, Pieter Stalman
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Finance, capital markets, corporate, IP, litigation, real estate, commercial
Website: www.loyensloeff.com
Contact: info@loyensloeff.com
Best Private Equity Firm
OPF Partners
Key individuals: Frédéric Feyten, Christel Dumont, Martine Gerber-Lemaire
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Private equity, corporate, finance, real estate, litigation, insolvency
Website: www.opf-partners.com
Contact: info@opf-partners.com
Best Litigation Firm
Bonn & Schmitt
Key individuals: Alex Schmitt
Founded: 1898
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, tax
Website: www.bonnschmitt.net/
Contact: mail@bonnschmitt.net
Macau
Best Banking & Finance Firm
DSL Lawyers
Key individuals: Carlos D Simões
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Finance, property, infrastructure, corporate, IP, litigation, employment
Website: www.dsl-lawyers.com
Contact: mail@dsl-lawyers.com
Best Tax Firm
Jorge Neto Valente
Key individuals: Jorge Neto Valente, Pedro Branco
Practice areas: Civil law, tax, corporate, commercial, finance, real estate, litigation, IP, construction
Website: www.jnvlegal.com
Contact: +853 2838 2222
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Riquito Advogados
Key individuals: João Nuno Riquito
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, IP, litigation, labour, commercial, dispute resolution
Website: www.riquito.com
Contact: jnr@riquito.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Riquito Advogados
Key individuals: João Nuno Riquito
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, IP, litigation, labour, commercial, dispute resolution
Website: www.riquito.com
Contact: jnr@riquito.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
MdME
Key individuals: Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, João Encarnação, Luís Mesquita de Melo
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Finance, IP, infrastructure, corporate, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.mdme.com
Contact: mdme@mdme.com.mo
Best Lawyer
Rato, Ling, Vong, Lei & Cortés – Advogados
Key individuals: Frederico Rato, Paula Ling Hsião Yun, Vong Hin Fai, Lei Wun Kong, Pedro Cortés
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Employment,
Website: www.lektou.com
Best Lawyer
Henrique Saldanha, Henrique Saldanha, A&N – Lawyers and Notaries
Best Litigation Firm
António Ribeiro Baguinho
Key individuals: António Ribeiro Baguinho, Rita Ferreira
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, real estate, litigation, construction, finance, IP, arbitration
Website: www.arblegal.com
Contact: info@arblegal.com
Mexico
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Oscos Abogados | Watch the award presentation
Key individuals: Dario Oscos
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Insolvency, litigation, finance, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.oscosabogados.com.mx
Contact: doscos@oscosabogados.com.mx
Best M&A Firm
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez
Key individuals: Carlos Creel, Carlos Aiza, Jean Michel Enriquez
Founded: 1936
Practice areas: M&A, antitrust, employment, real estate, IP, corporate, commercial, finance
Website: www.creelmx.com
Contact: mail@creelmx.com
Best Tax Firm
Basham, Ringe y Correa
Key individuals: Juan Jose López de Silanes, Martín Michaus
Founded: 1921
Practice areas: Tax, IP, investment, labour, energy, litigation, arbitration, commercial
Website: www.basham.com.mx
Contact: basham@basham.com.mx
Best Tax Consultant
Gerardo Nieto, Basham, Ringe y Correa
Practice areas: International transactions, transfer pricing, tax, litigation
Website: www.basham.com.mx
Contact: +52 55 52610455
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Galicia Abogados
Key individuals: Manuel Galicia Romero
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, infrastructure, finance, antitrust, IP, energy
Website: www.galicia.com.mx
Contact: +52 55 5540 9200
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Müggenburg, Gorches, Peñalosa y Sepúlveda
Key individuals: Carlos Müggenburg, Esteban Gorches, Jean Yves Peñalosa Sol La Lande
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, energy, infrastructure, regulatory, IP, real estate, litigation, finance
Website: www.mgps.com.mx
Contact: info@mgps.com.mx
Best Property Firm
Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa
Key individuals: Eduardo Siqueiros, Juan Francisco Torres-Landa
Founded: 1948
Practice areas: Property, corporate, regulatory, dispute resolution, labour
Website: www.bstl.com.mx
Contact: info@bstl.com.mx
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Uhthoff, Gomez Vega & Uhthoff
Key individuals: Manuel Soto, Mr Mario Ponce, Javier Uhthoff-Orive, Carlos Uhthoff-Orive, Consuelo Gonzalez
Founded: 1905
Practice areas: IP, litigation, copyrights, corporate, commercial
Website: www.uhthoff.com.mx
Contact: mailbox@uhthoff.com.mx
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes
Key individuals: Carlos Malpica Hernández, Horacio de Uriarte Flores, Patricio Trad Cepeda
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, real estate, energy, litigation, energy, finance, IP
Website: www.macf.com.mx
Contact: macf@macf.com.mx
Best Energy Firm
Galicia Abogados
Key individuals: Manuel Galicia Romero
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, infrastructure, finance, antitrust, IP, energy
Website: www.galicia.com.mx
Contact: +52 55 5540 9200
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Oscos Abogados | Watch the award presentation
Key individuals: Dario Oscos
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Insolvency, litigation, finance, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.oscosabogados.com.mx
Contact: doscos@oscosabogados.com.mx
Best Lawyer
Natividad Abogados, S C
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Employment, corporate, civil
Website: www.natividad-abogados.com.mx
Contact: +52 55 5089 7200
Best Lawyer
Dario Oscos, Oscos Abogados | Watch the award presentation
Practice areas: Insolvency, litigation
Website: www.oscosabogados.com.mx
Contact: doscos@oscosabogados.com.mx
Best PPP Firm
Shearman & Sterling
Key individuals: Alexandro Padrés
Founded: 1947
Practice areas: PPP, IP, trade, finance, corporate, litigation, antitrust, real estate
Website: www.shearman.com
Contact: ron.brandsdorfer@shearman.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Gonzalez Calvillo SC
Key individuals: Enrique Gonzalez Calvillo, Gonzalo Vargas, Rodrigo Núñez
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: Capital markets, arbitration, energy, corporate, IP, labour. Litigation, finance, real estate
Website: www.gcsc.com.mx
Contact: info@gcsc.com.mx
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Greenberg Traurig
Key individuals: Richard Rosenbaum, Cesar Alvarez, Patricia Menendez-Cambo
Founded: 1967
Practice areas: Infrastructure, real estate, finance, white collar crime, regulatory
Website: www.gtlaw.com
Contact: +52 55 5029 0000
Best Litigation Firm
Azar, Ortega & Gómez Ruano
Key individuals: Sofia Gomez Ruano, Elsa Ortega
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Litigation, arbitration, corporate,
Website: www.ogrlaw.mx
Contact: contacto@ogrlaw.mx
Montenegro
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Rokas
Key individuals: Dejan Radinovic
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Finance, real estate, corporate, commercial, energy, dispute resolution, IP, employment
Website: www.rokas.com
Contact: Podgorica@rokas.com
Best M&A Firm
Karanovic & Nikolic
Key individuals: Dejan Nikolic
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Real estate, infrastructure, dispute resolution, IP, finance, corporate, employment
Website: www.karanovic-nikolic.com
Contact: KNMontenegro@karanovic-nikolic.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Law office of Ana Kolarevic
Key individuals: Ana Kolarević
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, real estate, energy, IP, competition
Website: www.anakolarevic.com
Contact: info@anakolarevic.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Rokas
Key individuals: Dejan Radinovic
Founded: 1977
Practice areas: Finance, real estate, corporate, commercial, energy, dispute resolution, IP, employment
Website: www.rokas.com
Contact: Podgorica@rokas.com
Best Property Firm
BDK Advokati
Key individuals: Tijana Kojovic
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: Property, finance, dispute resolution, competition, real estate, employment
Website: www.bdklegal.com
Contact: office@bdklegal.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Karanovic & Nikolic
Key individuals: Dejan Nikolic
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Real estate, infrastructure, dispute resolution, IP, finance, corporate, employment
Website: www.karanovic-nikolic.com
Contact: KNMontenegro@karanovic-nikolic.com
Best Lawyer
Ana Kolarevic, Law office of Ana Kolarevic
Practice areas: Civil, administrative, corporate
Website: www.anakolarevic.com
Contact: anakol@t-com.me
Morocco
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Naciri & Associes Allen & Overy
Key individuals: Francois Duquette, Hicham Naciri
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, corporate, tax
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +212 520 478 000
Best M&A Firm
Gide Loyrette Novel Maroc
Key individuals: Julien David
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: M&A, finance, investment, real estate, employment, IP, capital markets
Website: www.gide.com
Contact: gln.casablanca@gide.com
Best Tax Firm
Naciri & Associés Allen & Overy
Key individuals: Francois Duquette, Hicham Naciri
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, corporate, tax
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +212 520 478 000
Best Tax Consultant
Mohamed Hdid, Saaidi & Hdid Consultants
Key individuals: Abderrahman Saaidi, Mohamed Hdid, Hammou Laafou
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, finance
Website: www.saaidi-consultants.com
Contact: +212 522 27 99 16
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Naciri & Associes Allen & Overy
Key individuals: Francois Duquette, Hicham Naciri
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, corporate, tax
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +212 520 478 000
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Benzakour Law Firm
Key individuals: Rachid Benzakour
Founded: 1968
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, finance, litigation, dispute resolution, IP, real estate, employment
Website: www.cbllawfirm.com
Contact: r.benzakour@cbllawfirm.com
Best Property Firm
Boulalf & Mekkaoui
Key individuals: Abdellatif Boulalf, Ahlam Mekkaoui
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: IP, competition, antitrust, arbitration, commercial, real estate
Website: www.boulalf.net
Contact: Infos@Boulalf.net
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Boulalf & Mekkaoui
Key individuals: Abdellatif Boulalf, Ahlam Mekkaoui
Founded: 2004
Practice areas: IP, competition, antitrust, arbitration, commercial, real estate
Website: www.boulalf.net
Contact: Infos@Boulalf.net
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Mohamed Mehdi Salmouni-Zerhouni
Key individuals: Mohamed Mehdi Salmouni-Zerhouni
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Commercial, competition, antitrust, IP
Website: www.salmouni.com
Contact: salmouni@salmouni.com
Best Energy Firm
Norton Rose
Key individuals: Alain Malek, Anne Lapierre
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Energy, finance, infrastructure, antitrust, corporate, real estate
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com/mo/
Contact: +212 529 09 00 60
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Hamzi Law Firm
Key individuals: Zineb Idrissia Hamzi
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, energy, corporate, construction, labour
Best Lawyer
Benzakour Law Firm
Key individuals: Rachid Benzakour
Founded: 1968
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, finance, litigation, dispute resolution, IP, real estate, employment
Website: www.cbllawfirm.com
Contact: r.benzakour@cbllawfirm.com
Best Lawyer
Nadia Kettani, Kettani Law Firm
Practice areas: Civil, criminal ,commercial, corporate, labour, insurance, Islamic, civil, arbitration
Website: www.kettlaw.com
Contact: +212 522 438 900
Best PPP Firm
Mernissi Figes
Best Capital Markets Firm
Gide Loyrette Novel Maroc
Key individuals: Julien David
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: M&A, finance, investment, real estate, employment, IP, capital markets
Website: www.gide.com
Contact: gln.casablanca@gide.com
Best Litigation Firm
Kettani Law Firm
Key individuals: Azzedine Kettani
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Energy, corporate, litigation, finance, IP, arbitration
Website: www.kettlaw.com
Contact: k@kettlaw.com
Mozambique
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Fralaw
Key individuals: Lino Vasco António, Rodrigo Ferreira Rocha
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.fralaw.com
Contact: press@fralaw.com
Best M&A Firm
SAL & Calderia
Key individuals: Samuel Levy, Josè manuel Caldeira, Ássma Nordine Jeque, Eduardo Alberto da Costa Calú, José Roque Gonçalves
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, commercial, labour, litigation, energy, property
Website: www.salcaldeira.com
Contact: admin@salcaldeira.com
Best Tax Firm
Ernst & Young | Watch the award presentation
Key individuals: Ismael Faquir
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Tax, assurance, transactions, advisory
Website: www.ey.com/MZ
Contact: +258 21 353000
Best Tax Consultant
Ismael Faquir, Ernst & Young
Practice areas: Assurance, tax, transactions
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: +258 21 353000
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Fralaw
Key individuals: Lino Vasco António, Rodrigo Ferreira Rocha
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.fralaw.com
Contact: press@fralaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
AVM Advogados
Key individuals: António Vicente Marques, Alberto Cabongo de Já
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, commercial, corporate, finance, real estate, employment, energy, IP
Website: www.avm-advogados.com
Contact: +258 213 170 05
Best Property Firm
SAL & Caldeira
Key individuals: Samuel Levy, Josè manuel Caldeira, Ássma Nordine Jeque, Eduardo Alberto da Costa Calú, José Roque Gonçalves
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, commercial, labour, litigation, energy, property
Website: www.salcaldeira.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Vasconcelos Porto & Associados
Key individuals: António de Vasconcelos Porto, Gilles Cistac
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: IP, commercial, finance, corporate, litigation, energy, foreign investment
Contact: +258 2131 2070
Best Energy Firm
Fernanda Lopes & Associados Advogados
Key individuals: Fernanda Lopes, Teodato Hunguana, Sérgio Antunes Teixeira
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Energy, employment, commercial, property
Website: www.fernandalopes.com
Contact: geral.maputo@fernandalopes.com
Best Lawyer
Fernanda Lopes & Associados Advogados
Key individuals: Fernanda Lopes, Teodato Hunguana, Sérgio Antunes Teixeira
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Energy, employment, commercial, property
Website: www.fernandalopes.com
Contact: geral.maputo@fernandalopes.com
Best Lawyer
Samuel Levy, SAL & Calderia
Practice areas: energy, infrastructure, regulatory, labour, commercial arbitration
Website: www.salcaldeira.com
Contact: slevy@salcaldeira.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Vasconcelos Porto & Associados
Key individuals: António de Vasconcelos Porto, Gilles Cistac
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: IP, commercial, finance, corporate, litigation, energy, foreign investment
Contact: +258 2131 2070
Best Litigation Firm
Pimenta, Dionísio e Associados
Practice areas: Litigation, corporate, commercial, energy, finance, real estate, litigation, arbitration
Namibia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Koep & Partners
Key individuals: Peter Frank Koep
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Finance, IP, litigation, arbitration, corporate, energy, employment, IP, property
Website: www.koep.com.na
Contact: pfk@koep.com.na
Best M&A Firm
Hanno Bossau & Co
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Dr Weder Kauta & Hoveka
Key individuals: André Swanepoel, Patrick Uaurikirua Kauta, Gysbertus Johannes Ligthelm
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, labour, finance
Website: www.wkh-law.com
Contact: info@wkh-law.com
Best Property Firm
Koep & Partners
Key individuals: Peter Frank Koep
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Finance, IP, litigation, arbitration, corporate, energy, employment, IP, property
Website: www.koep.com.na
Contact: pfk@koep.com.na
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Engling, Stritter & Partners
Key individuals: Hans-Bruno Gerdes, Mark Kutzner, Elize Yssel
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: IP, commercial, corporate, finance, litigation, energy, construction
Website: www.englinglaw.com.na
Contact: +264 61 383 300
Best Energy Firm
Koep & Partners
Key individuals: Peter Frank Koep
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Finance, IP, litigation, arbitration, corporate, energy, employment, IP, property
Website: www.koep.com.na
Contact: pfk@koep.com.na
Best Lawyer
Dr Weder, Kauta & Hoveka
Key individuals: André Swanepoel, Patrick Uaurikirua Kauta, Gysbertus Johannes Ligthelm
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, labour, finance
Website: www.wkh-law.com
Contact: info@wkh-law.com
Best Lawyer
Wolf Wohlers, Lorentz Angula
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, energy, telecom, M&A
Website: www.lorentzangula.com
Contact: wolf.wohlers@lorentzangula.com
Best Litigation Firm
Dr Weder, Kauta & Hoveka
Key individuals: André Swanepoel, Patrick Uaurikirua Kauta, Gysbertus Johannes Ligthelm
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, labour, finance
Website: www.wkh-law.com
Contact: info@wkh-law.com
Netherlands
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Allen & Overy
Key individuals: Arnold Croiset van Uchelen
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, regulatory, disputes
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +31 20 674 1000
Best M&A Firm
NautaDutilh
Key individuals: Michaëla Ulrici
Founded: 1724
Practice areas: M&A, capital markets, finance, employment, IP, litigation, real estate,
Website: www.nautadutilh.com
Contact: info@nautadutilh.com
Best Tax Firm
Clifford Chance
Key individuals: Bas Boris Visser
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: Tax, litigation, dispute resolution, corporate, employment, finance, IP
Website: www.cliffordchance.com
Contact: +31 207119000
Best Tax Consultant
Wouter Paardekooper, Baker & McKenzie
Practice areas: Tax, M&A, private equity
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com
Contact: +31 20 551 7848
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Stibbe
Key individuals: Heleen Kersten, Jan Peeters
Founded: 1911
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, employment, IP, real estate, competition
Website: www.stibbe.com
Contact: info@stibbe.be
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Lemstra Van der Korst
Key individuals: Jurjen Lemstra, Pieter van der Korst
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution
Website: www.lvdk.com
Contact: info@lvdk.com
Best Property Firm
Lexence
Key individuals: Peter Reinders, Michiel van Schooten, Mark Keuss
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Real estate, corporate, commercial, real estate, litigation, construction
Website: www.lexence.com
Contact: info@lexence.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
AKD
Key individuals: Vincent Wibaut, Teije van Dijk
Practice areas: Finance, real estate, corporate, IP, employment, regulatory
Website: www.akd.nl
Contact: info@akd.nl
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Houthoff Buruma
Key individuals: Walter van Overbeek, Johan Rijlaarsdam
Founded: 2002
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, dispute resolution, corporate, IP, employment, real estate
Website: www.houthoff.com
Contact: +31 20 605 6000
Best Energy Firm
Loyens & Loeff
Key individuals: Maarten van der Weijden
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Energy, finance, corporate, litigation, regulatory, IP, real estate
Website: www.loyensloeff.com
Contact: info@loyensloeff.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Boekel De Nerée
Key individuals: Frederieke Leeflang, Paul Wanders
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, employment, finance, corporate, IP, litigation
Website: www.boekeldeneree.com
Contact: info@boekeldeneree.com
Best Lawyer
BarentsKrans
Key individuals: William Schonewille
Practice areas: Employment, litigation, corporate, real estate, finance, antitrust
Website: www.barentskrans.nl
Contact: info@barentskrans.nl
Best Lawyer
Bart Meesters, Allen & Overy
Practice areas: PPP, project finance, structured asset finance
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: +31 20 674 1339
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Greenberg Traurig,
Key individuals: Jan Kees Brandse, Peter van Langeveld
Founded: 1967
Practice areas: Antitrust, litigation, foreign investment, commercial, corporate, energy, IP, real estate, white collar crime
Website: www.gtlaw.com
Contact: +31 20 301 7300
Best Capital Markets Firm
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Key individuals: Martijn Snoep
Founded: 1871
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, finance, litigation, arbitration, regulatory, energy, real estate, private equity
Website: www.debrauw.com
Contact: amsterdam@debrauw.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Greenberg Traurig,
Key individuals: Jan Kees Brandse, Peter van Langeveld
Founded: 1967
Practice areas: Antitrust, litigation, foreign investment, commercial, corporate, energy, IP, real estate, white collar crime
Website: www.gtlaw.com
Contact: +31 20 301 7300
Best Private Equity Firm
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Key individuals: Martijn Snoep
Founded: 1871
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, finance, litigation, arbitration, regulatory, energy, real estate, private equity
Website: www.debrauw.com
Contact: amsterdam@debrauw.com
Best Litigation Firm
Spigt Litigators
Key individuals: Frank Peters
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Tax, litigation, finance, corporate, insolvency
Website: www.spigtlitigators.com
Contact: info@spigtlitigators.com
Nigeria
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Jackson, Etti & Edu
Key individuals: Koye Edu, Uwa Ohiku, Chinyere Okorocha, Folasade Olusanya
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, corporate, regulatory, commercial, IP, dispute resolution, energy, tax
Website: www.jacksonettiandedu.com
Contact: jacksonettiedu@jacksonettiandedu.com
Best M&A Firm
Aluko & Oyebode
Key individuals: Gbenga Oyebode
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, commercial, energy, finance, IP, real estate, dispute resolution
Website: www.aluko-oyebode.com
Contact: ao@aluko-oyebode.com
Best Tax Firm
Jackson, Etti and Edu
Key individuals: Koye Edu, Uwa Ohiku, Chinyere Okorocha, Folasade Olusanya
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, corporate, regulatory, commercial, IP, dispute resolution, energy, tax
Website: www.jacksonettiandedu.com
Contact: jacksonettiedu@jacksonettiandedu.com
Best Tax Consultant
Theophilus Emuwa, Aelex
Practice areas: Tax, IP, corporate, commercial
Website: www.aelex.com
Contact: tiemuwa@aelex.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Banwo & Ighodalo
Key individuals: Femi Olubanwo, Asue Ighodalo, Ken Etim, Abimbola Akeredolu, Ayotunde Owoigbe
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Capital markets, M&A, corporate, commercial, energy, litigation, arbitration, IP
Website: www.banwo-ighodalo.com
Contact: banwigho@banwo-ighodalo.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Olaniwun Ajayi LP
Key individuals: Konyinsola Ajayi, Oluseye Opasanya, Tominiyi Owolabi, Yimika Phillips
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, corporate, finance, IP, litigation, infrastructure
Website: www.olaniwunajayi.net
Contact: lawyers@olaniwunajayi.net
Best Property Firm
Adepetun, Caxton-Martins Agbor & Segun
Key individuals: Afolabi Caxton-Martins, Funke Agbor, Felicia Kemi Segun, Taiwo Afonja, Ben Unaegbunam, Idowu Durosinmi-Etti, Dayo Ayoola-Johnson
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Property, energy, commercial, corporate, IP, litigation, IP
Website: www.acas-law.com
Contact: acas@acas-law.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Jackson, Etti & Edu
Key individuals: Koye Edu, Uwa Ohiku, Chinyere Okorocha, Folasade Olusanya
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, corporate, regulatory, commercial, IP, dispute resolution, energy, tax
Website: www.jacksonettiandedu.com
Contact: jacksonettiedu@jacksonettiandedu.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Paul Usoro & Co
Key individuals: Paul Usoro, Mfon Ekong Usoro, Munirudeen Olusola Liadi
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Litigation, competition, antitrust, regulatory, IP
Website: www.paulusoro.com
Contact: info@paulusoro.com
Best Energy Firm
Aelex
Key individuals: Soji Awogbade
Practice areas: Finance, energy, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, employment, regulatory
Website: www.aelex.com
Contact: lagos@aelex.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Giwa-Osagie & Co
Key individuals: Osayaba Giwa-Osagie
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: energy, insolvency, restructuring, construction, finance, real estate, litigation
Website: www.giwa-osagie.com
Contact: giwa-osagie@giwa-osagie.com
Best Lawyer
Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
Key individuals: Dan Agbor, Myma Belo-Osagie, Yinka Edu
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, energy, employment, finance, litigation, real estate, private equity
Website: www.uubo.org
Contact: uubo@uubo.org
Best Lawyer
Ayuli Jemide, Detail Commercial Solicitors | Ayuli Jemide accepts the award
Practice areas: Project finance, public private partnerships, real estate, oil and gas, corporate, commercial
Website: www.detailsolicitors.com
Contact: ayuli@detailsolicitors.com
Best PPP Firm
Detail Commercial Solicitors | Ayuli Jemide accepts the award for Detail Commercial Solicitors
Key individuals: Ayuli Jemide , Dolapo Kukoyi, Orode Imevbore,
Practice areas: PPP, corporate, commercial, energy, IP, finance
Website: www.detailsolicitors.com
Contact: info@detailsolicitors.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Kusamotu & Kusamotu
Key individuals: Kusamotu Ayodele Musibau, Sunmonu Olayiwola Kusamotu
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Foreign investment, IP, litigation, trade
Website: www.kusamotu.com
Contact: enquiries@kusamotu.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Aluko & Oyebode
Key individuals: Gbenga Oyebode, Adeniyi Adegbonmire
Founded:1993
Practice areas: Energy, finance, corporate, commercial, capital markets, dispute resolution, IP, real estate
Website: www.aluko-oyebode.com
Contact: ao@aluko-oyebode.com
Best Private Equity Firm
Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
Key individuals: Dan Agbor, Myma Belo-Osagie, Yinka Edu
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, energy, employment, finance, litigation, real estate, private equity
Website: www.uubo.org
Contact: uubo@uubo.org
Best Litigation Firm
Abdulai, Taiwo & Co
Key individuals: Ladi Taiwo, Akin Osinbajo
Founded: 1976
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, IP, finance, infrastructure, commercial
Website: www.abdulaitaiwo.com
Contact: law@abdulaitaiwo.com
Norway
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Advokatfirma BA-HR
Key individuals: Børre Sofus Arnet, Helge Olav Bugge, Geir Mikalsen
Founded: 1966
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, energy, real estate, corporate, dispute resolution, IP
Website: www.bahr.no
Contact: post@bahr.no
Best M&A Firm
DLA Piper
Key individuals: Petter Kleppe, Alexander Plows
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, litigation, IP, real estate, M&A, private equity
Website: www.dlapiper.com
Contact: +47 24 13 15 00
Best Tax Firm
Wiersholm
Key individuals: Jan Fougner, Nils Thommessen
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, employment, energy, IP, tax, trade
Website: www.wiersholm.no
Contact: mail@wiersholm.no
Best Tax Consultant
Jan Jansen, Advokatfirma BA-HR
Practice areas: Tax, dispute resolution
Website: www.bahr.no
Contact: jbj@bahr.no
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Advokatfirmaet Thommessen
Key individuals: Anders Arnkværn, Kai Thøgersen
Founded: 1856
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, employment, construction, finance, IP, litigation, arbitration, energy, property
Website: www.thommessen.no
Contact: firmapost@thommessen.no
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Advokatfirmaet Hjort Da
Key individuals: Jarl Borgvin Doerre, Kristin Veieroed
Founded: 1893
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, commercial, real estate, litigation, employment
Website: www.hjort.no
Contact: advokatfirmaet@hjort.no
Best Property Firm
Advokatfirmaet Grette
Key individuals: Svein Ruud Johansen, Øystein Flagstad
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Commercial, property, construction, finance, employment, competition, energy, IP
Website: www.grette.no
Contact: firmapost@grette.no
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Bull & Co
Key individuals: Kåre Bjørlo, Amund Grimstad
Founded: 1984
Practice areas: IP, real estate, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, white collar crime
Website: www.bullco.no
Contact: bull@bullco.no
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Arntzen de Besche
Key individuals: Christian Michelet, Thomas Nordby
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, litigation, real estate, finance, energy, construction, employment
Website: www.adeb.no
Contact: oslo@adeb.no
Best Energy Firm
Wikborg Rein
Key individuals: Susanne Munch Thore, Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer
Founded: 1923
Practice areas: Energy, trade, litigation, dispute resolution, real estate, finance, competition, corporate
Website: www.wr.no
Contact: oslo@wr.no
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Kvale Advokatfirma
Key individuals: Arne Seemann Berg, Christian Poulsson, Christian Wahl
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, real estate, infrastructure, dispute resolution, commercial, IP, finance
Website: www.kvaleco.no
Contact: post@kvale.no
Best Lawyer
Arntzen de Besche
Key individuals: Christian Michelet, Thomas Nordby
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, litigation, real estate, finance, energy, construction, employment
Website: www.adeb.no
Contact: oslo@adeb.no
Best Lawyer
Joachim Bjerke, Advokatfirma BA-HR
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.bahr.no
Contact: jmb@bahr.no
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Advokatfirmaet Schjødt
Key individuals: Erling Ueland, Paul Bellamy
Founded: 1936
Practice areas: Finance, arbitration, litigation, IP, construction, foreign investment, capital markets
Website: www.schjodt.no
Contact: sentralbord@schjodt.no
Best Capital Markets Firm
Advokatfirmaet Schjødt
Key individuals: Erling Ueland, Paul Bellamy
Founded: 1936
Practice areas: Finance, arbitration, litigation, IP, construction, foreign investment, capital markets
Website: www.schjodt.no
Contact: sentralbord@schjodt.no
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Bull & Co
Key individuals: Kåre Bjørlo, Amund Grimstad
Founded: 1984
Practice areas: IP, real estate, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, white collar crime
Website: www.bullco.no
Contact: bull@bullco.no
Best Private Equity Firm
DLA Piper
Key individuals: Petter Kleppe, Alexander Plows
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, litigation, IP, real estate, M&A, private equity
Website: www.dlapiper.com
Contact: +47 24 13 15 00
Best Litigation Firm
Wikborg Rein
Key individuals: Susanne Munch Thore, Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer
Founded: 1923
Practice areas: Energy, trade, litigation, dispute resolution, real estate, finance, competition, corporate
Website: www.wr.no
Contact: oslo@wr.no
Peru
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Estudio Echecopar – Asociado a Baker & McKenzie International
Key individuals: Ismael Noya de la Piedra, Samuel Abad Yupanqui, Marco Alarcón Piana, Alberto Araoz Villena
Founded: 1950
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, labour, IP, regulatory, antitrust, infrastructure, PPP
Website: www.echecopar.com.pe
Contact: +51 1 618 8500
Best M&A Firm
Marroquín & Merino
Key individuals: Victor Marroquin
Founded: 1945
Practice areas: M&A, finance, insolvency, tax, litigation
Website: www.marroquinlaw.com
Contact: information@marroquinlaw.com
Best Tax Firm
Hernández & Cía Abogados
Key individuals: Luis Hernández, Juan Luis Hernández
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: corporate, energy, labour, regulatory, IP, finance, tax, corporate
Website: www.ehernandez.com.pe
Best Tax Consultant
Humberto Medrano, Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.estudiorodrigo.com
Contact: hmedrano@estudiorodrigo.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Miranda & Amado Abogados
Key individuals: Luis G Miranda, José Daniel Amado
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, labour, dispute resolution
Website: www.mafirma.com.pe
Contact: abogado@mafirma.com.pe
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Benites, Forno, & Ugaz Abogados
Key individuals: Jorge Luis Acevedo, César Benites, Hugo Forno, Víctor García
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, finance, litigation, labour, arbitration, corporate, infrastructure
Website: www.bfu.pe
Contact: bfu@bfu.pe
Best Property Firm
Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados
Key individuals: Luis Carlos Rodrigo, Alex Morris
Founded: 1965
Practice areas: Finance, property, infrastructure, property, tax, energy
Website: www.estudiorodrigo.com
Contact: postmaster@estudiorodrigo.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Barreda Moller
Key individuals: Alfredo Barreda, Fernando Barreda, José Barreda
Founded: 1940
Practice areas: Trademarks, litigation, patents
Website: www.barredamoller.com
Contact: mail@barredamoller.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Payet, Rey, Cauvi
Key individuals: José Antonio Payet
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Corporate, regulatory, finance, antitrust, competition, commercial, corporate, labour
Website: www.prc.com.pe
Contact: lexmail@prc.com.pe
Best Energy Firm
Santiváñez Abogados
Key individuals: Roberto J Santiváñez Seminario, Walther Belaúnde
Founded: 1964
Practice areas: Energy, antitrust, finance, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.santivanez.com.pe
Contact: +51 1202 8000
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Bullard Falla Ezcurra Abogados
Key individuals: Alfredo Bullard, Alejandro Falla, Huáscar Ezcurra
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Regulatory, corporate, dispute resolution, restructuring, insolvency, white collar crime
Website: www.bullardabogados.pe
Contact: +511 621 1515
Best Lawyer
Muñiz, Ramírez, Pérez-Taiman & Olaya
Key individuals: Jorge Muñiz, Nelson Ramírez, Jorge Pérez-Taiman, Mauricio Olaya
Founded: 1981
Practice areas: Employment, finance, IP, energy, corporate, competition, antitrust
Website: www.munizlaw.com
Contact: contactus@munizlaw.com
Best Lawyer
Victor Marroquín, Marroquín & Merino
Practice areas: M&A, finance, insolvency, taxation, civil litigation
Website: www.marroquinlaw.com
Best PPP Firm
Estudio Echecopar – Asociado a Baker & McKenzie International
Key individuals: Ismael Noya de la Piedra, Samuel Abad Yupanqui, Marco Alarcón Piana, Alberto Araoz Villena
Founded: 1950
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, labour, IP, regulatory, antitrust, infrastructure, PPP
Website: www.echecopar.com.pe
Contact: +51 1 618 8500
Best Capital Markets Firm
García Sayán Abogados
Key individuals: Luis Gastañeta, Alberto Varillas
Founded: 1888
Practice areas: Capital markets, corporate, IP, trade, energy, finance
Website: www.garciasayan.com.pe
Contact: estudio@garciasayan.com.pe
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Bullard Falla Ezcurra Abogados
Key individuals: Alfredo Bullard, Alejandro Falla, Huáscar Ezcurra
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Regulatory, corporate, dispute resolution, restructuring, insolvency, white collar crime
Website: www.bullardabogados.pe
Contact: +511 621 1515
Best Litigation Firm
Estudio Monroy Abogados
Website: www.estudiomonroy.com
Contact: central@estudiomonroy.com
Portugal
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
Key individuals: João Soares da Silva, Nuno Galvão Teles
Founded: 1961
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate, arbitration, labour, capital markets
Website: www.mlgts.pt
Contact: mlgtslisboa@mlgts.pt
Best M&A Firm
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Key individuals: Emilio Cuatrecasas, Rafael Fontana, Maria João Ricou, Diogo Perestrelo
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: M&A, litigation, infrastructure, finance, corporate, IP, employment, white collar crime
Website: www.cuatrecasas.com
Contact: lisboa@cuatrecasasgoncalvespereira.com
Best Tax Firm
António Frutuoso de Melo & Associados Sociedade De Advogados, RL
Key individuals: António Frutuoso de Melo, Pedro Porto Dordio, Guilherme Frutuoso de Melo
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Tax, trade, litigation, employment, commercial, corporate, construction, IP
Website: www.afma.pt
Contact: afma@afma.pt
Best Tax Consultant
João Magalhães Ramalho, PLMJ – A M Pereira, S Leal, O Martins, Júdice & Associados
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.plmj.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Cardigos
Key individuals: Pedro Cardigos
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, employment, insolvency, commercial, IP
Website: www.cardigos.com
Contact: cardigos@cardigos.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Vieira de Almeida & Associados
Key individuals: João Vieira de Almeida, Vasco Vieira de Almeida, António Magalhães Cardoso, Mário Esteves de Oliveira
Founded: 1976
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, employment, IP, litigation, real estate, dispute resolution, competition
Website: www.vda.pt
Contact: lisboa@vda.pt
Best Property Firm
Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho
Key individuals: Duarte Garin
Founded: 2010
Practice areas: Property, corporate, commercial, employment, financial, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.uria.com
Contact: madrid@uria.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Garrigues
Key individuals: Isabel Martínez de Salas
Founded: 2005
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, IP, energy, real estate, litigation, labour
Website: www.garrigues.com
Contact: +34 91 514 5200
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
SRS Advogados
Key individuals: Pedro Rebelo de Sousa
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, competition, antitrust, dispute resolution, employment, real estate
Website: www.srslegal.pt
Contact: geral.portugal@srslegal.pt
Best Energy Firm
AAA Advogados
Key individuals: Dulce Franco, Gabriela Rodrigues Martins, José Jácome, Vítor Pereira das Neves, Rita Gama Abreu
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Corporate, dispute resolution, energy, employment, finance, labour, infrastructure, real estate
Website: www.AAA.pt
Contact: advogados@AAA.pt
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Abreu Advogados
Key individuals: Miguel Teixeira de Abreu, Miguel Castro Pereira
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, insolvency, restructuring, real estate, employment, IP, regulatory
Website: www.abreuadvogados.com
Contact: lisboa@abreuadvogados.com
Best Lawyer
Saraiva e Sousa, Gomes de Almeida & Associados
Best Lawyer
Maria da Glória Leitão, Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Practice areas: Labour, employment, insurance
Website: www.cuatrecasas.com
Contact: +351 21 355 38 00
Best PPP Firm
Linklaters
Key individuals: Jorge Bleck, Francisco Ferraz de Carvalho, Carlos Pinto Correia
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, competition, litigation, PPP, real estate, employment
Website: www.linklaters.com
Contact: +351 21 864 00 00
Best Capital Markets Firm
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
Key individuals: João Soares da Silva, Nuno Galvão Teles Founded: 1961
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate, arbitration, labour, capital markets
Website: www.mlgts.pt
Contact: mlgtslisboa@mlgts.pt
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
Key individuals: Emilio Cuatrecasas, Rafael Fontana, Maria João Ricou, Diogo Perestrelo
Founded: 2003
Practice areas: M&A, litigation, infrastructure, finance, corporate, IP, employment, white collar crime
Website: www.cuatrecasas.com
Contact: lisboa@cuatrecasasgoncalvespereira.com
Best Private Equity Firm
Raposo Bernardo & Associados
Key individuals: Nelson Raposo Bernardo
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Private equity, corporate, finance, employment, real estate, energy
Website: www.raposobernardo.com
Contact: lisbon@raposobernardo.com
Best Litigation Firm
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, Abogados
Key individuals: Agnieszka Opalach, Ainara Renteria Tazo, Aintzane Gonzálex López de Sandaliano
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Litigation, real estate, IP, employment, finance, corporate, commercial, restructuring, arbitration
Website: www.gomezacebo-pombo.com
Contact: abogados@gomezacebo-pombo.com
Qatar
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Law Offices of Gebran Majdalany
Key individuals: Gebran Majdalany, Elias Khoury
Founded: 1967
Practice areas: Finance, infrastructure, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution
Website: www.gebranmajdalany.com
Contact: eld@gebranmajdalany.com
Best M&A Firm
Hassan A Al-Khater Law Office
Key individuals: Hassan Alkhater
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, commercial, finance, energy, litigation, arbitration
Contact: +974 4443 7770
Best Tax Firm
Bennett Jones
Key individuals: Hugh L MacKinnon, Timothy Ross
Founded: 2012
Practice areas: Tax, energy, corporate, finance, M&A, litigation, trade
Website: www.bennettjones.com
Contact: spitznagelp@bennettjones.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Khalid Al-Attiya Legal Consultant & Attorney
Key individuals: Khalid Bin Khalifa Al Attiya, Sayed Jadallah, Oliver Alexander
Founded: 1995
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, IP, civil, litigation, arbitration, finance
Website: www.alattiya-legal.com
Contact: info@alattiya-legal.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Sultan Al-Abdulla & Partners
Key individuals: Sultan Al-Abdulla
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, energy, IP
Website: www.qatarlaw.com
Contact: info@qatarlaw.com
Best Property Firm
Arab Law Bureau
Key individuals: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Alaa Hamad
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, property, dispute resolution, litigation
Website: www.albureau.com
Contact: admin@albureau.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Badri and Salim El Meouchi Law Firm
Key individuals: Salim El Meouchi, Chadia El Meouchi
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, litigation, dispute resolution, real estate, IP, energy
Website: www.elmeouchi.com
Contact: +961 1 995900
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
K&L Gates
Key individuals: Pawel Chudzicki, Paul Simpson, Kenneth Freeling
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, competition, antitrust, real estate, IP, white collar crime
Website: www.klgates.com
Contact: +974 4424 6100
Best Energy Firm
Al-Ansari & Associates
Key individuals: Mohammed Al-Ansari, Salman A. Al-Ansari
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Finance, IP, employment, real estate, energy, litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.alansarilaw.com
Contact: info@alansarilaw.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Al Tamimi & Company in association with Al Marri
Key individuals: Essam Al Tamimi, Husam Hourani, Hassan Arab
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Arbitration, insolvency, restructuring, finance, corporate, commercial, employment, regulatory, IP, property
Website: www.tamimi.com
Contact: infoqatar@tamimi.com
Best Lawyer
Al-Kaabi Law Firm
Best Lawyer
Khalid Bin Khalifa Al-Attiya, Khalid Al-Attiya Legal Consultant & Attorney
Practice areas: Litigation, commercial, Sha’riya law, civil, criminal
Website: www.alattiya-legal.com
Contact: khalidkhalifa.alattiya@alattiya-legal.com
Best Foreign Investment Practice
UGGC & Associés
Key individuals: Arnaud Depierrefeu
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, real estate, foreign investment, IP, litigation, employment
Website: www.uggc.com
Contact: rak@uggc.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Latham & Watkins
Key individuals: Salman Al-Sudairi, Nick Collins
Founded: 1934
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, capital markets, insolvency, restructuring,
Website: www.lw.com
Contact: +974 4406 7700
Best White Collar Crime Firm
K&L Gates
Key individuals: Pawel Chudzicki, Paul Simpson, Kenneth Freeling
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, competition, antitrust, real estate, IP, white collar crime
Website: www.klgates.com
Contact: +974 4424 6100
Best Litigation Firm
Arab Law Bureau
Key individuals: Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Alaa Hamad
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, property, dispute resolution, litigation
Website: www.albureau.com
Contact: admin@albureau.com
Russia
Best Banking & Finance Firm
ALRUD
Key individuals: Vassily Rudomino, Maxim Alekseyev
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Finance, competition, antitrust, dispute resolution, IP, employment, real estate, employment
Website: www.alrud.com
Contact: info@alrud.ru
Best M&A Firm
Baker Botts
Key individuals: Maxim Levinson
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: Dispute resolution, finance, corporate, commercial, energy, real estate, IP, M&A
Website: www.bakerbotts.com
Contact: +7 495 545 0777
Best Tax Firm
Ernst & Young
Key individuals: Alexander Ivlev, Peter Reinhardt
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Tax, advisory, transactions, assurance
Website: www.ey.com/RU/
Contact: academy@ru.ey.com
Best Tax Consultant
Peter Reinhardt, Ernst & Young
Practice areas: Employment, litigation, IP, tax
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: +7 495 705 9738
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & Affiliates
Key individuals: Linda Davies, Alexey Kiyashko, Dmitri Kovalenko
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, capital markets, dispute resolution, energy
Website: www.skadden.com
Contact: +7 495 797 4600
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Key individuals: David Lasfargue, Boris Arkhipov, Alexander Dolgov
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: M&A, Finance, dispute resolution, real estate, competition, IP, employment
Website: www.gide.com
Contact: gln.moscow@gide.com
Best Property Firm
Noerr
Key individuals: Tobias Bürgers, Alexander Ritvay
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, commercial, real estate, antitrust, competition, litigation
Website: www.noerr.com
Contact: bjoern.paulsen@noerr.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Hogan Lovells (CIS)
Key individuals: Oxana Balayan, Richard Cowie, Alexei Dudko, Natalia Gulyaeva
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Antitrust, finance, commercial, corporate, dispute resolution, employment, IP, real estate
Website: www.hoganlovells.co.uk/moscow/
Contact: +7 495 933 3000
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Dechert Russia
Key individuals: Laura Brank
Founded: 2010
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, corporate, employment, finance, IP, litigation, regulatory, real estate
Website: www.dechert.com/moscow/
Contact: +7 499 922 11 00
Best Energy Firm
Vinson & Elkins
Key individuals: Natalya Morozova, Rob Patterson
Founded: 1991
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, litigation, IP, energy, employment
Website: www.velaw.com
Contact: nmorozova@velaw.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Linklaters CIS
Key individuals: Francis Kucera, Mirthe Van Kesteren
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, corporate, M&A, finance, energy, infrastructure
Website: www.linklaters.com
Contact: +7 495 797 9797
Best Lawyer
Salans
Key individuals: Marat Mouradov, Elliott Portnoy
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: Employment, arbitration, finance, employment, real estate, litigation
Website: www.salans.com
Contact: +7 495 644 0500
Best Lawyer
Kirill Ratnikov, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
Practice areas: Project finance, PPP
Website: www.epam.ru
Contact: +7 812 322 9681
Best PPP Firm
Herbert Smith Freehills
Key individuals: Alexei Roudiak, Allen Hanen
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: PPP, dispute resolution, real estate, finance, energy
Website: www.herbertsmithfreehills.com
Contact: +7 495 363 6500
Best Capital Markets Firm
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & Affiliates
Key individuals: Linda Davies, Alexey Kiyashko, Dmitri Kovalenko
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, capital markets, dispute resolution, energy
Website: www.skadden.com
Contact: +7 495 797 4600
Best Private Equity Firm
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Moscow)
Key individuals: Ivan Trifonov
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: IP, real estate, labour, litigation, antitrust, finance, private equity, energy, regulatory
Website: www.squiresanders.com/moscow/
Contact: +7 495 258 5250
Best Litigation Firm
Chadbourne & Parke
Key individuals: Claude Serfilippi
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Litigation, M&A, finance, corporate, regulatory, commercial
Website: www.chadbourne.com/cis/
Contact: moscow@chadbourne.com
Singapore
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Rodyk & Davidson
Key individuals: Philip Jeyaretnam, Josephine Koh
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate,
Website: www.rodyk.com
Contact: mail@rodyk.com
Best M&A Firm
Khattarwong
Key individuals: Gurbachan Singh, Carla Barker, Leon Kwong Wing
Founded: 1974
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, litigation, IP, dispute resolution
Website: www.khattarwong.com
Contact: kwp@khattarwong.com
Best Tax Firm
Drew & Napier
Key individuals: Davinder Singh, Ong Sim Ho
Founded: 1889
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, finance, dispute resolution, infrastructure, IP, infrastructure, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.drewnapier.com
Contact: mail@drewnapier.com
Best Tax Consultant
Ong Sim Ho, Drew & Napier
Practice areas: Tax, finance, risk governance, dispute resolution
Website: www.drewnapier.com
Contact: +65 6531 2250
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Colin Ng & Partners
Key individuals: Lisa Theng, Allan Tan, Winnie Chang
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, construction, real estate, finance, regulatory, litigation
Website: www.cnplaw.com
Contact: contact@cnplaw.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Rajah & Tann
Key individuals: Lee Eng Beng
Founded: 1954
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, employment, energy, dispute resolution, litigation, IP
Website: www.rajahtann.com
Contact: info@rajahtann.com
Best Property Firm
Lee & Lee
Key individuals: Han Tiong Lee, Pih Peng Lee
Founded: 1955
Practice areas: Banking competition, corporate, litigation, IP, real estate
Website: www.leenlee.com.sg
Contact: leenlee@leenlee.com.sg
Best Intellectual Property Firm
ATMD Bird & Bird
Key individuals: Alban Kang, oyce Ang, Boey Swee Siang, Cyril Chua
Founded: 1846
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, IP, dispute resolution, employment, real estate, finance
Website: www.twobirds.com
Contact: atmdmail@twobirds.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Duane Morris & Selvam
Key individuals: Arfat Selvam, Eduardo Ramos-Gómez, Krishna Ramachandra
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Corporate, capital markets, dispute resolution, competition, antitrust, employment, regulatory, real estate
Website: www.duanemorrisselvam.com
Contact: CChia@duanemorrisselvam.com
Best Energy Firm
Rajah & Tann
Key individuals: Lee Eng Beng
Founded: 1954
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, employment, energy, dispute resolution, litigation, IP
Website: www.rajahtann.com
Contact: info@rajahtann.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Drew & Napier
Key individuals: Davinder Singh, Ong Sim Ho
Founded: 1889
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, finance, dispute resolution, infrastructure, IP, infrastructure, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.drewnapier.com
Contact: mail@drewnapier.com
Best Lawyer
Bird & Bird
Key individuals: Alban Kang, oyce Ang, Boey Swee Siang, Cyril Chua
Founded: 1846
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, IP, dispute resolution, employment, real estate, finance
Website: www.twobirds.com
Contact: atmdmail@twobirds.com
Best Lawyer
Mark Hudspeth, Allen & Gledhill
Practice areas: Banking, finance
Website: www.allenandgledhill.com
Contact: mark.hudspeth@allenandgledhill.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Key individuals: Elaine Chao, Myles Hankin, Priya Mehra
Founded: 2008
Practice areas: Energy, finance, white collar crime, corporate, restructuring, insolvency
Website: www.gibsondunn.com
Contact: +65 6507 3600
Best Private Equity Firm
Wong Partnership
Key individuals: Meng Meng Wong, Susan Wong
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, litigation, private equity, energy, dispute resolution
Website: www.wongpartnership.com
Contact: +65 6416 8000
Best Litigation Firm
Tan Kok Quan Partnership
Key individuals: Kannan Ramesh
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Arbitration, litigation, construction, corporate, real estate, commercial
Website: www.tkqp.com.sg
Contact: mail@tkqp.com.sg
South Africa
Best Banking & Finance Firm
ENS
Key individuals: Michael Katz, Piet Faber
Founded:
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, construction, employment, commercial, trade, real estate, energy
Website: www.ens.co.za
Contact: info@ens.co.za
Best M&A Firm
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Key individuals: Chris Ewing, Nick Altini
Founded: 1853
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, employment, finance, infrastructure, real estate, M&A, dispute resolution
Website: www.cliffedekker.com
Contact: jhb@cliffedekker.com
Best Tax Firm
Werksmans Attorneys
Key individuals: Des Williams, Jeremy Botha
Founded: 1900
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, tax, litigation, energy, dispute resolution, employment, IP, real estate
Website: www.werksmans.com
Contact: enquiries@werksmans.com
Best Tax Consultant
Henry Vorster, Faber Goërtz Ellis Austin
Practice areas: Tax, banking, finance
Website: www.fgea.co.za
Contact: henry@fgea.co.za
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Bowman Gilfillan
Key individuals: Jonathan Schlosberg
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, employment, dispute resolution, finance, litigation, employment, property, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.bowman.co.za
Contact: info@bowman.co.za
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Knowles Husain Lindsay
Key individuals: Errol Knowles, Mohamed Junaid Husain, Ian Lindsay
Practice areas: property, dispute resolution, corporate, commercial
Website: www.khl.co.za
Contact: +27 11 669 6000
Best Property Firm
Fluxmans
Key individuals: Phillip Vallet, Jones Antunes, Michael Bloom, Gavin Brett
Practice areas: Commercial, antitrust, IP, antitrust, labour, property
Website: www.fluxmans.com
Contact: +27 11 328 1700
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Adams & Adams
Key individuals: Dario Tanziani
Founded: 1908
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, IP, construction, employment, litigation, tax, corporate
Website: www.adamsadams.co.za
Contact: mail@adamsadams.co.za
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Werksmans Attorneys
Key individuals: Des Williams, Jeremy Botha
Founded: 1900
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, commercial, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, energy, IP, real estate
Website: www.werksmans.com
Contact: enquiries@werksmans.com
Best Energy Firm
Taback & Associates
Key individuals: Brett Tate, Catharine Keene, David Woodhouse
Practice areas: Competition, corporate, commercial, employment, litigation, energy, tax
Website: www.tabacks.com
Contact: +27 11 358 7700
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Bowman Gilfillan
Key individuals: Jonathan Schlosberg
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, employment, dispute resolution, finance, litigation, employment, property, insolvency, restructuring
Website: www.bowman.co.za
Contact: info@bowman.co.za
Best Lawyer
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Key individuals: Blaize Vance
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Real estate, employment, energy, corporate, finance, IP, litigation, dispute resolution,
Website: www.fasken.com
Contact: johannesburg@fasken.com
Best Lawyer
Michael Katz, ENS
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, regulatory, M&A, private equity, public procurement, tax
Website: www.ens.co.za
Contact: mkatz@ens.co.za
Best Capital Markets Firm
Webber Wentzel
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Bowman Gilfillan
Key individuals: David Lancaster
Founded: 1868
Practice areas: Finance, competition, dispute resolution, regulatory, energy, white collar crime, real estate
Website: www.webberwentzel.com
Contact: webmaster@webberwentzel.com
Best Private Equity Firm
Glyn Marais
Key individuals: Richard Glyn, Francois Marais
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, tax, private equity, employment, regulatory, dispute resolution
Website: www.glynmarais.co.za
Contact: inlaw@glynmarais.co.za
Best Litigation Firm
Bell Dewar
Key individuals: Blaize Vance, Andrew Mitchell
Founded: 1889
Practice areas: Finance, litigation, infrastructure, dispute resolution, commercial
Website: www.faskenmartineau.belldewar.co.za
Contact: johannesburg@fasken.com
Spain
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Key individuals: Emilio Cuatrecasas, Rafael Fontana
Founded: 1928
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, finance, litigation, employment, infrastructure
Website: www.cuatrecasas.com
Contact: barcelona@cuatrecasas.com
Best M&A Firm
Uría Menéndez
Key individuals: José María Segovia, Luis de Carlos
Founded: 1946
Practice areas: M&A, finance, corporate, commercial, IP, competition, employment, real estate
Website: www.uria.com
Contact: madrid@uria.com
Best Tax Firm
Deloitte Abogados y Asesores Tributarios
Practice areas: corporate, finance, tax, regulatory, infrastructure
Website: www.deloitte.com
Contact: deloitte@deloitte.es
Best Tax Consultant
Maria Azpeitia, Baker & McKenzie
Practice areas: Tax, corporate compliance
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com
Contact: +34 91 230 45 30
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Araoz & Rueda
Key individuals: Alejandro Fernández de Araoz, Pedro A Rueda
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, employment, litigation, energy, IP, real estate
Website: www.araozyrueda.com
Contact: marketing@araozyrueda.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
Key individuals: Gonzalo Ulloa, Manuel Martín
Founded: 1971
Practice areas: Regulatory, corporate, commercial, litigation, dispute resolution, IP, employment, real estate
Website: www.gomezacebo-pombo.com
Contact: abogados@gomezacebo-pombo.com
Best Property Firm
Uría Menéndez
Key individuals: José María Segovia
Founded: 1940
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, property, tax, IP, energy, employment, litigation
Website: www.uria.com
Contact: madrid@uria.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Elzaburu
Key individuals: Antonio Tavira
Founded: 1865
Practice areas: IP, trademarks, patents, litigation
Website: www.elzaburu.es
Contact: elzaburu@elzaburu.es
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Martínez Lage, Allendesalazar & Brokelmann Abogados
Key individuals: Santiago Martínez Lage, Rafael Allendesalazar, Helmut Brokelmann
Founded: 1985
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust
Website: www.mlab-abogados.com
Contact: info@mlab-abogados.com
Best Energy Firm
CMS
Key individuals: José Luis López Sánchez, Cesar Albiñana, Rafael Suárez de Lezo
Founded: 1927
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, M&A, litigation, labour, competition, energy, real estate
Website: www.cms-asl.com
Contact: madrid@cms-asl.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
Key individuals: Gonzalo Ulloa, Manuel Martín
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Regulatory, finance, corporate, employment, insolvency, restructuring, IP, real estate, tax
Website: www.gomezacebo-pombo.com
Contact: abogados@gomezacebo-pombo.com
Best Lawyer
Roca Junyent
Key individuals: Miquel Roca Junyent
Founded: 1996
Practice areas: M&A, competition, employment, commercial, finance, property, IP, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.rocajunyent.com
Contact: bcn@rocajunyent.com
Best Lawyer
Fermín Guardiola, Baker & McKenzie
Practice areas: Employment
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com
Contact: +34 91 391 59 60
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Jones Day
Key individuals: Mercedes Fernández
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Foreign investment, real estate, finance, IP, infrastructure, labour, infrastructure
Website: www.jonesday.com
Contact: +34 91 520 3939
Best Capital Markets Firm
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Key individuals: Fernando Soto, Vicente Sierra, David Franco
Founded: 2000
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, capital markets, IP, finance, litigation, real estate, regulatory
Website: www.freshfields.com
Contact: +34 93 363 7400
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Buse Heberer Fromm
Key individuals: Rafael Barber-Llorente
Founded: 1998
Practice areas: Finance, IP, labour, white collar crime, arbitration, real estate, corporate
Website: www.buse.de
Contact: palma@buse.es
Best Litigation Firm
Javier Valls Abogados
Key individuals: Javier Valls
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, real estate
Website: www.valls-abogados.es
Contact: info@valls-abogados.es
Sweden
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Advokatfirman Hammarskiöld & Co
Key individuals: Claes Langenius
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Finance, litigation, competition, energy, employment
Website: www.hammarskiold.se
Contact: firstname.lastname@hammarskiold.se
Best M&A Firm
Baker & McKenzie
Key individuals: Sten Bauer, Anders fast
Founded: 1949
Practice areas: M&A, finance, commercial, corporate, labour, litigation, real estate, tax
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com/Sweden/
Contact: +46 8 566 177 16
Best Tax Firm
Baker & McKenzie
Key individuals: Sten Bauer, Anders fast
Founded: 1949
Practice areas: M&A, finance, commercial, corporate, labour, litigation, real estate, tax
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com/Sweden/
Contact: +46 8 566 177 16
Best Tax Consultant
Mahmut Baran, Bird & Bird
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.twobirds.com
Contact: +46 8 506 320 00
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Advokatfirman Vinge
Key individuals: Maria-Pia Hope, Charlotte Forssander, Rikard Azelius
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, employment, litigation, IP, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.vinge.se
Contact: maria.piahope@vinge.se
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
G Grönberg Advokatbyrå
Key individuals: Einar Wanhainen, Sascha Schaeferdiek, Fredrik Forssman
Founded: 1929
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, commercial, employment, dispute resolution, litigation, IP
Website: www.gronberg.se
Contact: info@gronberg.se
Best Property Firm
Advokatfirman Lindahl
Key individuals: Magnus Ramberg, Mikael Smedeby
Founded: 1918
Practice areas: Finance, capital markets, corporate, dispute resolution, IP, property
Website: www.lindahl.se
Contact: reception.stockholm@lindahl.se
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Sandart & Partners
Key individuals: Dag Sandart, Peter Sande
Founded: 1953
Practice areas: IP, dispute resolution, corporate
Website: www.sandart.se
Contact: info@sandart.se
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Mannheimer Swartling
Key individuals: Jan Dernestam, Biörn Riese
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, litigation, finance, corporate, IP
Website: www.mannheimerswartling.se
Contact: +46 8 595 060 00
Best Energy Firm
Ashurst
Key individuals: Pontus Bergsten, Martin Börresen, Jon Ericson
Founded: 2006
Practice areas: Commercial, corporate, energy, finance, IP, real estate, dispute resolution
Website: www.ashurst.com
Contact: +46 8 407 24 00
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Advokatfirman Cederquist
Key individuals: Carl Bokwall
Founded: 1953
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, employment, commercial, real estate, insolvency, restructuring, IP
Website: www.cederquist.se
Contact: advokat@cederquist.se
Best Lawyer
Hamilton Advokatbyrå
Key individuals: Christopher Hamilton, Thomas Nygren
Founded: 1964
Practice areas: Litigation, IP, arbitration, commercial, corporate, employment
Website: www.hamilton.se
Contact: mail@hamilton.se
Best Lawyer
Svante Hultqvist, Advokatfirman Cederquist
Practice areas: Finance, corporate recovery, M&A
Website: www.cederquist.se
Contact: +46 8 522 065 19
Best Foreign Investment Practice
KLA Karlerö Liljeblad Advokatbyrå
Key individuals: Ann-Marie Thörn, Conny Tranberg, Ann Liverud Kalbhenn
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Finance, construction, litigation, IP, labour, construction, foreign investment, corporate
Website: www.klalegal.se
Contact: info@klalegal.se
Best Capital Markets Firm
Delphi
Key individuals: Stefan Erhag,
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, capital markets, employment, IP, litigation, private equity
Website: www.delphi.se
Contact: stockholm@delphi.se
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Advokatfirman af Petersens
Key individuals: Jonas Deutgen, Mats Broström, Erik af Petersens
Founded: 1986
Practice areas: Litigation, dispute resolution, white collar crime, real estate, corporate, construction, employment, IP
Website: www.afpetersens.se
Contact: info@afpetersens.se
Best Private Equity Firm
Delphi
Key individuals: Stefan Erhag,
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, capital markets, employment, IP, litigation, private equity
Website: www.delphi.se
Contact: stockholm@delphi.se
Best Litigation Firm
Lebenberg Advokatbyrå
Key individuals: Torgny Lebenberg, Helena Hytting, Gabriella Söderblom
Founded: 1982
Practice areas: Litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.lebenberg.se
Contact: info@lebenberg.se
Switzerland
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Vischer
Key individuals: Thomas Weibel, Benedict Christ, Markus Guggenbühl
Practice areas: Antitrust, finance, litigation, corporate, white collar crime
Website: www.vischer.com
Contact: info@vischer.com
Best M&A Firm
Staiger, Schwald & Partner
Key individuals: Hans-Peter Schwald
Founded: 1964
Practice areas: M&A, corporate, energy, commercial, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.ssplaw.ch
Contact: ssplaw@ssplaw.ch
Best Tax Firm
Oberson Avocats
Key individuals: Xavier Oberson, Nicolas Buchel, Nicolas Merlino
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.oberson.ch
Contact: info@oberson.ch
Best Tax Consultant
Thomas Graf, Niederer Kraft & Frey
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.nkf.ch
Contact: thomas.graf@nkf.ch
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Lenz & Staehelin
Key individuals: Guy Vermeil, Alex Wittmann
Founded: 1917
Practice areas: Finance, competition, commercial, employment, IP, regulatory, litigation, real estate
Website: www.lenzstaehelin.com
Contact: geneva@lenzstaehelin.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Wartmann & Merker
Key individuals: Peter Hafner, Peter Reichart
Founded: 1992
Practice areas: Litigation, arbitration, dispute resolution, corporate, commercial
Website: www.wartmann-merker.ch
Contact: office@wartmann-merker.ch
Best Property Firm
Baur Hürlimann
Key individuals: Roland Hürlimann, Daniel Hunkeler, Michael Merker
Founded: 1956
Practice areas: Construction, property, litigation, arbitration, competition,
Website: www.bhlaw.ch/
Contact: mail@bhlaw.ch
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Meyerlustenberger Lachenal
Key individuals: Bernard Lachenal, Urs Behnisch, Serge Calame
Founded: 1975
Practice areas: IP, arbitration, litigation, finance, corporate, labour, real estate
Website: www.mll-legal.com
Contact: zurich@mll-legal.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Walder Wyss
Key individuals: Markus Pfenninger, Didier Sangiorgio, Markus Vischer
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: Finance, IP, corporate, commercial, competition, antitrust, litigation, competition
Website: www.walderwyss.com
Contact: reception@walderwyss.com
Best Energy Firm
Lenz & Staehelin
Key individuals: Guy Vermeil, Alex Wittmann
Founded: 1917
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, employment, energy, litigation, regulatory, real estate, arbitration
Website: www.lenzstaehelin.com
Contact: geneva@lenzstaehelin.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Kellerhals
Key individuals: Bernhard Berger, Dominik Oberholzer, Werner Schubiger
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, litigation, finance, corporate, commercial, IP
Website: www.kellerhals.ch
Contact: info@kellerhals.ch
Best Lawyer
BCCC Attorneys-at-law
Key individuals: Manuel Bianchi della Porta
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, employment, finance, real estate, litigation, competition
Website: www.bccc.ch
Contact: mail@bccc.ch
Best Lawyer
Alfred Blesi, Blesi & Papa
Practice areas: Employment
Website: www.blesi-papa.ch
Contact: Alfred.blesi@blesi-papa.ch
Best PPP Firm
Mark Oliver Baumgarten, Staiger, Schwald & Partners
Key individuals: Mark-Oliver Baumgarten, Hans-Peter Schwald, Hans-Rudolf Staiger
Founded: 1964
Practice areas: Arbitration, litigation, PPP, IP, labour, finance, corporate, real estate
Website: www.ssplaw.ch
Contact: ssplaw@ssplaw.ch
Best Foreign Investment Practice
Ducrest Heggli Avocats
Key individuals: Jean-François Ducrest, Carl Heggli, Marina de Planta
Practice areas: Tax, corporate, commercial, litigation, real estate, foreign investment
Website: www.ducrestheggli.com
Contact: +41 22 761 80 80
Best Capital Markets Firm
Froriep Renggli
Key individuals: Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler,
Founded: 1966
Practice areas: Capital markets, finance, corporate, IP, employment, competition
Website: www.froriep.com
Contact: zurich@froriep.ch
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Cramer-Salamian, Avocats
Key individuals: Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler
Founded: 1966
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, white collar crime, IP, competition, employment
Website: www.froriep.com
Contact: zurich@froriep.ch
Best Litigation Firm
Bär & Karrer
Key individuals: Daniel Hochstrasser, Markus Wang, Paolo Bottini, Corrado Rampini, Thomas Reutter
Founded: 1969
Practice areas: Litigation, real estate, arbitration, IP, competition, energy
Website: www.baerkarrer.ch
Contact: zurich@baerkarrer.ch
Venezuela
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Palacios, Ortega y Asociados
Key individuals: Luis Esteban Palacios, José Manuel Ortega
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Finance, employment, corporate, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.palaciosortega.com
Contact: general@palaciosortega.com
Best M&A Firm
Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque
Key individuals: Jorge Acedo Prato, Francisco Castillo-García, Carlos Dominguez
Founded: 1942
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, M&A, litigation, dispute resolution, IP, employment
Website: www.hpcd.com
Contact: Infolaw@hpcd.com
Best Tax Firm
Ernst & Young
Key individuals: Jose Antonio Velázquez, Carlos Casanovas,
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: +58 212 905 6621
Best Tax Consultant
Jose Antonio Velazquez, Ernst & Young
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.ey.com
Contact: jose.a.velazquez@ve.ey.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Despacho de Abogados Miembros de Norton Rose
Key individuals: Carlos Fernández-Smith, Elisabeth Eljuri
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, employment, dispute resolution, regulatory, tax, commercial
Website: www.nortonrosefulbright.com
Contact: +58 212 276 0000
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz
Key individuals: Eduardo Travieso, Olga Nass de Massiani, Benner C Turner, Eduardo Travieso
Founded: 1920
Practice areas: Corporate, energy, employment, finance, regulatory, antitrust, IP, dispute resolution
Website: www.traviesoevans.com
Contact: legal@traviesoevans.com
Best Property Firm
Raffalli de Lemos Halvorssen Ortega y Ortiz
Key individuals: Juan Manuel Raffalli, Rafael de Lemos, Andrés Halvorssen, José Manuel Ortega y Luis Ortiz-Alvarez
Founded: 1990
Practice areas: Finance, antitrust, labour, dispute resolution, litigation, property
Website: www.rdhoo.com
Contact: info@rdhoo.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Bolet & Terrero
Key individuals: Manuel Polanco, José Ramón Fermín
Founded: 1915
Practice areas: IP, trademarks, patents, litigation
Website: www.bolyter.com
Contact: bolyter@bolyter.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Grau García Hernández & Mónaco
Key individuals: Gustavo Grau, Ibrahim García, Luís Alfredo Hernández, José Ignacio Hernández, Miguel Mónaco, Betty Andrade
Founded: 1994
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, labout, IP, antitrust, competition, corporate
Website: www.ghm.com.ve
Contact: +58 212 978 5060
Best Energy Firm
Despacho de Abogados Miembro de Hogan Lovells
Key individuals: Luis Bottaro, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Matos
Practice areas: Infrastructure, energy, real estate, employment, corporate, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.hoganlovells.co.uk
Contact: +58 212 266 9772
Best Lawyer
D’Empaire Reyna Abogados
Key individuals: Fulvio Italiani, Gustavo Reyna
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: Competition, IP, litigation, employment, finance, arbitration, employment
Website: www.dra.com.ve
Contact: drba@dra.com.ve
Best Lawyer
Carlos Felce, Baker & McKenzie
Practice areas: Employment, pharmaceuticals, healthcare
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com
Contact: + 58 212 276 5133
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Ardila, Bauder, Mata & Peñaloza
Key individuals: Humberto Bauder, Juan Vicente Ardila Peñuela
Practice areas: Arbitration, employment, white collar crime, corporate, litigation
Contact: +58-212-2860133
Best Litigation Firm
De Sola Pate & Brown
Key individuals: Arturo De Sola, John Pate, Irene De Sola, Richard Brown
Founded: 1944
Practice areas: IP, corporate, litigation, arbitration, employment, antitrust
Website: www.desolapate.com
Contact: dplaw@desolapate.com
UAE
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Hadef & Partners
Key individuals: Faraj Ahnish, Sadiq Jafar
Founded: 1980
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, employment, dispute resolution, regulatory, real estate
Website: www.hadefpartners.com
Contact: info@hadefpartners.com
Best M&A Firm
Al Tamimi & Company
Key individuals: Stephen Forster
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Arbitration, finance, commercial, M&A, employment, corporate, IP, regulatory, property, litigation
Website: www.tamimi.com
Contact: infoabudhabi@tamimi.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Habib Al Mulla & Company
Key individuals: Habib Al Mulla, Borys Dackiw
Founded: 1984
Practice areas: Finance, commercial, dispute resolution, employment, real estate, coporate
Website: www.bakermckenzie.com/UnitedArabEmirates/
Contact: +971 4 423 0000
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Galadari & Associates
Key individuals: Abdulla Galadari
Founded: 1983
Practice areas: Corporate, finance, dispute resolution, litigation, IP, real estate
Website: www.galadarilaw.com
Contact: info@galadarilaw.com
Best Property Firm
Bin Shabib & Associates (BSA)
Key individuals: Rashid Bin Shabib, Jimmy Haoula
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, real estate, litigation, employment, finance
Website: www.bsa.ae
Contact: info@bsa.ae
Best Intellectual Property Firm
The Rights Lawyers
Key individuals: Mark Hill, Phil Reynolds
Practice areas: TMT, corporate, IP, employment, dispute resolution, litigationMT
Website: www.therightslawyers.com
Contact: +971 4 3903646
Best Energy Firm
Clyde & Co
Key individuals: Ross Barfoot, Richard Bell
Founded: 1989
Practice areas: Corporate, dispute resolution, real estate, IP, employment, commercial, energy
Website: www.clydeco.com
Contact: mero@clydeco.ae
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Hogan Lovells (Middle East)
Key individuals:
Founded: 2007
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, dispute resolution,
Website: www.hoganlovells.co.uk/dubai/
Contact: +971 4 377 9377
Best Lawyer
Hilal & Associates
Key individuals: Jamal Hassan Abdo AI Najjar, Essa Abdul Latif, Sultan Rashid Ahmed Hilal, Abdullah Rashid Hilal
Founded: 1978
Practice areas: Employment, finance, commercial, construction, IP, labour, litigation
Website: www.hilalassociates.com
Contact: arhilal@emirates.net.ae
Best Lawyer
Salman Lutfi, Lutfi & Co
Practice areas: Litigation, civil, labour, immigration, criminal, dispute resolution
Website: www.lutficbp.com
Contact: salman@lutfilaw.ae
UK
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Hogan Lovells
Key individuals: David Harris, Warren Gorrell
Founded: 1904
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, real estate, regulatory, IP, infrastructure
Website: www.hoganlovells.com
Contact: +44 20 7296 2000
Best Tax Firm
Lovell Consulting
Key individuals: John Lovell, Ian Howe, Mark Hoskyns, Sophie Raniwala
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Tax, property, commercial, litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.lovellconsulting.com
Contact: jlovell@lovellconsulting.com
Best Tax Consultant
John Lovell, Lovell Consulting
Practice areas: Tax
Website: www.lovellconsulting.com
Contact: +44 20 7329 1300
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Allen & Overy
Key individuals: David Morley, Wim Dejonghe
Founded: 1930
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, real estate, IP, employment
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: information@allenovery.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Brick Court Chambers
Key individuals: Jonathan Hirst, Nicholas Green
Founded: 1921
Practice areas: Commercial, litigation, finance, corporate, employment, dispute resolution, litigation, arbitration
Website: www.brickcourt.co.uk
Contact: clerks@brickcourt.co.uk
Best Property Firm
Allen & Overy
Key individuals: David Morley, Wim Dejonghe
Founded: 1930
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, real estate, IP, employment
Website: www.allenovery.com
Contact: information@allenovery.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Kilburn & Strode
Key individuals: Nigel Jennings
Founded: 1906
Practice areas: IP
Website: www.kilburnstrode.com
Contact: mail@kilburnstrode.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Arnold & Porter (UK)
Key individuals: Alison Brown, Lincoln Tsang, Christopher Slothers
Founded: 1997
Practice areas: Competition, antitrust, white collar crime, litigation, competition, IP, corporate, real estate, employment
Website: www.arnoldporter.com
Contact: +44 20 7786 6100
Best Energy Firm
White & Case
Key individuals: Laura prater, Stephen Phillips, Caroline Miller Smith
Founded: 1901
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, infrastructure, energy
Website: www.whitecase.com
Contact: +44 20 7532 1000
Best Lawyer
Linklaters
Key individuals: Robert Elliott, Simon Davies
Founded: 1838
Practice areas: IP, employment, real estate, corporate, competition, antitrust, finance
Website: www.linklaters.com
Contact: +44 20 7456 2000
Best Lawyer
Charles Martin, Macfarlanes
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, private equity
Website: www.macfarlanes.com
Contact: +44 20 7849 2335
Best PPP Firm
Clifford Chance
Key individuals: David Childs, Malcolm Sweeting
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: PPP, corporate, litigation, dispute resolution, real estate
Website: www.cliffordchance.com
Contact: info@cliffordchance.com
Best Capital Markets Firm
Eversheds
Key individuals: David Beswick, Gemma Curtis, David Roberts
Founded: 1988
Practice areas: Capital markets, consumer, energy, finance
Website: www.eversheds.com
Contact: +44 20 7919 4500
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Sheppard Mullin (UK)
Key individuals: James mercer, Linda Giunta Michaelson, Russell Reid
Founded: 1927
Practice areas: Antitrust, trade, corporate, real estate, IP, employment, white collar crime
Website: www.sheppardmullin.com
Contact: +44 20 3178 7830
Best Private Equity Firm
Macfarlanes
Key individuals: Charles Martin, Julian Howard
Founded: 1875
Practice areas: Finance, private equity, corporate, regulatory, litigation, dispute resolution, real estate
Website: www.macfarlanes.com
Contact: jfh@macfarlanes.com
Uruguay
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Litwak & Partners
Key individuals: Martín Litwak
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Investment, finance, private equity
Website: www.litwak-partners.com
Contact: administracion@litwak-partners.com
Best M&A Firm
Guyer & Regules
Key individuals: Nicolás Herrera
Founded: 1911
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, litigation, real estate, M&A, labour, energy
Website: www.guyer.com.uy
Contact: post@guyer.com.uy
Best Tax Firm
Estudio Bergstein
Key individuals: Jonás Bergstein
Founded: 1957
Practice areas: Real estate, dispute resolution, tax, infrastructure
Website: www.bergsteinlaw.com
Contact: eb@bergsteinlaw.com
Best Tax Consultant
Jonás Bergstein, Estudio Bergstein
Practice areas: Foreign ivestment, tax
Website: www.bergsteinlaw.com
Contact: eb@bergsteinlaw.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Ferrere
Key individuals: Andrés M Cerisola
Founded: 2002
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, IP, employment, energy, litigation
Website: www.ferrere.com
Contact: ferrere@ferrere.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Hughes & Hughes
Key individuals: Marcela Hughes, Hector Ferreira
Founded: 1900
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, energy, real estate, employment, IP
Website: www.hughes.com.uy
Contact: amp;h&h@hughes.com.uy
Best Property Firm
Jiménez de Aréchaga, Viana + Brause
Key individuals: Hector Viana, Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga, Nicolás Herrera Alonso
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, litigation, property
Website: www.jimenez.com.uy
Contact: estudio@jimenez.com.uy
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Fox & Lapenne
Key individuals: Norma Fox, Victoria Fox, Marcos Lapenne, Juan Lapenne
Founded: 1944
Practice areas: Trade, litigation, IP
Website: www.fox.com.uy
Contact: fox@fox.com.uy
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Fischer Abogados
Key individuals: Gustavo Fischer, Mercedes Castells
Founded: 1972
Practice areas: IP, regulatory, labour, litigation, dispute resolution
Website: www.fischer.com.uy
Contact: fischer@fischer.com.uy
Best Energy Firm
Galante & Martins
Key individuals: Diego Galante, Daniel Hugo Martins
Founded: 1951
Practice areas: Energy, IP, labour, real estate
Website: www.galantemartins.com
Contact: info@galantemartins.com
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Olivera Abogados
Key individuals: Ricardo Olivera García, Juan Martín Olivera Amato
Founded: 1993
Practice areas: Insolvency, restructuring, energy, litigation, arbitration, antitrust, labour
Website: www.olivera.com.uy
Contact: +598 2916 5859
Best Lawyer
Bado Kuster Zerbino & Rachetti
Key individuals: Horacio Fernandez, Fernando Rachetti
Founded: 1941
Practice areas: Corporate, employment, litigation, IP, energy
Website: www.bkzr.com
Contact: estudio@bkzr.com
Best Lawyer
Martin A Litwak, Litwak & Partners
Practice areas: Finance, banking, capital markets, corporate, project finance, restructuring
Website: www.litwak-partners.com
Contact:
Best White Collar Crime Firm
ALS Abogados
Key individuals: Miguel Loinaz Ramos, Gonzalo Aguirre Ramirez, Alma Steiner Donnangelo
Practice areas: Labour, white collar crime, commercial, corporate, finance, trade
Website: www.alsuruguay.com
Contact: +598 2 900 97 30
Best Private Equity Firm
Litwak & Partners
Key individuals: Martín Litwak
Founded: 2011
Practice areas: Investment, finance, private equity
Website: www.litwak-partners.com
Contact: administracion@litwak-partners.com
Best Litigation Firm
Ferrere
Key individuals: Andrés M Cerisola
Founded: 2002
Practice areas: Corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, IP, employment, energy, litigation
Website: www.ferrere.com
Contact: ferrere@ferrere.com
US
Best Banking & Finance Firm
Proskauer Rose
Key individuals: Joseph Leccese
Founded: 1875
Practice areas: Finance, litigation, dispute resolution, IP
Website: www.proskauer.com
Contact: info@proskauer.com
Best M&A Firm
Duff and Phelps
Key individuals: Michael Dolan, Jerry Arcy, James Aronoff, Sherif Assef
Founded: 1932
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, tax, M&A, transfer pricing
Website: www.duffandphelps.com
Contact: +1 866 282 8258
Best Tax Firm
Greenberg Traurig
Founded: 1967
Practice areas: Finance, real estate, infrastructure, arbitration, trade, tax
Website: www.gtlaw.com
Contact: info@gtlaw.com
Best Tax Consultant
James Duncan, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Practice areas: Tax, acquisitions, restructuring, finance
Website: www.cgsh.com
Contact: jduncan@cgsh.com
Best Corporate & Commercial Firm
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Key individuals: Christopher White,
Founded: 1792
Practice areas: Antitrust, corporate, energy, finance, commercial, IP, litigation
Website: www.cadwalader.com
Contact: cwtinfo@cwt.com
Best Dispute Resolution Firm
Gregory P Joseph Law Offices
Key individuals: Gregory Joseph, Pamela Jarvis, Peter Jerdee, Mara Leventhal
Founded: 2001
Practice areas: Commercial, litigation, dispute resolution, arbitration
Website: www.josephnyc.com
Contact: +1 212 407 1200
Best Property Firm
Haynes and Boone
Key individuals: Terry Conner
Founded: 1970
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, property, energy, finance, IP
Website: www.haynesboone.com
Contact: terry.conner@haynesboone.com
Best Intellectual Property Firm
Morrison Foerster
Key individuals: Larren Nashelsky, Craig Martin, Eric Piesner, Anna Erickson White
Founded: 1883
Practice areas: Antitrust, competition, corporate, finance, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.mofo.com
Contact: info@mofo.com
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Firm
Alston & Bird
Key individuals: Richard Hays
Founded: 1893
Practice areas: Finance, IP, litigation, real estate, energy, competition, antitrust
Website: www.alston.com
Contact: info@alston.com
Best Energy Firm
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Key individuals: Eric Friedman, Peter Allan Atkins, David Hepp
Founded: 1948
Practice areas: Corporate, litigation, finance, energy, regulatory, real estate
Website: www.skadden.com
Contact: +1 212 735 3000
Best Insolvency & Restructuring Firm
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Key individuals: Mel Immergut
Founded: 1866
Practice areas: Finance, corporate, insolvency, restructuring, IP, litigation, arbitration, energy
Website: www.milbank.com
Contact: +1 212 530 5000
Best Transfer Pricing Firm
Duff and Phelps
Key individuals: Michael Dolan, Jerry Arcy, James Aronoff, Sherif Assef
Founded: 1932
Practice areas: Finance, dispute resolution, tax, M&A, transfer pricing
Website: www.duffandphelps.com
Contact: +1 866 282 8258
Best Lawyer
Stevenson Keppelman Associates
Key individuals: Robert Stevenson, Nancy Keppelman, Andrew Stumpff
Founded: 1987
Practice areas: Employment, litigation
Website: www.skalaw.com
Contact: ska@skalaw.com
Best Lawyer
Kirk Radke, Kirkland & Ellis
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, private, finance, private equity
Website: www.kirkland.com
Contact: kirk.radke@kirkland.com
Best PPP Firm
Katten Muchin Rosenman
Key individuals: Vincent Sergi
Founded: 1974
Practice areas: Antitrust, finance, litigation, dispute resolution, commercial, corporate, PPP
Website: www.kattenlaw.co.uk
Contact: +1 212 940 8800
Best Capital Markets Firm
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Key individuals: Brad Karp, Manuel Frey, Udi Grofman
Founded: 1875
Practice areas: Antitrust, corporate, finance, employment, capital markets, IP, litigation, real estate
Website: www.paulweiss.com
Contact: mailbox@paulweiss.com
Best White Collar Crime Firm
Baker Botts
Key individuals: Andrew Baker
Founded: 1840
Practice areas: IP, litigation, corporate, tax, white collar crime
Website: www.bakerbotts.com
Contact: maria.boyce@bakerbotts.com
Best Private Equity Firm
Ropes & Gray
Key individuals: Bradford Malt, David Chapin
Founded: 1865
Practice areas: Private equity, finance, M&A, investment, IP, litigation
Website: www.ropesgray.com
Contact: contactus@ropesgray.com
Best Litigation Firm
Corr Cronin Michelson Baumgardner & Preece
Key individuals: Kevin Baumgardner, Joshua Preece, William Cronin, Kelly Corr, Guy Michelson
Founded: 1999
Practice areas: Employment, litigation, commercial
Website: www.corrcronin.com
Contact: +206 625 8600
Artem Konstandyan on Russian banking | Promsvyazbank
Many Russian businesses were taken by surprise by the financial crisis and the country’s interconnection with the global economy. However, as Promsvyazbank’s Artem Konstandyan points out, Russia has weathered the crisis well and has huge potential for growth, with just 24 percent of the population estimated to have bank accounts, a rising per capita income, and increasing demand for financial products. He describes PSB’s plans to expand its retail services alongside its historic strengths.
