Top rankings for commodities, finance, insurance and shipping
The international law firm earned Band 1 departmental rankings in five practice areas:
- Banking & Finance: Fund Finance, London (Firms)
- Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide
- Commodities: Physicals, UK-wide
- UK-wide, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
- UK-wide, Shipping
Seven lawyers earned Band 1 individual rankings: Chris Borg, Margaret Campbell, Peter Hardy, Bronwen Jones, Mark Pring, Gregor Pryor and Charles Weller.
Five lawyers earned rankings in more than one category. They were James Atkin, Cynthia O'Donoghue, Gregor Pryor, Michael Skrein and Elizabeth Stroud.
Below is the full list of individuals ranked by Chambers UK.
- Alex Andrews, Shipping, UK-wide
- David Ashmore, Employment: Employer, London (Firms)
- James Atkin, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide and Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas, UK-wide (new entry)
- Nick Austin, Shipping, UK-wide
- Gautam Bhattacharyya, International Arbitration, UK-wide
- Chris Borg, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Tamara Box, Capital Markets: Securitisation, UK-wide
- Nick Breen, Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment & Social Media, UK-wide (new entry)
- Claude Brown, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide
- David Calligan, Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory, UK-wide
- Margaret Campbell, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Richard Ceeney, Construction: Non-contentious, London (Firms)
- Jeb Clulow, Shipping UK-wide
- Stephen Edwards, Media & Entertainment: Film & Television, UK-wide
- Simone Goligorsky, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide (new entry)
- Richard Gunn, Shipping, UK-wide
- Richard Hakes, Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, UK-wide
- Peter Hardy, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Brett Hillis, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide
- Simon Hugo, Capital Markets: Securitisation, UK-wide
- Christopher Jackson, Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, UK-wide
- Robin Jeffcott, Employment: Employer, London (Firms)
- Bronwen Jones, Banking & Finance: Fund Finance, London (Firms) (Band 1)
- Stephen Kirkpatrick, Shipping, UK-wide
- Catherine Lewis, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide
- Michael Maxtone-Smith, Media & Entertainment: Film & Television, UK-wide
- Andrew Meads, Commodities: Physicals, UK-wide
- Cynthia O'Donoghue, Data Protection & Information Law, UK-wide and Information Technology & Outsourcing, London (Firms)
- Belinda Paisley, International Arbitration UK-wide
- Vassia Payiataki, Commodities: Physicals, UK-wide
- Marcus Price, Commercial and Corporate Litigation, London (Firms)
- Mark Pring, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Gregor Pryor, Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment & Social Media, UK-wide and Media & Entertainment: Music: Non-contentious, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Laura Riddeck, Construction: Non-contentious, London (Firms) (new entry)
- Philip Rymer, Asset Finance: Shipping Finance, UK-wide
- Prajakt Samant, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide
- Alexander Sandiforth, Shipping, UK-wide
- Laura-May Scott, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide
- Justine Senior, Pensions, London (Firms)
- Michael Skrein, Defamation/Reputation Management, UK-wide and Intellectual Property, London (Firms)
- Jonathan Solomon, Commodities: Trade Finance, UK-wide
- Leon Stephenson, Banking & Finance: Fund Finance, London (Firms)
- Elizabeth Stroud, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide and Commodities: Trade Finance, UK-wide
- Will Sutton, Pensions, London (Firms)
- Richard Swinburn, Commodities: Physicals, UK-wide (Senior Statespeople)
- Andrew Taylor, Shipping, UK-wide
- Philip Taylor, Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million, London (Firms)
- Jimmy Theodorou, Real Estate: £150 million and above, London (Firms) (new entry)
- Elle Todd, Data Protection & Information Law, UK-wide
- Sally-Ann Underhill, Shipping, UK-wide
- Charles Weller, Shipping, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Rob Wilkins, Asset Finance: Shipping Finance, UK-wide
- Lucy Winnington-Ingram, International Arbitration, UK-wide
New entries in the listings include Simone Goligorsky, Laura Riddeck, James Atkin, Nick Breen and Jimmy Theodorou, who ranked for the first time in Chambers UK 2024 with Reed Smith.
Tamara Box earned an Eminent Practitioner appellation. Stephen Edwards, Richard Swinburn and Andrew Taylor were ranked Senior Statespeople.
Catherine Lewis, Marcus Price, Elizabeth Stroud and Lucy Winnington-Ingram were named Associates to Watch. Nick Breen, Simone Goligorsky, Laura Riddeck, Alexander Sandiforth and Laura-May Scott were dubbed Up and Coming.
As indicated above, the law firm gained Band 1 departmental rankings in five categories. Overall, the firm was listed in these wide-ranging 27 practice categories.
- Asset Finance: Aviation Finance, UK-wide
- Asset Finance: Shipping Finance, UK-wide
- Banking & Finance: Fund Finance, London (Firms) (Band 1)
- Banking & Finance: Lenders: Mid-Market, London (Firms)
- Banking Litigation, UK-wide
- Capital Markets: Securitisation, UK-wide
- Commercial and Corporate Litigation, London (Firms)
- Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Commodities: Physicals, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Commodities: Trade Finance, UK-wide
- Construction: Non-contentious, London (Firms)
- Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million, London (Firms)
- Data Protection & Information Law, UK-wide
- Employment: Employer, London (Firms)
- Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory, UK-wide
- Information Technology & Outsourcing, London (Firms)
- Insurance: Mainly Policyholders, UK-wide (Band 1)
- Intellectual Property, London (Firms)
- International Arbitration: Commercial Arbitration, UK-wide
- International Arbitration: Investor-State Arbitration, UK-wide
- Media & Entertainment: Film & Television, UK-wide
- Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment and Social Media, UK-wide
- Media & Entertainment: Music, UK-wide
- Pensions, London (Firms)
- Real Estate: £150 million and above, London (Firms)
- Real Estate Finance, UK-wide
- Shipping, UK-wide (Band 1)
The Chambers UK guide's legal market coverage and analysis covers 78 areas of UK law. Parent company Chambers and Partners has been a leading source of independent legal market intelligence for over 30 years.
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