London-based lawyers earn wide recognition; Richard Swinburn named a Lawyer of the Year
Reed Smith partner Richard Swinburn was ranked as a Lawyer of the Year, an exclusive honour that goes to just one lawyer per practice area in each region and is based on receiving the highest overall feedback from peers. Swinburn advises energy and natural resources companies, commodity trading companies and banks in connection with all aspects of their commodities-related business, including financing, trading and transportation of bulk commodities.
Seven lawyers were included in the UK listings for the first time this year, namely David Ashmore, Richard Ceeney, Jeb Clulow, Simon Hartley, Gregor Pryor, Justine Senior and Lucy Winnington-Ingram.
The following lawyers were recognised in the 2025 edition. Among them, M. Tamara Box, Claude Brown, Andrew Meads, Cynthia O’Donoghue, Richard Swinburn and Tom Whelan were recognised in more than one category:
Asset finance
- Richard Hakes
Commodities
- Chris Borg
- Claude Brown
- Andrew Meads
- Prajakt Samant
- Richard Swinburn
Construction
- Richard Ceeney
Corporate finance
- James Wilkinson
Defamation
- Michael Skrein
Derivatives
- M. Tamara Box
- Claude Brown
- Brett Hillis
Employment
- David Ashmore
- Robin Jeffcott
Insurance
- Peter Hardy
Intellectual property
- Jonathan Radcliffe
International arbitration
- Andrew Meads
- Richard Swinburn
International trade
- Elizabeth Farrell
Litigation
- Charles Hewetson
- Richard Spafford
- David Warne
Media and entertainment
- Stephen Edwards
- Michael Maxtone-Smith
- Richard Philipps
- Gregor Pryor
Mergers and acquisitions
- Philip Taylor
- Tom Whelan
Outsourcing
- Cynthia O’Donoghue
Pensions
- Simon Hartley
- Justine Senior
Privacy and data protection
- Cynthia O’Donoghue
- Elle Todd
Private equity
- Tom Whelan
Real estate
- Lawrence Radley
- Graham Reid
- Jimmy Theodorou
Securitisation
- M. Tamara Box
- Claude Brown
- Jason Richardson
Shipping
- Alex Andrews
- Nick Austin
- Jeb Clulow
- Richard Gunn
- Marjorie Holmes
- Stephen Kirkpatrick
- Alexander Sandiforth
- Andrew Taylor
- Sally-Ann Underhill
- Charles Weller
In addition, five Reed Smith lawyers were recognised as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom™. This designation highlights professional excellence in lawyers who are earlier in their careers:
Banking and finance
- Jennifer Ellis
Capital markets
- Iman Roy
International arbitration
- Lucy Winnington-Ingram
Investment funds and private equity
- Kyrstin Streeter
Projects
- Patrick Sutton
Selection to the Best Lawyers® list of outstanding lawyers is based on an annual peer-review survey.
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