One practice was ranked for the first time, and two improved their rankings. United Kingdom Private equity is a new listing; and Kazakhstan Financial and corporate and United States Banking improved their places in the rankings.
Three lawyers across five practices were listed as Leading Lawyers for the first time with Reed Smith, and seven were ranked in several categories as Leading Lawyers.
Over the last couple of months, the IFLR released the following rankings separately: (1) banking and finance; (2) capital markets, investment funds and private equity firms; (3) restructuring and insolvency and project development; (4) financial and corporate and M&A; and (5) leading lawyers for all practice areas.
The final IFLR1000 30th edition rankings focus on the top financial and corporate and M&A firms and lawyers. Visit IFLR to see the Reed Smith main rankings page.
Here’s the full list of recognized practice categories.
China
- Capital markets - Foreign
- M&A – Foreign
Greece
- Banking and finance
- M&A
- Project development
Hong Kong
- Banking
- Capital markets: Equity
- M&A
- Restructuring and insolvency
Kazakhstan
- Financial and corporate
- Project development
Singapore
- Banking - Foreign
- Capital markets: Debt - Foreign
- Capital markets: Equity - Foreign
- M&A - Foreign
- Project development – Foreign
- Restructuring and insolvency – Foreign
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
- Bank lending: Borrower side
- Bank lending: Lender side
- Banking
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Equity
- Capital markets: Structured finance and securitization
- Financial services regulatory: Non-contentious
- M&A
- Private equity
- Private equity funds
- Real estate funds
- Restructuring: Corporate
- Retail funds
United States
- Banking
- Hedge funds
- Restructuring and insolvency
Lawyer Recognitions
Three lawyers – Baptiste Gelpi, Philip Taylor and Benjamin Brimeyer – were named Leading Lawyers for the first time at Reed Smith.
Six Leading Lawyers were ranked multiple times: Eric Lin, Baptiste Gelpi, Philip Taylor, Bronwen Jones, Tamara Box and Daniel Winterfeldt.
Here is the full list of recognized lawyers.
- Chris Borg – United Kingdom Financial services regulatory: Non-contentious
- Tamara Box – United Kingdom Capital markets: Debt and United Kingdom Capital markets: Structured finance and securitization
- Benjamin Brimeyer – United States Banking
- Delphine Currie – United Kingdom Capital markets: Equity
- Baptiste Gelpi – France Capital markets: Debt; France Capital markets: Derivatives; and France Capital markets: Structured finance and securitization
- Delpha Ho – Hong Kong Capital markets: Equity
- Simon Hugo – United Kingdom Capital markets: Structured finance and securitization
- Aaron Javian – United States Restructuring and insolvency
- Bronwen Jones – United Kingdom Banking; and United Kingdom Investment funds
- Denise Jong – Hong Kong Capital markets: Equity
- Panos Katsambas – United Kingdom Hedge funds (Rising Star)
- Sachin Kerur – United Arab Emirates Project development
- Eric Lin – China M&A – Foreign; and China Project finance
- Isabelle MacElhone – France M&A
- Bree Miechel – Singapore Project development: Foreign
- Winston Penhall – United Kingdom Hedge funds
- Philip Taylor – United Kingdom M&A; and United Kingdom Private equity funds
- Victoria Westcott – France Project finance
- Daniel Winterfeldt – United Kingdom Capital markets: Debt; and United Kingdom Capital markets: Equity (Highly regarded)
- Askar Zhansagimov – Kazakhstan M&A
In addition, 10 lawyers were listed as having worked on deals in the IFLR1000 database. They are: Elizabeth Tabas Carson, Kevin-Paul Devreau, Dirk-Peter Flor, Matthew Gorman, Andreas Jürgens, Caroline Ledoux, Jonathan Solomon, Leon Stephenson, Sakil Suleman, and Anthony Woo.
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