As was the case in 2021, Reed Smith ranked in Tier 1 for two practice areas: Kazakhstan Dispute Resolution and United Arab Emirates Construction.
The eight new practice rankings for the firm are:
- Belgium Competition: EU and Global
- France Aviation Finance
- France Derivatives and Structured Finance
- France Project Finance
- France Mergers and Acquisitions
- Greece Energy
- Greece Projects and Privatisation
- United Arab Emirates Corporate Finance (Including Islamic Lending)
Reed Smith retained all of the rankings that it achieved in the previous year’s guide, and its ranking for “France Intellectual Property: Patents” rose.
Six individual lawyers ranked as Leading Lawyers and/or Hall of Fame lawyers:
- Dimitris Assimakis – Greece Energy (Hall of Fame) and Greece Projects and Privatisation (Leading Lawyer) (first time on list with Reed Smith)
- Jean-Pierre Collet – France Tax: Property Tax (Leading Lawyer)
- Sachin Kerur – United Arab Emirates Construction (Hall of Fame)
- Michelle Nelson – United Arab Emirates Construction (Hall of Fame)
- Marianne Schaffner – France Intellectual Property: Patents (Leading Lawyer)
- Andreas Splittgerber – Germany Information Technology (Leading Lawyer)
Minas Kitsilis is newly listed as a Rising Star for Greece Energy.
The Legal 500 defines “Hall of Fame” as lawyers who have a sustained leading presence in their respective practices over several years; and "Rising Stars" as lawyers below partner level who frequently appear in their rankings.
Here are the names of lawyers who are discussed in the editorial as key team members of a given practice area:
BELGIUM
- Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping: Philippe Heeren; Jin Woo Kim; Mike Lowell
- Industry focus, Transport: Christian Filippitsch; Yves Melin; Isabella Rahman
- Competition, EU and Global: Christian Flippitsch; Isabelle Rahman
FRANCE
- Dispute resolution, Commercial Litigation: Daniel Kadar
- Dispute resolution, International Arbitration: Ana Atallah; Clément Fouchard; Peter Rosher; Andrew Tetley
- EU, competition and distribution: Marc Lévy; Natasha Tardif
- Intellectual property, Patents: Sophie Goossens; Thierry Lautier; Peter Rosher
- Project finance: Victoria Westcott
- Real estate: Maxence Létisse; Carole Steimlé
- Tax: Florence Bilger; David Colin; Jean-Pierre Collet
GERMANY
- Compliance, Internal investigations: Rolf Hünermann; Philip Schmidt
- Information technology, Data protection: Thomas Fischl; Andreas Splittgerber
- Information technology, Information technology and digitalisation: Thomas Fischl; Andreas Splittgerber
- Media, Entertainment: Alexander Klett
- Private equity, Venture capital: Justus Binder
GREECE
- Shipping litigation: Sally-Ann Underhill; Dimitris Assimakis; Minas Kitsilis; Sylvia Betrosian
KAZAKHSTAN
- Commercial, corporate and M&A: David Boutcher; Askar Zhansagimov
- Dispute resolution: Belinda Paisley
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- Corporate Finance (including Islamic lending): Amir Ahmad; Umbreen Meenai
- Construction: Simon Harvey; Jane Miles; Michelle Nelson
- Infrastructure and projects (including project finance): Sachin Kerur
Here are the practice areas that repeated last year’s performance, by ranking again in 2022.
- Belgium Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping
- Belgium Transport
- France Commercial litigation
- France Energy
- France EU, competition and distribution
- France Healthcare and life sciences
- France International arbitration
- France Real estate
- France Shipping
- France Shipping finance
- France Tax
- Germany Compliance, Internal investigations
- Germany IT, Data protection
- Germany IT, Outsourcing and digitalisation
- Germany Media, entertainment
- Germany Private equity, Venture capital
- Greece Shipping litigation
- Kazakhstan Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Kazakhstan Dispute resolution (Tier 1)
- United Arab Emirates Construction (Tier 1)
- United Arab Emirates Infrastructure and projects (including project finance)
Published annually, the Legal 500 EMEA researches law firms and lawyers in countries across Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Africa. It surveys clients globally to obtain feedback on which law firms best serve the needs of in-house counsel and business leaders.
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