The firm repeated last year’s Tier 1 ranking in Commodities disputes; Insurance litigation (for policyholders); Media and entertainment; and Shipping. The firm earned a new top-tier ranking in Trade finance.
Six other Reed Smith practice areas rose in rank: Corporate tax; Emerging markets; Trade finance; Hedge funds; Listed funds; and Private funds. The firm was listed in one practice area – Equity capital markets – for the first time. No practices dropped out of the rankings.
Ten Reed Smith partners were named to The Legal 500 UK “Hall of Fame,” individuals who have “received constant praise by their clients” and who have been listed in The Legal 500 rankings for eight or more consecutive years. One Reed Smith lawyer – Richard Swinburn – made the Hall of Fame in two categories.
- Chris Borg, partner, energy & natural resources
- Claude Brown, partner, financial industry
- Kyri Evagora, partner, energy & natural resources
- Richard Swinburn, partner, energy & natural resources
- Belinda Paisley, partner, global commercial disputes
- Gregor Pryor, partner, entertainment & media
- Stephen Edwards, partner, entertainment & media
- Andrew Taylor, partner, transportation
- Lindsay East, consultant, transportation
- Richard Gunn, partner, transportation
Additionally, 32 lawyers were recognized as Leading Lawyers (eight for the first time), and seven Rising Stars from Reed Smith were named (two for the first time).
The Legal 500 recommended 43 individual Reed Smith lawyers, two of whom were named in more than one category.
Here is the full list of all recognized attorneys, with their area of practice and their recognition.
- Alex Andrews – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
- Ildar Bagautdinov – Trade finance (Next Generation Partner)
- Ranajoy Basu – Emerging markets (Leading Lawyer)
- Chris Borg – Derivatives: including commodities (Leading Lawyer)
- Tamara Box – Structured products and securitization (Leading Lawyer)
- Claude Brown – Derivatives: including commodities (Leading Lawyer)
- Sarah Caldwell – Structured products and securitization (Next Generation Partner)
- Margaret Campbell – Insurance litigation: for policyholders (Leading Lawyer)
- Lindsay East – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
- Stephen Edwards – Media & entertainment: broadcasting and digital carriage (Leading Lawyer)
- Elizabeth Farrell – Commodities disputes (Next Generation Partner)
- Simone Goligorsky – Derivatives: including commodities (Rising Star)
- Richard Gunn – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
- Peter Hardy – Insurance litigation: for policyholders (Leading Lawyer)
- Adam Hedley – Environment (Rising Star)
- Brett Hillis – Derivatives: including commodities (Leading Lawyer)
- Jane Howard – Professional negligence (Leading Lawyer)
- Stephen Kirkpatrick – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
- Thor Maalouf – Shipping (Rising Star)
- Michael Maxtone-Smith – Media & entertainment: media finance (Leading Lawyer)
- Andrew Meads – Commodities disputes (Leading Lawyer)
- Brigid North – Commercial property: development (Leading Lawyer)
- Cynthia O’Donoghue – IT and telecoms (Leading Lawyer)
- Eoin O’Shea – Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (Leading Lawyer)
- Belinda Paisley – International arbitration AND Public international law (Leading Lawyer)
- Vassia Payiataki – Commodities disputes (Leading Lawyer)
- Gregor Pryor – Media & entertainment: music; digital media (Leading Lawyer)
- Oliver Rawkins – Banking litigation: investment and retail (Rising Star)
- Nicholas Rock – Environment (Leading Lawyer)
- Prajakt Samant – Derivatives: including commodities (Leading Lawyer)
- Alexander Sandiforth – Shipping (Next Generation Partner)
- Laura-May Scott – Insurance litigation: for policyholders (Rising Star)
- Paul Skeet – Commodities disputes (Leading Lawyer)
- Antoine Smiley – Construction: contentious (Rising Star)
- Jonathan Solomon – Trade finance (Leading Lawyer)
- Richard Spafford – Banking litigation: investment & retail AND commercial litigation (Leading Lawyer)
- Nick Speed – Professional negligence (Leading Lawyer)
- Nick Stainthorpe – Derivatives: including commodities (Leading Lawyer)
- Ben Summerfield – Commercial litigation (Leading Lawyer)
- Patrick Sutton – Emerging markets (Rising Star)
- Richard Swinburn – Commodities disputes (Leading Lawyer)
- Andrew Taylor – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
- Charles Weller – Shipping (Leading Lawyer)
Updated annually, The Legal 500 analyses and ranks law firms based on submissions from law firms and interviews with clients and other legal professionals. The Legal 500 series ranks law firms in over 150 jurisdictions.
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