Reed Smith has again earned recognition as one of the leading firms in the Asia-Pacific region in the annual Chambers Asia-Pacific guide. The newly released 2022 guide ranks the firm’s practices in 15 categories, with 11 Reed Smith lawyers earning individual rankings (of which three are Band 1). The firm retains the top Chambers ranking, Band 1, for “Shipping: Litigation” in the Asia-Pacific region.
Reed Smith is newly ranked in five categories, by region, then practice area.
- Asia-Pacific Region Corporate/M&A
- Singapore Aviation: Finance
- Singapore Corporate/M&A: International: Highly Regarded
- Singapore Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: The Elite
- Singapore Technology, Media, Telecoms: International
The firm is again ranked in nine categories:
- Asia-Pacific Region Banking & Finance
- Asia-Pacific Region Shipping: Finance
- Asia-Pacific Region Shipping: Litigation
- India Banking & Finance (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad)
- India Dispute Resolution (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad)
- Indonesia Corporate & Finance (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad)
- Singapore Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: International
- Singapore Shipping: Domestic
- South Korea Shipping: International Firms
- Singapore Shipping: Domestic
Further, the guide ranked 10 Reed Smith lawyers; and three of them — Alex Andrews, Kohe Hassan and Richard Lovell — earned Band 1 rankings:
- Alex Andrews (London), South Korea Shipping: International Firms (Band 1)
- Charmian Aw (Singapore), Singapore Technology, Media, Telecoms: Domestic
- Gautam Bhattacharyya (London), India Dispute Resolution (International Firms) (Expertise Based Abroad)
- Calvin Chan (Singapore), Singapore Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption: International
- Timothy Cooke (Singapore), Singapore Dispute Resolution: Arbitration: The Elite
- Matthew Gorman (Singapore), Singapore Corporate/M&A: International: Highly Regarded
- Kohe Hasan (Singapore), Cambodia General Business Law (Expertise Based Abroad) (Band 1)
- Jennifer Ince (Singapore), Singapore Aviation: Finance
- Richard Lovell (Singapore), Singapore Shipping: International: Litigation (Band 1)
- Simon Spells (Singapore), Asia-Pacific Region and Singapore Aviation: Finance
- Bernard Yee (Singapore) Singapore Shipping: International: Litigation
The annual Chambers Asia-Pacific guide provides analysis of legal practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region based on in-depth interviews with in-house counsel and others. For the first time, Chambers is not including China-based rankings in its Asia-Pacific guide, but will instead publish a Greater China Region guide in January 2022.