Chambers UK 2027 ranks more than 30 Reed Smith practices and over 60 lawyers

Reed Smith earned Band 1 practice rankings in five categories:

• UK-wide - Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading
• UK-wide - Commodities: Physicals
• UK-wide - Commodities: Trade Finance
• UK-wide - Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
• UK-wide - Shipping

Six Reed Smith lawyers earned Band 1 individual rankings from Chambers UK:

• Chris Borg, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading
• Peter Hardy, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
• Michael Maxtone-Smith, Media & Entertainment: Film & Television
• Mark Pring, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
• Gregor Pryor, Media & Entertainment: Music: Non-contentious
• Charles Weller, Shipping

Below is the complete list of the firm’s practice areas ranked in Chambers UK 2027:

London (Firms)

• Commercial and Corporate Litigation
• Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million
• Employment: Employer
• Environment & Climate Change
• Information Technology & Outsourcing
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate: £150 million and above
• Real Estate Litigation
• Restructuring/Insolvency 

UK-wide

• Asset Finance: Aviation Finance
• Asset Finance: Shipping Finance
• Banking Litigation
• Capital Markets: Derivatives
• Capital Markets: Securitisation
• Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading (Band 1)
• Commodities: Physicals (Band 1)
• Commodities: Trade Finance (Band 1)
• Data Protection & Information Law
• Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
• Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory
• Fund Finance
• Insurance: Mainly Policyholders (Band 1)
• International Arbitration: Commercial Arbitration
• International Arbitration: Investor-State Arbitration
• Media & Entertainment: Advertising & Marketing
• Media & Entertainment: Film & Television
• Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment & Social Media
• Media & Entertainment: Music
• Pensions
• Private Equity: Buyouts: Up to £500 million
• Real Estate Finance
• Sanctions (new entry)
• Shipping (Band 1)

Below is the complete list of individual London-based honourees. Among them James Atkin, Gregor Pryor, Michael Skrein, and Elizabeth Stroud were ranked in more than one category; and Andrew Taylor was named as a senior statesperson, which denotes a senior lawyer who, by virtue of close links with major clients, remains pivotal to the firm’s success:

• David Ashmore, Employment: Employer
• James Atkin, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading and Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
• Chris Borg, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading (Band 1)
• Nick Breen, Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment & Social Media
• Damian Carolan, Financial Services: Non-contentious Regulatory
• Jeb Clulow, Shipping
• Daryl Cue, Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million (Up and coming, new entry)
• Michael Darowski, International Arbitration
• Carl De Cicco, Employment: Employer (new entry)
• Mark Drury, Capital Markets: CLOs
• Jennifer Ellis, Capital Markets: CLOs (Up and coming)
• Elizabeth Farrell, Commodities: Physicals
• Brendan Gallen, Investment Funds: Private Equity
• Kathleen Garrett, Restructuring/Insolvency
• Simone Goligorsky, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading
• Richard Gunn, Shipping
• Richard Hakes, Asset Finance: Aviation Finance
• Peter Hardy, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders (Band 1)
• Liam Hart, Construction: Contentious (Up and coming, new entry)
• Simon Hartley, Pensions
• Brett Hillis, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading
• George Hoare, Commercial and Corporate Litigation (new entry)
• Nina Howell, Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
• Josh Hughes, Real Estate Finance (new entry)
• Simon Hugo, Capital Markets: Securitisation
• Tallat Hussain, Environment & Climate Change
• Ali Ishaq, Commercial and Corporate Litigation (Up and coming)
• Robin Jeffcott, Employment: Employer
• Richard Kovalevsky KC, Financial Crime: Individuals
• Catherine Lewis, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders (Associate to watch)
• Thor Maalouf, Shipping
• Michael Maxtone-Smith, Media & Entertainment: Film & Television (Band 1)
• Vassia Payiataki, Commodities: Physicals
• Mark Pring, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders (Band 1)
• Gregor Pryor, Media & Entertainment: Games, Interactive Entertainment & Social Media and Media & Entertainment: Music: Non-contentious (Band 1)
• Oliver Rawkins, Banking Litigation
• Laura Riddeck, Construction: Non-contentious 
• Philip Rymer, Asset Finance: Shipping Finance
• Alexander Sandiforth, Shipping
• Joshua Schuermann, Intellectual Property (Associate to watch, new entry)
• Laura-May Scott, Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
• Justine Senior, Pensions
• Paul Skeet, Commodities: Physicals
• Michael Skrein, Defamation/Reputation Management and Intellectual Property 
• Jonathan Solomon, Commodities: Trade Finance
• Nick Stainthorpe, Capital Markets: Securitisation
• James Stockman, Commercial and Corporate Litigation (Associate to watch, new entry)
• Elizabeth Stroud, Commodities: Derivatives & Energy Trading and Commodities: Trade Finance
• Patrick Sutton, Commodities: Trade Finance (new entry)
• Will Sutton, Pensions
• Andrew Taylor, Shipping (Senior Statesperson)
• Philip Taylor, Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million
• Milan Thakker, Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million (new entry)
• Jimmy Theodorou, Real Estate: £150 million and above
• Philip Thomas, Information Technology & Outsourcing
• Elle Todd, Data Protection & Information Law
• Brad Trerise, Real Estate Litigation (Up and coming, new entry)
• Sally-Ann Underhill, Shipping
• Charles Weller, Shipping (Band 1)
• Tom Whelan, Private Equity: Buyouts: Up to £500 million
• Rob Wilkins, Asset Finance: Shipping Finance 
• Lucy Winnington-Ingram, International Arbitration: Investor-State Arbitration
• Michael Young, Corporate/M&A: £100-800 million

Chambers designates up and coming lawyers as those who do not yet have an established reputation, but who are driving their firm’s growth; and associates to watch as senior associates who are recognised for their work in the background of major deals.