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In-House Awards

General Counsel of the Year

  • Alpha Indraccolo, Teva
  • Andrew Yorston, Vodafone
  • Francesca Porter, Onfido
  • Jeroen Holland, DaVita
  • Neeshe Williams, Pharmanovia — WINNER
  • Nicki Schroeder, Reach
  • Omar Saeed, Mountfitchet Group
  • Peter Ho, Tyman
  • Simon Zinger, Entain
  • Stephanie Lopes, Volt
  • Yara Owayyed, YouLend


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In-House Legal Team of the Year - Large Team

  • Arm — WINNER
  • FSCS
  • HSBC
  • Hutchison 3G UK
  • Marex
  • Mobile Broadband Network
  • Mountfitchet Group
  • SSP Group
  • Uber
  • Vodafone

 
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In-House Legal Team of the Year - Small Team

  • Anglia Research Services
  • Metro Bank
  • Reed & Mackay
  • Starbucks
  • Tottenham Hotspur Football & Athletic Co
  • Volt — WINNER
  • YouLend

Rising Stars

  • Charlotte Moar, Vodafone
  • Chris Constant, Boston Limited
  • Demelza Hassani, Independent Television News
  • Jake Stephen, Scottish Widows
  • Karen Safo - Barnieh Olutogun, City of London Police — WINNER
  • Lynda Horgan, SoftBank Investment Advisers
  • Natasha Lamb-Guhren, Mountfitchet Group
  • Scarlett Evans, SSP Group
  • Yinsey Wang, Fidelity International

Private Practice Awards

Alternative Legal Service Provider of the Year

  • Advanced Delivery & Solutions by A&O Shearman
  • AG Integrate by Addleshaw Goddard
  • Excello Law
  • Radiant Law
  • Setfords 
  • Sprintlaw  — WINNER

Banking and Finance Team of the Year

  • Brown Rudnick    
  • Cravath, Swaine & Moore    
  • DLA Piper    
  • Herbert Smith Freehills    
  • King & Spalding    
  • Latham & Watkins    
  • McDermott Will & Emery    
  • Pinsent Masons    
  • Ropes & Gray  — WINNER    
  • Watson Farley and Williams

Best Business Support Team

  • A&O Shearman    
  • Addleshaw Goddard — WINNER   
  • Charles Russell Speechlys    
  • Davitt Jones Bould    
  • Irwin Mitchell    
  • King & Spalding    
  • Michelmores    
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper    
  • Pinsent Masons    
  • Taylor Rose    
  • Vinson & Elkins

Boutique Law Firm of the Year

  • Alius Law    
  • Asserson Law Offices    
  • Brandsmiths    
  • City Legal Solicitors    
  • Euclid Law    
  • Hartley Law    
  • IMD Solicitors    
  • Level    
  • Maurice Turnor Gardner    
  • Onside Law  — WINNER
  • Zaiwalla & Co    

Capital Markets Team of the Year

  • Brown Rudnick    
  • Burges Salmon    
  • Dechert    
  • Dentons    
  • Mayer Brown    
  • Milbank    
  • Morrison Foerster    
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison    
  • Shoosmiths  — WINNER   
  • Weil, Gotshal and Manges    
  • White & Case

Chambers of the Year

  • 3 Verulam Buildings
  • Atkin Chambers
  • Monckton Chambers
  • New Park Court Chambers  — WINNER
  • Quadrant Chambers
  • Red Lion Chambers

Competition/Regulatory Team of the Year

  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton  — WINNER
  • Covington
  • Dentons
  • Euclid Law
  • Freshfields
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Mishcon De Reya, Clifford Chance, Covington, Norton Rose, Hogan Lovells & Linklaters (Joint Submission)
  • Sidley Austin
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Stephenson Harwood

Disputes Team of the Year

  • Bird & Bird  — WINNER
  • DLA Piper
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
  • Gowling WLG
  • Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Jones Day
  • Macfarlanes
  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • Mishcon de Reya
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
  • Travers Smith

International Law Firm of the Year

  • Baker Botts
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • DLA Piper
  • King & Spalding
  • Latham & Watkins
  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • Paul Hastings
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Sidley Austin  — WINNER
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Partner of the Year

  • Adam Ibrahim, DLA Piper
  • Arun Birla, Paul Hastings
  • Aymen Mahmoud, McDermott Will & Emery
  • Daniel Naftalin, Mishcon de Reya
  • Daniel Spendlove, Signature Litigation
  • Frances Murphy, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
  • James Stewart, Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Jonathan Kewley, Clifford Chance  — WINNER
  • Katie Chandler, Taylor Wessing
  • Nallini Puri, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • Penny Miller, Simmons & Simmons
  • Richard Youle, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Private Capital Team of the Year

  • Davis Polk & Wardwell
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Freshfields  — WINNER
  • Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Macfarlanes
  • Mayer Brown
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • White & Case

Private Client Team of the Year

  • Fladgate
  • Maurice Turnor Gardner
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Russell-Cooke
  • Stephenson Harwood
  • Stevens & Bolton
  • TLT  — WINNER

Property Team of the Year

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Ashurst
  • Brabners
  • Burges Salmon, Tughans and Translink Legal
  • CMS
  • Eversheds Sutherland  — WINNER
  • Gowling WLG
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

  • Public M&A Team of the Year

  • Covington
  • Dorsey & Whitney
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Freshfields
  • Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Mayer Brown
  • Reed Smith
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Travers Smith
  • White & Case  — WINNER

Restructuring Team of the Year

  • Akin (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP) — WINNER
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • Goodwin
  • King & Spalding
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Mayer Brown 
  • Sidley Austin
  • Weil, Gotshal and Manges
  • White & Case

Rising Stars

  • Bethan Lukey, Covington
  • Carlo Pia, Morrison Foerster
  • Dina Jubrail, Baker Botts
  • Eleni Zodiates, Brown Rudnick
  • Elisabeth Squires, Britton and Time Solicitors
  • Jessica Tagg, Reed Smith
  • Kemi Greene, Willkie Farr and Gallagher — WINNER
  • Laura Ackroyd, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Michael Arada Greenop, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
  • Stella Wong, Hogan Lovells
  • Tosin Adeyeri, Travers Smith

  • TMT Team of the Year

  • Bird & Bird
  • Brandsmiths
  • CMS — WINNER
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

UK Law Firm of the Year

  • Brabners
  • Burges Salmon
  • HFW — WINNER
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Michelmores
  • Osborne Clarke
  • Shoosmiths

Awards Open to All

Best Use of Tech

  • Baker McKenzie
  • Dentons
  • DLA Piper
  • Eversheds Sutherland — WINNER
  • Luminance
  • Mayer Brown
  • Watson Farley & Williams

Corporate Culture & Wellbeing Initiative

  • Dentons
  • Freshfields
  • HSBC — WINNER
  • Setfords 
  • Travers Smith

Excellence in ESG

  • A&O Shearman — WINNER
  • Freshfields
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Watson Farley & Williams
  • Weil Gotshal & Manges

Outstanding Collaboration

  • Dentons and O Shaped
  • DLA Piper, Government Legal Department and Department for Culture, Media and Sport  — WINNER
  • Eversheds Sutherland and SkillBurst Interactive
  • Gowling WLG and Cummins
  • Konexo, HSBC and Radiant Law
  • Pinsent Masons, Island Green Power and Low Carbon
  • TLT and Vodafone
  • Travers Smith and JUSTICE

Outstanding Social Impact

  • Ashurst
  • Clyde & Co, Dechert, Eversheds Sutherland, Squire Patton Boggs and Max Planck Foundation (Joint Submission)
  • Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Dechert
  • Freshfields  — WINNER
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Mayer Brown
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Osborne Clarke and National Deaf Children’s Society
  • Sidley Austin
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Strategic Legal Operations Team of the Year

  • Charles Russell Speechlys
  • Dentons
  • Gowling WLG
  • Johnson Matthey
  • Konexo
  • Stephenson Harwood  — WINNER
  • Travers Smith
  • Vodafone

Standout in DE&I

  • City Century  — WINNER
  • Dentons
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • HSBC
  • Linklaters and BARBRI
  • Penningtons Manches Cooper
  • Vinson & Elkins

Unsung Hero

  • Byron Spring, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
  • Ceri Parker-Carruthers, Dads House Family Law Clinic  — WINNER
  • Faraz Naqvi, Hogan Lovells
  • Gemma Rowland and Jess Carter-Syme, Osborne Clarke
  • James Hulmes, Travers Smith

Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

  • John Gould, Russell-Cooke

Editor's Choice Award

To be announced at the awards ceremony.