In-House Awards

General Counsel of the Year

  • Phil Davies, Tata Chemicals 
  • Mustasan Jaleel, Burjeel Holdings  
  • Iulia Kiraly, BB Energy
  • Rajvi Kothari, Inchcape  
  • Sujata Kukreja, Expereo 
  • Danica Malloy and Caroline Mellor, Starbucks
  • Laura Robertson, Mourant Governance Services

In-House Legal Team of the Year - Large Team

  • Centrica
  • Government Legal Department
  • His Majesty's Revenue & Customs
  • Hitachi Rail
  • Inchcape  
  • Marex
  • McDonald's 
  • Medical Protection Society 
  • Nationwide Building Society
  • The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

In-House Legal Team of the Year - Small Team

  • Burjeel Holdings  
  • Dana Petroleum 
  • Expereo 
  • GWI
  • Lebara
  • Manolo Blahnik
  • Nestle
  • Oxygen Conservation
  • Rightmove
  • UK Health Security Agency

Rising Stars - In-House

  • Johanna Guettler, Treatwell 
  • Izel Gulhan, Cardaq 
  • Tasheba Roberts, Close Brothers
  • Alysia Tay, Fidelity International

Lifetime Achievement Award - In-House

To be announced at the ceremony.


Private Practice Awards

Alternative Legal Service Provider of the Year

  • Ashurst Advance
  • Barrister Connect 
  • ClearyX
  • Cleveland & Co
  • Flex Legal
  • Digital by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Konexo
  • Laurelo 
  • Setfords
  • Sprintlaw 

Banking and Finance Team of the Year

  • Cahill Gordon & Reindel  
  • Goodwin
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Milbank  
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison  
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Sidley Austin
  • Slaughter and May
  • Sullivan & Cromwell  

Best Business Support Team

  • Charles Russell Speechlys
  • Cleveland & Co
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Excello Law
  • Freshfields
  • Harbottle & Lewis
  • King & Spalding
  • Setfords

Best Business Support Team - Marketing & Business Development

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Foot Anstey  
  • Gowling WLG
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Keystone Law
  • KPMG Law
  • McHale & Co Solicitors
  • Slaughter and May
  • Stevens & Bolton

Best Government and Public Sector Team

  • Ashurst Perkins Coie 
  • Bird & Bird 
  • Browne Jacobson 
  • Burges Salmon, Fieldfisher and the UK Covid-19 Enquiry
  • Clyde & Co 
  • Gowling WLG 

Best Market Expansion

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Baker Botts
  • Broadfield
  • Cleveland & Co
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Kennedys
  • Lecote Technology Lawyers
  • LegalVision
  • Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • Tapestry Compliance

Boutique Law Firm of the Year

  • Allectus Law  
  • Cleveland & Co
  • Doyle Clayton
  • Hussain Solicitors
  • IMD Solicitors  
  • Jamieson Law
  • Kain Knight
  • Kings Court Law
  • The Burnside Partnership

Boutique Litigation Firm of the Year

  • City Legal Solicitors
  • Constantine Law 
  • Hugh Jones
  • Keidan Harrison  
  • Slateford

Capital Markets Team of the Year

  • Baker Botts 
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton  
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Greenberg Traurig  
  • Milbank  
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius  
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison  
  • Slaughter and May
  • Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • Winston Taylor

Chambers of the Year

  • 3 Verulam Buildings
  • 42BR Barristers
  • Gatehouse Chambers
  • Littleton Chambers
  • Old Square Chambers
  • Red Lion Chambers

Competition/Regulatory Team of the Year

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Covington
  • Freshfields
  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Paul Hastings  
  • Simmons & Simmons
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  • Slaughter and May
  • Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • White & Case  

Disputes Team of the Year

  • Brandsmiths
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton  
  • Covington
  • DLA Piper
  • Freshfields
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Slaughter and May

Energy Team of the Year

  • Burges Salmon
  • CMS
  • DLA Piper
  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Mayer Brown
  • Pinsent Masons
  • Slaughter and May
  • Travers Smith

International Law Firm of the Year

  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton  
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Goodwin
  • King & Spalding
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Mayer Brown
  • McDermott Will & Schulte
  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
  • Sidley Austin
  • Winston Taylor

Natural Resources & Environment Team of the Year

  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Mayer Brown

Partner of the Year

  • Mohammed Abbas, Freeths  
  • Kon Asimacopoulos and John Horsfield-Bradbury, Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • Ed Barnett, Latham & Watkins
  • James Carroll, Russell-Cooke
  • Bruce Dearling, Hepworth Browne
  • Shane Gleghorn, Winston Taylor
  • Dominic Griffiths, Mayer Brown
  • James Maton, Cooley  
  • Isabelle Mitchell, Eversheds Sutherland
  • Piers Prichard Jones, Freshfields
  • Jay Sadanandan, Sidley Austin
  • Carly Thorpe, Walker Morris

Private Capital Team of the Year

  • Freshfields
  • Fried Frank
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Macfarlanes
  • McDermott Will & Schulte
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison  
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Slaughter and May

Private Client Team of the Year

  • Howard Kennedy
  • Hugh Jones Solicitors
  • Laytons ETL
  • Stevens & Bolton
  • Winston Taylor

Property Team of the Year

  • Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner  
  • Burges Salmon
  • DLA Piper
  • Gowling WLG
  • Greenberg Traurig  
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Kirkland & Ellis   
  • McDermott Will & Schulte
  • McHale & Co Solicitors
  • Paul Hastings 

Public M&A Team of the Year

  • Eversheds Sutherland
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • King & Spalding
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Macfarlanes
  • Pinsent Masons
  • RPC
  • Slaughter and May
  • Weil
  • White & Case

Restructuring Team of the Year

  • Freeths
  • Freshfields
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Milbank  
  • Osborne Clarke
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom  
  • Weil
  • White & Case  

Rising Stars - Private Practice

  • Pranav Bhanot, WYN Legal
  • Oriane Cannac, Aavagard
  • Jack Davies, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Adele Edwards, Laytons ETL
  • Katharina Ewert, Covington
  • Tyler Hill, Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • Janet Kim, Cooley  
  • Frederick Lazell, King & Spalding
  • Adam Saarany, Paul Hastings
  • Georgina Sarpong, Kings Court Law
  • Victoria Sinkha, Simmons & Simmons  
  • Sukanya Wadhwa, Brandsmiths
  • Josie Welland, Sidley Austin  

Tech & Telecoms Team of the Year

  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • Freshfields
  • Goodwin
  • Kirkland & Ellis  
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Milbank  
  • Morrison Foerster
  • Slaughter and May
  • Sullivan & Cromwell  
  • White & Case  
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

UK Law Firm of the Year - Large Firm

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • gunnercooke
  • Hill Dickinson
  • Keystone Law

UK Law Firm of the Year - Mid-Sized Firm

  • Bexley Beaumont
  • Brabners
  • Brandsmiths
  • Bristows  
  • Harbottle & Lewis
  • Laytons ETL
  • RWK Goodman
  • Setfords
  • Tapestry Compliance

Lifetime Achievement Award - Private Practice

To be announced at the ceremony.

Awards Open to All

Best Use of Tech - In-House

  • Belron
  • ClearScore
  • NHS 
  • Simplify

Best Use of Tech - Private Practice

  • Aavagard
  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • Goodwin
  • Macfarlanes
  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius  
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Setfords
  • Shoosmiths
  • Taylor Rose
  • TLT

Outstanding Collaboration

  • Aavagard, Aavalynx and Vodafone
  • Belron and Willkie Farr & Gallagher
  • DLA Piper, DEFRA and Government Legal Department
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Osborne Clarke
  • TLT and National Grid

Outstanding Corporate Culture

  • Addleshaw Goddard
  • Bexley Beaumont
  • Freshfields
  • IMD Solicitors  
  • Simmons & Simmons

Outstanding Social Impact - In-House/ALSP

  • APPEAL, University of Sussex, Reed Smith, and Citi 
  • Centrica and Lawyers4Learners
  • Flex Legal
  • Government Legal Department
  • InterLaw Diversity Forum
  • Islamophobia Response Unit 

Outstanding Social Impact - Private Practice

  • A&O Shearman
  • Akin, Clyde & Co, Eversheds Sutherland, Ropes & Gray & Weil Gotshal & Manges (Joint Submission)
  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • Charles Russell Speechlys  
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton  
  • Faegre Drinker
  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Mayer Brown
  • Rogers & Norton
  • Slaughter and May
  • Travers Smith

Strategic Legal Operations Team of the Year

  • BPP
  • Forsters  
  • SeedLegals
  • Setfords

Sustainable Impact Award

  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • Bird & Bird
  • Brabners
  • DLA Piper
  • Expereo
  • Osborne Clarke

Unsung Hero

  • Jordon Bray, TLT
  • Suzanne Cumber, Brandsmiths
  • Ferguson Doyle, Royal College of Nursing
  • Kelly Fergusson, Dana Petroleum 
  • Yasmin Harris, Alwena Jones & Bright
  • Eram Malik, Islamophobia Response Unit 
  • Jenni Palmer, Government Legal Department
  • Mark Rowlands, Lamb Chambers
     

Editors Choice Award Winners

To be announced soon.