Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that the 2011 edition of Chambers Europe: Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked the firm in 21 geographic and/or practice categories in Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, including two top-band rankings:
- Dispute Resolution: Highly Regarded – United Kingdom
- Private Equity: Mid Cap – France
Regarding Mayer Brown’s top-band ranking in the Dispute Resolution: Highly Regarded category in the United Kingdom, Chambers says “the team regularly acts for major clients on financial services, restructuring and insurance-related disputes. In addition, it has a strong reputation for its expertise in construction disputes, regularly acting in both High Court litigation and international arbitrations.” According to Chambers’ sources, the practice provides “extremely good, responsive and pragmatic client service.”
Of Mayer Brown’s top-band ranking in the Private Equity: Mid Cap category in France, the publication reports that the firm is “widely regarded as an authority on mid-market transactions and continues to be instructed on prominent private equity work” and that “sources appreciate the group’s full-service offering, which encompasses LBOs, restructurings and M&A.” Chambers’ sources say that “as well as being hard-working and efficient, the lawyers continuously strive to develop their practice.”
The new Chambers edition also ranked 31 Mayer Brown lawyers in 28 geographic and/or practice categories, including five who achieved top-band or higher ranking.
Two Mayer Brown lawyers received the publication’s highest “Star Individual” ranking, which denotes exceptional recommendations in their fields:
- Nicholas Robertson, Employment: Employer – United Kingdom
- Paulette Vander Schueren, International Trade/WTO – Belgium
The top-band ranked Mayer Brown lawyers are:
- Xavier Jaspar, Private Equity: Mid Cap – France
- Guillaume Kuperfils, Private Equity: Mid Cap – France
- Jean-Philippe Montfort, Environment: Regulatory – Belgium
- Paulette Vander Schueren, International Trade/WTO – Belgium
Following is a complete list of this year’s Chambers Europe rankings for Mayer Brown. (Note: more extensive rankings for Mayer Brown’s London office are included in the previously published 2011 edition of Chambers United Kingdom.)
Category Rankings
Belgium
Environment: Regulatory
International Trade/WTO
Europe-Wide
International Trade/WTO
France
Banking & Finance
Corporate/M&A
Private Equity: Mid Cap
Real Estate
Tax
Germany
Banking & Finance: Acquisition Finance & Syndicated Lending
Capital Markets: Structured Finance
Corporate/M&A
Employment
Life Sciences
Real Estate
United Kingdom
Banking & Finance: Borrowers
Banking & Finance: Lenders
Competition/European Law
Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
Dispute Resolution: Highly Regarded
Employment: Employer
Restructuring/Insolvency
Ranked Individuals
Belgium
Environment: Regulatory
Jean-Philippe Montfort
International Trade/WTO
Madelein Perrick
Paulette Vander Schueren
Europe-Wide
International Trade/WTO
Paulette Vander Schueren
France
Banking & Finance
Jean-Philippe Lambert
Jean-Pierre Lee
Matthieu de Varax
Competition/European Law
Nathalie Jalabert-Doury
Corporate/M&A
Andrew Armfelt
Employment
Laurence Dumure Lambert
PFI/PPP
Matthieu de Varax
Private Equity: Mid Cap
Guillaume Kuperfils
Xavier Jaspar
Real Estate
Andrew Armfelt
Real Estate: Finance
Jean-Philippe Lambert
Jean-Pierre Lee
Tax
Benjamin Homo
Laurent Borey
Transportation: Aviation: Finance
Matthieu de Varax
Germany
Banking & Finance: Acquisition Finance & Syndicated Lending
Markus Strelow
Capital Markets: Structured Finance
Jörg Wulfken
Ralf Hesdahl
Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based Abroad
Jens Peter Schmidt
Dispute Resolution: Litigation
Mark Hilgard
Investment Funds
Benedikt Weiser
Life Sciences
Adem Koyuncu
Private Equity
Ralf-Friedrich Fahrenbach
Real Estate
Hans Hofmann
Tax
Petra Eckl
United Kingdom
Competition/European Law: Non-contentious
Gillian Sproul
Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability
Stephanie Bates
Dispute Resolution
Andrew Legg
Clare Canning
Employment: Employer
Nicholas Robertson
Restructuring/Insolvency
Ian McDonald
Tax
Sandy Bhogal