Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that its London practices are ranked in 51 categories in the 2011 edition of Legal 500:UK including a top tier ranking in Mining & Minerals. The publication also lists 19 Mayer Brown lawyers as “Leading Individuals” in 20 practice areas.
Following are comments by Legal 500 about Mayer Brown’s highest ranked practice area:
Projects, Energy & Natural Resources – Mining & Minerals: “Mayer Brown International LLP is a ‘project finance powerhouse’ on the mining side. The firm advised the lenders on an $823m project financing to fund the construction and development of the Boleo project in Mexico.”
Partners listed by Legal 500 UK as “Leading Individuals” in their practice categories are:
David Allen – Commercial Litigation
Bruce Bloomingdale – Securitisation
Sarah Byrt – Technology, Media & Telecoms: Media & Entertainment (Publishing)
Clare Canning – Commercial Litigation and Insurance: Professional Negligence
David Chadwick – Insurance & Reinsurance Litigation
Jeremy Clay – Real Estate: Commercial Property
Ian Coles – Projects, Energy & Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals
Sean Connelly – Insurance: Professional Negligence
Peter Dickinson – Technology, Media & Telecoms: Telecoms
Michael Hutchinson – Environment
Andrew Legg – Banking Litigation: Investment & Retail
Jim Oulton – Insurance: Insolvency & Restructuring
Edmund Parker – Derivatives and Structured Products
Mark Prinsley – Technology, Media & Telecoms: Information Technology
Michael Regan – Construction
Nicholas Robertson – Human resources: Employment
Anna Rogers – Human Resources: Pensions: non contentious
Peter Steiner – Corporate Tax
Following is a complete list of practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2011 edition of Legal 500: UK.
CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL
- Corporate Tax
- EU and Competition
- Financial Services
- Financial Services (Contentious)
- Flotations: Small and Mid-Cap
- M&A: Upper Mid-Market and Premium deals, 250m+
- M&A: US Law Capability
- Private Equity: Transactions
- VAT and Indirect Tax
- Venture Capital
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
- Commercial Litigation
- Defamation and Privacy
- International Arbitration
- Professional Discipline
FINANCE
- Acquisition Finance
- Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans
- Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
- Debt Capital Markets
- Derivatives and Structured Products
- Emerging Markets
- Investment Funds
- Hedge Funds
- Listed Funds
- Securitisation
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Employee Share Schemes
- Employment
- Pensions
- Pensions: Dispute Resolution
INSURANCE
- Corporate and Regulatory
- Insurance: Insolvency and Restructuring
- Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation
- Product Liability: Defendant
- Professional Negligence
PROJECTS, ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- Mining and Minerals
- Oil and Gas
- Power (Including Electricity, Nuclear and Renewables)
REAL ESTATE
- Commercial Property
- Retail
- Hotel and Leisure
- Investment
- Development
- Construction
- Environment
- Property Finance
- Property Litigation
TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMS
- Brand Management
- IT and Telecoms
- Intellectual Property
- Media and Entertainment
- Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology