Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Chambers UK 2012 ranked the firm in 37 categories, including five top-band rankings: Dispute Resolution - Highly Regarded; Professional Negligence - Financial; Professional Negligence - Insurance; Professional Negligence - Legal; and Professional Negligence - Technology & Construction.
The new Chambers UK edition also awarded 59 of the firm’s lawyers a total of 75 rankings in 42 practice categories. Nicholas Robertson received the publication’s highest “Star Individual” ranking in the Employment: Employer category, and six Mayer Brown lawyers received top-band rankings: Bruce Bloomingdale, Capital Markets: Securitization; David Chadwick, Insurance: Contentious Claims; Ian Coles, Energy & Natural Resources: Mining International; Sean Connolly, Professional Negligence; and Michael Regan, Construction: Supplier.
Chambers UK 2012 ranked Mayer Brown as “Recommended for Client Service” in 13 categories: Construction - International Arbitration; Construction - Purchaser Led; Construction - Supplier Led; Dispute Resolution - Highly Regarded; Employment - Employer; Pensions Litigation; Product Liability - Mainly Defendant; Professional Negligence - Financial; Professional Negligence - Insurance; Professional Negligence -Legal; Professional Negligence - Technology & Construction; Tax; and Telecommunications.
The firm also was “Recommended for Commercial Awareness” in 10 categories: Corporate/M&A: High End Capability; Employment - Employer; Energy & Natural Resources - Mining International; Outsourcing; Professional Negligence - Financial; Professional Negligence - Insurance; Professional Negligence - Legal; Professional Negligence - Technology & Construction; Restructuring/Insolvency; and Restructuring/Insolvency - Insurance Insolvency.
Chambers UK comments on Mayer Brown’s top-tier rankings
In the Dispute Resolution category, Chambers interviewees said Mayer Brown “is so available and supportive” and “has the ability to grapple with the most complex issues.” Another client told the publication that “their client handling skills in difficult and tense situations have been excellent.”
Of Mayer Brown’s four top-tier rankings in the Professional Negligence category, Chambers said, “Clients line up to praise a practice that boasts market-leading lawyers in every major area of the professional negligence market. The team attracts impressive work from the numerous insurance panels on which it sits, yet is also directly instructed by top-tier professional clients. Clients find the firm to be ‘strong on technical cases’ and feel that it can ‘provide that extra dimension if you have a particularly difficult problem.’ The team is widely regarded as being at top of its game, with commentators reporting that ‘when the going gets tough, I turn to Mayer Brown.’"
Following is a complete list of Mayer Brown’s rankings in Chambers UK 2012.
Practice Category Rankings:
Banking & Finance - Borrowers
Banking & Finance - Lenders
Banking Litigation
Capital Markets - AIM
Capital Markets - Debt
Capital Markets - Structured Finance, Securitization & Derivatives
Competition/European Law
Construction - International Arbitration
Construction - Purchaser Led
Construction - Supplier Led
Corporate/M&A: High End Capability
Dispute Resolution - Highly Regarded
Employment - Employer
Energy & Natural Resources - International Mining
Environment
Information Technology
Insurance - Contentious Claims
Insurance - Non-Contentious Claims
Insurance - Reinsurance
Intellectual Property
Investment Funds - Private Equity
Outsourcing
Pensions
Pensions Litigation
Product Liability - Mainly Defendant
Professional Discipline
Professional Negligence - Financial
Professional Negligence - Insurance
Professional Negligence - Legal
Professional Negligence - Technology & Construction
Real Estate - Big Ticket
Real Estate Finance
Real Estate Litigation
Restructuring/Insolvency
Restructuring/Insolvency - Insurance Insolvency
Tax
Telecommunications
Individual Rankings:
Asset Finance: Shipping Finance
Stuart McAlpine
Banking & Finance
Nigel White
Banking Litigation
Andrew Legg
Ian McDonald
Capital Markets: AIM
Stephanie Bates
Capital Markets: Debt
Drew Salvest
Capital Markets: Derivatives
Edmund Parker
Capital Markets: Equity
Paul de Bernier
Capital Markets: Securitisation
Bruce Bloomingdale
Kevin Hawken
Capital Markets: Structured Finance
Dominic Griffiths
Competition/EU Law: Non-Contentious
Gillian Sproul
Construction: Purchaser-Led
Jonathan Hosie
Construction: Supplier-Led
Jonathan Hosie
Michael Regan
Sally Davies
Corporate/M&A: High End Capability
Kate Ball-Dodd
Stephanie Bates
Peter Dickinson
Dispute Resolution
David Allen
Andrew Legg
Employee Share Schemes
Andrew Stanger
Employment: Employer
Bernadette Daley
Christopher Fisher
Nicholas Robertson
Energy & Natural Resources: Mining: International
Ian Coles
Rachel Speight
Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
Robert Hamill
Environment
Michael Hutchinson
Information Technology
Mark Prinsley
Insurance: Contentious Claims
David Chadwick
Sean Connolly
Andrew Westlake
Insurance: Non-Contentious
Martin Mankabady
Intellectual Property
Sarah Byrt
Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
Jonathan Radcliffe
Investment Funds - Private Equity
Tim Nosworthy
Life Sciences: IP/ Patent litigation
Jonathan Radcliffe
Life Sciences: Transactional
Sangeeta Puran
Media & Entertainment: Advertising & Marketing
Sarah Byrt
Outsourcing
Peter Dickinson
Mark Prinsley
Pensions
Edward Jewitt
Jonathan Moody
Anna Rogers
Ian Wright
Pensions Litigation
Philippa James
Stuart Pickford
Product Liability: Mainly Defendant
Ingrid Hobbs
Tim McCaw
Miles Robinson
Professional Negligence
Sean Connolly
Sally Davies
Angus Duncan
William Glassey
James Oulton
Michael Regan
Real Estate
James Dodsworth
Peter Sugden
Jeremy Clay
Real Estate Finance
Stephen Walsh
Real Estate Litigation
Simon Hartley
Restructuring & Insolvency
David Allen
Ian McDonald
Restructuring & Insolvency: Insurance Insolvency
Devi Shah
Tax
Sandy Bhogal
Peter Steiner
Telecommunications
Peter Dickinson
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