Legal 500 UK 2015 ranks Mayer Brown in 46 categories and recognises 21 lawyers as “Leading Individuals”

London - Mayer Brown has been recommended in 46 categories by the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2015 edition. Of these rankings, three are top tier:

• Asset-based lending
• Insurance: insolvency and restructuring, and
• Insurance: Professional negligence.

The publication also listed 21 lawyers as "Leading Individuals" in their practice areas:

• Raid Abu-Manneh – International Arbitration
• David Allen – Commercial Litigation
• Chris Arnold – Derivatives and Structured Products
• Kate Ball-Dodd – Flotations: Small & Mid Cap
• Bernd Bohr – Debt Capital Markets
• Sandy Bhogal – Corporate Tax
• Jeremy Clay – Real Estate: Corporate Tax
• Ian Coles - Projects, Energy & Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals and Emerging Markets
• Sean Connolly – Professional Negligence
• Peter Dickinson – TMT (Telecoms)
• William Glassey – Professional Negligence
• Alistair Graham – Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Michael Hutchinson – Environment
• Philippa James – Pensions: non contentious
• Ian McDonald – Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Edmund Parker – Derivatives and Structured Products
• Michael Regan – Construction
• Nicholas Robertson – Employment
• Devi Shah - Insurance: Insolvency & Restructuring
• Richard Todd – Securitisation
• Martin Wright – Commercial Property.

The complete list of the practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2015 edition of Legal 500 UK includes:

Corporate and commercial

• Commercial contracts
• Corporate tax
• Equity capital markets
• EU and competition
• Financial services – Financial services (non-contentious/regulatory)
• Financial services – Financial services (contentious)
• Flotations: small and mid-cap
• Investment funds – Investment funds – Hedge funds
• Investment funds – Listed funds
• M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, £250m+
• VAT and indirect tax.

Crime, fraud and licensing

• Corporate crime (including fraud, bribery and corruption).

Dispute resolution

• Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Commercial litigation
• 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
• Securitisation.

Human resources

• Employee share schemes
• Employment – employers
• Pensions – non-contentious
• Pensions – dispute resolution.

Insurance

• Insurance and reinsurance litigation
• Insurance: corporate and regulatory
• Product liability: defendant.

Projects, energy and natural resources

• Infrastructure (including PFI and PPP)
• Mining and minerals.

Real estate

• Commercial property – general
• Commercial property – development
• Commercial property – hotels and leisure
• Commercial property – investment
• Commercial property – retail
• Construction
• Environment
• Property finance
• Property litigation.

TMT (technology, media and telecoms)

• IT and telecoms
• Media and entertainment.