Legal 500 UK 2020 ranks Mayer Brown in 43 categories and recognizes 29 lawyers as “Leading Individuals”

London — Mayer Brown has been recommended by the Legal 500 UK 2020 edition in 43 categories.
Of these rankings, five are top tier:

• Finance: Asset Based Lending
• Insurance: Insolvency and Restructuring
• Real Estate: Commercial Property: Corporate occupiers
• Real Estate: Commercial Property: Development
• Real Estate: Commercial Property: Investment

The publication listed 29 lawyers as “Leading Individuals” in their practice areas:

• Raid Abu-Manneh — International Arbitration
• Chris Arnold — Derivatives and Structured Products
• Kate Ball-Dodd — Equity Capital Markets: Small and Mid-cap
• Bernd Bohr — High yield
• Jane Childs — Insurance & Reinsurance litigation
• Jeremy Clay — Real Estate: Commercial Property
• Ian Coles — Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals, and Emerging Markets
• Sally Davies — Professional Negligence
• Alex Dell — Asset Based Lending
• Christopher Fisher — Employment: Employers
• Will Glassey — Professional Negligence
• Alistair Graham — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Dominic Griffiths — Structured Products & Securitisation, and Asset Based Lending
• Caroline Humble — Commercial Property: Development Michael Hutchinson — Environment
• Ashley McDermott — Emerging Markets
• Ian McDonald — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• David O’Connor — Structured Products and Securitisation
• Jim Oulton — Professional Negligence
• Edmund Parker — Derivatives and Structured Products
• Bob Palmer — Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas
• Michael Regan — Construction and Professional Negligence
• Iain Roberts — Commercial Property: Corporate Occupiers, and Commercial Property: Development
• Nicholas Robertson — Employment: Employers
• Miles Robinson — Commercial Litigation
• Devi Shah — Insurance: Insolvency & Restructuring
• Rachel Speight — Emerging Markets
• Martin Wright — Commercial Property: Development, and Commercial Property: Investment
• Perry Yam — Private equity: transactions – mid-tier – up to £250m

Nine Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed in the “Next Generation” category for their practice area in the publication:

• Merryn Craske — Structured products & Securitisation
• James Morris — Construction: contentious; and Professional Negligence
• Jonathan Olson-Welsh — Construction: non-contentious
• Susan Rosser — Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Kwadwo Sarkodie — Construction: contentious
• Jonathan Stone — Professional Negligence
• Danuta de Vries — Emerging markets
• James West — Private equity: transactions – mid-tier – up to £250m
• Alexandra Wood — Insurance: Insolvency & Restructuring

Seven Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed as “Rising stars” for their practice area in the publication:

• Ravi Amin — Asset based lending
• Miriam Bruce — Employment
• Ruth Malone — Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Rachael O'Grady — International Arbitration
• Tim Shepherd — Professional Negligence
• Charles Thain — Trade Finance
• Matthew Williams — Professional Negligence

The complete list of the practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2020 edition of Legal 500 UK includes:

Corporate and commercial

• Commercial contracts
• Corporate tax
• Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
• Equity capital markets: small-mid cap
• EU and competition
• EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
• Financial services: contentious
• M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, £500m+
• Private equity: transactions - mid-tier - up to £250m
• VAT and indirect tax

Crime, fraud and licensing

• Fraud: civil

Dispute resolution

• Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Commercial litigation
• International arbitration

Finance

• Acquisition finance
• Asset Based Lending
• Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
• Corporate restructuring & insolvency
• Debt capital markets
• Derivatives (including commodities)
• Emerging markets
• High yield
• Structured products and securitization
• Trade finance

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
• Professional negligence

Investment fund formation and management

• Private funds

Projects, energy and natural resources

• Infrastructure (including PFI and PPP)
• Mining and minerals
• Oil and gas

Real estate

• Commercial property: hotels and leisure
• Construction: contentious
• Construction: non-contentious
• Environment
• Property finance

TMT (technology, media and telecoms)

• Fintech
• IT and telecoms
• Media and entertainment (including media finance)