The Legal 500 UK 2022 ranks Mayer Brown in 48 practice categories and recognizes 28 lawyers as "Leading Individuals"

London – The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2022 guide has ranked Mayer Brown in 48 categories. Of these rankings, three are in the top tier: 

• Finance: Asset Based Lending — for the eighth consecutive year
• Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals — for the second consecutive year 
• Real Estate: Commercial Property – Corporate Occupiers — for the fourth consecutive year

The guide also recognized 28 Mayer Brown 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
• Joe Conder – Commercial Property: Investment
• Sally Davies — Professional Negligence 
• Alex Dell — Asset Based Lending 
• Jay Doraisamy — Pensions: Non-Contentious
• Christopher Fisher — Employers 
• Dominic Griffiths — Structured Products & Securitisation, and Asset Based Lending
• Chris Harvey — Commercial Property: Corporate Occupiers and Commercial Property: Investment
• Robert Hamill — TMT
• Caroline Humble — Commercial Property: Development and Commercial Property: Investment 
• Kirsti Massie — Power
• Ashley McDermott: Emerging Markets
• David O’Connor — Structured Products & Securitisation 
• Jim Oulton — Professional Negligence 
• Bob Palmer — Oil and Gas
• Edmund Parker — Derivatives and Structured Products 
• Iain Roberts — Commercial Property: Corporate Occupiers and Commercial Property: Development
• Miles Robinson — Commercial Litigation 
• Kwadwo Sarkodie — Construction: Contentious 
• Devi Shah — Corporate and Regulatory 
• Aimee Sharman — Fund Finance
• Rachel Speight — Emerging Markets
• Paul Tannenbaum — Fund Finance
• Martin Wright — Commercial Property: Corporate Occupiers, Commercial Property: Development, and Commercial Property: Investment 

Ten Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed in the “Hall of Fame” category for their practice area in the guide: 

• Trevor Borthwick — Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans
• Jeremy Clay – Commercial Property: Investment 
• Ian Coles — Mining and Minerals, and Emerging Markets
• Sam Eastwood — Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime
• Alistair Graham — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Michael Hutchinson — Environment
• Ian McDonald – Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Ed Parker — Derivatives and Structured Products
• Michael Regan — Professional Negligence

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

• Miriam Bruce — Employers
• Merryn Craske — Securitisation
• Danuta de Vries — Emerging Markets
• Nanak Keswani — Derivatives and Structured Products 
• James Morris — Professional Negligence and Real Estate: Construction: Contentious
• Rachael O’Grady — International Arbitration 
• Jonathan Olson-Welsh — Construction: Non-Contentious
• Susan Rosser — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Jonathan Stone — Professional Negligence
• Paul Tannenbaum — Fund Finance 
• Charles Thain — Trade Finance
• James West — Private equity: transactions – mid-market deals – up to £250m

Ten Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed as “Rising Stars” for their practice area: 

• Jawad Ahmad — International Arbitration 
• Ravi Amin — Asset Based Lending
• Annabel Ersser — Property Finance 
• Harriet Hainsworth — TMT
• Ruth Malone — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Tim Shepherd — Professional Negligence
• Emma Sturt — Emerging Markets
• Kitty Swanson — Corporate Tax
• Matthew Williams — Professional Negligence
• Jawad Ahmad — International Arbitration 

The complete list of the practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2021 edition of Legal 500 UK includes: 

Corporate and Commercial

• Corporate Tax
• EU and Competition
• EU and Competition: Trade, WTO
• Equity Capital Markets: mid-high cap
• Equity Capital Markets: small-mid cap
• Financial Services: Non-Contentious/Regulatory
• Financial Services 
• M&A: Upper Mid-market and Premium Deals
• Private equity: transactions – mid-market deals – up to £250m
• VAT and Indirect Tax

Crime, Fraud and Licensing

• Fraud: Civil

Dispute Resolution

• Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
• Commercial Litigation: Premium
• International Arbitration

Employment

• Employee Share Schemes
• Employers
• Pensions: Non-Contentious
• Pensions: Dispute Resolution

Finance

• Asset Based Lending 
• Islamic Finance
• Securitisation
• Trade Finance
• Acquisitions Finance
• Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans
• Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
• Debt Capital Markets
• Derivatives and Structured Products
• High Yield

Industry Focus

• Emerging Markets
• TMT

Insurance

• Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation
• Insurance: Corporate and Regulatory
• Product Liability: Defendant
• Professional Negligence

Investment Fund Formation and Management

• Fund Finance

Projects, Energy and Natural Resources

• Infrastructure
• Oil and Gas

Real Estate

• Commercial Property: Corporate Occupiers 
• Commercial Property Development 
• Commercial Property Investment 
• Construction: Non-Contentious
• Construction: Contentious 
• Property Finance
• Environment 

Risk Advisory

• Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime

TMT

• Fintech
• IT and Telecoms
• Media and Entertainment