The Legal 500 UK 2021 ranks Mayer Brown in 45 practice categories and recognizes 33 lawyers as "Leading Individuals"
London — The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2021 guide has ranked Mayer Brown in 45 categories. Of these rankings, four are in the top tier:
- Finance: Asset Based Lending — for the seventh consecutive year
- Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals
- Real Estate: Commercial Property – Corporate Occupiers — for the third consecutive year
- Real Estate: Commercial Property – Investment — for the fifth consecutive year
The guide also recognized 33 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 – Finance: High yield
- Jeremy Clay — Commercial Property: Investment
- Ian Coles — Energy and Infrastructure
- Sally Davies — Professional Negligence
- Alex Dell — Asset Based Lending
- Jay Doraisamy — Pensions: Non-Contentious
- Sam Eastwood — Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime
- Christopher Fisher — Employment: Employers
- Will Glassey — Professional Negligence
- Alistair Graham — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
- Dominic Griffiths — Structured Products & Securitisation, and Asset Based Lending
- Rob Hamill — TMT
- Caroline Humble — Commercial Property: Development
- Kirsti Massie — Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Power
- Ashley McDermott: Emerging Markets
- Ian McDonald — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
- David O’Connor — Structured Products & 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: Corporate & Regulatory
- Aimee Sharman — Fund Finance
- Rachel Speight — Emerging Markets
- Paul Tannenbaum — Fund Finance
- Martin Wright — Commercial Property: Development, and Commercial Property: Investment
Six 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
- Ian Coles — Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining and Minerals, and Emerging Markets
- Sam Eastwood — Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime
- Michael Hutchinson — Environment
- Ed Parker — Derivatives and Structured Products
- Michael Regan — Professional Negligence
Ten Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed in the “Next Generation” category for their practice area:
- Miriam Bruce — Employment: Employers
- Merryn Craske — Securitisation
- Danuta de Vries — Emerging Markets
- James Morris — Professional Negligence and Construction: Contentious
- Jonathan Olson-Welsh — Construction: Non-Contentious
- Sussan Rosser — Bank Litigation: Investment and Retail
- Kwadwo Sarkodie — Construction: Contentious
- Jonathan Stone — Professional Negligence
- Charles Thain — Trade Finance
- James West — Private equity: transactions – mid-market deals – up to £250m
Nine Mayer Brown lawyers have been listed as “Rising Stars” for their practice area:
- Ravi Amin — Asset Based Lending
- Harriet Hainsworth — TMT
- Tom Mallalieu — Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Oil and Gas
- Ruth Malone — Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail
- Rachael O'Grady — International Arbitration
- Tim Shepherd — Professional Negligence
- Emma Sturt — Emerging Markets
- Kitty Swanson — Corporate Tax
- Matthew Williams — Professional Negligence
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
- Equity Capital Markets: Low-mid cap
- Equity Capital Markets: High-mid cap
- Financial Services: Contentious
- 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
- Acquisitions Finance
- Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans
- Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
- Debt Capital Markets
- Derivatives and Structured Products
- High Yield
- Securitisation
- Trade Finance
Industry Focus
- Emerging Markets
- Energy and Infrastructure
- TMT
Insurance
- Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation
- Insurance: Corporate and Regulatory
- Product Liability: Defendant
- Professional Negligence
Investment Fund Formation and Management
- Fund Finance
- Private Funds
Projects, Energy and Natural Resources
- Infrastructure
- Oil and Gas
Real Estate
- Commercial Property: Development
- Construction: Contentious
- Construction: Non-Contentious
- Environment
- Property Finance
Risk Advisory
- Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime
TMT
- Fintech
- IT and Telecoms
- Media and Entertainment