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