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