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The Legal 500 United Kingdom 2019 rankings

Our cover feature this month looks at London-centric peer firms Macfarlanes and Travers Smith. Here we look at the two firms’ UK rankings in The Legal 500. For further information see ‘Defying gravity’.

 

United Kingdom, 2019
London

 Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions – mid-market deals
 Investment fund formation and management: Retail funds
 Private client: Contentious trusts and probate
 Private client: Personal tax, trusts and probate
 Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
 Corporate and commercial: Financial services: contentious
 Crime, fraud and licensing: Fraud: civil
 Investment fund formation and management: Real estate funds
 Private client: Agriculture and estates
 Real estate: Commercial property: corporate occupiers
 Real estate: Commercial property: development
 Real estate: Commercial property: hotels and leisure
 Real estate: Commercial property: investment
 Real estate: Commercial property: retail
 Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
 Corporate and commercial: Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
 Corporate and commercial: Flotations: small and mid-cap
 Corporate and commercial: M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, 250m+
 Corporate and commercial: Partnership
 Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions – high-value deals
 Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
 Dispute resolution: Tax litigation and investigations
 Finance: Derivatives and structured products
 Human resources: Employment: employers and senior executives
 Investment fund formation and management: Hedge funds
 Investment fund formation and management: Private funds
 Real estate: Construction: contentious
 Real estate: Construction: non-contentious
 Real estate: Property finance
 Corporate and commercial: Equity capital markets
 Dispute resolution: Banking litigation: investment and retail
 Finance: Acquisition finance
 Finance: Debt capital markets
 Human resources: Employee share schemes
 Human resources: Employment: employers and senior executives
 Human resources: Pensions (non-contentious)
 Private client: Charities and not-for-profit
 Real estate: Environment
 Real estate: Property litigation
 Finance: Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
 Human resources: Immigration
 TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Sport
 Corporate and commercial: Commercial contracts
 Dispute resolution: International arbitration
 Finance: Corporate restructuring and insolvency

 

United Kingdom, 2019
London

 Corporate and commercial: Commercial contracts
 Corporate and commercial: Flotations: small and mid-cap
 Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions – mid-market deals
 Risk advisory: Corporate governance
 Corporate and commercial: Financial services: contentious
 Corporate and commercial: Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
 Crime, fraud and licensing: Fraud: civil
 Dispute resolution: Banking litigation: investment and retail
 Human resources: Employee share schemes
 Human resources: Employment: employers and senior executives
 Human resources: Pensions (non-contentious)
 Investment fund formation and management: Listed funds
 Real estate: Commercial property: hotels and leisure
 Real estate: Environment
 Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
 Corporate and commercial: Equity capital markets
 Corporate and commercial: M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, £250m+
 Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions – high-value deals
 Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
 Dispute resolution: Competition litigation
 Finance: Derivatives and structured products
 Human resources: Pensions: dispute resolution
 Investment fund formation and management: Private funds
 Investment fund formation and management: Real estate funds
 Real estate: Commercial property: corporate occupiers
 Real estate: Commercial property: development
 Real estate: Commercial property: investment
 Real estate: Commercial property: retail
 Risk advisory: Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
 TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Fintech
 TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Franchising
 TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Media and entertainment (including media finance)
 Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
 Finance: Acquisition finance
 Insurance: Product liability: defendant
 Projects, energy and natural resources: Infrastructure (including PFI and PPP)
 Public sector: Healthcare
 Real estate: Property finance
 Real estate: Property litigation
 Risk advisory: Regulatory investigations and corporate crime
 TMT (technology, media and telecoms): IT and telecoms
 Finance: Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
 Human resources: Immigration
 Finance: Corporate restructuring and insolvency

To view the editorial commentary of the rankings go to: www.legal500.com/assets/pages/united-kingdom/uk.html

Submissions for London are due on 29 March 2019. For details on how to submit go to: www.legal500.com/assets/pages/submissions/uk-submissions/home.html