For more than 60 years, Baker McKenzie has provided sophisticated advice and legal services to many of the world’s most dynamic and successful organisations. With the instinctively global perspective and deep market knowledge and insights of more than 12,000 people in 77 offices worldwide, the firm has the fluency to deliver a broad scope of quality legal services – consistently, with confidence and sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences. Baker McKenzie lawyers and other professionals are citizens of more than 70 countries and are admitted to practice in nearly 250 jurisdictions. The Firm has offices in 77 locations worldwide, including in 37 of the world’s 50 largest economies.
The Firm has a 300-strong Global and Antitrust and Competition practice; the largest in the world, spanning 47 countries. We remain at the forefront of new cutting edge developments and are increasingly the first point of call for clients who are required to respond to new investigations by the authorities. We regularly handle cross-border and international competition mandates as well as both transactional and litigious matters within the UK and EU.
Guided by nearly three decades of experience, our award-winning team is ranked in the “Top Five Global Elite” by the Global Competition Review. We have strength not just in Europe and the US, but in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Many of our practitioners are former antitrust enforcers and competition and regulatory body members, providing informed insight on how to best interact with regulators to resolve cases quickly.
Gowling WLG is an international law firm created by the combination of Gowlings, a leading Canadian law firm, and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG), a leading UK-based international law firm.
With more than 1,400 legal professionals in 18 cities worldwide, we provide our clients with in-depth expertise in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We see the world through our clients’ eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Learn more at gowlingwlg.com
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The School of Law at Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK’s leading law schools which is home to the specialist Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) based in Holborn. CCLS is known internationally for knowledge and skills in commercial law that can be placed at the service of governments, public bodies, overseas institutions, the legal profession, industry and commerce. CCLS offers the largest portfolio of commercial legal master’s degrees, recently adding new programmes in Regulations and Compliance for professionals in the industry wanting to continue working while studying on a flexible basis.
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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP (including its associated entities) is a global law firm with offices located in the world’s key financial centres. The firm advises industry-leading companies and global financial institutions on their most challenging legal and business matters involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border securities offerings, financings and a wide range of other corporate transactions, as well as a broad array of investigations and litigation-related issues. Approximately 50% of the firm’s principal clients are based outside of the United States.
Davis Polk has practised US law in London for over 40 years, advising on the majority of marquee capital markets transactions in Europe including the UK Government’s privatisations in the 1980s, technology-related IPOs in the 1990s and recapitalisation of numerous financial institutions in the 2000s. The firm’s English law practice started five years ago with lateral hires at partner, counsel and associate level from leading UK law firms.
Our growing London-based team now consists of over 60 UK and US qualified lawyers covering a range of equity and debt capital markets, private and public M&A and finance and restructuring transactions. The corporate and credit teams are supported by first rate corporate tax, financial regulatory and antitrust expertise.
Huntswood’s aim is to drive better outcomes for our clients and their customers. We achieve this by combining expertise, technology and operational services to deliver practical solutions that help regulated firms deliver high quality services in a cost efficient way, while effectively mitigating business risk.
We support clients across a range of regulated industries: financial services, payments, utilities, travel, pharmaceuticals and gaming. Firms of all sizes choose us because of our successful track record of balancing regulatory expertise with end-to-end operational support, backed by technology and innovation.
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