Capital Markets Review
The best firms in a bad year
November 01, 2009
An exclusive view of the law firm rankings from the
IFLR1000 directory, from the biggest jurisdictions
This was not a great year for anyone, law firms included. Although they are always more cushioned from economic shocks than their clients – due to growth in the restructuring and possibly litigation departments – if those clients are not making money then the firms aren't either. However, in these hard times the best law firms retain their top spot, often because of a flight to quality, and they retrench rather than restructure. Over the next few pages we display a selection of the rankings from this year's IFLR1000, the world's leading directory of financial law firms.
The IFLR1000 has journalists based in Hong Kong, London and New York, and specificallly hires people with journalism backgrounds rather than research, to aid incisive questioning and reporting. Law firms cannot pay to be recommended as a leading firm in the IFLR1000. Recommendations are made on the basis of face-to-face and telephone interviews...
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