Allen & Overy was named IFLR's international law firm of
the year at last night's 18th annual European awards. The firm
scooped up eight awards in total across a broad array of
practice areas, from structured finance and securitisation to
loans and private equity.
The ceremony, at the Savoy in London, brought together the
continent's best legal talent to celebrate 2016's most
innovative deals, teams and firms.
Latham & Watkins picked up the highly coveted most
innovative US firm in Europe title, while elsewhere Clifford
Chance picked up four team of the year awards across financial
regulation, loans, private equity and restructuring.
Meanwhile Simon Gleeson, also of Clifford Chance, was given
an award for his contribution to regulatory reform, and
ex-Linklaters partner Andrew Carmichael was presented with the
lifetime achievement award.
Congratulations to all the winners. The full list is
below.
Individual awards
Contribution to regulatory reform award
Simon Gleeson
Lifetime achievement award
Andrew Carmichael
Deals of the year
Debt and equity-linked
Credit Agricole senior non-preferred
instrument
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Equity
DONG Energy IPO
Accura
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Gorrissen Federspiel
Kromman Reumert
Latham Watkins
Plesner
Sullivan & Cromwell
High yield
Virgin Media receivables financing notes
A&L Goodbody
Allen & Overy
Arthur Cox
Dorsey & Whitney
Latham & Watkins
Ropes & Gray
Loans
Bayer's syndicated bridge loan
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Sullivan & Cromwell
M&A
AB InBev / SABMiller
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Macfarlanes
Sullivan & Cromwell
Private equity
HarbourVest / SVG Capital
Allen & Overy
Debevoise & Plimpton
Norton Rose Fulbright
Slaughter and May
Project finance
Solar Storm
Baker Botts
Dorsey & Whitney
Norton Rose Fulbright
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Simmons &Simmons
Restructuring
HETA distressed debt restructuring
Abel
Binder Grösswang
CMS
Dorda Brugger Jordis
Gleiss Lutz
Goerg
Hausmaninger Kletter
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Schönherr
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wolf Theiss
Structured finance and securitisation
Towd Point mortgage funding 2016-Granite 1
Allen & Overy
Brodies
Linklaters
Shepherd & Wedderburn
Teams of the year
Debt and equity-linked
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Equity
Linklaters
Financial regulation
Clifford Chance
High yield
Latham & Watkins
Loans
Clifford Chance
M&A
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Private equity
Clifford Chance
Project finance
White & Case
Restructuring
Clifford Chance
Structured finance and securitisation
Allen & Overy
National winners
Austria
Schönherr
Baltics
Ellex
Belgium
Allen & Overy
Czech Republic
Allen & Overy
Denmark
Kromman Reumert
Finland
Roschier
France
Clifford Chance
Germany
Gleiss Lutz
Greece
Bernitsas Law
Hungary
Réczicza Dentons Europe
Ireland
A&L Goodbody
Israel
Erdinast Ben Nathan Toledano & Co
Italy
BonelliErede
Luxembourg
Arendt & Medernach
Netherlands
NautaDutilh
Norway
BA-HR
Poland
Clifford Chance Janicka Krużewski
Namiotkiewicz
Portugal
MLGTS
Romania
Clifford Chance Badea
Russia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Spain
Linklaters
Sweden
Vinge
Switzerland
Homburger
Turkey
Çakmak - Gökçe
Ukraine
Sayenko Kharenko
Bank and firm awards
In-house debt team of the year
Credit Suisse
In-house equity team of the year
Goldman Sachs
Most innovative US firm in Europe
Latham & Watkins
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy