The rankings for the 2014 edition of The Legal 500 UK have been released, with Squire Patton Boggs once again being recognized as a recommended firm in a number of areas. We have 20 lawyers listed as elite "leading lawyers" with another 121 lawyers recommended.
This year, our UK offices received Tier 1 rankings in 17 practice areas:
Birmingham
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Licensing
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Human resources: Pensions
- Real estate: Commercial property: Birmingham
- Real estate: Environment
Leeds
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Human resources: Pensions
- Overview: Regional review – Regional heavyweights
- Real estate: Planning
- Real estate: Property litigation
London
- Corporate and commercial: M&A: mid-market, £50m-£250m
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Gaming and betting
- Finance: Asset based lending
Manchester
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Human resources: Pensions
In addition to our Tier 1 rankings, our teams were highly recommended in 74 practices areas in this year’s edition. You can see the full list of recommended rankings below:
Birmingham
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
- Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Birmingham
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Human resources: Employment
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Overview: Regional review – Regional heavyweights
- Public sector: Local government
- Real estate: Construction
- Real estate: Planning
- Real estate: Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): IT and telecoms
Leeds
- Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Human resources: Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate: Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire #
- Real estate: Construction
- Real estate: Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Intellectual property
London
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial: EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial: Flotations: small and mid-cap
- Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Fraud: civil
- Crime, fraud and licensing: Licensing
- Dispute resolution: Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Competition litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: Mediators
- Finance: Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Finance: Securitisation
- Human resources: Employment: employees/unions
- Human resources: Employment: employers and senior executives
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Human resources: Immigration
- Human resources: Pensions
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Infrastructure (including PFI and PPP)
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Real estate: Commercial property
- Real estate: Construction
- Real estate: Environment
- Real estate: Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Brand management
- TMT: Data protection
- TMT: Intellectual property
- TMT: IT and telecoms
- TMT: Media and entertainment
- TMT: Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
- TMT: Sport
- Transport: Shipping
Manchester
- Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Corporate and commercial: EU competition
- Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Finance: Banking and finance
- Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Human resources: Employment
- Human resources: Health and safety
- Overview: Regional review – Regional heavyweights
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Energy
- Projects, energy and natural resources: Project finance and PFI
- Public sector: Local government
- Real estate: Commercial property: Manchester
- Real estate: Construction
- Real estate: Planning and environment
- Real estate: Property litigation