A&O, Clydes and Centrica among winners at British Legal Awards 2011
Allen & Overy (A&O), Clyde & Co and Centrica were among the winners at last night's (1 December) British Legal Awards, in London's Old Billingsgate Market. A&O scooped up the coveted law firm of the year award, seeing off competition from Clydes, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Mishcon de Reya and Stephenson Harwood to win the prize.
December 02, 2011 at 05:47 AM
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Allen & Overy (A&O), Clyde & Co and Centrica were among the winners at last night's (1 December) British Legal Awards, in London's Old Billingsgate Market.
A&O scooped up the coveted law firm of the year award, seeing off competition from Clydes, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Mishcon de Reya and Stephenson Harwood to win the prize.
The firm impressed a judging panel chaired by chairman of the Financial Reporting Review Panel Bill Knight and including BAA general counsel Carol Hui, and former Linklaters partner Nick Eastwell, now chief adviser on City law firms to the Solicitors Regulation Authority, with a genuine international success story "achieved thanks to some bold investment decisions during the downturn."
Meanwhile Clydes senior partner Michael Payton won the Editor's Award for Managing/Senior Partner of the Year on the back of a year in which the firm's bold merger with key rival Barlow Lyde & Gilbert went live last month (1 November), while a merger with Canada's Nicholl Paskell-Mede (NPM) went live on 1 September.
The City of London Law Society opted to present its Life Time Achievement Award to former International Bar Association (IBA) President Francis Neate for an active career in the legal sector which, aside from his significant work for the IBA, included a long career in private practice, including time at magic circle firm Slaughter and May in both corporate and banking as well as litigation.
Notably, QualitySolicitors was awarded the Law Firm Innovation Award, with the fast-growing high-street franchise having come up against shortlisted firms including A&O and Norton Rose.
Among practice awards, Slaughter and May was named M&A team of the year for its role on BA's merger with Iberia, with Ashurst picking up banking, finance or restructuring team of the year and property team, Wragge & Co winning litigation and regulatory team and Herbert Smith securing the award for commercial team of the year.
In-house awards saw Centrica's Grant Dawson named General Counsel of the Year, while Thames Water took home the In-house Award for Innovation. Man Group won legal department of the year.
Among other awards, Garrigues was named European Law Firm of the Year, while Al Tamimi & Co won the prize for the Middle East region. The London Office of the Year award went to Weil Gotshal & Manges which had been up against US rivals Latham & Watkins, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and the City office of expansive Italian independent NCTM.
British Legal Awards 2011 – winners in full
The City of London Law Society Lifetime Achievement Award – Francis Neate
Law Firm of the Year – Allen & Overy
Editor's Award: Managing / Senior Partner of the Year – Michael Payton, senior partner, Clyde & Co
General Counsel of the Year – Grant Dawson, Centrica
Chambers of the Year -Guildhall Chambers
Regional Law Firm of the Year – Foot Anstey
CSR Initiative/Programme of the Year – Field Fisher Waterhouse
Law Firm Innovation Award – QualitySolicitors
In-House Award for Innovation – Thames Water
Legal Department of the Year – Man Group
Legal Counsel of the Year – Helen Selby, Premier Foods
Assistant Solicitor/ Associate of the Year – Chris Pickup, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
M&A Team of the Year – Slaughter and May
Banking, Finance or Restructuring Team of the Year – Ashurst
Litigation and Regulatory Team of the Year – Wragge & Co
Property Team of the Year – Ashurst
Commercial Team of the Year – Herbert Smith
TMT Team of the Year – Berwin Leighton Paisner
Private Client/Family Team of the Year – Berkeley Law
Education and Training Initiative of the Year – DLA Piper
Best Use of Technology – Sacker & Partners
Supplier of the Year – Autonomy
European Law Firm of the Year – Garrigues
European Legal Team of the Year – Abreu Advogados
European Managing Partner/Senior Partner of the Year – Cristiano Cominotto and Francesca Passerini, AL – Assistenza Legale
London Office of the Year – Weil Gotshal & Manges
Middle East and African Law Firm of the Year – Al Tamimi & Company
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