Microsoft, Latham and Cooley among winners at Transatlantic Legal Awards
All the winners at last night's Transatlantic Legal Awards
June 08, 2016 at 09:21 AM
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Sullivan & Cromwell, Latham & Watkins, Garrigues and Cooley's Joe Conroy were among the big winners at last night's Transatlantic Legal Awards.
The awards, jointly hosted by Legal Week and The American Lawyer, saw firms from continental Europe, the UK and the US gather at Fishmonger's Hall for a gala dinner to celebrate excellence in handling transatlantic matters across key practice groups, as well as areas such as innovation and pro bono.
Cooley chief executive Joe Conroy was one of the big individual winners of the night, seeing off competition from Norton Rose Fulbright's Peter Martyr and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's John Quinn to secure Transatlantic Law Firm Leader of the Year.
His win comes after the west coast firm launched in London in January 2015 with an initial team of 20 partners. It now houses some 25 partners and more than 70 fee earners, with Conroy telling Legal Week in October that he predicted lawyer headcount in the office will hit triple digits. The firm was named London Office of the Year at Legal Week's British Legal Awards.
Latham meanwhile, beat Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to secure Transatlantic Law Firm of the Year (US), with Taylor Wessing taking the European equivalent award ahead of Slaughter and May.
Other big winners on the night include Sullivan & Cromwell, which picked up five awards, and Skadden, which picked up four awards. DLA Piper won Pro Bono Initiative of the Year for a project that saw the firm establish legal clinics in the UK, US and across Europe to help refugees displaced by war, conflicts and persecution. To date, 180 lawyers from 18 offices have devoted more than 7,000 hours to provide legal assistance to 175 people and ten non-governmental organisations.
Microsoft picked up two significant in-house awards, with chief legal officer Brad Smith winning Transatlantic In-house Leader and the company winning Transatlantic In-House Team of the Year.
Transatlantic Legal Awards – winners in full
Transatlantic Law Firm Leader
Joe Conroy, Cooley
In-House Leader
Brad Smith, chief legal officer, Microsoft Corporation
Transatlantic In-House Team of the Year
Microsoft Corporation
Transatlantic Law Firm of the Year (UK and Europe)
Taylor Wessing
Transatlantic Law Firm of the Year (US)
Latham & Watkins
Transatlantic Pro Bono Programme of the Year
DLA Piper
Transatlantic Corporate Dealmaker, M&A (UK and Europe)
Olivier Assant, Bredin Prat
Transatlantic Corporate Dealmaker, M&A (US)
George Casey, Shearman & Sterling
Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker, Equity Capital Markets
Scott Miller, Sullivan & Cromwell
Alberto Giampieri and Giorgio Vanzanelli, Legance
Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker, Debt Capital Markets
George White, Sullivan & Cromwell
Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker, Restructuring (UK and Europe)
Dominic McCahill, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker, Restructuring (US)
Jay Goffman, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker of the Year, Other
Jason Kyrwood, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Transatlantic Litigation
Michael Baumann and Michael Slade, Kirkland & Ellis
Transatlantic Arbitration
Stephen Jagusch, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Transatlantic Lawyer of the Year: Regulatory
Ivan Schlager, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Transatlantic Lawyer of the Year: Antitrust
Steve Holley, Sullivan & Cromwell
Transatlantic Lawyer of the Year: Intellectual Property
Bruce Wexler, Paul Hastings
Transatlantic Lawyer of the Year: Tax
Eric Wang, Sullivan & Cromwell
Transatlantic Lawyer of the Year: Private Client
Josh Rubenstein, Katten Muchin Rosenman
Transatlantic Rising Stars (Lawyers Under 40)
Werner Ahlers, Sullivan & Cromwell
Pat English, Matheson
Stephen Hauss, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Ryan Junck, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Chris Parker, Herbert Smith Freehills
European Law Firm of the Year: Ireland
A&L Goodbody
European Law Firm of the Year: CEE/Russia
Dentons
European Law Firm of the Year: Nordic Countries
Mannheimer Swartling
European Law Firm of the Year: Germany
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
European Law Firm of the Year: France
White & Case
European Law Firm of the Year: Other Europe
Garrigues
Transatlantic Innovators
Herbert Smith Freehills; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Jones Day
Transatlantic Legal Technology Provider of the Year
RAVN Systems
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