Slaughter and May corporate partner Nilufer von Bismarck is among a handful of lawyers to have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list.

Von Bismarck (pictured), who has spent almost three decades at the magic circle firm, has received an OBE for services to financial services.

She joined Slaughters in 1990, making partner in 1994, and currently heads up the firm's equity capital markets practice.

Her career highlights have included advising on the UK Government's post-crisis bailout and re-privatisation of Lloyds Banking Group, which saw her lead a team acting for UK Financial Investments (UKFI), the company set up to manage the Treasury's shareholding in the bank.

In recent years she has led the firm's team on another key post-crunch mandate – advising the Treasury on the 'good bank/bad bank' restructuring of RBS, and earlier this year she took a lead role for the Green Investment Bank on the £2.3bn sale of the government-owned bank to Australia's Macquarie.

In a 2007 Dealmaker interview with Legal Week, she cited "being on the winning side" on Granada's £3.8bn hostile bid for Forte as one of her proudest professional moments.

Other lawyers to have been recognised in this year's honours list include incoming Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Sacha Harber-Kelly, who is joining the US firm's London office on 2 January after 10 years at the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), most recently in its anti-corruption and bribery division.

He was the SFO's representative in the government working group that designed the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) system, and acted on its £497m DPA with Rolls-Royce - the largest single investigation carried out by the watchdog. He has been made an MBE for services to combatting fraud, bribery and corruption.

In a statement on his LinkedIn page, he said: "I am honoured to have been awarded by the Queen with a MBE in the 2018 New Year's Honours for service to the SFO, in particular for the investigation and prosecution of fraud, bribery and corruption.

"The award recognises my contribution to the development, implementation and deployment of DPAs in England and Wales. Whilst this may be an individual award, the work it recognises would not have been accomplished without talented and committed colleagues. I am both grateful and honoured to have worked with them."

Former Simmons & Simmons tax partner Edward Troup, who left the firm in 2004 to take up a post as director of business and indirect tax at the Treasury, has been knighted for public service to taxpayers and the tax system. Since last April he has served as executive chair and first permanent secretary at HM Revenue and Customs.

Elsewhere, Caroline Docherty, a consultant at Scots firm Morton Fraser, has been awarded an OBE for services to the legal profession and The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet. The society – commonly known as the WS Society - is a training and networking organisation for Scottish lawyers, for which she serves as Deputy Keeper of the Signet.

She has spent eight years at Morton Fraser, before which she was a partner at fellow Scots firm Bell & Scott (now part of Anderson Strathern).

Fladgate corporate consultant Andrew Kaufman has received an MBE for his Holocaust education work with the Association of Jewish Refugees, while other honours include CBEs for Anne McGaughrin, a legal director for the Department for Education, for services to law and order in the public sector, and Nuzhat Saleh, assistant director in the directorate of legal services at the Metropolitan Police Service, for services to policing.