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Linklaters

Europe Guide 2024

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Senior Partner: Aedamar Comiskey

Managing Partner: Paul Lewis

Global Head of Corporate: Simon Branigan

Global Head of Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations: Alison Wilson

Global Head of Finance & Projects: Andrew Vickery

Number of partners: 530

Number of lawyers: 2535

Contacts:

Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group: Bernd Meyring

Asset Finance: Caroline Courtney

Banking: Rebecca Jarvis, Ben Crosse

Capital Markets: Christian Storck, Pam Shores

Corporate/M&A: Simon Branigan

Employment & Incentives: Alexandra Beidas, Nicola Rabson

Energy and infrastructure: Daniel Tyrer

Environment & Climate Change: Rachel Barret

Financial Regulation: Peter Bevan

Insurance: Duncan Barber,Thomas Broichhausen, Tracy Whiriskey

Intellectual Property: Julia Schönbohm

Investment Funds: Silke Bernard

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations: Alison Wilson

Pensions: Claire Petheram

Private Equity: Alex Woodward

Real Estate: Andy Bruce

Restructuring & Insolvency: Nick Le Masurier, Richard Hodgson

Tax: Olivier Rosenberg

Technology, Media & Telecommunications: Julia Schönbohm

The firm: Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. The firm uses its expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world.

Types of work undertaken

Banking: comprehensive experience spanning acquisition and leveraged finance, bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, financial structuring, high yield, real estate finance, trade and emerging markets finance and asset finance.

Capital markets: expertise across international capital markets, covering debt, equity, equity-linked, regulatory capital, liability management, high-yield, derivatives and structured financings.

Competition/antitrust: expertise in merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance, market investigations, state aid, public procurement, utility regulation, damages litigation in the UK and litigation before the EU courts. Specialist lawyers in key jurisdictions in Europe, the US and Asia.

Corporate and M&A: advice on finance and commercial transactions, including complex cross-border M&A, major listings on stock exchanges globally, joint ventures, restructuring and privatisations.

Corporate tax: expertise across all tax aspects of corporate transactional (private equity), finance (structured finance), international tax planning, contentious, real estate and investment funds work.

Employment and incentives: a balanced global practice combining advisory work, transactional involvement and contentious advice. Employment work includes regulatory investigations, restructurings and redundancies, governance, board/senior executive appointments, terminations and disputes. Incentives work includes global share plans, including plan design and structure, corporate transactions, regulatory issues, governance, trusts and corporate/individual tax.

Environment and climate change: advice on all aspects of environmental and climate change regulation, carbon trading, sustainability and governance, allocation of environmental assets and risks in M&A, project finance, funds and real estate, and regulatory and environmental dispute resolution.

Financial regulation: advice on financial regulation, compliance risk management and regulatory investigations and enforcement for investment, commercial and retail banks, asset managers, private equity houses, insurers, exchanges, trading platforms, clearing houses and other financial institutions in the UK and globally.

Insurance: a global insurance practice with expertise including M&A, demutualisations, reorganisations, portfolio transfers, reinsurance, bancassurance, complex capital markets transactions, and regulatory.

Intellectual property: expertise in contentious and non-contentious aspects of IP rights.

Investment management: the firm advises sponsors and investors on the structuring, formation, taxation and regulation of all types of funds, clubs and joint ventures investing in all asset classes, and advises on the spin out, establishment and operation of asset managers as well as the latest regulatory, tax and market developments relevant to the asset management industry.

Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations: wide range of dispute resolution services for multi-jurisdictional and complex matters through litigation, arbitration, mediation and other forms of ADR. Specialisms include crisis management, banking, derivatives and structured products disputes, regulatory investigations, sanctions, fraud and white-collar crime, global cartel investigations, competition and antitrust litigation, insolvency disputes, contentious tax, energy and infrastructure disputes, pensions litigation, BIT and international commercial arbitrations and property litigation.

Pensions: the pensions group advises both trustees and corporates on the full range of pensions issues, including tailored funding solutions, regulatory, governance and investment issues.

Private equity: expertise in all aspects, from establishing the fund to advising private equity houses and other financial sponsor clients on leveraged transactions including private acquisitions, take-privates, carve-outs, consortium deals and distressed acquisitions and private sale and IPO exits.

Projects: advice on project financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors: oil and gas, petrochemical, power, green energy (renewables), telecoms, mining, water, PPP/PFI, together with all other aspects including investment vehicles, hybrid and structured financing and refinancing.

Real estate: global specialists in investment, development, M&A, finance, tax, funds, environment, planning and disputes.

Restructuring and insolvency: leading expertise across the full range of stressed and distressed situations, including balance sheet restructurings, debt and equity capital raising, secondary investments, liquidity management, distressed M&A, investigations, asset tracing, insolvency litigation, formal insolvency procedures and contingency planning.

TMT: expertise in commercial and regulatory advice on outsourcing, data protection, IT, e-commerce, telecoms, media and broadcasting.

INTERNATIONAL Linklaters has 29 offices covering all the major jurisdictions and financial centres around the world. Work is handled in all commercial languages and local languages of countries in which Linklaters has offices.

RECRUITMENT In order to maintain Linklaters’ premier position the firm actively recruits the highest calibre candidates from a wide range of backgrounds. Individuals interested in making an application can visit the firm’s website at www.linklaters.com/ukgrads or contact the firm at [email protected]

Ranked Offices

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UK - Head office
Belgium
  • Brussels
    Rue Brederode 13, Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium, B-1000
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France
Germany
Italy
Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg
    Avenue John F. Kennedy 35, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, L-1855
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Netherlands
  • Amsterdam
    World Trade Centre Amsterdam, Tower H, 22nd Floor, Zuidplein 180, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, 1077 XV
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Poland
  • Warsaw
    32nd Floor, Building Q22, Aleja Jana Pawla II 22, Warsaw, Masovian, Poland, 00-133
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Portugal
  • Lisbon
    Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo 14 15th Floor, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 1050-121
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Spain
Sweden
  • Stockholm
    Regeringsgatan 67 Box 7833 , Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden, 103 98
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Linklaters rankings

Europe Guide 2024
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Belgium
Banking & Finance
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Banking & Finance
1
Banking & Finance
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Charles-Antoine Leunen
1
Charles-Antoine Leunen
1
Band 1
David Ballegeer
1
David Ballegeer
1
Band 1
Banking & Finance: Regulatory
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Banking & Finance: Regulatory
Banking & Finance: Regulatory
Spotlight
Lawyers
Etienne Dessy
1
Etienne Dessy
1
Band 1
Capital Markets
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Capital Markets
1
Capital Markets
1
Band 1
Lawyers
David Ballegeer
1
David Ballegeer
1
Band 1
Charles-Antoine Leunen
2
Charles-Antoine Leunen
2
Band 2
U
Filip Lecoutre
U
Up and Coming
Competition: EU
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Competition: EU
3
Competition: EU
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Gerwin Van Gerven
S
Gerwin Van Gerven
S
Senior Statespeople
Bernd Meyring
2
Bernd Meyring
2
Band 2
Annamaria Mangiaracina
6
Annamaria Mangiaracina
6
Band 6
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/M&A
2
Corporate/M&A
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Arnaud Coibion
3
Arnaud Coibion
3
Band 3
Eric Pottier
3
Eric Pottier
3
Band 3
5
An-Sofie Van Hootegem
5
Band 5
Dispute Resolution
1 Department
Department
Dispute Resolution
1
Dispute Resolution
1
Band 1
Dispute Resolution: Litigation
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
Stefaan Loosveld
4
Stefaan Loosveld
4
Band 4
Xavier Taton
4
Xavier Taton
4
Band 4
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