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Global 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: 545

Number of lawyers: 2575

Contacts:

Asset Finance: Olga Petrovic

Banking: Rebecca Jarvis, Ben Crosse

Capital Markets: Hwang Hwa Sim

Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group: Natura Gracia, Fay Zhou, Antonia Sherman

Corporate/M&A: Simon Branigan

Dispute Resolution: Alison Wilson

Employment & Incentives: Alexandra Beidas, Nicola Rabson

Environment & Climate Change: Rachel Barret

Financial Regulation: Peter Bevan

Insurance: Thomas Broichhausen, Tracy Whiriskey

Intellectual Property: Julia Schönbohm

Investment Funds: Silke Bernard

Pensions: Clare Petheram

Private Equity: Alex Woodward

Energy and infrastructure: Daniel Tyrer

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.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK

Banking: Comprehensive experience spanning the fields of banking and finance, including acquisition and leveraged finance, bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, financial structuring, high yield, real estate finance, trade and emerging markets finance, restructuring and insolvency 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.

Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group : Expertise in UK and EU competition law: 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 USA and Asia.

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

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

Employment & Incentives: Global advice on all employment and incentives matters, with a balanced 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 & Climate Change: Advice on all aspects of environmental and climate change regulation, carbon trading, sustainability and governance, the 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: Expertise across all aspects of the sector including M&A, JVs, rights issues, securitisations, demutualisations, complex capital markets transactions, reorganisations, portfolio transfers and regulatory.

Intellectual Property: Expertise in contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property rights.

Investment Funds: 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 & Investigations: Wide range of dispute resolution services for multijurisdictional 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, property litigation.

Pensions: 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 of the industry, 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: Advise on large scale, award winning and market-leading projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors across the world - covering oil and gas, petrochemicals, LNG, thermal power, renewables, nuclear, water and waste, mining, airports, roads and bridges, ports, stadia, telecoms, and rail related transactions.

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

Restructuring & Insolvency: Leading expertise across an exceptional spread of transactions covering a wide range of jurisdictions and complexities, including debt restructuring and rescheduling, equity capital raising and restructuring, distressed M&A activity, debtor advisory work, formal insolvency procedures and contingency planning and investigation, asset tracing and insolvency litigation.

Technology, Media & Telecommunications: Expertise in commercial and regulatory advice on outsourcing, data protection, IT, e-commerce, telecoms and 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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China
  • Beijing
    Unit 5206, Level 52, China World Tower B, No 1 Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue, Beijing, Beijing, China, 100004
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    Hong Kong
    11th Floor, Alexandra House Chater Road , Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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    Shanghai
    29/F Mirae Asset Tower, 166 Lu Jia Zui Ring Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 200120
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France
Germany
Italy
Japan
  • Tokyo
    Meiji Yasuda Building 10F, 1-1 Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan, 100-0005
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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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Saudi Arabia
  • Riyadh
    Building S4, Riyadh Business Front Airport Road , Riyadh, Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 13413
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Singapore
  • Singapore
    One George Street #17-01, Singapore, Singapore Island, Singapore, 049145
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South Korea
  • Seoul
    Foreign Legal Consultant Office, 22F East Tower, Mirae Asset Center 1, 26 Eulji-ro 5-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 100-210
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Spain
Sweden
  • Stockholm
    Regeringsgatan 67 Box 7833 , Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden, 103 98
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Thailand
  • Bangkok
    20th Floor, Capital Tower, All Seasons Place, 87/1 Wireless Road, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
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United Arab Emirates
  • Abu Dhabi
    Level 27, Al Sila Tower 1, Sowwah Square, Al Maryah Island, PO Box 144970, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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    Dubai
    Office 12-02, Level 12, ICD Brookfield Place Mustaqbal Street, Dubai International Financial Centre , Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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USA
  • New York
    1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, USA, NY 10104
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    Washington, DC
    601 Thirteenth Street N.W., Suite 800 North, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, USA, 20005
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Linklaters rankings

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Africa-wide
Capital Markets
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets
2
Capital Markets
2
Band 2
Corporate/Commercial: OHADA Specialists
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
Bertrand Andriani
2
Bertrand Andriani
2
Band 2
Justin C. Faye
U
Justin C. Faye
U
Up and Coming
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
1
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
1
Band 1
Dispute Resolution
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Dispute Resolution
2
Dispute Resolution
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Roland Ziadé
2
Roland Ziadé
2
Band 2
Arnaud de La Cotardière
4
Arnaud de La Cotardière
4
Band 4
4
Matthew Weiniger KC
4
Band 4
Project Finance
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Bertrand Andriani
2
Bertrand Andriani
2
Band 2
Projects & Energy
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Projects & Energy
1
Projects & Energy
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Bertrand Andriani
1
Bertrand Andriani
1
Band 1
Justin C. Faye
U
Justin C. Faye
U
Up and Coming
Projects & Energy: Mining & Minerals
1 Department
Department
Projects & Energy: Mining & Minerals
1
Projects & Energy: Mining & Minerals
1
Band 1
Projects & Energy: Oil & Gas
1 Department
Department
Projects & Energy: Oil & Gas
2
Projects & Energy: Oil & Gas
2
Band 2
Projects & Energy: Power
1 Department
Department
Projects & Energy: Power
2
Projects & Energy: Power
2
Band 2
TMT
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
TMT
2
TMT
2
Band 2
Lawyers
3
Julian Cunningham-Day
3
Band 3
Asia-Pacific Region
Banking & Finance
1 Department
Department
Banking & Finance
2
Banking & Finance
2
Band 2
Capital Markets: Debt
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Debt
1
Capital Markets: Debt
1
Band 1
Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products
1 Department
Department
Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products
1
Capital Markets: Derivatives & Structured Products
1
Band 1
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