Norton Rose Fulbright

Global Chair: Shauna Johnson Clark

Global Managing Partners: Jeff Cody and Peter Scott

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm providing the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. The firm has 3000+ lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Middle East. Recognized for its industry focus, the firm is strong across all key industry sectors: consumer markets, financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through the global risk advisory group, the firm leverages its industry experience with knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses. No matter which office, the firm operates in accordance with its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. It aims to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each location and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact. For more information see nortonrosefulbright.com

Main Areas of Practice:

Consumer Markets:

Norton Rose Fulbright's global consumer markets lawyers offer clients market-leading legal advice across the consumer, retail, automobile and leisure sector. The team is comprised of lawyers from across the firm, bringing together leading practitioners with deep experience ranging across all legal disciplines including corporate, M&A and securities, antitrust and competition, litigation and disputes; employment and labor, environmental law, tax, regulation and investigations, intellectual property and real estate.

Energy, Infrastructure and Resources:

With a combined team of over 1,300 lawyers across all practice areas, the team at Norton Rose Fulbright are one of the largest and most prolific energy, infrastructure and natural resources teams of any law firm in the world. The energy, infrastructure and natural resources lawyers have been at the heart of many of the world’s leading energy and infrastructure projects, including innovative and first-to-market transactions across a variety of sectors including oil and gas, LNG, nuclear, mining, power and utilities, renewables, water, roads, ports and terminals, commodities, construction and engineering, rail and food and agribusiness.

Financial Institutions:

With over 1,000 professionals globally dedicated to financial institutions, the team at Norton Rose Fulbright advises many of the world’s leading banks, asset managers, financial investors and insurance companies, both locally and on a global scale. Drawing on the in-depth experience across the financial services sector and detailed regulatory knowledge, the firm provides tailored advice on high-level and complex assignments. The firm's approach to its financial institutions clients is holistic across the range of their legal requirements.

Life Sciences and Healthcare:

Norton Rose Fulbright's global life sciences and healthcare team provides a full range of legal advice to innovative pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies and industry investors at every stage of the product life cycle, from intellectual property protections to commercial transactions and M&A. The firm provides clients with a broad range of regulatory advice, covering such diverse topics as marketing authorizations and post-market surveillance, competition matters, governmental healthcare and procurement programs, trade controls, and anti-bribery and corruption compliance.

Technology:

Norton Rose Fulbright's technology lawyers advise some of the world’s leading corporations on the legal, regulatory and commercial issues raised by the impact of technology on their businesses. This encompasses businesses across the technology, business services, communications, media, entertainment and consumer markets sectors in both established and emerging markets. They are recognized as thought leaders in the industry, providing insight on cutting-edge technology developments, including artificial intelligence, big data, internet of things, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and data protection and privacy, to help clients navigate the risks of digital disruption as well as the competitive opportunities afforded by investment in digital capital.

Transport:

Norton Rose Fulbright's global transport practice is comprised of 400 lawyers who deliver in-depth knowledge of the global aviation, rail and shipping industries. As one of the leading full-service legal practices in the transport sector, the firm's lawyers provide clients with a comprehensive understanding of how transportation industries operate on a local and global scale.