Welcome to the Chambers Europe Guide 2023. Search the legal market's best law firms and lawyers using the search functionality above. 

Chambers Europe ranks the top lawyers and law firms across Europe, providing indispensable insights, and market intelligence for law firm clients as well as legal professionals.   

Chamber and Partners rankings are based on in-depth analysis and research, conducted by our dedicated, experienced team of researchers. Tens of thousands of one-to-one interviews with referees and clients take place each year to help us understand the views and experiences of clients for the legal work submitting firms provided.  

Our rankings and research provide clients, in-house counsel, GCs and other buyers of legal services across the European legal market with the insights they need when it matters, and aids them in finding the most suitable providers of legal services, wherever they exists. 

For more information on our unrivalled methodology and insights into our submissions process, please visit our methodology page.  

Chambers and Partners is excited to announce the creation of two new, country guides, Chambers France and Chambers Germany.  

The creation of these two new guides reflects the evolving dynamics that shape the different legal markets across Europe. These two guides will also allow firms within the Europe guide a greater chance to showcase their expertise in their respective jurisdictions.   

Click here to learn more about Chambers France.

Click here to learn more about Chambers Germany.

Chambers Europe will continue to be a priority and a core guide for the Chambers research team. We will be enhancing the depth of our research across the continent, ensuring that we continue to cover European markets in the most accurate way.

Learn more about our plans and about the two guides here.

Submissions for the Chambers Europe 2025 guide are open, you can view the full schedule here.  

After careful consideration, we have made the decision not to conduct research on Russia and Belarus this year. 

Please contact the EMEA Research Director Marlene Hermann or Head of Europe Magdalena Parkitna directly with any questions. 

This year of research saw continued growth in engagement from law firms and their referees across Europe which has allowed the team to further expand and consolidate our legal rankings across the continent. This has led to further subsections being added, notably in Spain, where the Employment table was divided into Elite and Highly Regarded, and Italy, which saw the inclusion of Corporate/M&A: High-End Capabilities. 

Contentious tables have also seen significant growth, with Austria Intellectual Property: Patent Attorney Contentious and Hungary Dispute Resolution: Arbitration being added to the guide for 2023. 

One major impact on the rankings this year was the continued war in Ukraine. With the vast amount of upheaval, we decided to reframe how we approach the rankings and which practice areas would be covered.

We have retained the rankings for Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Competition and Intellectual Property – though with Spotlight rankings and an emphasis on pro bono work undertaken by the firms. For more information on our approach, please read our Ukraine Overview. 

Further to this, we also made the decision to not carry out research into legal markets in Russia or Belarus for the 2023 guide. 

Our in-depth research runs from March to November.

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Changes to Chambers Europe 2025 research cycle
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Trends in Italian Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
Discover the trends in Finance and Capital Markets in Italy in this Legal Topics article.

Ukraine research update for 2024
The team share an update on how research is being conducted into the legal market across Ukraine and how this will impact rankings in the Chambers Europe 2024 Guide.

Tech Companies versus Competition Authorities
Learn about the recent Digital Markets Act (DMA) that launched in Germany and it's impact on competition law across Europe and in the German legal market.

The New Foreign Subsidies Regulation introduced by the European Commission
This article looks at the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation introduced by the European Commission. 

Competition law insights on transfers in football
Discover the competition law that affects transfers in football and why the proposed European Super League would have been anti-competitive.

Our legal rankings are based on in-depth analysis and research, conducted by our experienced team of Research Analysts, who conduct interviews with law firm clients/referees which helps us understand the views and experiences of clients for the legal work submitting firms provided. 

For more information on our methodology and insights into our submissions process, please visit our methodology page.