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Chambers Europe 2024 e-Edition available to download.

Find the top Lawyer and Law Firms across Europe 2024 in our e-Edition, now available to download per chapter.

Chambers Europe 2024 Webinar

Watch the guide launch webinar and discover key findings from this year's research and learn what is new in this edition of the guide with an overview from the Chambers Europe team.

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About the Chambers Europe Legal Guide 2024

Welcome to the Chambers Europe Guide 2024. 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.   

Expanding coverage of the European legal market

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. The guides will also allow firms within the Europe guide a greater chance to showcase their expertise in their respective jurisdictions.    

Chambers France Legal Rankings Guide 2025

Click here to learn more about Chambers France.

Chambers Germany Legal Rankings Guide 2025

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.

Chambers Europe Guide 2025 Submissions

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

Keep up to date with all of your relevant submission deadlines throughout the year and get personalised submission reminders in your calendar here

One major impact on the rankings is the continued war in Ukraine. Two years ago, we have decided to reframe how we approach the rankings and which practice areas would be covered.  

For Europe 2025, we will be accepting submissions for Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Competition and Intellectual Property as we did for Europe 2024. One key update is that we will also be accepting submissions for Banking & Finance this year. We are also going to conduct research calls for some practice areas in Ukraine during the upcoming research cycle. 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 2025 guide. 

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

Chambers Europe Guide 2024: Highlights

New ranking tables and sub-tables

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 Portugal, where the Dispute Resolution table was divided into Elite and Highly Regarded, and Turkey, where we created new Litigation and Arbitration tables.   

New this year
• Austria - TMT: Data Protection
• Finland – Competition / European Law: Public Procurement
• Greece – Banking & Finance: Capital Markets
• Gibraltar – General Business Law: Corporate / Commercial and General Business Law: Financial Services
• Italy – Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
• Netherlands – Arbitration
• Netherlands – Litigation: Supreme Court Litigation and Litigation: Mass Torts: Mainly Plaintiffs
• Portugal – Dispute Resolution: highly Regarded and Dispute Resolution: The Elite
• Spain – Environment, Social & Governance (ESG)
• Turkey – Arbitration
• Turkey – Litigation

Chambers Europe Guide 2024: Summary

6,932
Department rankings / 1,574 Unique Law Firms Ranked
14,343
Individual Lawyer rankings

From this year, our in-depth research will run from May to November. 

Latest Legal News: Chambers Europe

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Changes to Referee Rules in Europe 2025
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Ukraine Research Update
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Energy and Energy Security in the Nordics
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2023 Trends and Developments in the Baltics
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Chambers Europe 2024 Rankings
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The Buzz in Ireland
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The Buzz in the Baltics
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France Competition Review – A Return to ‘Normal’?
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Competition law review – Do You SEE What I SEE?
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Competition Law Review – Putting the Consumer at the Centre?
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Meet the Chambers Legal Research Team

Marlene Hermann
EMEA Research Director
Oversees: Europe-wide
Contact Marlene
Magdalena Parkitna
Head of Europe
Oversees: CEE, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Contact Magda
Charline Thiebault
Head of France
Oversees: France, Francophone Africa, Haiti, Monaco
Contact Charline
Chambers Author
Alexandra Rinner
Head of Germany
Contact Alexandra
Michael Foulkes
Practice Area Specialist
Oversees : EMEA Competition, UK Competition, including the Bar
Contact Michael
Thomas Morton-Green
Research Manager
Oversees: Baltic States, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Gibraltar, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
Contact Thomas
Laurence Mussett
Research Manager
Oversees: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Dutch Caribbean, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, US Virgin Islands, Greece, Italy, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Palestine, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Qatar, Yemen
Contact Laurence
Lee Pechtl Chambers Legal Topics Author
Lee Pechtl
Practice Area Specialist
Oversees : Banking and Finance
Contact Lee
Ana Licurci
Ana Licurci
Research Manager
Oversees: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Kosovo, Montenegro, Moldova, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Angola, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, São Tomé e Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Contact Ana
Christian Clare
Research Manager
Oversees: Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Lichtenstein
Contact Christian
Camilla Russo
Research Manager
Oversees: Spain, Bulgaria, Georgia, North Macedonia, Andorra, Malta, Romania
Contact Camilla

About our Legal Rankings

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.

In-Depth Overviews

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GERMANY: An Introduction

Due to current global crises and the government’s budgetary difficulties, the German economy is exp...

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GREECE: An Introduction

Greece has continued to improve its economic outlook, with its economy marking one of the fastest g...

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ICELAND: An Introduction

Iceland is a unitary parliamentary republic and a member of numerous international organisations. I...

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ITALY: An Introduction

According to the Italian Labour Law, a dismissal represents a unilateral act by which the employer...

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MALTA: An Introduction

  Malta registered the fastest growth in the European Union (“EU") in 2023, with its debt to GDP ra...

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SWITZERLAND: An Introduction

Switzerland's political and financial landscape was slightly disrupted by recent turmoil. The most...

Practice Area

AUSTRIA: An Introduction to Competition/European Law

Following significant changes to Austrian competition law in the past few years, no immediate legis...

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Practice Area

AUSTRIA: An Introduction to Dispute Resolution: Litigation

 The Austrian court system and litigation practitioners are facing significant developments and cha...

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