Norton Rose Fulbright

Chairman: Walied Soliman

Managing Partner: Charles Hurdon

Number of partners: 250+

Number of lawyers: 600+

Languages: English, French

Firm Overview:

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. Recognised for its industry focus, the firm is strong across all key industry sectors: Consumer markets, financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; 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:

The 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, dispute resolution and litigation; employment and labor, environmental law, tax, regulation and investigations, intellectual property and real estate.

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.

Energy, Infrastructure & Resources:

With a combined team of over 1,500 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.

Technology:

In Canada, the technology group advises a number of the world’s leading corporations throughout the technology, business services, communications, media and entertainment, outsourcing, and consumer markets sectors. Norton Rose Fulbright were one of the first law firms to establish industry business groups to sit alongside its main practice areas. This has helped the firm retain and enhance its reputation for understanding clients’ businesses, the value drivers in their industry and the pressures which influence their decisions.

Transport:

The Canadian transport group provides clients with advice on various passenger and cargo transportation matters. The firm's experience encompasses all transport sectors, including aviation/aerospace, rail, shipping/admiralty and trucking.

Life Sciences & Healthcare:

The Canadian 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 also provides clients with a multitude of regulatory advice, covering diverse topics such as marketing authorisations and post market surveillance, competition matters, governmental healthcare and procurement programs, trade controls, and anti-bribery and corruption compliance.