Submissions for Chambers Europe 2022

The Europe guide covers 52 jurisdictions over the course of its 9-month research cycle, highlighting top international and local leading firms and highly respected lawyers. We cover practice areas ranging from Corporate/M&A and International Arbitration to Shipping and Oil & Gas across the entire European continent, including Russia, Germany, France and Ireland, as well as Andorra, Liechtenstein and the Baltics. 

The final deadline for Europe 2022 submissions is 8 September 2021.  

The following jurisdictions have practice area submissions due by the next deadline:

Our data visualisations below highlight the continued growth of the Chambers Europe guide since 2008, showing the growth in both the number of submissions and referees received.

To ensure your firm has all of the information to make a successful submission, please read the FAQs below.

The submission document can be found here. Please select Submission form (Europe) from the list on the left-hand side.

The submissions are an opportunity to showcase the firm's work and key clients over the previous 12 months, and demonstrate the team's make up.

We do not grant formal extensions. You should aim to upload your referees by the deadline and send in your submission as soon as possible. You do not need to send an e-mail to confirm this with the relevant deputy editor.

Matters should have taken place in the previous 12 months prior to submitting.

Yes. We understand that some matters can take years to conclude. In this case, you can continue to include it, especially if this is a particularly key deal, but please include an update.

Yes. It is not necessary to keep the 50:50 ratio of publishable to confidential matters so long as the total number of work highlights does not exceed 20. Furthermore, please maintain the overall template: publishable matters should be on a green background, confidential matters on a red background.

No. Confidentiality is there for our publishing and research purposes only. Please give all possible information to help us gauge the significance of confidential deals. Use a generic description if you cannot reveal a client's name such as, big energy company, or in a deal valued in millions of EUR. The ratio of confidential/non-confidential deals can vary in whichever way you prefer as long as the overall number of deals does not exceed 20 and maintain the overall template, i.e. publishable matters should be on a green background, confidential on a red background. We will not look at more than 20 matters per practice area.

Yes, you must submit a separate submission for each practice area for which you would like to be considered.

Yes, please ensure that your submission is in English.

We want to see the new and relevant work for the practice area you wish to apply to. It is better to be consistent and only include relevant work on your submission. The work highlight is the part of the submission that we rely most heavily when making the ranking decision. Please keep your matter description concise and to the point. A well written work highlight has a couple of sentences at the beginning which very factually describe what actually took place and demonstrating what the firm was responsible for. This then would be followed by a more detailed description and explaining the importance of the deal. Where possible, do provide us with information on matter values, opposing counsels and press clippings. You may include key ongoing matters which were in previous submissions, but you should then include a short paragraph about the recent developments that the practice has handled in the last 12 months.

We ask that you provide us with all the information that you can, including values. We do find that values are particularly useful when assessing transaction-driven practices. However, we do understand that sometimes you will not be able to disclose the value of the matter at hand. If only the value of the deal is confidential, you can include that mandate in the publishable section, clearly marking that value as confidential. We suggest to put [CONFIDENTIAL] next to the deal value.

Please keep your submissions, and more importantly the work highlights, concise and to the point. We will not penalise you should you exceed one page per highlight or indeed go over the 500 words limit in the section B10. However, please be as concise and specific in B10 as you can.

The relevant researcher will contact the individual listed as the key point of contact on the submission a few days prior to contacting your referees. Once you receive this e-mail, you are encouraged to remind your referees that they have been put forward and to look out for an e-mail from the researcher.

We will generally contact referees within 1-3 months of their being submitted. Sometimes the research schedule does to change and it may be slightly longer.

We send an e-mail to referees detailing who we are and the purpose of getting in touch. If need be, we will send a reminder e-mail about halfway through the research period.

If your referees are telling you there has been no contact from Chambers, the first thing is to ask them to check their spam folders. The next step would be contacting the relevant deputy or editor and he/she will check if the contact was made and take it from there. There are a number of reasons why an individual may not have received an e-mail from us. It is possible that this client was contacted within the last three months or the client may have unsubscribed from our emails.

Although this is rare, it is very important for the firm to check if the clients are willing to participate prior to sending in their data. If the client is willing to talk to us again despite being interviewed recently, we ask them to contact the researcher directly. Furthermore, please note that we will only contact 20 clients per firm per area of practice; this means that even if you submit more, we will only contact the first 20.

We can accept international lawyers acting as referees. However, you should prioritise clients over non-client referees.

We expect approximately 30% to respond and provide feedback.

We speak over ten different languages across the Europe team, including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Russian. We usually have the capacity to communicate with an individual in their chosen language, both on the phone and in written communication. However, if you are concerned, please get in touch with the relevant deputy editor.

Please keep your submissions, and more importantly the work highlights, concise and to the point. We will not penalise you should you exceed one page per highlight or indeed go over the 500 words limit in the section B10. However, please be as concise and specific in B10 as you can.

For further details and the remaining Chambers Europe 2022 submissions deadlines please visit the Research Schedule page here.