The nominations for this year's IFLR European Awards have been announced. For all the deal and team of the year shortlists, please see below.
All team and deal winners, along with the most innovative national law firms of the year, will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday April 19 at the Savoy Hotel, London.
The law firms listed on each deal are based on preliminary research and submissions. If your firm advised on one of these deals, but are not listed, please email james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com
To reserve your table, please email Jamil Ahad at jamil.ahad@euromoneyplc.com or call +44 207 779 8767
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked
Barclays green bond
Clifford Chance Linklaters
BBVA SEC-registered preferred securities
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Garrigues
Linklaters
Sidley Austin
Consus Real Estate synthetic equity-linked bond
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Crédit Agricole senior non-preferred US offering
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Nordea Bank consent solicitations
Castrén & Snellman
Clifford Chance
Hannes Snellman
Linklaters
White & Case
Unicredit Yankee bond
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Volcan Investments mandatory exchangeable bonds
Allen & Overy
Graham Thompson
Harneys
White & Case
Equity Allied Irish Banks IPO
A&L Goodbody
Allen & Overy
Arthur Cox
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
McCann FitzGerald
William Fry
Carmila IPO
Bredin Prat
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
White & Case
Delivery Hero IPO
Allen & Overy
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
GLNS
Hyazinth
King & Spalding
Latham & Watkins
Sullivan & Cromwell
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
EN+ Group dual-listing in Moscow and London
Linklaters
White & Case
Global Ports Holding IPO
Akol Özok Namlı
Baker McKenzie
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Esin Attorney Partnership
Linklaters
Landis+Gyr IPO
Bär & Karrer
Niederer Kraft & Frey
Morrison & Foerster
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sisram Medical Hong Kong IPO
Beijing Dentons Law Offices
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Grandall Law Firm
Weinstock Zecler
Yigal Arnon & Co
The Intertain Group delisting and relisting
Cassels Brock & Blackwell
Clifford Chance
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
High yield AnaCap Financial Europe
Carey Olsen
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg
Ogier
Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații
White & Case
Bain Capital and Cinven / Stada Arzneimittel high yield financing
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
CMS Cameron McKenna
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Loyens & Loeff
Stibbe
White & Case
Cinven and CVC Capital Partners / NewDay high yield financing
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Hellman & Friedman / Allfunds Bank high yield financing
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Ropes & Gray
Infopro Digital
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Clifford Chance
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Nostrum Oil & Gas Finance
Greenberg Traurig
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Zan Hub
Wind Tre
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
NautaDutilh
White & Case
Loans Advent International / Brammer and IPH Group acquisition financing
Lydian
Ogier
Paul Hastings
Uría Menéndez
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Bain Capital and Cinven / Stada Arzneimittel financing
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
CMS Cameron McKenna
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Loyens & LoeffStibbe
White & Case
Belron senior secured credit facilities
Baker McKenzie
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Elvinger Hoss Prussen
Hochtief / Abertis Infraestructuras financing
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Intrum Justitia / Lindorff acquisition financing
Arntzen De Besche
Bär & Karrer
Burai-Kovács & Partners
Lakatos Köves & Partners
Latham & Watkins
Loyens & Loeff
NautaDutilh
Ropes & Gray
Roschier
Vinge
White & Case
Wiersholm
Paysafe Group
Cains
Collas Crill
Grama Schwaighofer Vondrak Rechtsanwälte
Hassans International
Stikeman Elliott
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Premier Lotteries Ireland refinancing
Allen & Overy
Matheson
Weil Gotshal & Manges
William Fry
Roark Capital / International Car Wash Group acquisition financing
AKD
Ashurst
Davis Polk & Wardwell
DLA Piper
Ogier
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
M&A Asahi / SABMiller CEE businesses
Allen & Overy
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Greenberg Traurig
Hogan Lovells
Suciu Popa
BA Vidro / Yioula Glassworks glass container business
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Winston & Strawn
ChemChina / Syngenta
Bär & Karrer
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Gleiss Lutz
Global Law Office
Homburger
Simpson Thacher & Barlett
Elis / Berendsen
Ashurst
Cohen & Gresser
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith Freehills
Sullivan & Cromwell
Tallwood Capital and Canyon Bridge Capital Partners / MIPS and Imagination Technologies Group
Clifford Chance
Jones Day
Johnson & Johnson / Actelion
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Homburger
Niederer Kraft & Frey
Sexton Riley
Slaughter and May
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Midea Group Co / KUKA Aktiengesellschaft
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Harneys
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mobileye / Intel Corp.
Goldfarb Seligman & Co
Houthoff Buruma
Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal
Morrison & Foerster
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Van Campen Liem
Multi-Color Corporation / Constantia Flexibles' labels division
Ashurst
Binder Grösswang
Chassany Watrelot & Associés
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Keating Muething & Klekamp
Kinstellar
Loyens & Loeff
Lydian
Mishcon de Reya
Pérez-Llorca
Sullivan & Cromwell
Webber Wentzel
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Zhong Lun Law Firm
Private equity Bain and Cinven / Stada
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Cinven and CVC / NewDay
Clifford Chance
Jones Day
Mourant Ozannes
Slaughter and May
Exponent Private Equity / The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company businesses
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Pinsent Masons
White & Case
Hg-led consortium / Visma Group Holdings
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Schjødt
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wiersholm
Lone Star Funds / Novo Banco
Allen & Overy
DLA Piper
Vieira de Almeida
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Project finance
Ikitelli Integrated Health Campus PPP Bezen & Partners
Ergün Avukatlık Bürosu
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Italy-France interconnector project
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo
Chiomenti Studio Legale
Clifford Chance
Legance
Paul Hastings
Leviathan gas reservoir
Agmon & Co Rosenberg Hacohen & Co
Epstein Rosenblum Maoz
Malta LNG-to-power IPP
Camilleri Preziosi
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
GVZH Advocates
Mamo TCV
Winston & Strawn
Markbygden ETT project
CMS
Simmons & Simmons
Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Slaughter and May
Watson Farley & Williams
Yamal LNG
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Restructuring Abengoa
Arendt & Medernach
Armstrong Teasdale
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
Cortés Abogados
Creel Garcia-Cuellar Aiza y Enriquez
DLA Piper
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
Linklaters
Loyens & Loeff
Mijares Angoitia Cortes y Fuentes
Sullivan & Cromwell
Uría Menéndez
Wickersham & Taft
Banco Santander / Banco Popular
Baker McKenzie
David Polk & Wardwell
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados
Pérez-Llorca
Frigoglass
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Karatzas & Partners
Koutalidis
Kyriakides Georgopoulos
Shearman & Sterling
Stibbe
Metinvest
Allen & Overy
Avellum
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Redcliffe Partners
Ocean Rig Group
Appleby
Collas Crill
Kelley Drye & Warren
Kirkland & Ellis
Maples and Calder
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
Ogier
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Seward & Kissel
Sidley Austin
Premier Oil
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Slaughter and May
Wilkie Farr & Gallagher
Roust
Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Greenberg Traurig
Kirkland & Ellis
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Wierciński Kwieciński Baehr
The Co-operative Bank
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Paul Hastings
Structured finance and securitisation Attica Bank NPL securitisation
Arendt & Medernach
Jones Day
Shearman & Sterling
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Autobahn Tank & Rast Gruppe structured secured refinancing
Allen & Overy
Arthur Cox
Chapman and Cutler
Clifford Chance
McCann FitzGerald
Watson Farley & Williams
White & Case
Bradford & Bingley and Mortgage Express buy-to-let mortgage securitisation
Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Slaughter and May
Budapest airport refinancing
Allen & Overy
Dentons
Faludi Wolf Theiss
Linklaters
Cadent Gas acquisition financing
Clifford Chance
CMS McKenna
Linklaters
CVC Credit Partners risk retention capital raise
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Mourant Ozannes
Paul Hastings
Premium Credit Limited public insurance premium loan securitisation
Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
UK Department of Education sale of student loans
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Weil Gotshal & Manges
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Debt & equity-linked Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Dentons
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
White & Case
Equity Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & case
Financial services regulatory Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Norton Rose Fulbright
Shearman & Sterling
Travers Smith
High yield Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Ropes & Gray
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Loans Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Latham & Watkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
M&A Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Sullivan & Cromwell
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Private equity Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Project finance Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Paul Hastings
Watson Farley & Williams
White & Case
Restructuring Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Linklaters
Kirkland & Ellis
Paul Hastings
Shearman & Sterling
Structured finance and securitisation Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
In-house debt team Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays Bank
Citi
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
UBS
In-house equity team Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Citi
Credit Suisse
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
UBS
Most innovative US firm in Europe Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
International law firm of the year Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Sullivan & Cromwell
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case