IFLR is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Europe Awards 2020. Below is the full list of deal, team, national and international firm of the year finalists.
The 2020 IFLR Europe Awards recognises legal innovation in cross-border transactions that were closed in 2019 and the teams and firms behind them. Our methodology and criteria can be reviewed in the Awards Summary at iflr.com/awards
Winners will be announced on April 23 2020.
We will not be hosting an awards ceremony this year. IFLR will instead announce winners online and offer a series of programmes that will explore and profile the work covered in the awards. To find out more please contact Liam Sharkey: lsharkey@iflr.com
The shortlist below is based on preliminary research. If your team advised on one of these deals but has not been listed please contact James Wilson: james.wilson@legalmediagroup.com
Click here to see what the event looked like last year and to hear from some of our guests.
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Associated British Ports Libor to Sonia bond switch
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
BreBeMi (Brescia-Bergamo-Milano Highway) project bonds
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
BonelliErede
Simmons & Simmons
White & Case
Cembra Money Bank
Bär & Karrer
Clifford Chance
Homburger
Linklaters
Credit Suisse bail-inable SOFR notes
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Homburger
ENEL SDG KPI-linked bonds
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Latham & Watkins
European Investment Bank €STR bond
Arendt & Medernach
Linklaters
Julius Meinl
Gandhi Advocates
Linklaters
White & Case
RBS social bond
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Equity
Aerkomm listing on Euronext Paris
Bevilacqua
Paul Hastings
DWF Group IPO
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
DWF
Huatai Securities IPO
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Fangda Partners
King & Wood Mallesons
Linklaters
Nexi IPO
BonelliErede
Bonn Steichen & Partners
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Legance
Linklaters
Lombardi Segni e Associati
Weil Gotshal & Manges
TeamViewer IPO
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Traton IPO
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Verallia IPO
Bredin Prat
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Jeausserand Audouard
Kirkland & Ellis
Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg
White & Case
Worldline equity collar and block trade
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
High yield
Aston Martin
Latham & Watkins
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Avia Solutions Group
Antis Triantafyllides & Sons
Dentons
Georgiades & Pelides
Magnusson
Sorainen
TGS Baltic
Walkers
White & Case
Domestic & General
Carey Olsen
Latham & Watkins
Mourant Ozannes
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
House of HR
Allen & Overy
Latham & Watkins
Kantar
Allen & Overy
Arendt & Medernach
Ashurst Australia
Gilbert + Tobin
Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg
NautaDutilh Luxembourg
Paul Hastings
Weil Gotschal & Manges
White & Case
Merlin Entertainments
Arthur Cox
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Slaughter and May
White & Case
Pinewood Studios
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
SAZKA Group
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Karatzas & Partners
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Loan
2 Sisters Foods Group
Allen & Overy
Burness Paull
Carey Olsen
DLA Piper
Kochanski & Partners
Paul Hastings
Shepherd and Wedderburn
Walkers
Ares - Daisy Group
Dechert
Dickson Minto
Eversheds Sutherland
Paul Hastings
Bain Capital / Kantar acquisition financing
Allen & Overy
Arendt & Medernach
Ashurst Australia
Blakes Cassels & Graydon
Cuatrecasas
Garrigues
Gilbert + Tobin
Goodmans
Gorrissen Federspiel
Hamilton
Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg
NautaDutilh Luxembourg
Paul Hastings
Plesner
Roschier
Shieff Angland
Simpson Grierson
Weil Gothsal & Manges
BidFair MergeRight / Sotheby's acquisition financing
Holland & Knight
Latham & Watkins
Luther
Mayer Brown
NautaDutilh
Ropes & Gray
Eddie Stobart
Appleby
Cains
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Mourant Ozannes
Shearman & Sterling
KIRKBI, Blackstone and CPPIB / Merlin Entertainments acquisition financing
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Metso – Outotec merger financing
Borenius
Clifford Chance
Hannes Snellman
Sullivan & Cromwell
White & Case
M&A
Caceis / Kas Bank
Clifford Chance
Stibbe
Connect Airways / Flybe
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hill Dickinson
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
DSV / Panalpina Group
Bär & Karrer
Homburger
Kromann Reumert
Jones Day
Moalem Weitemeyer Bendtsen
Schellenberg Wittmer
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Emirates NBD / Denizbank
Binder Grösswang
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Paksoy
Schoenherr
Yegin Ciftci Attorney Partnership
Galapagos - Gilead Sciences
Baker McKenzie
Covington & Burling
Eubelius
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Gigafactory – Swedish Northvolt JV
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Hengeler Mueller
Mannheimer Swartling
Roschier
Merck – GlaxoSmithKline
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Norton Rose Fulbright
White & Case
Takeda / Shire
Ashurst
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Linklaters
Mourant Ozannes
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Nishimura & Asahi
Ogier
Slaughter and May
Sullivan & Cromwell
Private equity
Advent International / Evonik methacrylates business
Baker McKenzie
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
P+P Pöllath & Partners
Weil Gotshal & Manges
CVC Capital Partners / APRIL
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Mayer Brown
EQT / Galderma Skin Health
Bär & Karrer
Bonn & Schmitt
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Walder Wyss
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Henderson Park / Green REIT
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
McCann FitzGerald
Inmarsat take-private
Alden
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Mishcon de Reya
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Wiley Rein
KIRKBI, Blackstone and CPPIB / Merlin Entertainments
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Slaughter and May
Piolin BidCo / Parques Reunidos Servicios Centrales
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Garrigues
Linklaters
Loyens & Loeff
Vinge
Warburg Pincus / Leumi Card
FBC & Co
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Goldfarb Seligman
Gornitzky & Co
Tadmor Levy & Co
Project finance
East Anglia One wind farm
Allen & Overy
Linklaters
Finerge group refinancing
Arendt & Medernach
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Vieira de Almeida
IFC / City of Belgrade waste management PPP
BDK Advocati
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Karanovic & Partners
Wolf Theiss
Municipality of Milan: Metro 5
BonelliErede
Bucchi & Micalella
Chiomenti
DLA Piper
Primorskaya Wind Electricity Plant (WEP)
Baker McKenzie
Silvertown Tunnel PPP
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Hogan Lovells
Pinsent Masons
Shin & Kim
Syvash wind farm
Clifford Chance
Integrites
KL Gates
Redcliffe Partners
Windpark Fryslân
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Houthoff
Loyens & Loeff
Norton Rose Fulbright
Stibbe
Restructuring
Agrokor
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Bogdanovic Dolicki & Partners
GGP Law Firm
Harrisons
Hogan Lovells
Houthoff
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Madirazza & Partneri
Maric & Co
NautaDutilh
Reed Smith
Rojs Peljhan Prelesnik & Partners
Shearman & Sterling
Veselinovic & Co
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Asia Pulp Paper Group
Arthur Cox
McCann Fitzgerald
Mehigan
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Ballantyne
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Emmet Marvin & Martin
Fleischman Bonner & Rocco
Kaufman Coren & Ress
Mason Hayes and Curran
Matheson
McCann Fitzgerald
Sidley Austin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
William Fry
Galapagos
Akin Gump
Arendt & Medernach
BonelliErede
Bonn & Schmidt
Dentons
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gleiss Lutz
Görg Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
Kirkland & Ellis
Jones Day
Linklaters
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Schoenherr
Sidley Austin
Vandenbulke
Werksmans
Wolf Theiss
Gerry Weber International
Allen & Overy
Ebner Stolz
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gerloff – Lieber
Gleiss Lutz
Hengeler Mueller
Pluta
Vieker & Chatziparaskewas
Wellensiek
Lebara
AKD
BAHR
Carey Olsen
Kirkland & Ellis
NautaDutilh
Norton Rose Fulbright
Schjødt
Steinhoff Group
Allen & Overy
Binder Grösswang
Bowmans
Carey Olsen
Clifford Chance
Dorda
Eisenberger & Herzog
Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner
Gleiss Lutz
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Resor
WKK Law
Werksmans
Wolf Theiss
Türk Telekom
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Structured finance and securitisation
Eurobank Ergasias NPL mortgage securitisation
Allen & Overy
Arthur Cox
Bernitsas Law firm
Clifford Chance
Karatzas & Partners
Linklaters
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Lloyds Banking Group RMBS Syon Securities
Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
Walkers
Mulcair Securities
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Clifford Chance
McCann FitzGerald
Norton Rose Fulbright
Piraeus Bank – Intrum
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Karatzas & Partners
Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm
Milbank
Zepos & Yannopoulos
White & Case
Prosil Acquisition NPL securitisation
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Clifford Chance
Garrigues
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Société Générale – Mariner Investment Group impact risk transfer
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Stenn trade receivables securitisation
Arthur Cox
Clifford Chance
Dentons
Latham & Watkins
Norton Rose Fulbright
Pinsent Masons
Walkers
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Homburger
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
White & Case
Equity
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
White & Case
High yield
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Loans
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
M&A
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Slaughter and May
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Private equity
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Project finance
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Hogan Lovells
Linklaters
Norton Rose Fulbright
Shearman & Sterling
Restructuring
Akin Gump
Allen & Overy
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Milbank
Sidley Austin
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Structured finance and securitisation
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
White & Case
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Financial services regulatory
Allen & Overy
Ashurst
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Simmons & Simmons
Sidley Austin
Shearman & Sterling
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
US law firm of the year
Baker McKenzie
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
IN-HOUSE TEAMS OF THE YEAR
In-house debt
BofA Securities
BNP Paribas
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs & Co
HSBC
JP Morgan
NatWest Markets
In-house equity
Bank of America
Barclays
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs & Co
JP Morgan
Jefferies
Morgan Stanley
Stifel Nicolaus
NATIONAL FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Austria
Binder Grösswang
Cerha Hempel
Eisenberger & Herzog
Schoenherr
Wolf Theiss
Baltics
Cobalt
Ellex
Sorainen
Belgium
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Eubelius
Linklaters
Stibbe
Bulgaria
Djingov Gouginski Kyutchukov & Velichkov
Kinstellar
Wolf Theiss
Czech
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Kinstellar
White & Case
Denmark
DLA Piper
Gorrissen Federspiel
Kromann Reumert
Moalem Weitemeyer Bendtsen
Plesner
Finland
Borenius
Dittmar & Indrenius
Hannes Snellman
Roschier
White & Case
France
Allen & Overy
Bredin Prat
Clifford Chance
Gide Loyrette Nouel
White & Case
Germany
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gleiss Lutz
Hengeler Mueller
Linklaters
Greece
Bernitsas Law
Karatzas & Partners
Kyriakides Georgopoulos
Koutalidis
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Hungary
Kinstellar
Dentons
Lakatos Koves and Partners
Wolf Theiss
Ireland
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Matheson
McCann FitzGerald
William Fry
Israel
Gornitzky & Co
Fischer Behar Chen Well Orion & Co
Herzog Fox & Neeman
Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal
Tadmor Levy & Co
Italy
BonelliErede
Chiomenti
Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners
Latham & Watkins
Luxembourg
Arendt & Medernach
Bonn & Schmitt
Clifford Chance
Loyens & Loeff
NautaDutilh
Netherlands
Clifford Chance
Houthoff
Loyens & Loeff
NautaDutilh
Stibbe
Norway
BAHR
Schjødt
Thommessen
Wiersholm
Poland
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Dentons
Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak
Portugal
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados
PLMJ
Uría Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho
Vieira de Almeida & Associados
Romania
Clifford Chance Badea
Kinstellar
Ţuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii
Wolf Theiss
Russia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Spain
Clifford Chance
Cuatrecasas
Garrigues
Gómez Acebo & Pombo
Uría Menéndez
Sweden
Linklaters
Mannheimer Swartling
Roschier
Vinge
Switzerland
Bär & Karrer
Homburger
Lenz & Staehelin
Niederer Kraft Frey
Walder Wyss
Turkey
Esin Attorney Partnership
GKC Partners
Hergüner Bilgen Özeke
Paksoy
Yegin Ciftci Attorney Partnership
Ukraine
Aequo
Avellum
Dentons
Redcliffe Partners
Sayenko Kharenko
