IFLR is delighted to reveal the shortlist for the Europe Awards 2022. Below is the full shortlist across the deal, team, national and international firm, and in-house categories.
The Awards focus exclusively on legal innovation in cross-border transactions that closed in calendar year 2021.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on May 5 at The Biltmore, London.
IFLR will also publish all the winners online, with podcasts and analysis to explore the work covered in the Awards and the individuals and teams behind it.
To find out more please contact Sanawa Mtalo: sanawa.mtalo@iflr.com
The shortlist below is based on preliminary research. If your team advised on one of these transactions please contact Jamie Rayat: jamie.rayat@euromoneyplc.com
DEALS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
CBRE Global Investors green eurobond
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
H&M Finance sustainability-linked notes
Allen & Overy
NautaDutilh
White & Case
International Personal Finance floating rate notes
Gernandt & Danielsson
Slaughter and May
LimakPort ESG-linked project bond
Milbank
NautaDutilh
Paksoy
White & Case
Mondelēz guaranteed senior unsecured bonds
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Loyens & Loeff
White & Case
Principality of Andorra sustainability-linked bond
Allen & Overy
Cases & Lacambra
Clifford Chance
UK Green Gilt
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
World Bank – UNICEF sustainable bond
Clifford Chance
Slaughter and May
Equity
Accor Acquisition Company IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
White & Case
Air France-KLM recapitalisation
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
AutoStore Holdings IPO
Kirkland & Ellis
Milbank
Thommessen
Walkers
Wiersholm
EDP Renováveis share placement
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
King & Wood Mallesons
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
Uría Menéndez
Hambro Perks Acquisition Company IPO
Carey Olsen
Clifford Chance
White & Case
Hepsiburada IPO
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
GKC Partners
Paksoy
White & Case
Trustpilot IPO
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Linklaters
Mayer Brown
Plesner
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Volvo Cars IPO
Clifford Chance
Mannheimer Swartling
White & Case
High yield
Douglas note offering
Allen & Overy
Arendt & Medernach
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Wardyński & Partners
Iliad bond issuance
Bredin Prat
Goodwin Procter
K&L Gates
Kirkland & Ellis
Shearman & Sterling
Itelyum sustainability-linked SSNs
Gattai Minoli Partners
Latham & Watkins
Maisto & Associati
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
KPS bond issuance
Allen & Overy
Chiomenti
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gleiss Lutz
Loyens & Loeff
Macfarlanes
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Stibbe
L Catterton bond issuance
K&L Gates
Kirkland & Ellis
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Modulaire bond issuance
Allen & Overy
Milbank
Ukrenergo sustainability-linked bond
Avellum
Linklaters
Sayenko Kharenko
White & Case
Vertical Aerospace senior secured PIK toggle convertible notes
Latham & Watkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Loan
Aggreko public-to-private financing
Burness Paull
Chrysses Demetriades & Co
CMS
Elvinger Hoss Prussen
L Papaphilippou & Co
Loyens & Loeff
NautaDutilh
Richards Layton & Finger
Shearman & Sterling
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Stibbe
ASDA Group
Clifford Chance
Cravath Swaine & Moore
K&L Gates
Latham & Watkins
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Slaughter and May
Bain Capital / Valeo Foods financing
Allen & Overy
Appleby
GTA Lex
Karanović & Partners
Kirkland & Ellis
Loyens & Loeff
Matheson
Rymarz Zdort
Skils
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Enel sustainability-linked RCF
Loyens & Loeff
Simmons & Simmons
Tremonti Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati
Walkers
White & Case
Ethypharm refinancing
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Iliad public tender offer financing
Bredin Prat
Goodwin Procter
Kirkland & Ellis
Shearman & Sterling
L Catterton / Birkenstock financing
Kirkland & Ellis
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Modulaire Group
Allen & Overy
Milbank
M&A
bank99/ING Austria retail business
Binder Grösswang
KPMG Law
Linklaters
Cambridge Quantum Computing - Honeywell Quantum Solutions merger
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Morrison & Foerster
Euronext / Borsa Italiana
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gianni & Origoni
Fiat Chrysler – PSA Group merger
BonelliErede
Bredin Prat
Carey & Allende
Castaneda y Asociados
Covington & Burling
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enriquez
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Demarest Advogados
Linklaters
Marval O'Farrell & Mairal
Morales & Besa
Perez Alati Grondona Benites & Arntsen
Stibbe
Sullivan & Cromwell
Jazz Pharmaceuticals / GW Pharmaceuticals
Arthur Cox
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Macfarlanes
Slaughter and May
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Telefónica - Liberty Global JV
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Ropes & Gray
Shearman & Sterling
Vinci / ACS industrial division
Barros & Errázuriz
Clifford Chance
Cuatrecasas
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Vitrolife / Igenomix
Allen & Overy
Araoz & Rueda
Cedric Law
Clifford Chance
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Garrigues
Hogan Lovells
White & Case
Private Equity
Blackstone, Cascade and Global Infrastructure Partners / Signature Aviation
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Slaughter and May
Blackstone – Hipgnosis Song Management partnership
Herbert Smith Freehills
Kirkland & Ellis
Stephenson Harwood
Clayton Dubilier & Rice / Morrisons
Clifford Chance
Debevoise & Plimpton
Latham & Watkins
Norton Rose Fulbright
Clayton Dubilier & Rice / UDG Healthcare
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
EQT / Cerba HealthCare
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Latham & Watkins
Paul Hastings
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Lovell Minnick Partners / HWM Group
A&L Goodbody
Appleby
Arthur Cox
Brown Rudnick
Chrysostomides & Co
CMS
Cole Schotz
Dentons
Forman Law
Kirkland & Ellis
Maples Group
Mason Hayes & Curran
Partners Group / Fortum Baltic district heating business
Clifford Chance
Ellex
Sorainen
Vitruvian Partners / Fotona Holdings Capital
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Kirkland & Ellis
Project Finance
Cloncreen wind farm
A&L Goodbody
Matheson
McCann FitzGerald
D4 PPP
Clifford Chance
Kinstellar
Linklaters
White & Case
Highfield Solar
Arthur Cox
DLA Piper
Holland Kust wind farm
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Karapinar solar plant
Clifford Chance
Göksu Safi Işık Attorney Partnership
Linklaters
Selvi & Ertekin
L-Vejas
Clifford Chance
CMS
Walless
Önusberget wind farm
CMS
DLA Piper
White & Case
Tram di Firenze
Chiomenti
Loyens & Loeff
Studio Legale Lombardo
Restructuring
DeepOcean
DLA Piper
Kirkland & Ellis
Norton Rose Fulbright
Reed Smith
Wikborg Rein
DTEK Finance
Avellum
Dechert
Hogan Lovells
Latham & Watkins
Sayenko Kharenko
Gategroup
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
Niederer Kraft Frey
White & Case
Hertz Global
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Clifford Chance
Davis Polk & Wardwell
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Walkers
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Intralot
Allen & Overy
Burr & Forman
Dechert
Karatzas & Partners
Loyens & Loeff
Milbank
Papapolitis & Papapolitis
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Malaysia Airlines
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Shearn Delamore & Co
Wong & Partners
Virgin Active
Allen & Overy
Herbert Smith Freehills
Hogan Lovells
Ince Gordon Dadds
Kirkland & Ellis
Mishcon de Reya
Slaughter and May
Sullivan & Cromwell
Travers Smith
Vallourec
Ashurst
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Goodwin Procter
Jeantet
Morgan Lewis
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
Securitisation and structured finance
AMAG Leasing auto covered bond programme
Homburger
ERM Funding - ERMBS Programme and Series 2021-1
Allen & Overy
Appleby
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Herbert Smith Freehills
Shepherd and Wedderburn
Frost CMBS 2021-1
Allen & Overy
Mayer Brown
Walkers
HANetf / SparkChange Physical Carbon EUA ETC
A&L Goodbody
Greenberg Traurig
Reed Smith
LynxCap NPL Securitisation platform
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
CMS Reich Rohrwig Hainz
Dlaw
Elvinger Hoss Prussen
Jadek & Pensa
Kovačević Prpić Simeunović
Pinsent Masons
Project Zeus Public Power Corporation securitization
Bernitsas Law
DLA Piper
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank
Sardelas Petsa
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Neuberger Berman Loan Advisers Euro CLO 1
Ashurst
Maples Group
Paul Hastings
White & Case
Starz CRE CLO
Allen & Overy
Arthur Cox
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Reed Smith
TEAMS OF THE YEAR
Debt and equity-linked
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Linklaters
Milbank
NautaDutilh
Slaughter and May
White & Case
Equity
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
White & Case
High yield
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Loan
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Shearman & Sterling
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
M&A
Allen & Overy
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Linklaters
Morrison & Foerster
Slaughter and May
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Private Equity
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Project Finance
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Chiomenti
Clifford Chance
CMS
DLA Piper
Linklaters
White & Case
Restructuring
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hogan Lovells
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
White & Case
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Securitisation and structured finance
Allen & Overy
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Herbert Smith Freehills
Linklaters
Mayer Brown
Paul Hastings
Reed Smith
White & Case
Financial services regulatory
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Dechert
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters
McCann FitzGerald
Travers Smith
NATIONAL/JURISDICTIONAL LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
Austria
Binder Grösswang
Dorda
E+H Rechtsanwälte
Cerha Hempel
Schoenherr
Wolf Theiss
Baltics
COBALT
Ellex
Sorainen
Walless
Belgium
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Czech Republic
Allen & Overy
Dentons
Kinstellar
White & Case
Finland
Avance Attorneys
Borenius
Dittmar & Indrenius
Roschier
France
Bredin Prat
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Clifford Chance
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Gide Loyrette Nouel
White & Case
Germany
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Hengeler Mueller
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Gleiss Lutz
Latham & Watkins
Greece
Bernitsas Law
Karatzas & Partners
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Ireland
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Matheson
McCann FitzGerald
William Fry
Israel
Agmon & Co – Rosenberg Hacohen & Co
FBC & Co
Gornitzky & Co
Herzog Fox & Neeman
Meitar | Law Offices
Tadmor Levy
Yigal Arnon & Co
Italy
BonelliErede
Chiomenti
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Gianni & Origoni
White & Case
Luxembourg
Allen & Overy
Arendt & Medernach
Clifford Chance
Elvinger Hoss Prussen
GSK Stockmann
Loyens & Loeff
Norway
BAHR
Schjødt
Thommessen
Wiersholm
Wikborg Rein
Netherlands
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Loyens & Loeff
NautaDutilh
Stibbe
Poland
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Greenberg Traurig
Rymarz Zdort
Portugal
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados
PLMJ
Uría Menéndez-Proença de Carvalho
VdA
Spain
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Garrigues
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
Pérez-Llorca
Uría Menéndez
Sweden
Gernandt & Danielsson
Mannheimer Swartling
Roschier
Vinge
Switzerland
Advestra
Bär & Karrer
Homburger
Lenz & Staehelin
Niederer Kraft Frey
Walder Wyss
Turkey
Bezen & Partners
Esin Attorney Partnership, a Member Firm of Baker McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein
GKC Partners
Göksu Safi Işık Attorney Partnership
Paksoy
Ukraine
Aequo
Avellum
Baker McKenzie
Dentons
Sayenko Kharenko
IN-HOUSE TEAMS OF THE YEAR
In-house team of the year: corporate
Brookfield
Enel
Euronext
Liberty Global
Telefónica
Investment bank in-house team of the year: debt capital markets
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Citi
Crédit Agricole
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
Standard Chartered
UBS
Investment bank in-house team of the year: equity capital markets
Bank of America
Citi
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley
INDIVIDUALS
IFLR Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame
Hannah Valintine, Allen & Overy
Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch, Greenberg Traurig
Kate Stephenson, Kirkland & Ellis
Sara Pickersgill, Allen & Overy
Tereza Courmont Vlkova, Paul Hastings
LAW FIRMS OF THE YEAR
US law firm of the year
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Shearman & Sterling
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
International law firm of the year
Allen & Overy
Clifford Chance
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Linklaters
Milbank
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
