Niche practices are battling it out with Europe’s largest firms for this year’s European Awards.
Whittled down from hundreds of entries, the shortlist features firms from across Europe. Quality and innovation rather than size is the key to inclusion.
The judging panel of top in-house counsel and UK private practice lawyers selected a mixture of both large and small firms for recognition.
The winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held in Geneva in September, where the winner of European Law Firm of the Year will also be unveiled.
New for this year is an award for the top law firm in Turkey, while the category of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been split into two awards, for the Nordic and the Baltic regions.
Law Firm of the Year: Austria
Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte
CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati
Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners
Graf & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte
Schoenherr
Wolf Theiss
Law Firm of the Year: Benelux
Altius
Arendt & Medernach
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Nauta Dutilh
Stibbe
Law Firm of the Year: Central Europe
Kinstellar
Konecna & Safar
Lakatos Köves & Partners
PRK Partners
Salans
Wolf Theiss
Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and the Balkans
Borislav Boyanov & Co
Kalo & Associates
Kinstellar
Petosevic
Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii
Law Firm of the Year: France
August & Debouzy
Bredin Prat
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Salans
Law Firm of the Year: Germany
Buse Heberer Fromm
Glade Michel Wirtz
Gleiss Lutz
Oppenhoff & Partner
Schalast & Partner
Schultze & Braun
Law Firm of the Year: Iberia
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Garrigues
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo
Perez-Llorca
PLMJ
Uría Menéndez
Vieria de Almeida & Associados
Law Firm of the Year: Italy
AL Assistenza Legale
Chiomenti Studio Legale
Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners
Lablaw
NCTM
Portolano Colella Cavallo Studio Legale
Law Firm of the Year: Republic of Ireland
A&L Goodbody
Arthur Cox
Eversheds O’Donnell Sweeney
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
McCann Fitzgerald
William Fry
Law Firm of the Year: Russia and the CIS
Arzinger
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
Goltsblat BLP
Gvozdiy & Oberkovych
Magisters
Sayenko Kharenko
Law Firm of the Year: Switzerland
Bär & Karrer
CMS von Erlach Henrici
Niederer Kraft & Frey
Schellenberg Wittmer
Walder Wyss
Law Firm of the Year: the Baltics
Lawin
Raidla Lejins & Norcous
Sorainen
Tark Grunte Sutkiene
Varul
Law Firm of the Year: the Nordics
Haavind
Magnusson
Mannheimer Swartling
MAQS
Plesner
Roschier
Law Firm of the Year: Turkey
Akol Avukatlik Bürosu
Bezen & Partners
Esin Law Firm
Kinstellar & CCAO
Kolcuoglu Demirkan Attorneys at Law
Best Overseas Office
Conyers Dill & Pearman, Moscow
DLA Piper, Kiev
Herbert Smith, Madrid
Latham & Watkins, Milan
Watson Farley & Williams, Hamburg
Weil Gotshal & Manges, Budapest
European Law Firm Network of the Year
Ius Laboris
Lex Mundi
Meritas – Law Firms Worldwide
MSI Global Alliance
The CIS Leading Counsel Network
World Law Group
European Niche Law Firm of the Year
AL Assistenza Legale
Broseta Abogados
Cocuzza & Associati
Glade Michel Wirtz
Grau & Angulo
Lablaw
Vandenbulke
European Managing Partner of the Year
Carine Van Regenmortel, Altius
Christian H Pothe, Buse Heberer Fromm
Christoph Lindinger, Schoenherr
Florentin Tuca, Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii
Luís Sáragga Leal, PLMJ
European Law Firm of the Year
Winner to be announced at the awards, selected from the winners of the regional law firm of the year categories