Swiss firm Niederer Kraft & Frey was crowned European law firm of the year at The Lawyer’s European Awards 2017.
This year’s glittering ceremony was held at The Grange St Paul’s hotel in London, attended by over 300 European managing partners, partners and in-house counsel.
A record-breaking eight in-house counsel and 125 firms and law firm networks networks were shortlisted for this year’s awards.
Among the 27 winners announced across international, European-wide and country-wide categories were A&L Goodbody, Jeantet, Vieira de Almeida, Wolf Theiss and Aequo.
This year’s winners are a force to be reckoned with, launching anything from internal innovation to daring international strategies. With enviable client lists and groundbreaking deals, these firms have shown the calibre of work in Europe in 2016.
But this year hasn’t just been about private practice – with Ericsson’s Nina Macpherson winning Global In-house Lawyer of the Year thanks to her versatility as a problem-solver and business partner.
Find out more about this year’s winners here.
The winners, in full
European law firm of the year
Winner: Niederer Kraft & Frey
Law firm of the year: Austria
Winner: Wolf Theiss
Law firm of the year: Benelux
Winner: Rutgers & Posch
Law firm of the year: Germany
Winner: Gleiss Lutz
Law firm of the year: Italy
Winner: BonelliErede
Highly Commended: Portolano Cavallo
European banking and finance deal of the year
Winner: Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
European corporate deal of the year
Winner: A&L Goodbody
Highly Commended: Tark Grunte Sutkiene
Law firm of the year: France
Winner: Jeantet
Highly commended: BDGC Associés
Law firm of the year: Eastern Europe and The Balkans
Winner: Karanovic & Nikolic
Highly commended: Rojs Peljhan Prelesnik & Partners
Law firm of the year: Central Europe
Winner: Kinstellar
Highly commended: Lakatos Köves and Partners
European law firm of the year
Winner: Niederer Kraft & Frey
Law firm of the year: Iberia
Winner: Vieira de Almeida
Law firm of the year: Republic of Ireland
Winner: A&L Goodbody
Law firm of the year: Switzerland
Winner: Niederer Kraft & Frey
Global network of the year
Winner: Multilaw
Global in-house lawyer of the year
Winner: Nina Macpherson, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Group Function, Ericsson
Law firm of the year: Baltics
Winner: Sorainen
Law firm of the year: Romania
Winner: Maravela & Asociații
Highly commended: Zamfirescu Racoti & Partners
Specialist European Law Firm
Winner: Grau & Angulo
Law firm of the year: Eastern Europe and The Balkans
Winner: Karanovic & Nikolic
Law firm of the year: Turkey
Winner: Çukur & Yilmaz
Law firm of the year: France
Winner: Jeantet
Highly commended: BDGS Associés
European energy and infrastructure deal of the year
Winner: Hebert Smith Freehills
Highly commended: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Law firm of the year: Russia, Ukraine and CIS
Winner: Aequo
European managing partner of the year
Winner: Eugenija Sutkiene, Tark Grunte Sutkiene
Highly commended: Juha Pekka Katainen, Krogerus
Global strategic initiative of the year
Winner: Gowling WLG
Law Firm of the Year: Nordics
Winner: Wiersholm
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