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ABR Solicitors
Criminal Defence Law Firm of the Year – UK
Arnecke Sibeth
Entertainment Law Firm of the Year – Germany
BST Studio Legale
Criminal Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Deep & Far
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Taiwan
Ella Cheong LLC
Franchise Law Firm of the Year – Singapore
Entwistle & Cappucci LLP
Securities Litigation Law Firm of the Year – USA
Grispo Abogados
Corporate Law Firm of the Year - Argentina
Fernando Messias Law Firm
Tourism Law Firm of the Year – Portugal
Francis Scarpulla
The Scarpulla Law Firm
Competition: US Plaintiff Law Firm of the Year
Gurlich & Co
Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic
KETNER
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year - Slovenia
Law Office of Ramni Taneja
Constitutional Law Firm of the Year - India
MBMG Investment Advisory Co.Ltd
Investment Advisory Firm of the Year – Thailand
Rajinder Narain & Company
Aviation Law Firm of the Year - India
Rustem Guardian LLP
Business Crime Law Firm of the Year - UK
Spadafora De Rosa Law Firm
Tax Law Firm of the Year - Italy
Swiss Financiers
IPO Law Firm of the year – USA
The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Commercial Arbitration Law Firm of the Year – Australia
Warren-Tangney Attorneys Inc
Insurance Law Firm of the Year – South Africa
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year—Taiwan
Deep & Far attorneys-at-law was founded in 1992 and is dealing with all phases of laws
with a focus on the practice in separate or in combination of all aspects of intellectual
property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair
competition, and/or licensing, counselling, litigation and/or transaction thereof.
Area of Practice: Intellectual Property, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade
secret.
The patent attorneys and patent engineers in Deep & Far normally hold outstanding and
advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in this country.
Our prominent staffs are dedicated to provide the best quality service in IPRs in this
country. As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations in this country have
experiences of seeking patented their techniques, but more than one fifth of the top 100
incorporations has ever used services of this firm. Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the
science-based industrial park located at Hsin Chu had ever played the most important role
in booming the economy of this country. About one half of them has experiences in seeking
patented their techniques, and out of more than 50% of the patent-experienced companies
in that park have ever entrusted their IPR works to this firm.
Experiences:
Mr. Yu-Li Tsai, a patent attorney graduated from Department of Electrical Engineering of
National Taiwan University (NTUEE), which is the best engineering school in Taiwan.
Because of interest in communication system, he then attended in the Graduate Institute of
Communication Engineering (GICE) of NTU. During his research life in GICE, he also
started to get involved in knowledge and skills of patent-related matters for taking and
receiving the qualification of patent attorney. Mr. Tsai also attended to receive an IP master
from Law School of University of New Hampshire, also known as Franklin Pierce Center for
Intellectual Property, had an internship with InterDigital, Inc., and passed the U.S. Patent
Bar Examination. Currently, Mr. Tsai is working for Deep & Far Attorneys-at-Law as a
patent attorney.
It is our philosophy to provide competent legal services that other firm cannot comparably
provide. The necessitated ensuing problem is how we can so provide? Deep & Far so
achieve by selecting, edifying and nurturing peoples who have the following personalities:
learned in expertise, morally earnest and sincerely behaved in mind and strictly disciplined
between give and take. It is well-believed that such properties are key factors for peoples to
properly and competently behave themselves. Because the clients become more understood
in the knowledge of IP and more budget-sensitive, they usually want to select an agent who
can more efficiently and effectively deal with their IP matters. They often invite bids, set out
tenders and call for interview before they decide to entrust a service provider. Taking
patent for example, they gather information of costs for patent prosecution, previous works,
and firm introduction materials in a preliminary choice stage, and hold an interview to
obtain further details of the firm which has passed the preliminary choice stage. We
represent international giants, e.g. InterDigital, MPS, Schott Glas, Toyo Ink, Motorola,
Cypress, Google, Armani.
We always keep updating the newest state of this firm, recruiting elite patent engineers and
strictly training them the essential skills, improving the efficiency and quality of service,
and developing new strategies that can assist the clients effectively protecting their
intellectual property rights. This firm believes that if the efficiency, quality, and enthusiasm
of the services can be consistently monitored and maintained, overcoming complexities,
challenges or changes is just a result rather than an issue.
Our aspiration and directions would be developing more potential clients either in domestic
or foreign countries, and expanding the size of this firm to assist more clients in pursuing
most satisfactory IP protection. Although the domestic IP market, especially in the patent
field in 2013 shrank a little, we expect this situation may finally change because there is a
phenomenon that the gross economy is starting to recover in 2014.
Contact Details:
Deep & Far
Yu-Li. Tsai
Tel: 886-2-25856688#900
Fax: 886-2-25989900//886-2-25978989
Add: 13th Fl., 27 Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
Web: www.deepnfar.com.tw
Email: lawtsai@deepnfar.com.tw
Initial Public Offering Firm of the Year – USA
Swiss Financiers, Inc., is a FinTech Group that incubates and orchestrates
IPOs and SPACs from pre-IPO financing to listing. They are dealmakers
organizing IPOs and SPACs between issuing companies, industry leaders
and executives worldwide, fast tracking successful transactions with
investment banks, institutional investors, and debt lenders. Collectively,
the team came to the same conclusion that business and investment banks’
approaches were too complex and too expensive to correctly serve the
majority of companies in need of support.
Swiss Financiers is particularly designed to support entrepreneur-driven
companies.
Their unique market position as a dealmaker is at the crossroads of
advisory, debt and investment banking, without competing with them.
Practice Area’s:
Initial Public Offering – IPO
Financing IPO – Costs
SPACs
Swiss Financiers is managed by a group of entrepreneurs and experts that
have a proven track record in finance, innovation, start-up funding,
governance, management and leadership. Its team has a vast historic
experience in financial affairs and banking. Each of the founding partners
has a distinctive background from specialized yet complimentary sectors of
the industry. Swiss Financiers has expertise in areas such as: investments,
venture capital, private equity, debt, securities and investment banking.
Collectively, the team came to the same conclusion that business and
investment banks approach were too complex and too expensive to correctly
serve the majority of companies in need of support. The team is committed
to innovative IPO financing solutions supporting companies when they need
it and not when they are successful.
IPO Cost Financing is one of the key building blocks of Swiss Financiers
Taking a company public demands a certain amount of disposable cash that
is often considered a high barrier to entry.
At Swiss Financiers we have the experience to drive and manage the
financing requirements to go public on securities markets through
transaction financing.
Swiss Financiers Partners:
Christian Frampton
Marc Deschenaux
Jeremy Oades
Dourgam Kummer
Steven Melnik
Anna Budnikova
Hayet Bouzid
Their team holds decades of experience in successfully accompanying
companies through their Private Equity needs – and then listing their
businesses on the public security markets. For its diverse client base, Swiss
Financiers orchestrates the processes of going public and improves cost
efficiency at all times. Their firm is committed to innovative Initial Public
Offering (IPO) financing solutions supporting companies when they need it
and not when they are already successful. Their team has decades of
experience in IPOs (179+ IPOs) and Marc Deschenaux recently wrote an
article on IPO Financing Investments and was nominated in the Who’s Who
Legal.
They are able to fast-track the process by which companies gain access to
funding in a two-step exercise: They start by transaction financing in order
to support the costs of an IPO and then, once configured for market
acceptance, accompany our clients to raise funds on the securities market
with an Initial Public Offering.
Marc Deschenaux is a world-renowned expert in Corporate & National
Finance, including Private Equity, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and
Corporate Secondary Offerings. He has raised Private and Public Equity for
companies and debt governments internationally. He is the Founder of the
leading academic authority on Initial Public Offerings, The IPO Institute, and
of The Experts Without Borders Federation, a non-governmental
organisation in process of recognition by the United Nations.
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They are highly specialized in Initial Public Offerings.
With a strong focus on the NASDAQ and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Undertaking an initial public offering can project your company to the next
level. Swiss Financiers will help and support you with the right insights to
make the right moves & at the right times to leverage your business to its
full potential.
With them, access the right capital to fuel the future of your business.
If you’re considering taking your company public, this important decision
will truly transform the way you are currently doing business. While a
public company faces greater public scrutiny and regulations, it also
secures access to more and deeper sources of capital.
Their dedicated team of IPO professionals will advise you during this
reflexion as you weight through the pros and cons of the additional
requirements and obligations of going public. They will provide you with an
appropriate plan and method to help ensure you’re on the path to success at
every steps of the way.
Swiss Financiers clear proprietary framework for going public services your
organization and strengthens your strategy to raise awareness and capital.
Swiss Financiers IPO services brings together an integrated set of
capabilities to help you as you prepare your company for your listing on the
public markets.
Swiss Financiers provides a wide range of services to manage clients as they
progress towards their IPO and organize themselves to become a listed
company:
Extensive knowledge and experience of capital markets requirements
Extensive connections with established financial institutions around
the world
Extensive experience in corporate governance matters.
Perform a thorough review of your company
Decide on the corporate and management structures needed
Assemble the teams: internal and external
Develop a timeline and framework for an efficient IPO
Their unique market position, as a dealmaker, is at the crossroads of
advisory, debt and investment banking.
We have been accompanying the following companies over the last year:
CHR Corporation
Intellectual Property Securitization (IPSE)
Earth & Sky Corporation
European Press Agency
The IPO Institute
Eiffel International Corporation
MobiGroup
Wild News Corporation
Their major challenge has been filtering the sheer volume of companies that
approach us and selecting the right business to work with. There is a lot of
demand to take companies to the public markets and this demand is
accelerating.
They overcame these issues but making our selection process even stricter.
Their future aspirations are for Our fund lab, Swiss Financiers Inc. will go
public on the NASDAQ in 2023.
Contact Deatails: Details:
Wall Street Headquarters
Swiss Financiers Inc.
99 30 Wall Street, Suite 8th Floor 3890
10005 New York City, New York
United States of America
Phone: Phone: +1 +1 212 212220 220 9304 9304
Email: Email: info@SwissFinanciers.com
info@SwissFinanciers.com
Law Firm of the Year – Czech Republic
The law office GÜRLICH & Co was founded on 1st February 2002. All members of
the firm are experienced lawyers possessing outstanding professional expertise in
various branches of law.
Skilled lawyers, qualified office staff and a lot of experience – that’s our law firm.
We are fully capable of offering legal Services to both individuals and legal entities
in almost all fields of civil and commercial law, all over the territory of the Czech
Republic, both in Czech and English language. We also cooperate with a number of
external lawyers, all experts in their respective fields, to ensure the best possible
outcome for our clients.
In the event of cross-border transactions and litigation, this office hires its
cooperating international law offices as well as external foreign lawyers. Still, this
Law Firm remains a purely Czech legal office free of any financial or other influence
exerted by foreign and/or local nationals. This allows the firm to provide its
services in compliance with law, professionally and independently.
Our law firm focuses mainly on the following areas of law: Civil law, Corporate and
business law, Real Estate law, Intellectual property, Labor law and Litigation.
Above all we deal with, among the advisory on real estate property transactions
(e.g. sale, purchase or lease of apartments and commercial property), drafting all
documents relating to real estate financing, drafting all security related documents
(mortgages, lien over property and other assets including sets of movable assets,
lien over IP or a business or part thereof, security / collateral agreements relating
to banking accounts, shares and ownership interests, as well as numerous
fiduciary assignments of rights demanded by banks), arranging registration and all
other related steps, including advice on governing law. Moreover, we focus on
advisory to developers, on investment in real estate, lease and sublease
agreements, liens on real estate, creation of easements, building law.
Our law firm provides its services at a high professional level, quickly and with
complete independence. Two of our key values that help to drive businesses of our
clients are flexibility and personal approach that we manage to maintain through
the hard work of our young but skilled colleagues who are at all times prepared to
offer tailor-made solutions. Within the scope of legal assistance, our law firm
provides prevailingly advisory services in selecting the most suitable procedure with
a view to client’s needs, prepares various documents and arranges for the
preparation of opinions and legal analyses.
The highest level of professionalism that we try to maintain encompasses taking
into account forthcoming legal amendments, detailed continuous study of
judicature of both the national and European courts. However, while focusing on
professionalism we never forget that it goes hand in hand with a personal approach
which ensures that clients can always rely on our services and we provide our best
in the shortest possible time with a broad level of transparency and detailed
records of our performance.
Scope of Legal Services:
Business Transactions
Civil Law
Intellectual Property
Corporate Law and Business Law, Public Procurement
Labour Law
Real Estate
Litigation
Contact details:
GÜRLICH & Co
Politickych veznu 19
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
tel.: +420 222 101 591
fax: +420 222 101 590
email: info@akrg.cz
web: www.akrg.cz
Law Office of Ramni Taneja
Constitutional Law Firm of the Year – India
Born on 4th December 1955 in New Delhi, Ramni Taneja is a citizen of
India, having been educated in Mumbai, India, and London, England. She
enrolled as an Advocate on 17th October 1980, on the Roll of the Bar
Council of Maharashtra, [Mumbai], India; subsequently transferred to the
Bar Council of Delhi, India, on 20th October 1997. On 3rd March 1997,
she was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and
Wales, [now known as the Senior Courts of England and Wales]. In 1999,
she was appointed as a Notary by the Government of India, New Delhi,
India.
Since 1997, Ramni Taneja practises in New Delhi, India, as an Advocate in
the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Delhi, apart from various
other tribunals and courts in Delhi and in India. From 1980 till 1982 she
practised as an Advocate with Little & Co., Advocates and Solicitors,
Mumbai, India; she headed the office of Little & Co., Advocates, in New
Delhi, India, from 2002 till 2006. From 1983 till 1997, Ramni Taneja was
licensed and practised as a Legal Consultant with A.R. Hilal & Associates,
Advocates and Legal Consultants, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her law
firm, Law Office of Ramni Taneja, began in New Delhi, India in August 2006.
Ramni Taneja completed her school education in the United Kingdom [UK]
at Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster, London, England, UK, as a
consequence of which she obtained the University of London, General
Certificate of Education, Ordinary Levels and Advanced Levels, between
1972-1974. She obtained her BA Honours [First Class Honours] Degree in
English Literature [Major] French Literature [Subsidiary] in 1977 from
Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, India. She obtained her LLB
Degree [First Class] in 1980 from Government Law College, University of
Bombay, India. She was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes
Françaises Modernes in 1975 by l’Alliance Française, Paris, France,
[Mention Tres Honorable: i.e. Distinction] and was ranked first in the
examination in 1975 in India and Asia.
Ramni Taneja is the author of Foreign Direct Investment and Globalisation,
published by Eastern Book Company, 2014. She has written legal articles
that have been published in international and Indian legal journals on
various legal issues
Ramni Taneja’s principal areas of legal practice covering litigation and
transactional legal work are: all areas of commercial law, civil law,
corporate law, constitutional law and criminal law.
Other areas of legal practice covering litigation and transactional law inter
alia are:
Arbitration [international and domestic], air law, banking law, consumer
protection law, due diligence, direct and indirect taxation and international
taxation, extradition law, laws relating to asylum, family law, foreign direct
investment, including foreign exchange law, insurance law, initial public
offerings, intellectual property law, infrastructure law, employment law,
laws governing the media, mergers and acquisitions, immigration and
nationality law, maritime law, succession law, private international law,
public international law and property law.
Contact Details:
Address:
A 34 DEFENCE COLONY
NEW DELHI 110024, INDIA
Telephones: +91 11 4155 2051; +91 4155 2052
Fax: +91 11 4155 2053
email id: ramni@ramnitaneja.com
http://www.ramnitaneja.com/
Fernando Messias Law Firm / Fernando Messias Advogados
Tourism Law Firm of the Year – Portugal
The Fernando Messias Law Firm was established in 1998 by attorney Fernando Messias.
The Algarve Office and the Lisbon Office works with several attorneys and two administrative
assistants. We work with various attorneys in the country.
“Know the company’s client as well as you know the company” has been our mission.
The growing demand over recent years from companies, essentially companies linked to the
tourism and hotel industries, has led to the creation of partnerships in several areas of
knowledge, from Law to Management of Tourism Companies, and including Architecture,
Design and Engineering of Real Estate Projects, and Corporate and Tourism Company Taxes.
These national and international partnerships allow us to respond in an expedient and
effective manner to our clients' greatest demands.
From 2005 to present we experienced a decisive period for establishing and strengthening
these partnerships. In the future, we want to grow in other areas that have already been
developed but require more attention, such as Knowledge Management and Corporate
Identity, essential areas for Tourism Law and Tourism Marketing. All this professional
dynamism is founded on the premise that constitutes our motto: “Preventing, foreseeing and
planning legal actions and behaviours have been the foundations for an up-to-date and highly
responsible attorney practice”.
The law firm’s areas of practice
Companies occupy a privileged position within the scope of action of this Law Office.
Given the professional and academic background and professional practice of Attorney
Fernando Messias – International Arbitration, Intellectual Property Law, European Consumer
Law and litigation associated with Property Rights and Temporary Housing, Public Economy
and Public, Administrative and Local Autarchy Law, Organizational and Strategic Behaviour
of Companies – this office naturally developed a specialty in Tourism Law, more precisely in
the area that is the object of scientific study of Tourism, Small and Medium-sized Companies
in the Tourism, Hotel and Tourism Development sectors.
Thus, the main areas of professional practice are the following:
- International Arbitration
- Administrative & Tax Law
- Tourism Law (International and Community Law for Tourism, Tourism Developments, and
the Hotel Sector).
- Civil, Commercial and Corporate Law
- Litigation – (Civil Law, Public Law, Commercial Law and Criminal Law)
- Real Estate and Property Law - (Estates in land, Immovable Property, Property Law, Property
Right, Real Estate).
Dr. Fernando Messias, LL.M, PhD
Lisbon, Portugal • +351 934205633
fernandobrasmessias@gmail.com • https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fernando-messiasmciarb-63186615b
European Lawyer, Mediator, & Arbitrator
European Qualified Commercial Counsel specialising in the areas of international
competition and arbitration, spearheading complex business negotiations centred on the
purchase of real estate, M&As, and hotel purchases. Deliver authoritative, impartial
decisions, bringing resolution to disputes ranging in complexity. Champion for the
sustainability of market competition and passionate about regulating anti-competitive
conduct amongst organisations.
He is a Lisbon and London based independent arbitrator. European Qualified lawyer and
international arbitrator, being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb,
London) and a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC, Lisbon).
His qualifications include - Licentiate in Laws (LLL), Postgraduate Diploma in Regional
Economics and Local Development (PgDip), Postgraduate Diploma in Law of the Territory,
Urbanism and Tourism (PgDip), Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies on Tourism
(PgDip), Postgraduate Diploma in International Arbitration (PGDip), Master of Laws in
International Trade Law (LLM), legal consultant, doctorate on Tourism (PhD) with the doctoral
thesis entitled “Leadership and well-being: the case of five-star hotels in the Algarve”.
Since 2009 he has been a facilitator in creative problem solving (Certified Basadur Facilitator
- Simplexity System, US, and Canada).
Fernando Messias is also the author of several publications on Law & Business.
Fernando Messias Advogados, Lisbon, Portugal
Head Lawyer, 1998 to Present
Compliment firm’s success with speciality in international arbitration and international
trade law, domestic law, international public law, and company / competition law.
Demonstrate expertise in four main areas of Portuguese domestic law, including litigation /
arbitration, civil law / administrative law, real estate law / administrative law, and taxation
/ business law. Optimise day-to-day operations of two locations, one in Lisbon, the other in
Faro, by co-ordinating workflow of both offices with a total of six employees, ensuring delivery
of competent, quality services. Spearhead business negotiations, mainly for M&As and real
estate, securing mutually beneficial agreements. Firm earned appearances in Legal 500
EMEA, a professional law magazine, based on success as lawyer and facilitator during various
business real estate / hotel purchases and M&As.
▪ International Arbitration Case (2019 to Present): Appointed sole arbitrator by Chairman of
hotel group (Brazil / Singapore) to arbitrate HR-related mismanagement case. Arbitration
seated in Singapore; lead ad hoc arbitration.
▪ International Arbitration Case (2017 to 2018): Appointed arbitrator by UAE real estate
property / hotel owners during breach of contract during hotel construction in Dubai;
German construction company retained Suisse lawyer and third arbitrator appointed as
Chairman of panel of arbitrators. Arbitration seat in London; ad hoc arbitration.
Additional experience as Legal Advisor for the Algarve Regional Directorate of Agriculture &
Fisheries; administered legal advice to senior management, whilst co-ordinating day-to-day
workflow.
Contact Details
Fernando Messias Law Firm
E-mail addresses: secretariado@fernandomessias.pt
fm@fernandomessias.pt
Entertainment Law Firm of the Year – Germany
ARNECKE SIBETH is an independent law firm with 35 partners and more than 100
attorneys at four locations: Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Dresden. It ranks among the top
legal service providers in Germany.
We offer comprehensive legal services in selected practice areas and sectors. We call this
approach focused full service.
Our specialists are organised in six strong practice groups which are fully integrated across
the locations and are working together closely as a team.
●Corporate / M&A / Tax
●Real Estate
●Public Law
●Employment
●IP/IT/Commercial (with sports + media)
●Transportation / aviation / logistics
Our Corporate/M&A Practice is highly valued both domestically and in cross-border
transactions. In the area of Real Estate and Construction/Engineering we can boast one of
the most successful and largest teams in Germany. Many of our professionals working in
the areas of Public Law and IP/IT/Commercial have received multiple awards. We are
leading experts in the Law of Transportation, Aviation and Logistics and our TAL practice
enjoys high acclaim internationally.
We advise multinational groups as well as medium-sized enterprises in various industry
sectors, both domestically and in cross border matters. We have an excellent international
network. Our carefully selected partners Meritas and Interlaw offer access to first class
attorneys in all important legal systems who share our comprehensive approach to legal
services and meet the high expectations of our clients.
At our firm you will deal with partners directly – throughout the entire project. Teams will
be set up in the size as required. We can also handle complex matters with
multidisciplinary and well integrated teams. Always under the clear leadership of a partner
who keeps a watchful eye on the matter and stays in close contact with the client.
We take pride in providing services. It takes more than just legal considerations to find the
right entrepreneurial decision. Therefore we offer “more than law”. It is our ambition to take
a 360-degree look at the picture and thus to have a clear view of all facets of a topic.
Contact Details:
ARNECKE SIBETH, FRANKFURT
HAMBURGER ALLEE 4 (WESTENDGATE)
60486 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Tel.: +49 69 979885-0
E-Mail: Frankfurt@ArneckeSibeth.com
Tax Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Spadafora De Rosa Law has more than 15 years of history and can provide a full
range of services through its professionals and/or its broad international network.
Alessandro De Rosa has more than 20 years of experience in Contracts, Civil Law,
International Deals, Real Estate, Soccer, Aviation, Fashion, Hotels, VIP Properties,
Apps, etc.
He has a 24/7 problem solving attitude for any emergency of his clients.
Spadafora De Rosa Law has more than 15 years of history and can provide a full
range of services through its professionals and/or its broad international network.
The level of experience reached and the creativity of its professionals represent a
tremendous added value for its clients.
Practice Areas:
- Real estate transactions for VIP properties
- Hotels transactions
- Aviation Global business project start up
- Football deals closed in EU
- App contracts for a new international platform
- Distribution agreements for an international consortium
“Our work and commitments remain the same since our foundation 15 years ago. We
to work hard every single day, the success is proportional to the hours dedicated to
Your structure and clients.”
Contact Details:
Sede di Roma
Via di Trasone, 52 00199
Tel. 06 858221
Fax. 06 8582250
Email: a.derosa@spadaforaderosa.com
Criminal Défense Law Firm of the Year – UK
ABR Solicitors is a nationally recognised criminal defence solicitors practice
specialising in fraud, crime, and regulatory defence. Our mental health and prison
law teams are highly regarded throughout the North of England. We have offices in
Leeds, Liverpool, and London.
Rob Rode
Practice Areas:
Criminal Defence
Business Defence
POCA/Confiscation
Regulatory Solicitors
Professional Discipline
Military Law
Mental Health
Prison Law Advice and Representation
Firearms
Private Prosecution
Rob is a nationally and internationally recognised specialist criminal defence
solicitor. He is an acknowledged specialist fraud (white collar) and regulatory
defence solicitor. He is described in one of the leading guides to the profession as
“like a terrier that never stops digging”. Rob is a supervisor on the Specialist Fraud
Panel set up by the Legal Aid Agency. He is a higher court advocate.
He is described in Chambers 2019 as “a very good lawyer” and a “fearsome
advocate” and recognised as a leading individual in crime fraud and financial crime
by the most recent Legal 500 and Chambers editions, both nationally and locally.
He represents individuals and companies in the UK and abroad facing
investigation/prosecution under the Bribery Act or multijurisdictional legislation
including FCPA. He has experience of dealing with prosecution authorities across
several jurisdictions.
Rob undertakes fraud defence, regulatory defence, white collar defence involving
international/cross-jurisdictional issues, defence of tax /VAT fraud, motoring, and
general criminal matters with (again, according to a leading independent guide) “a
certain panache”.
Rob undertakes private prosecutions on behalf of individuals and companies.
Rob has acted as defence solicitor successfully in numerous cases defending
historic and present-day sexual offence allegations. He also has a particular
interest in defending allegations of serious violence and murder.
He is tactically astute and will ensure that when appropriate a pro-active defence is
pursued in all cases.
Rob trained at Irwin Mitchell and joined the firm in 1998 becoming a partner in
2002 and senior/managing partner in 2013. He was chairman of the Serious Fraud
Association and is a member of SAHCA,POCLA,CLSA the International Criminal
Bar, The American Bar Association, and a member of the criminal duty solicitor
defence scheme.
Contact Details:
81 Chancery Lane
London
WC2A 1DD
0333 009 8181
rob.rode@abrsolicitors.com
Francis Scarpulla
Competition: US Plaintiff Law Firm of the Year
The Scarpulla Law Firm handles antitrust and other competition claims in the United
States, Canada, the European Union, and Taiwan. We profiled the firm as we gained an
insight into the success and strategy of the business from Francis O. Scarpulla.
Based in California, the Scarpulla Law Firm works with a variety of clients, including
Fortune 500 companies, government entities, small businesses, and natural-person
consumers. The team operates with an overall mission of recovering the highest amount of
damages for clients, and it achieves this by prosecuting their claims to the fullest extent of
the law.
Operating exclusively as a litigation boutique, the firm only accepts cases which it believes
are winnable, either because there has already been a governmental-entity investigation, or
because the client has inside information which is sufficient to support the claims.
After taking on the case, the firm’s team works alongside the client every step of the way to
ensure that the desired outcome is achieved. Taking an individual interest in each client,
staff consult with them on a regular basis and involve them in all major decisions. If the
client is not interested in pre-trial resolution of claims, then the team are always prepared
to try their cases.
Ensuring that the firm can adapt to daily developments within the legal industry, attorneys
read all new case-law precedent, the rules of procedure, and statutes in the
competition/antitrust discipline, including how these substantive laws relate to class action
procedures.
Ensuring that the best result is reached, the law firm’s attorneys consult with each other,
as well as with staff daily to ensure that there is no important information overlooked.
In addition to being admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, Francis is
admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Expanding
its international competition practice in addition to its Canadian and EU competition cases,
the firm will consider the viability of cartel claims in China and India.
Francis has been the recipient of a number of accolades, including: The California State Bar
Antitrust Lawyer of the Year; AI – Most Outstanding Law Firm of the Year; Global Leading
Lawyers – Competition – US Plaintiffs Law Firm of the Year; and Lawyers of Distinction –
Civil Litigation – Top 10% in USA to name a few.
Ultimately, building on the success of its achievements, there are exciting times ahead for
the Scarpulla Law Firm. Francis and the team believe that for EU member states to protect
their citizen-consumers from price-fixing cartels, these states should adopt uniform
competition damage statutes, permit cross-border service of process and discovery, and
enact uniform opt-out class action procedures, as well as permitting contingent fee
contracts.
Contact Details:
Company: Scarpulla Law Firm
Address: 456 Montgomery Street, 17th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
Contact: Francis O. Scarpulla
Phone: 001 (415) 788-7210
Website: www.scarpullalaw.com
Aviation Law Firm of the Year – India
Rajinder Narain & Company is one of the oldest solicitors and advocates firm in Delhi, having
come into existence in the year 1950. The firm was the first to be registered with the newly
formed Supreme Court of India and was allotted Chamber No. 1 in Supreme Court precincts.
It operates out of a well-equipped and technologically advanced offices in New Delhi, and has
associate lawyers in all commercially significant cities of India.
The firm has the unique distinction of having two of its founding partners elevated as chief
justices and two others elected as President and the Honorary Secretary of the High Court
and Supreme Court Bar Association. Mr. P. L. Vohra the founding partners was the president
of Delhi High Court Bar Association for a continuous period of 3 years. The firm now has
about 25 lawyers including partners and associates at various levels. As it gazes back at the
last 50 years of its existence, the firm has a reason to feel pride in its lineage and satisfaction
at its work and reputation. Today the firm’s legacy is upheld by a dedicated team of lawyers
who excel in their fields of practice and are so recognised and who have at their command,
the state of art technology, office facilities and an extensive library.
Ravi Nath, managing partner, was the first Indian to be the president of the Inter-Pacific Bar
Association and chair of the IBA aviation committee. He is on the legal advisory panel to the
Aviation Working Group and on IBA’s credentials committee. He has a BCom and an LLB in
international and competition law from King’s College London, and a PIL from Harvard.
He frequently advise major, leading lessors, manufacturers and others concerned with
aviation finance and structuring transactions. Almost all major banks and lessors are clients
including the Exim Bank of the USA, Canada and Japan; export credit agencies in Europe;
Aercap; Avolon; Apollo; BBAM; Aircastle; Orix and equipment manufacturers such as Boeing,
Airbus, Pratt & Whitney, CFM, Rolls-Royce and so on.
A second area of advice is the regulatory aspect of civil aviation: cross-border taxation and
matters relating to aviation authority; the Cape Town Convention; Aircraft Protocol and the
International Registry, and others.
The third and final area of practice in aviation law is litigation/dispute resolution:
enforcement proceedings in Indian and foreign courts, and before the regulatory authorities.
Contact Details:
Maulseri House
7, Kapashera Estate
New Delhi - 110 037
India
Cell:+91.9811027193
Tel: +91.11.4122.5000
Fax:+91.11.4122.5001
Email: ravi.nath@rnclegal.com
www.rnclegal.com
Securities Litigation Law Firm of the Year — USA
Entwistle & Cappucci is a national law firm providing exceptional legal representation to clients
globally in the most complex and challenging legal matters. Our practice encompasses all areas of
litigation including securities, antitrust, corporate transactions, general corporate and commercial,
creditor’s rights and bankruptcy, corporate governance and fiduciary duty, government affairs,
insurance, investigations and white collar defense. Our clients include public and private
corporations, major hedge funds, public pension funds, governmental entities, leading institutional
investors, domestic and foreign financial services companies, emerging business enterprises and
individual entrepreneurs.
Andrew J. Entwistle is the firm’s managing partner in New York City. He received his undergraduate
degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from the University of Syracuse College
of Law. Mr. Entwistle's practice principally involves the representation of public and private
institutional investors and public and private corporations in complex litigation (including both the
prosecution and defense of securities and antitrust cases), corporate finance and transactional
matters and internal investigations.
Our senior partners have diverse experience in the management of complex business litigation,
transactions and corporate investigations in bet the company situations. Over the years, the Firm
represented an impressive roster of clients including the nation’s largest public pension systems,
publicly traded corporations, private equity firms, hedge funds, high net worth investors and
charitable organizations.
As an entrepreneurial firm, we approach the issues facing our clients not merely as lawyers but as
business owners who understand the realities of the modern business environment. We partner
closely with our clients both in formulating highly effective solutions to the challenges they face and in
identifying opportunities that present themselves. This approach has rewarded us with loyal and
expansive relationships of which we are immensely proud. Our reputation as the most highly skilled
and accomplished litigators among clients, adversaries and the judiciary has not been inherited from
prior generations but has been earned day-by-day, client-by-client and matter-by-matter.
Our Firm has litigated newsworthy, high profile and complex cases across a broad spectrum of
substantive areas, representing public and private corporations, major hedge funds, public pension
funds and other leading institutional investors.
We managed through all of these changes on the strength of our Chief Financial Officer and Paralegal
Manager who led the restructuring and move with fantastic support from the rest of our staff.
In late 2015 we restructured our entire IT department in order to move to a cutting edge cloud based
platform that would provide a more collaborative environment for clients and co-counsel. At the same
time we moved to new space with a more flexible floor plan.
We are wholly focused on serving the most complex and serious of our clients' litigation, investigative
and transactional needs. This is work that cannot be efficiently or cost effectively handled in-house at
the level these fast moving situations require.
Contact Details:
Andrew J. Entwistle
299 Park Avenue
20th Floor
New York, NY 10171
aentwistle@entwistle-law.com
Telephone: (212) 894-7200
Fax: (212) 894-7272
Criminal Law Firm of the Year – Italy
The law firm provides legal assistance in criminal matters all over the Italian
territory, also making use of a capillary and established network of
correspondents, as well as through the support of technical expertise.
It actively participates and collaborates in judicial activities forward the
judicial authorities of foreign countries, Europe and beyond.
The competence of the law firm is mainly focused on commercial criminal
law (corporate crimes, financial crimes and bankruptcy), environmental
criminal law, crimes against property, Public Administration crimes, medical
professional negligence, job security, intellectual property crimes and related
crimes.
Partners:
Mario Brusa
Sergio Spagnolo
Paolo Tosoni
Mauro Carelli
The main purpose of legal advice on criminal law given to private citizens,
public entities and firms concerns the risk management related to the
activity of the criminal enterprise, in the several field of economic criminal
law.
The law firm offers, systematically, advice and assistance regarding
‘Corporate administrative liability’ (D.lgs 231/01), prevention of accidents,
environmental protection, ‘Voluntary Disclosure’ and ‘privacy’.
Contact Details:
Studio Legale
Brusa Spagnolo Tosoni Carelli
Viale Piave, 11 - 20129 Milano
Tel: 02/796498
Fax: 02/76000670
E-mail studio@studiobst.com
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year –
Slovenia
KETNER®, Legal Consultancy, Representation and Protection, Ltd., PATENT ATTORNEY, is
a Slovenian law firm, founded in 2008 by Meti Ketner, an excellent lawyer with extensive
practice in the field of intellectual property and beyond.
Slovenia, as KETNER® Ltd.’s home country, was in the year 2020 classified as part of the
advanced economies group by the International Monetary Fund. It is a country with brilliant,
inventive people possessing top-notch knowledge in all fields of activity, which is the winning
and forward-looking base for a bright future in which KETNER® Ltd. proudly ranks.
KETNER® Ltd. brings together the best experts in the field of Intellectual property law (IP).
Some of the experts have been active in intellectual property for more than 20 years, which
enables the company to achieve the best results in obtaining protection with patents,
registered trademarks, and industrial designs… The key strengths of KETNER® Ltd. are many
years of experience, and personal approach to each client, a great collaboration with partner
patent and law firms globally, enabling its clients to acquire intellectual property rights in
most countries around the world.
KETNER® Ltd. offers:
- Patent protection for inventions in Slovenia, in Europe and around the world:
consultation, preparation, and filing of patent applications and client’s representation
in patent protection procedures in Slovenia, in the PCT international patent protection
procedure for 153 countries and other countries worldwide;
- Trademark protection in Slovenia, Europe and worldwide: consultation, preparation,
and filing of trademark applications and client’s representation in trademark
registration procedures in Slovenia, throughout the European Union, in the
international trademark registration procedure for 125 countries and other countries
around the world;
- Industrial design protection in Slovenia, in Europe and around the world:
consultation, preparation, and filing of industrial design applications and client’s
representation in industrial design protection procedures in Slovenia, throughout the
European Union, in the international industrial design registration procedures for 92
countries and other countries around the world;
- Consultation and preparation of IP contracts: IP rights transfer agreements, license
agreements, copyright agreements and other agreements in the field of IP;
- IP appraisals: partners are court appraisers and specialized in inventive activity. IP
Appraisal may include knowledge gained by experience or by accidental events,
knowledge, and skills gained outside traditional work, know-how, innovations,
trademarks and/or service marks, patents, industrial designs… Court appraised IP
can be, in accordance to the Slovenian law, used as the share capital of the company;
- Preparation and filing of opposition in IP protection procedures;
- IP monitoring;
- Legal consultation, negotiations, representation, protection and enforcement of
intellectual property rights in the field of IP in Slovenia and worldwide;
- Registration of copyright works with the Copyright Agency of Slovenia;
- Representation in domain name alternative dispute resolution procedures;
- Professional translations of legal texts.
KETNER® Ltd. is a member of AIPF (https://aipf.com/), an Association of Intellectual
Property Firms based in New York, USA, international associations of independent specialized
firms that most of their practice dedicates to patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and boasts
a team of established experts, both at the national level, as well as worldwide. KETNER® is
also a member of the AEA International Lawyers Network (AEA) (aeuropea.com). The AEA,
which aims to offer customers the best services around the world, is one of the largest legal
networks in the world in what relates to the number of countries covered.
Meti Ketner, the CEO, Director, and Owner of KETNER® Ltd. is a passionate and innovative
lawyer and a businesswoman, European Trademark and Design Attorney. She takes care
that KETNER® Ltd. is constantly progressing, expanding, and providing services on which
clients can rely on. Before practicing law in her own company, Meti Ketner worked for the
larger Slovenian professional legal offices and institutions of public importance, participating
in international projects of great importance for Slovenia. Meti Ketner is a member of the
FICM (Federation of Integrated Conflict Management) based in New Delhi, India
https://mediationhub.org/) and is a member of the Global Law Expert
(https://www.globallawexperts.com/), based in London, UK. She is also a recommended
member of ADVISORY EXCELLENCE (Meti Ketner - Advisory Excellence) in the field of
intellectual property for the Republic of Slovenia.
KETNER® Ltd., with a wide range of highly qualified experts through the network of its
intellectual property experts, patent attorneys, trademark and design attorneys, and lawyers
worldwide, has developed into a successfully growing modern company open to current and
future challenges to provide its clients with the best protection of their IP rights standing the
test of times.
KETNER® Ltd… For Strong, Secure and Reliable future…
Contact Details:
Practice Areas:
Intellectual Property
Industrial Property
Patents
Trademarks
Industrial designs
Geographical indications
Domain names
IP appraisals
ZEBRA® - sound trademarks
TEMPELJ®-translation of texts from the field of IP
KETNER®, Legal Consultancy, Representation and Protection, Ltd., PATENT ATTORNEY
Tržaška cesta 134, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
T: +386 (0) 51 344 655, F: +386 (0) 599 42 142, E: info@ketner.si
Web: www.zascita.si , www.zebra.expert
Meti Ketner, CEO, director, owner
Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
We are a leading corporate law firm that provides innovative and effective legal
solutions to companies of various specialties and fields.
We foster a pioneering culture based on high performance, teamwork and results
orientation, aligning legal advice with the objectives of our clients.
JORGE DANIEL GRISPO born in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires on
December 10, 1965, is a nationally recognized lawyer specialized in corporate law,
advising and representing companies of various specialties and fields, with a
profuse academic and professional activity.
He is a member of the Argentine Institute of Commercial Law and publishes
periodic publications in the main legal media in the country, such as La Ley, El
Derecho, Abogados.com, Errepar, Rubinzal-Culzoni, among the most prominent.
He is a lecturer and has participated as an exhibitor in numerous academic events
of his specialty.
He began his law studies at the Universidad del Salvador School of Law, obtaining
the title of lawyer on September 28, 1993. Later, he completed a master's degree in
Business Law at the Austral University, obtaining the title of “Magister in Business
Law”, the December 18, 1995, University in which, later did a Postmaster with
specialization in Corporate Law.
In October 2002, he graduated as a “Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Legal
Studies” from Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, California. Later he
continued his studies obtaining a master’s degree in Business Administration at
the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA). In 2008 he completed a specialization in
Small and Medium Business Management (DPME) at the IAE (Institute of High
Business Studies of the Austral University).
His academic career led him to be a professor of Commercial Law, Bankruptcy Law,
Commercial Societies, Strategy of the Loyal Department and Corporate Dynamics,
both in undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Buenos Aires, at
the Austral University, at the Catholic University. Argentina and in other
prestigious private universities in the Argentine Republic.
Contact Details:
Tucumán 637, 3 ° (CABA)
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
studio@estudiogrispo.com.ar
DEEP & FAR
Attorneys-at-Law
13th F1., No. 27, Sec. 3, Chung San N. Rd.
Taipei 104, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: +886-2-2585-6688
Fax: +886-2-25989900/25978989
email@deepnfar.com.tw
Deep & Far was founded in 1992 and is one of the largest law firms in this country.
The firm is presently focused on the practice in separate or in combination of all
aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) including patents, trademarks, copyrights,
trade secrets, unfair competition, and/or licensing, counseling, litigation and/
or transaction thereof. Since this firm edges itself into the IPRs field,
the firm quickly comes to fame. As an illustration, this firm often is one of
the largest sources from which foreign filing orders originate.
The fascinating rise of this firm begins from the founder of Deep & Far attorneysat-law,
C. F. Tsai, who is the one first patent practitioner in this country who both
has technological and law backgrounds and is qualified as a local attorney-at-law.
The patent attorneys and patent engineers in this firm normally hold outstanding
and advanced degrees and are generally graduated from the top five universities in
this country and/or the university in the US. Our prominent staffs are dedicated to
provide the best quality service in IPRs. As a proof, about one half of top 100 incorporations
in this country have experiences of seeking patented their techniques,
but more than one fifth of the top 100 incorporations are/were clients of this firm.
Furthermore, Hi-Tech companies in the science-based industrial park located at
Hsin Chu play an important role in booming the economy of this country. About
one half of which have experiences in seeking patented their techniques, and out
of more than 60% of the patent-experienced companies in that park have ever
entrusted their IPR works to this firm.
We have experienced in seeking IPR-protections for our clients in more than
100 territories all over the world. We have thousands of IPR-cases respectively
prosecuted before official Patent Offices of major industrialized countries.
This firm not only is the most competent in IPR-related matters in this
country but also is very familiar with IPR-practices in major industrialized
countries. As a matter of fact, this firm oftentimes tries and makes precedents
of new claim-drafting styles. While we might have become wonderfully
famed locally with remarkable appreciation and respects, we would like to
extend our services for internationalized or quality service-requiring foreign
conglomerated giants, corporations or individuals. We strongly believe that
we will win more
www.deepnfar.com.tw
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