28.08.2024 Views

Legal Experts Worldwide 2024

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL ADVISOR AWARDS

MAGAZINE

Legal Experts

Worldwide 2024



Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine

Legal Experts Worldwide 2024

Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine is recognised all

over the world for our comprehensive awards programs we run,

taking votes from countries all over the world to recognise the

most prestigious professionals in their specialised areas of

practice.

The Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine recognises a

select number of leading professional firms around the world

working both nationally and internationally in their field of

expertise.

Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine selects the best

professional & financial institutions from around the world and

showcases there work ethic and skills within their area of

expertise.

The Awards Magazine is aimed at not just the large corporations

but the smaller companies of the advisory business sector.

Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine is currently being

read by Lawyers, Advisers, Consultants and corporate executives.

We aim to showcase every company individually and to its full

potential.


Index

4B Ukraine

International Business Law Firm of the Year – Ukraine

Adly Bellagha & Associates

Investment Law Firm of the Year – Tunisia

Advokatfirmaet Wiersholm AS

Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year - Norway

Baker McKenzie

Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland

Bristows LLP

Patent Litigation Law Firm of the Year - UK

Camden Associates

Mid-Market Investment Advisory Boutique Firm of the Year – UK

Cavendish Corporate Finance

Business Advisory Firm of the Year – UK

Cuatrecasas Goncalves Pereira

Pensions & Benefits Law Firm of the Year - Spain

E. Morace & Co

Professional Liability Law Firm of the Year - Italy

Estudio Rovira

Mergers and Acquisitions & Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year –

Argentina

Grispo Abogados

Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Argentina

Intercorp Group

International Tax Law Firm of the Year – Brazil

KETNER Ltd

Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Slovenia

Littler Mendelson PC

Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year - USA


Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo

Arbitration & Litigation Advisor of the Year - Indonesia

McW Todman & Co

Civil Litigation Law Firm of the Year – British Virgin Islands

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Product Liability Law Firm of the Year – USA

OlarteMoure

Regulatory Law Firm of the Year – Colombia

Ruta Pumputiene Law Firm

Product Liability Law Firm of the Year - Lithuania

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Insurance & Reinsurance Law Firm of the Year - Switzerland

Spadafora De Rosa Law

Tax Law Firm of the Year - Italy

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Banking & Investment Law Firm of the Year – USA

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year - USA

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – USA

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

David A. Katz

Lawyer of the Year – USA

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

David A. Katz

Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year – USA

Walker Sorensen LLP Barristers and Solicitors

Insurance & Reinsurance Law Firm of the Year - Canada

Websters Legal

International Banking & Project Finance Law Firm of the Year – South Africa

Wolf Theiss

Regulatory Law Firm of the Year - Austria


Civil Litigation Law Firm of the Year – British

Virgin Islands

McW. Todman & Co is a small legal firm founded by the late Dr. McWelling Todman CBE, QC in 1969.

The late Dr. Todman while continuing to grow and strive in the fast-paced international legal

environment that characterizes the Virgin Islands.

The Firm is ranked as one of the top litigation practices in the Virgin Islands and specializes in

corporate/ commercial law, real estate, family matters, intellectual property, Conveyancing, Family

Law and Estate Planning and Probate and offers discreet service to clients in company formation

and management through its wholly owned subsidiary McNamara Corporate Services Limited.

We provide legal services in our selected practice areas commensurate with the quality and

expertise of the big firms but in a personalized client-sensitive manner, with an unwavering

commitment to responsiveness, efficiency and professionalism.

We serve a wide range of clientele, and value every client relationship greatly. Each engagement

benefits from the depth and breadth of our expertise. We approach every client with a focus on

integrity, advocacy and understanding.

Practice Areas:

Company & Commercial law

Banking

Mergers and Acquisitions

Intellectual Property

Civil and Corporate Litigation

Real Estate

Wills, Estate Planning & Succession

Shipping

Family Law

Personal Injuries

Employment Law

Insolvency

Administrative Law

Debt Collection

Contact Details:

McW Todman & Co.

McNamara Chambers

116 Main Street

P.O. Box 3342

Road Town, Tortola

Email: mail@mctodman.com

Phone: +1 284-494-2810


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


International Tax Law Firm of the Year – Brazil

Intercorp Group is an international consulting firm that serves high-net-worth

entrepreneurs and their families. They pride themselves on finding professional

solutions to often very personal issues, from migration and succession planning,

through to finding the right property and a good school.

Intercorp Group Statistics:

• Over 300 Successful family relocations

• Over 80 private investment funds

• Over 200 private family trusts

Intercorp Group was established under the supervision of Leonardo Braune with the

objective of becoming one of the few truly international tax consulting boutiques.

Braune is a respected and highly experienced consultant in the areas of international

tax, real estate planning, wealth preservation, fiduciary advice, implementation and

management of international structures and projects. With a vast experience in tax,

an extremely diversified client base and a very strong global network of top specialists

in many different business-related areas, Braune has led a large number of successful

projects in several industries including oil and gas, telecommunications, real estate,

international services, investment funds and asset management.

Their initial step is to assign one of their qualified coordinators, who will act

throughout the entire advisory and consulting process. Their coordinators have access

to an international network of professionals and specialists in many areas and are


responsible for "playing the role of the client", being therefore extremely capable of

clarifying questions and giving suggestions and practical solutions to their issues.

Commitment, creativity, technicality, quality and reliability are their core strengths. At

Intercorp Group, their clients can have direct or indirect access to a unique global

network of specialists and professionals who will work in a simple, clear and objective

manner. Their goal is to make our clients feel confident and comfortable that we are

handling their matters properly and efficiently.

They offer a highly bespoke and individual service, investing time and energy to fully

understand our clients’ requirements and evaluate their complex, multidisciplinary

and international needs. By placing their specific circumstances with our

understanding of the global and financial legal environment, we recommend the most

efficient approach to fulfil their wishes.

Through their work with many successful and prosperous families, our consultants

have developed a deep understanding of the tax systems throughout many

jurisdictions across the globe. This expertise is consulted during each of our

engagements, from personal estate planning to corporate restructuring of a family

business. Intercorp Group provides counsel to clients who are looking to explore the

benefits an international perspective may bestow upon their matters.

As part of their promise to clients, advice and execution manifest as one service.

Intercorp Group is involved throughout the entirety of the process: from determining

the scope of the project and explaining its consequences to carefully mapping out its

implementation.

They are advisors that see themselves in alliance with the client both unyieldingly

liable and responsible for the advice we provide.

Intercorp employs experienced consultants across a range of sectors, who work with

clients on a long-term basis to solve complex issues on their behalf. While they are

wholly independent, our business model utilises its access to a global network of

specialist partners, carefully built through years of reputation and personal

experience. The network includes several hundred strategic partners, all quality

assured, checked and vetted. This model is extremely rare and provides us with

unrivalled access to experts in any given field.


For over 20 years, Leonardo Braune has acted as a tax consultant in the areas of

international tax, real estate planning, wealth preservation, fiduciary advice,

implementation and management of international structures and project

management. He began his career as a trainee at Arthur Andersen where he quickly

became Senior Manager of the tax consulting area, acting significantly in many

segments there and working very closely with several international offices on

significant global projects.

With a vast experience in tax, an extremely diversified client base and a very strong

global network of top specialists in many different business related areas, Leonardo

Braune has been a part of a large number of successful projects in several industries

such as oil and gas, telecommunications, real estate, international services,

investment funds and asset management.

Practice Areas:

Global Relocation of UHMW Families

Post IPO Strategic Planning

International Investment Structuring

Protection of Family Business Abroad

Asset Protection

Corporate Restructuring

Real Estate Investment

Clients rarely engage Intercorp Group for single-issue solutions or off-the-shelf

products. More often, they come to Intercorp Group with a much broader, general

demand—the bigger picture. They work most effectively in long-term partnerships

where clients grant us a high level of autonomy to make decisions on their behalf.

This is unique in the consultancy marketplace and requires a high level of respect

between both parties, particularly because actions, much less results, are not always

immediate. To yield the best end-results, our consultants know that truly strategic

decisions are made at the right time rather than at the earliest opportunity. Their

longest standing clients understand this and trust in our promise to assume

responsibility for their best interests, as if they were their own.

Intercorp will remain at the forefront of developments in the international tax

regulatory world. Based on their evolving knowledge of the landscape, they will


continue to provide efficient advice based not on what the law says today, but on what

they believe the law is going to say tomorrow, how governments will behave and how

trends will develop over time.

Contact Details:

Address:

50 Sloane Ave

London

SW3 3BD

Tel: +44 203 954 0547

leonardo@intercorp.com

www.intercorp.com


Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year –

Switzerland

At Baker McKenzie, our reputation is our most valuable asset. We earn it every day

with the choices we make – for our clients, our Firm, our communities and

ourselves.

For generations, our lawyers found direction in our culture of integrity. When

something didn't seem right, they drew on the Firm's collective wisdom to guide

their choices. But that's no longer enough. Our clients have a right to know what

we stand for and how we ensure compliance in a complex and changing world.

So we have created a Code of Business Conduct to be certain that all of our people

– lawyers and non-lawyers alike – understand our policies, and the values and

principles that are expected to guide our choices. The Code is required reading for

every partner and employee worldwide. And we offer it here for others to review.

The Code spells out our policies, legal and ethical obligations and responsibilities in

a number of areas. It provides guidance on how to act when specific, clear policies

are not available. And it reflects our commitment as a signatory to the UN Global

Compact to align our policies and operations with the Compact's principles in the

areas of human rights, fair labor, the environment and anti-corruption.

Prof. Joachim G. Frick

Prof. Dr. Joachim Frick, LL.M./J.S.D. practices mainly in the areas of dispute

resolution, insurance and corporate law and became a partner in 2001. He

regularly represents clients as a party counsel in litigation and arbitration

proceedings with special emphasis on corporate, insurance, and M&A disputes. He

heads the insurance practice of the Zurich office and co-heads the European

Financial Services & Insurance Group as a steering committee member. He advises

Swiss and international insurance and reinsurance clients in litigious and nonlitigious

insurance matters and was named one of the leading insurance lawyers in

Switzerland by Who is Who' Legal and the IBA's Who is Who of Business Lawyers.

In addition to practicing as a lawyer, Joachim Frick regularly teaches as a

professor of law at Zurich University (Titularprofessor). He is a member and regular

speaker in various professional organizations concerning his areas of practice. He

is a graduate of Zurich University (Dr. iur. 1992) and Yale Law School (LL.M. 1996,

J.S.D. 2000) and has practiced with Baker McKenzie Taipei and Chicago.


Practice Areas:

Commercial Litigation

Compliance & Investigations

Dispute Resolution

Financial Institutions

Insurance

International Arbitration

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private M&A

Practice Focus:

Prof. Frick represents clients as a party counsel in litigation and arbitration

proceedings with special emphasis on insurance, corporate and post-M&A

disputes. In addition, Prof. Frick advises insurance and reinsurance companies on

regulatory, corporate and compliance matters and represents them in transactions

as well as in front of regulator, courts and arbitral tribunals. He also regularly

advises clients in aviation and aircraft financing transactions.

Contact Details:

Joachim Frick

Baker & McKenzie Zurich

Holbeinstrasse 30, P.O. Box

8034 Zürich

Switzerland

+41 44 384 14 14

Joachim.Frick@bakermckenzie.com


International Business Law Firm of the Year –

Ukraine

4B Ukraine is law firm with HQ in Kyiv, Ukraine, specialized in international trade

and eCommerce industries.

The firm was established in 2014 with main aim: to help Ukrainian business with

developing in international market. Ukraine has a lot of manufacturers who want

to sell their products in other countries. Some of them found Amazon, Etsy and

other eCommerce marketplaces, so they decided to help them with understanding

of foreign markets, requirements and rules. During last few years some of their

clients received a good offers for M&A, and in period of 2021 and 2022 (in the

period of war) the team helped to close over 10 M&A deals.

The last year,2022, is a year of total changes for Ukrainian business. First of all,

since February 24 4B Ukraine insured that the team and their family members

were in safe places, after they made contact with each client and continued with

supporting them. Despite the state of war, the clients are developing their business.

In 2022 4B Ukraine accompanied and closed 7 M&A deals. This fact is a

confirmation – Ukrainian market is alive.

4B Ukraine have overcome all the challenges over the last year with their team and

clients. It is a very big success when your team and clients works together to

achieve common goal. And they have such success.

Management:

Andrii Matyash – Managing partner, attorney, expert in eCommerce, corporate and

tax law.


Tetiana Stoliar – partner, expert in financial, tax and management accounting,

DipIFR, VAT (EU)and Sales Tax (USA) specialist.

Volodymyr Bezditnyi – partner, attorney, expert in M&A, financial and corporate

law.

Contact Details:

4B Ukraine

Kyiv

Parkovo-Syretska str, 4b

v.bezditny@4b.ua


Arbitration & Litigation Advisor of the Year –

Indonesia

Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo (LGS) was founded in 1985 by Timbul Thomas Lubis,

Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie and Arief Tarunakarya Surowidjojo. LGS specializes

in both Commercial Transactions and Commercial Disputes, including criminal

law. As well as helping to put the deal together we can also help to prevent or solve

problems in its implementation.

Our lawyers are specialized in confirming what the legal problem is, but do not

leave the solution to the client, they are also trained to suggest commercial

solutions to what has started as a legal problem or legal solutions to what has

started as commercial problems.

Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie is the Managing Partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo

(LGS). He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Indonesia and

holds a PhD in Law from the University of Hamburg. Dr. Ganie is a Chairman of

the Association of Indonesian Anti-Trust Lawyers, a member of the Regional Panel

of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), and a fellow (FSIarb) of the

Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Dr. Ganie has more than 30 years of legal experience, and specializes in

commercial transactions and commercial litigation, including alternative dispute

resolution and has acted as an expert in a number court and arbitration

proceedings. His expertise covers general corporate/company law, banking law,

finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, mining, investment, acquisitions,

infrastructure projects/project finance, antitrust, and shipping/aviation, with a

particular focus on corporate governance and compliance.

Founding Partners:

Mr. Timbul Thomas Lubis heads the Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo litigation section. Mr.

Lubis specialises in commercial transactions and company law, as well as labour,

property and real estate law.

Dr. Mohamed Idwan Ganie is the Managing Partner of Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo. Dr.

Ganie specializes in commercial transactions and commercial dispute resolution,

and has a focus on corporate governance.

Mr. Arief Tarunakarya Surowidjojo specializes in corporate law and has acted as

the lead lawyer in hundreds of IPOs, rights issues and other capital market

transactions, and more than 100 M&A deals.

Partners:


Mr. Abdul Haris Muhammad Rum’s field of expertise includes general corporate,

restructuring, capital markets, M&A, project finance, syariah, and oil and gas law.

Mr. Harjon Sinaga has a strong general corporate background and specializes in

commercial litigation, concentrating in the fields of bankruptcy and antitrust.

Mr. Rofik Sungkar’s practice focuses on litigation, debt restructuring and general

corporate law.

Ms. Dini Retnoningsih specialises in corporate transactions.

Mr. Mochamad Fajar Syamsualdi specialises in M&A.

Mr. Ahmad Jamal Assegaf specialises in restructuring, investment, M&A, and

telecommunications.

LGS has experience representing a diverse range of clients, including domestic and

multinational corporations, public and private companies, Government

instrumentalities and State Owned Enterprises.

Dr. Ganie’s international commercial transaction and litigation clients include:

Goldman Sachs (US), Temasek Holdings (Singapore), Hutchison Whampoa (Hong

Kong) and Mitsui (Japan).

Clients are increasingly looking for stability (or better: sustainability) and strategic

direction. We have made it our mission not only to service existing but also

anticipated client needs. We are therefore skilled not only to advice what the "the

law says", but also what the clients could or should do to solve the legal aspects of

a legal or commercial problem or to support our Clients' strategic direction.

In three years’ time we see the firm to have achieved its mission to be the

Indonesian firm with the largest transaction and dispute resolution division and

with the largest network of branch offices throughout Indonesia to provide not only

expertise on central government laws, regulations and policies, but also regional

laws, regulations and policies, and to provide assistance wherever the legal issues

arise within Indonesia. All that with a view to increase value, to be more effective

and cost efficient for the benefit of our clients and also to assist other firms who

require legal services in the region (provinces) of Indonesia.

Contact Details:

Dr. Mohamed Idwan (‘Kiki’) Ganie

Managing Partner

Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo

Address:

Menara Imperium 30th Floor

Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. 1 Kuningan

Jakarta 12980, Indonesia

Tel: +62 21 831-5005, 831-5025

Fax: +62 21 831-5015, 831-5018

Email: ganie@lgslaw.co.id

Website: www.lgsonline.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


Adly Bellagha

Adly Bellagha and Associates

Investment Law Firm of the Year – Tunisia

Adly Bellagha & Associates is a leading firm established in various fields of work, and its excellent

practice is ranked in the LEGAL 500 EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA, Chambers UK, IFLR 1000,

the Centre for International Legal Studies, the Global IP and the World Bank.

The firm was primarily founded in 1952 by Lamine Bellagha, the firm was focused on the Stateowned

entities requiring economic and commercial advises, as well as international clients for audit

and arbitration (banks; insurance companies; oil and gas companies) and act both as counsellors and

litigators and is mainly oriented on all aspects of the law of contract, administrative and criminal

litigations and has a solid presence in corporate and securities regulations.

The Firm today is led by Adly Bellagha and the team which include Madame Hend Ben Achour,

Madame Faiza Telissi, Maître Ismail Ben Farhat, and Maître Yassin El Hafi

is proactive with commercial responsive & practical approach and ability to handle deals under

pressure.

Management Specialist Areas:

Hend Ben Achour:

Intellectual property:

Copyright

Trademark law

License agreements

Faiza Tellissi:

Privatizations

Audit

Arbitration

Yassin El Hafi:

Tax law

Insurance companies

Ismail Ben Farhat:

Law of contract

Administrative

Criminal Litigations

Due to the political situation whereby on July 25, 202 the President of the Republic suspended the

Parliament and a new constitution has been enacted in July 2022, the firm faced political instability


that brought the Administration to slow the procedures fearing on accusation of corruption. This

delayed their business but working internationally, this did not create insurmountable difficulties but

delays that impacted their business reactivity toward their clients.

Contact Details:

Company Practice Areas:

• Corporate and commercial

• Privatisation

• Dispute resolution

• Projects and energy

• Regulatory

• Employment

• Tax

• Foreign direct investment

• Litigation and arbitration

• Asset finance/securitisation

• Aviation

• Insolvency/corporate restructuring

• Banking and finance

• Insurance

• Capital markets

• Intellectual property

• Commercial property/real estate

• • Mergers and acquisitions

• Construction

• Private client and trusts

•Competition and EU

• E-commerce

• Shipping and transport

Media and entertainment

Adly Bellagha and Associates

Address: 126 Rue Radhia Haddad –Tunis 1000- Tunisia.

Telephone: +216 71 329 117

Email: a.bellagha@gnet.tn


Mid- Market Investment Advisory Boutique Firm of the

Year – UK

Camden Associates is a boutique investment banking firm. We specialise in international

financing. The market has changed a great deal in the last few years and a number of

transactions just do not get done because market segmentation does not permit it. We offer

various services from pure advisory to financing to private and public company alike. The

firm started in 2003 under the name Camden Partners. In 2006 after a change of

shareholders we became Camden Associates. Initially focusing on Eastern Europe and on

large groups (Bouygues, Rosatom, Gazprom, Lukoil, Rushydro), we changed our focus to

smaller, more innovative deals and broadened our scope on a sectors basis. Technology and

biotech are worldwide sectors. So is mining.

Our unique selling point is basically our experience of far away countries and their

business practices. After a traditional banking career spanning from M& A at BNP in

France to First Boston in Nex York then London, some of us worked in a hedge fund at

Duet creating real Estate private Equity funds in Russia and India. We helped oligarchs

monetize their wealth and created the first sub saharan fund. We are essentially project

driven and believe that behind the specifics of a sector there is a unique management with

unique abilities and specific problems.

We strive to help them solve the particular problem they have at one point in time.

We want to understand the story, understand what the clients wants to do and see if we

can help. We never feel pressure in doing a deal in which we do not believe. Then we try and

see how the market will react to the story and act accordingly.

The overall mission is to get deals done, and then we take all the necessary steps to make

the deal a success.

We are not claiming we are better than our competitors. We are simply more adapted to

some of our clients and do not believe two deals are the same. We are not discouraged by

non-standard deals.

The last ten years have seen a wildly changing environment and we are just trying to ride

the new trends.

For Camden, the result is mostly positive as we have demonstrated a capability to ride

these trends.

Contact Details:

Jean-Claude Gonneau

Camden Associates

27 Hill Street

WIJ 5LP

jcg@camdenassociates.co.uk


Business Advisory Firm of the Year – UK

For nearly 30 years, Cavendish has only acted for business owners. In the last past year,

we have advised on the sale of 19 businesses, helping proprietors achieve the best possible

price for their companies, finding new owners who can take those businesses forward and

accelerate their growth and performance.

Understanding the range of businesses and technologies to a micro level is the challenge we

at Cavendish have set ourselves. Helping us achieve this objective are our specialist team

led by experts with backgrounds in fields such as engineering and finance together with

years spent in corporate finance.

Our entrenched expertise in so many subsectors is matched by unrivalled contacts with

leading UK and multinationals. In addition, we can leverage centres of excellence within

Oaklins such as the oil and gas team in Dallas, our aerospace team in Seattle or the

automotive and aerospace hub in Germany.

Oaklins is the world’s most experience mid-market M&A advisor. Over the last 5 years,

Oaklins specialists have closed over 1,500 deals involving industry specialists, taking a

global view and leveraging our deep local connections.

The relationships across the alliance underpin our commitment to continuous investment

in innovation, leadership and the incorporation of best practices from across all of our

business activities.

To achieve such success, in a challenging market wrestling with the challenges of Brexit, we

have developed an unrivalled knowledge of potential buyer pools and established teams of

sector specialists, who are recognised authorities in their areas offering business owners

expert advice on the best preparation, strategy and likely buyers to ensure a successful

sale. Utilising our international network of M&A advisors we have continued to source

overseas buyers, who typically pay a premium for UK businesses – about half of the

companies we sold last year were to international buyers.

There are almost no other firms that operate in the corporate finance arena that have the

sole purpose of selling businesses; most represent buyers as well and this invariably begs

the question by astute owners of business, are our advisors completely aligned with us?

For nearly 30 years, Cavendish’s answer has been unequivocally “yes”.

Contact Details:

Company: Cavendish Corporate Finance

Email: info@cavendish.com

Web Address: www.cavendish.com

Address: 40 Portland Place, London W1B 1NB

Telephone: 020 7908 600


International Banking & Project Finance Law Firm of the

Year – South Africa

Philip Webster LLB cum laude (Leeds University, England); M.Phil. (Nice

University, France) is the Managing Partner of the Southern African office of

the International and African focused boutique international Project Finance

and Banking firm, Websters’ Legal Consultancy. www.websterslegal.com

He also manages an International Legal Consultancy Practice, ‘Websters’

Consultancy’ out of London, England.

He, qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales, in

England in 1987 .He practices as a specialist energy project finance and

banking lawyer, having gained his experiences over many years within the

corporate finance and commercial property departments of leading ‘blue

chip’ legal firms such as Norton Rose (London-England) (now Norton Rose

Fulbright), White & Case (USA), Dentons, (London/RSA) and as In-House

Legal Counsel to leading banks such as Natwest Securities Limited

(London-England) and Société Générale S.A., and Société Générale Energie

S.A. (Paris- France).

In addition advice provided over the years to the African Development Bank,

the Development Bank of Southern Africa Limited, BNP, Barclays, ABSA

Bank Limited, Investec, Nova Capital Partners, Deutsche Bank, HSBC

Investment Services (Africa) (Proprietary) Limited, HSBC Equator Bank

Privatization, JP Morgan, Morgan Grenfell, the Standard Bank of South

Africa Limited and Standard Chartered Bank Zambia PLC, as well as the IFC

and the World Bank, notably the privatisation unit responsible for Africa

and the Indian Ocean.

Websters’ Legal Consultancy Limited.

Websters’ Legal, led by Philip Webster, has advised and is currently advising

on projects valued in billions of Euros, in Southern Africa. Notably, advice

provided in respect of Chinese solar energy projects in Namibia; 400 MW

Gas LNG terminal, solar and grid enhancement project in Nacala,

Mozambique.


Websters’ Legal is advising in respect of a potential oil and precious metals

commodity supply transaction involving a Botswana registered firm and the

Central African Republic, in which his fluency in French is invaluable. In

Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) he is advising CANHAM Corporation

International Limited and CANHAM Mining International Limited in respect

of the establishment of zero emission state of the art power stations

generating an aggregate output of 5,000 MW of comparatively ‘clean’ power,

involving limited and non- recourse project finance structures, supported

by ancillary billion Euros financing agreements, including a proposed power

purchase Agreement with the South African state-owned power utility

Eskom. Websters Legal will also provide advice in respect of CANHAM

sponsored Infrastructure and energy projects, if, as anticipated, such

projects commence shortly in Tanzania.

Contact Details:

Philip Webster, L.L.B.MIoD

Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales,

Director,

Member of the Institute of Directors,London,England.

Websters’ Legal

International Corporate Legal Consultants,

Nelson Mandela Square,

2 nd Floor West Tower,

cnr Maude & Fifth streets,

Sandton, 2196.

South Africa.

Email:philip@websterslegal.com

Website: www.websterslegal.com.

Cell: +27-83-296-1813

Tel: +27-11-783-2283


Professional Liability Law Firm of the Year – Italy

E.Morace&Co. is the product of an old tradition based on the principles of passion,

competence, hard work, and client satisfaction since 1938.

They work with passion and take full care of the Clients’ position, interests and targets

suggesting the best solution to their needs. Working internationally, E.Morace&Co. team is

composed by lawyers with foreign experiences and different specializations who speak

Italian, English, Spanish, French and German.

The Law Firm has always been operating mainly in Maritime, Insurance and Transport Law

but over the years, the practice gradually expanded now including: Accident & Personal

Injury; Administrative & Antitrust; Banking & Finance; Professional Liability; Tax; Civil

Law; Collections & Asset Recovery; Marine Insurance; Yacht & Superyacht; Litigation and

Dispute Resolution; Criminal Law & Defence; Employment & Labour; Commercial &

Corporate; Insurance & Reinsurance; Family Law; Intellectual Property; Shipping &

Offshore; Real Estate.

Marco Morace is a Partner and head of the insurance and reinsurance team at

E.Morace&Co. He graduated in Law from the University of Naples "Federico II" and joined

the firm in 2003. Prior to this he worked for the legal department of P&G in Rome, had an

internship with a leading London insurer and was a visiting lawyer with international law

firms in London.

Marco’s areas of expertise are: accident and personal injury, insurance counter-fraud,

reinsurance, insurance and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual

property, marine insurance, professional liability, shipping and offshore, yachts &

superyachts.

Our Firm is a legal boutique of excellence and we work every day to maintain high

standards of quality and care in the services we offer. This is a very demanding challenge,

especially considering that we have to compete with mega firms.

In order to better assist our international clients with interests in Italy, we opened our new

office in Milan on 1st April 2019.

Our future target is to develop the insurance as well as the corporate and M&A practice

thanks also to our Milan office, headed by our local partner Mr. De Biasi who is a Professor

of Corporate and Capital Markets Law.

We trust we will have another excellent business season.

We always try to achieve the best result for the Client and build with him a strong business

relationship.

Our Clients love our:

Care – we work hard to advise our Clients as soon as possible within the same day from our

instruction or within 1 business day at latest with a preliminary advice;


Flexibility – we are keen to discuss with our Clients on fees considering that the reason of

our instruction is always to achieve the best result for the Client, not the best opportunity

for the Firm;

Transparency – any Client wants to keep legal costs and budgets under control especially in

litigation; we always keep our Clients up to date on case developments and costs so that

they can check their budget needs are met;

Update - working internationally, with Clients based around the world we are aware of the

absolute importance of comprehensively updating the Client promptly as soon as there is a

development on its case / file.

We have recently acted on behalf of an extra-EU shipping company in a dispute against the

Italian Customs Authority successfully so far. The dispute referred to the exemption on

excise duties in relation to a supply of bunker made by our Client, whose ship was moored

at an operational dock with the crew on board. Specifically, the Customs Authority first

granted the exemption and then revoked the previous permit, by requesting the payment of

the excise duties.

Additionally, we have recently assisted an Italian company specialised in providing software

solutions for booking and ticketing online in the negotiation of a software agreement with

an international shipping company.

We are regularly appointed by leading international insurers and reinsurers to protect their

interests in professional liability claims in Italy.

Recently, we have been appointed to represent Lloyd’s Underwriters in a 60 ML claim

brought by the Receivership of one of the most famous Italian fashion group that went

bankrupt in 2016.

Contact Details:

m.morace@morace.com

Office: +39 081 0145 607

Website: www.morace.com


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



WWW.WFAAMAG.CO.UK

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!