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WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL ADVISOR AWARDS
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Legal Experts
Worldwide 2024
Worldwide Financial Advisor Awards Magazine
Legal Experts Worldwide 2024
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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
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