Leading Lawyers Worldwide 2025

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2025

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4B Ukraine
International Business Law Firm of the Year – Ukraine
ABR Solicitors
Criminal Defense Law Firm of the Year – UK
Adly Bellagha & Associates
Investment Law Firm of the Year – Tunisia
Apisith & Alliance Ltd
M&A Law Firm of the Year – Thailand
Arnold & Siedsma
Trademarks Law Firm of the year – The Netherlands
Baker McKenzie
Dispute Resolution Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland
BST Studio Legale
Criminal Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Cavendish
Business Advisory Firm of the Year – UK
DAC Beachcroft
Employment & Pensions Law Firm of the Year - UK
Degni & Vecchio Avocats
Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland
Deloitte
Tax Law Firm of the Year – Sweden
DL Corporate & Regulatory
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year - Monaco
E.Blum & CO. AG
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Switzerland
Fichte & Co
Islamic Finance Law Firm of the Year – United Arab Emirates
Grispo Abogados

Corporate Law Firm of the Year – Argentina
Harrison Goddard Foote LLP
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year - UK
Inal Law
Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year - Turkey
KETNER LTD
Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year – Slovenia
KPMG
Corporate Finance Accountancy Firm of the Year – Greece
Prager Dreifuss
Real Estate Law Firm of the Year - Switzerland
Primelex
Alberto Zilliani
Sports Lawyer of the Year – Italy
Rustem Guardian LLP
Business Crime Law Firm of the Year – LLP
Spadafora De Rosa Law
Tax Law Firm of the Year – Italy
Swiss Financiers, Inc
Private Equity Financial Firm of the Year – Switzerland
Uysal & Tolan
Structured Finance Law Firm of the Year - Turkey
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
David A. Katz
Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Banking & Investment Law Firm of the Year – USA
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – USA
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Corporate Governance Law Firm of the Year - USA

Private Equity Financial Firm of the Year –
Switzerland
Swiss Financiers, Inc., is a FinTech that incubates and orchestrates IPOs
from financing to listing. They are dealmakers between incubated
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 they have the experience to drive and manage the
financing requirements to go public on securities markets through
transaction financing.
Their team 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 (170+
IPOs) and one of our founding partners, Marc Deschenaux recently wrote an
article on IPO Financing Investments and was nominated in the Who’s Who
Legal.
Christian Frampton is a hands-on financier that work closely with
technologists, scientists & entrepreneurs. Historically he has helped earlystage
companies get to the next stage of their business development. He has
supported ventures by helping them achieve a strong operational backbone
whilst simultaneously organizing and structuring these businesses in-order
to ensure that they attract the right foundation capital & partners. He
helped establish business plans & organize fund raising and marketing
strategies. Allowing entrepreneurs to focus on their inventions and products.
PERSONAL OBJECTIVES for the firm:
• To be part of an entrepreneurial & forward-looking asset firm.
• To implement best of breed process & investor nurturing.
• To lead business development & growth strategies.
• To build a long-term sustainable portfolio of impact investments.
• To build on over twenty-five years of expertise in business
development, marketing & establishing networks & investment.
• Contribute to the financial success of our financial partners & clients.
• To dynamically manage teams & projects from inceptions to closings.
The firm’s Unique Business Proposal consists of decades of our team’s
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
has developed an extensive international network, notably amongst
international financial institutions, licensed brokers, law firms, auditors,
and various additional stakeholders from around the globe. Developing
bridges across businesses, regions, people, cultures is one of the ingredients
of our “secret sauce”. These bridges are also one of the reasons we have
offices in the United States and in Switzerland and are planning to expand
in the next years in Asia.

Their Unique Business Proposal consists in several patent pending methods
and decades of experience of successfully listing businesses on the public
security markets.
Their disruptive platform is designed to offer double digit returns due to the
value created by the shift from early stage to public securities markets.
They modernize the processes to improve cost efficiency, notably on the
Nasdaq. It allows stock options holders to sell their shares on the public
market to interested institutional and retail buyers with improved ease.
SFI’s IPO Incubator structure is the foundation on which Swiss Financiers is
built.
Their Fin-Tech platform accompanies selected businesses by funding IPO
costs through Mezzanine Debt and/or Equity Capital. Furthermore, SFI
orchestrates the process of taking private security issuing companies to the
public securities markets.
SFI offers an all-in service covering the complex IPO process of quoting
businesses on securities market.
Taking a company public demands a certain amount of disposable cash that
often is considered a high barrier to entry.
By using Swiss Financiers proprietary Incremental Business Method, they
are able to manage a fundraising process effectively to finance the costs of
an IPO.
They have a proven track record of using our method to raise capital
effectively. Up until 1995 there was only the funding rounds method to sell
shares of a non-listed company. This method was exclusively used each time
a company needed to distribute securities. The price was fixed according to
the current state and valuation of the issuing company.
The Swiss Financiers Team has a proven history of taking companies public,
ensuring a transparent and accretive value proposal along the entire
process. Their unique platform streamlines and fast track an IPO process
through a time/cost-effective patent pending business method to
successfully raise capital on the public security markets.
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 have been affected by the current economy and the events from around
the world currently but not necessarily in a negative way. Entrepreneurs are
increasingly interested in exploring the route of the public security markets
as this crisis has only accelerated the amount of unprecedented liquidity.
This liquidity is eager to find new companies and they position themselves

as one of the privileged routes of gaining access to the public markets. So,
the number of companies looking to engage with us has increased during
the Pandemic.
They have been accompanying the following companies over the last year.
MobiGroup
Intellectual Property Securitization (IPSE)
Eiffel International Corporation
Earth & Sky Corporation
Adreal Corporation
European Press Agency
The IPO Institute
Wild News Corporation
Swiss Financiers has an active deal flow of 6 companies ready to go public.
Our aim is to orchestrate approximately 4 IPOs per year. Swiss Financiers
aims also to organize and implement its own listing on the NASDAQ in a 24-
month period.
Contact Details:
Geneva Office
Swiss Financiers S.A.
Operations & Administration
Rue du Rhône 84
1204 Genève,
Switzerland
Email: info@SwissFinanciers.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

Alberto Ziliani – PrimeLex - Sports Lawyer the Year – Italy
PrimeLex is a law firm that offers customers a wide range of legal services, ranging
from listing on regulated markets to restructuring of groups, from any kind and
degree of litigation, to the protection of family assets to the valuation of companies.
PrimeLex operates in the main sectors of law and economics, including corporate
and M&A, sports law, real estate, labour law, bankruptcy law, criminal law,
litigation, in Milan, Lecco, Como and Rome. PrimeLex offers qualified assistance in
the extrajudicial and Judicial fields.
PrimeLex has 3 partners:
Alberto Ziliani,
Giacomo Micheletti is an expert in real estate.
Massimo Campa is an expert in company law and litigation.
Alberto Ziliani is a partner of PrimeLex, and is an expert in sports law and company
law
The experience he has gained allowed him to become a point of reference for any
legal requirements related to sports law, both for client’s contractual needs and for
litigations. Over the years he has been involved in several international transfers of
football top players and has been appointed lawyer in important disputes before the
TAS/CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport).
His skills and expertise enable him to assist champions of the world of cycling and
motorcycling, and deal with international sportsmen for the management of their
contracts and disciplinary disputes before arbitration proceedings.
His expertise in company law mainly concerns M&A transactions and the drafting
of commercial contracts. He is a member of the board of directors of the most
important private security employers’ associations in Europe (COESS) and Italy
(Federsicurezza).
Contact Details:
Address: Piazza del Duomo, 20 – 20122 Milano
tel. +39027222201/ fax +3902861375
www.primelex.it
email: milano@primelex.it

Business Crime Law Firm of the Year – UK
Rustem Guardian was founded in 2005 by Managing Partner, Mr. Timur Rustem,
after a very successful and high profile career based in the City of London. Just ten
years on, Rustem Guardian has established itself as a formidable niche criminal
defense law firm in London with a reputation associated with high profile and high
complex criminal cases. The firm's reputation means that Timur is regularly invited
to comment in the media.
Timur Rustem, founder and Managing Partner comments:
"We have a small but dedicated team with an enviable reputation for meticulous
case preparation and tenacity in defending its clients. We take pride in being a
multi-cultural firm with a team of solicitors and paralegals that speak a range of
languages. We are a leader in criminal defense work as Rustem Guardian uniquely
houses both solicitors and barristers, placing ourselves above other standard
practicing law firms.
Clients choose Rustem Guardian as the firm is known for its discreet and sensitive
approach to what can be complex and life destroying allegations.
We appreciate that the law is complex and challenging and we strive to give every
client the advice and support they are entitled to. We also recognize that problems
can arise at inconvenient times. We are therefore available to help 24 hours a day,
7 days a week."
Mr. Rustem is a highly sought after Serious Crime Solicitor with over twenty years'
experience in the City of London and the highest level of media exposure appearing
on Sky, the BBC, Channel 5 and ITV to name a few. Mr. Rustem was named
‘Recommended Lawyer, 2014’ by Legal 500 and has many accolades under his belt
including the prestigious ‘Super Lawyer’ award. Mr. Rustem is called upon
specifically for his focused specialist areas Sexual Offences, Fraud and Appeals and
has built a multi-award winning firm which is now one of the top criminal law firms
in the UK. Tim built his reputation in Terrorism Law and is often invited to
comment in the media on terrorism legislation. Most recently Rustem Guardian
was named ‘Niche Terrorism Law Firm of the Year 2014’ by ACQ5. His tenacious
and formidable approach was founded in his representation of a defendant in the
Airline Bombing (Terrorism) case in 2006, which won him the ‘Lawyer of the Year’,
presented at the House of Lords. His legal expertise covers, but is not restricted to:
• Serious Sexual Offences including Historical Sexual Offences, Rape, Sexual
Offences Against Children, Child Pornography, Indecent Exposure, Downloading
Indecent Images, Voyeurism, Trafficking and Sex Offenders Register
• Serious Fraud including VHCC, Boiler Room Fraud, Insurance Fraud, Mortgage
Fraud and Money Laundering

• Appeals against Conviction and Sentencing
• Serious Violent Offences including Murder
• Drug trafficking
• Terrorism
• Private Investigations and Private Prosecutions
• Private Immigration
• Blackmail
• Drug trafficking
• Motoring Offences
Sexual Offences
Since founding Rustem Guardian ten years ago, Mr. Rustem has an unrivalled
reputation in representing those accused of the most serious Sexual Offences and
is a sought-after legal expert often invited to comment in the media (please see
below). Mr. Rustem holds long-term and trusted relationships with his clients,
offering them sophisticated, practical and supportive legal advice. His depth of
experience means that he is well accustomed with media attention and is well
equipped to keep potentially high profile cases out of the public eye. His high
success rate coupled with his media profile is recognized; recently Rustem
Guardian was awarded ‘Niche Sexual Offences Law Firm of the Year, 2014’ by
ACQ5 in conjunction with the ft.com.
Fraud
Under Mr. Rustem’s leadership, Rustem Guardian was one of few UK criminal law
firms awarded prestigious status to deal with VHCC cases. Mr. Rustem was
recently awarded the accolade ‘Super Lawyer, 2013’ for his White Collar Fraud
work and ‘Business Crime Lawyer of the Year’, 2014 by Lawyer Monthly. Under Mr.
Rustem’s leadership of the Fraud department the firm has built a reputation for
taking on the most complex of Fraud cases which is widely recognized. Most
recently Rustem Guardian was awarded ‘Business Crime Law Firm of the Year
2014’ by Finance Monthly.
Appeals
Mr. Rustem is quickly establishing Rustem Guardian as the go-to firm for private
Appeals as his case load is growing in number and Mr. Rustem is realising more
wins. Mr. Rustem is passionate about fighting for justice and believes there are
many falsely accused individuals who have been sentenced unjustly, taking on
Appeals at any stage. He understands that in these cases it is the wider family and
friends that also victims of convictions, and Mr. Rustem approaches cases with the
utmost sensitivity and care.
Contact Details:
Rustem Guardian LLP
5 Chancery Lane
4th floor
London
EC4A 1BL

Corporate Finance Accountancy Firm of the Year—Greece
KPMG in Greece is member of the global KPMG network of professional
services firms. With a presence in Greece since 1971, we are 400
outstanding local professionals providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services,
to help our clients meet their goals. Our team combines cumulatively over
100 years of expertise related to various industries and areas of expertise,
such as investment banking, industrial companies, audit, tax and legal,
thus being able to source the ideal experts for each engagement in order to
deliver a unique and value added service to the client.
The corporate finance practice of KPMG Greece has served as a pioneering
advisor to a large number of clients and decision makers including global
corporations in the retail/consumer goods industry, manufacturing,
telecoms, banking, infrastructure and pharmaceuticals. Services offered
include M&A, Valuations, Capital Raising, Restructuring, and Structured
Financial Modelling as well as Private Equity Advisory services. KPMG’s
corporate finance arm has been among the leading advisory firms to be
appointed as advisors to the Hellenic Republic in advising them in
privatizations and restructuring projects. Our Corporate Finance practice is
led by professionals having a vast combined experience of over 30 years in
advisory and investment banking practices.
Certain macroeconomic conditions in Greece have driven many companies
in financial difficulties and indebtedness. In this context, companies have to
strive dealing with correlated difficulties such as high unemployment, low
private consumption, lack of liquidity, low investing appetite, real estate
properties devaluation and increased corporate taxation.
KPMG has met each client’s expectation in a very challenging and
demanding environment, where creativity is also required when taking all
these factors in consideration when providing the best advice to our clients.
Indicative List of Clients we have worked with recently, include:
Forthnet S.A. (listed telco)
Power Public Corporation
National Bank of Greece
Ilva Group
A leading resorts operator (undisclosed)
Eurobank SA

Starbulk (NASDAQ listed company)
Hellenic Republic – restructuring and privatization projects
Delhaize Group
Goodyear Hellas
Dromeus Capital
We normally build our solutions based on our previous experience in similar
cases, and are flexible enough to draw on the relevant expertise outside our
organization when required. That being said, we do also deliver tailor made
services to meet our clients’ objectives in very complex projects.
The local market will be highly affected by the progress in the political scene
and the results of the elections which are to take place by the end of
January. The debate for the so-called “Gr-exit” has come up again, but we
believe that a smoother solution will prevail.
Assuming that no macroeconomic accident will occur in 2015, we will
continue to grow the Corporate Finance practice with a focus on the most
promising sectors of the Greek economy such as tourism, the financial
sector and telecommunications. Debt restructuring and refinancing issues
will continue to be of priority within 2015 too.
Contact Details
KPMG Greece
Thanos Tsotsoros
Director,
Financial Advisory Services, Head of Corporate Finance & Restructuring.
atsotsoros@kpmg.gr
tel. + 30 210 60 62 100

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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