This means that they always take a very commercial approach. Charlotte Rowlandson is a star in the making. She is absolutely superb at what she does, juggling numerous complex issues and stakeholders effortlessly. He also has both deep industry knowledge and understanding of our business. He is also down to earth and likeable. This broad expertise is combined with domestic and international reach, particularly projects in Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, the Middle East and increasingly Latin America.
A specialism for the group includes the delivery of PPP projects in emerging and developed markets, as well as the management and recovery of distressed assets. The intersection between energy, infrastructure and natural resources financing is another forte. Global head of business Martin McCann leads the team and has experience in financing and restructuring. Also notable is Matthew Hardwick , who advises infrastructure investors and funders on infrastructure and energy projects globally.
Norton Rose Fulbright fields a strong mining and minerals practice group which focuses on the Latin American and African markets. Overseen by Martin McCann , the multi-disciplinary team handles private equity deals, cross-border financing transactions and dispute resolution matters for large mining companies including Anglo American.
The core team comprises Raj Karia , who focuses on capital markets transactions, Daniel Metcalfe , who advises commercial lenders and financial institutions, Holly Stebbing and Daniel Giemajner. At associate level, project finance specialist Felicity Brown remains a key contact. Other names of note include the corporate finance-focused Jon Perry , who has significant expertise in the Asian markets. The practice regularly works on international deals with the firm's offices in Washington DC, Amsterdam and Paris.
He is also always quick to respond when needed. He makes dealing with difficult issues much less stressful. Daniel Giemajner is flexible, knowledgable and amicable. A collaborative approach with all parties involved reduces unnecessary conflict which in turn is less expensive and time consuming. They have a clear understanding of client objectives and legal advice is given accordingly. Very responsive and quick turn-around on documents.
He is able to tailor his advice and approach based on an understanding of our objectives and offer alternative solutions to consider. Norton Rose Fulbright has an excellent track record of advising on big-ticket renewable energy transactions and continues to demonstrate its industry expertise across the hydrogen projects space. Led by Rob Marsh in London, who is singed out for his advisory work to lenders and sponsors, the group acts in relation to offshore wind assets, solar power work, and project financings.
Julien Bocobza , who was previously based in the firm's Tokyo office, is noted for his handling of energy transition projects across Europe and other emerging markets. The core team also includes Christopher Down , who advises on power projects across Asia and the Middle East.
The team, which also includes banking specialist Charles Whitney and infrastructure and projects lawyer Madhavi Gosavi , regularly works with colleagues in Singapore, Paris and other global offices on large-scale international mandates.
Moreover, each lawyer was well connected each other, thus it makes the work very smooth and efficient. It saved a lot of time and costs. Also he is super efficient and speedy in every action.
He is a solution oriented lawyer, so always seek results rather than being trapped by every small issue. Norton Rose Fulbright leverages its considerable international network to support on an array of inward investment transactions and cross-border real estate projects. David Sinclair enjoys a first-rate reputation for both investment and development matters, particularly those at offices and hotels, while well-regarded counsel Louisa Roe is particularly integral to the corporate occupier offering which supports landlords and tenants from initial lease negotiation through to terminations and subsequent disputes.
Their turnaround time is exceptional. They are very collaborative as a team and bring the wider team together with is critical in making deals happen and so often is not the case with other solicitors. The partners are very approachable, and all the associates are extremely knowledgeable about the real estate sector and have got me out of trouble a few times.
Very commercial, brilliant at problem solving, great attention to deal, incredibly responsive. Very committed and never let us down on timing. David is very well supported by Louisa Roe and both work extremely hard. With Norton Rose Fulbright having historical strengths in both the financial services and technology sectors, it is able to leverage its capabilities across a number of key disciplines to provide a full service to clients. The firm has recently been acting on a number of funding matters for fintech businesses, and it also advises on P2P platforms, payment systems, insurtech, regtech and cryptocurrencies.
Sean Murphy counts start-ups, investors, banks and asset managers among his clientele. Victoria Birch and Imogen Garner are recommended for blockchain matters, while Hannah Meakin is recommended for advice on regulatory matters and cryptocurrency issues.
Senior associate Charlotte Rowlandson has notable experience of corporate work, including venture capital and growth equity investments. Madeline Bailey joined as a consultant from an in-house role at MS Amlin.
Charlotte Rowlandson ; Madeline Bailey. Norton Rose Fulbright is very active in IT and telecoms, demonstrating considerable expertise in data privacy, outsourcing and regulatory mandates, in addition to strength in the emerging areas of fintech, insurtech and digital payments. Sean Murphy leads the firm's technology practice, focusing primarily on cross-border transactions, investments and joint ventures in the fintech sector; Oliver Stacey has a wealth of experience in telecoms transactions throughout the MENA region, Central and Eastern Europe and Africa; James Russell has strong credentials in onshore and offshore outsourcing, systems procurement and smart contracts.
Zayed Al Jamil , who became a partner in , is recommended for his role in outsourcing, blockchain and AI projects. Global aviation head Duncan Batchelor specialises in asset finance and a range of commercial matters, working with aviation disputes head Patrick Farrell and ' tenacious litigator ' Robin Springthorpe.
Aviation disputes partner Charlotte Winter is noted for her work regarding redelivery and purchase contract disputes, while counsel Annabelle Wheeler is ' one to watch ' for her work on complex commercial litigation and arbitration.
Competition partner Ian Giles advises on cartel investigations and merger control. Commercial specialist Will Alete was promoted to the partnership in January With access to a global team of lawyers in Dubai, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore, the London team at Stephenson Harwood is well-regarded by clients for its ' outstanding ' aviation litigation team. It routinely handles the most complex matters concerning aviation finance, restructuring and insolvency, as well as repossession and enforcement claims.
Practice co-head Paul Phillips is ' second to none ' for aviation litigation, while co-head Richard Parsons has a ' unique knowledge of ' aviation leasing and finance. Chloe Challinor is a ' meticulous ' and ' brilliant ' aviation litigator and regulatory lawyer. They resource each matter in the appropriate manner. They understand common issues in aviation and can explain it in a way that is easy to understand. They are able to propose commercially viable solutions in light of market practice.
He takes the lead for us in a very effective manner, always representing our interests. Highly responsive, very commercial and great fun to work with. Was great to have her in the trenches with us on a very tricky transaction. One to watch. They are highly responsive to client needs, have an excellent knowledge of the aviation sector, and are great to work with. Paul clearly has every bit and more of the expected expertise and skill you would expect of someone with his standing.
Patrick is indefatigable and utterly dependable. He builds a good rapport with clients and is careful and conscientious. The team invariably achieves the best outcomes for its clients. The team are adept in all aspects of the aviation sector and provide a holistic approach to any case. The legal skills are provided with great efficiency and in a highly cost-effective way. He demonstrates great tactical and strategic insight into any dispute, which in combination with being a steely litigator, allows him to achieve the optimal outcome for his clients.
The team is led by two industry heavyweights — Tom Johnson and Simon Gwynne — who are then supported by the technically excellent Louise Auty. They act for a range of clients in the sector. As a result they have a real in depth knowledge and understanding of all parts of the sector, the issues that impact on it, where it has been and where it is going.
Norton Rose has also acted for us for many years so, additionally, they have an excellent understanding of us, where we sit in the sector and where we want to be. These attributes are what we want from our advisers. He knows what is important.
He is knowledgeable, clever, commercial and pragmatic. They have a quick grasp on complex market issues and the regulatory issues around them. She has been very quick to develop an understanding of the key issues and to break these down in a clear and concise way. She has also shown strong co-ordination with our US counsel and managed to skilfully navigate the differing US and UK legal and regulatory requirements. The team are approachable and talk in a straight forward way I can understand.
When they explain complex issues they have the way of expressing the issues which I can analyse and understand quickly. They have understood our complex corporate history, and they have been very innovative in helping us navigate a complex and changing environment.
The ability of the NRF team to work collaboratively with us and across their own disciplines has been excellent, and really made a difference to us. We feel we own our decisions, but that we have made them with all the information we need. The whole team have been excellent, nominating any individual feels unfair! She has an excellent command of the detail in these cases. She is also a pleasure to deal with — very collaborative in her approach to colleagues and other parties.
This is an approach that undoubtedly works in encouraging co-operation of stakeholders. At Clifford Chance LLP , the financial regulatory practice is closely linked to the firm's global offering, allowing it to provide multi-jurisdictional and cross-border advice to clients in their interactions with regulators, legislators and policymakers. Areas where the group was particularly active in are issues arising from the Covid response and Brexit, as well as IBOR transition. The team is notable for its public sector work, and practitioners advise the treasury and financial services compensation scheme, as well as overseas government bodies on various financial regulatory issues.
Chris Bates takes the lead, and is an expert in the confluence between UK, EU and international regulations. Simon Crown is the main contact for asset management clients in relation to Brexit, while Caroline Meinertz is another key name for strategic Brexit advice, as well as sitting on the firm's financial markets strategy group; both are often supported by Caroline Dawson. Simon Gleeson is a recognised expert in financial markets law and regulation.
Monica Sah , who has played a leading role in relation to a number of the firm's technological solutions, is an expert in fintech regulation. At the junior end, senior associates Diego Ballon Ossio and Stephanie Peacock are also lawyers to watch. The financial services and regulatory group at Norton Rose Fulbright excels at governance, conduct and markets issues.
The team is well versed in accountability regimes for senior managers, social governance frameworks, in addition to issues arising from trading and post-trading interactions. The overall department and global practice head is Jonathan Herbst ; Imogen Garner is the main contact for conduct regulation; Hannah Meakin takes the lead on markets regulation; while Katie Stephen is responsible for the governance practice. Counsel Matthew Gregory is an expert in cross-border regulatory matters, particularly where there is a crossover between UK and EU law.
Among the up and coming partners I would single out Caroline Dawson. Albert Weatherill; Matthew Gregory. They have been innovative and helpful in providing secondments, free training, and answering quick ad hoc questions on an unchargeable basis. That flexibility, and their expertise, has led us to look to them first in many situations when we would have previously gone to a Magic Circle firm.
Always available and makes it seem effortless. Hannah Milkin is excellent technical skills. Jonathan Herbst uses his superior intellect not to outwit others but to simplify complex matters in order to provide useful, useable advice. This is of key importance to our members. Their ability to stand up experts in discussions with members and in understanding regulatory proposals as well as assisting in formulating policy recommendations is why we use them.
Imogen is accessible as well as expert where she needs to be. Capacity to be technical but also to demystify complex matters for broader audience. They understand our business and what matters to us and to our clients. Not afraid to take a view. The multidisciplinary Norton Rose Fulbright practice is known for the depth of arbitration and litigation expertise in the team, as well as its specialisms in cyber work, fintech and ICOs initial coin offerings.
Michael Godden leads the department and can draw from a deep bench that includes corporate disputes specialist Ruth Cowley , banking litigation expert Harriet Jones-Fenleigh and associate James Lockwood , who focuses on civil fraud, asset-tracing and enforcement matters.
With ' great industry and market knowledge ', Norton Rose Fulbright 's dispute resolution team is strong for retail and investment banking litigation and contentious regulatory matters as well as corporate crime investigations, fraud, competition and enforcement issues. Practice head Michael Godden has a breadth of wholesale, commercial and retail banking disputes expertise as well as civil fraud, asset tracing and enforcement experience; Harriet Jones-Fenleigh focuses on commercial and investment banking and counts fintech and cybersecurity matters among her areas of expertise.
Norton Rose Fulbright has ' strong practitioners at every level and can handle the most difficult cases in the area - they know the industry inside out '. The firm has a global platform for commodities and natural resources work, and it frequently acts for leading financial institutions, commodity trading houses, national and international mining and energy companies.
EMEA head of litigation Michael Godden and Neil Miller , who leads the energy, infrastructure, trade and transport disputes group, oversee the commodities disputes team.
Holly Stebbing handles disputes in the energy and natural resources sector, with a particular focus on Africa, while commercial litigator Antony Corsi , arbitration specialist James Rogers and up-and-coming partner Harriet Jones-Fenleigh handle complex, cross-border matters.
His legal knowledge is just as good as a QC, but he wears his learning lightly and has an excellent client manner and tactical sense. Their lawyers are market leaders in the area. They have strong practitioners at every level and can handle the most difficult cases in the area. They know the industry inside out. They are also extremely nice people to work with. He has a great sense of strategy and gives very sensible advice.
Led from London by ' very effective negotiator ' Michael Black and aided by a pervasive international network of offices, Norton Rose Fulbright is particularly effective at advising lenders on complex cross-border ABL-related corporate lending mandates. Much of this work emanates as a result of Black's deeply entrenched relationships with major US-based commercial banks, including Bank of America, which he continues to regularly advise on sophisticated multi-jurisdictional deals, including where the ABL facility forms a key part of an overarching financing structure involving debt capital markets and conventional lending.
The ' responsive and user-friendly' Alex Dunn has an ' exceptional knowledge of the lending area ' and regularly employs ABL financing techniques for lenders on bilateral and syndicated financings. He is a very effective negotiator and analyses issues both from a business and legal standpoint and finds creative solutions. The firm has a recognised market presence in its core areas of both investment grade and emerging market debt, sovereign and supranational issuance, debt restructuring, corporate trust issues, Islamic Finance and Canadian capital markets.
EMEA chair and head of Islamic finance Farmida Bi is renowned for advice on corporate trustee matters, sovereign debt, project bonds and restructurings.
Peter Noble is a recognised expert in deals for Canadian issuers, though he also advises foreign issuers and their dealers in the Canadian capital markets. Counsels Vishal Mawkin and Jacqueline Heng also play key roles in the practice. Added bonus of merger with Fulbright adds excellent NY law capability and experience.
The project team was able to provide daily management information which was very useful. Norton Rose does it well. Their flexible approach to billing is noteworthy as well.
Clients of Norton Rose Fulbright report its ' quality and expertise rival that of the Magic Circle, but it offers a better value proposition and better partner availability '.
The firm handles a strong flow of transactional derivatives work and structured products transactions, frequently involving innovative products and new markets such as new securities lending pledge documents. It is also has a growing presence in emerging areas such as fintech.
Peter Young leads the capital markets group, in which Daniel Franks handles derivatives, repos, stock lending, collateral, set-off, netting, structured products and regulatory capital and funding transactions, and Nigel Dickinson , who is ' the crown jewel standout partner, the best repackaging lawyer in the market ', is a key adviser investment banks on cutting-edge derivatives and structured finance transactions.
Franks has recently advised multiple global banks on the adoption of new industry documentation for securities lending on a secured basis. Structured finance partner David Shearer , though mainly focused on securitisation, also handles covered bond and structured finance transactions for a broad client base.
Quality and expertise rival that of the Magic Circle, but it offers a better value proposition and better partner availability. Nigel Dickinson is the best repackaging lawyer in the market: his experience of complex structured finance transactions is unrivalled, and he is well-liked by the business as well as in-house lawyers for how quickly he grasps the technical issues and is able to propose innovative solutions.
He is ably assisted by up-and-coming partner Daniel Franks. Always have partner focus on matters. He is valued by both in-house legal and business teams. They have made the effort to truly understand our business and its needs, and we consider them a trusted advisor to our business.
He is an active participant in our matters and is always available to us. As a result he understands our business incredibly well and can be trusted as a safe pair of hands. I first met senior associate Sean Bruns at the start of his career and it was clear to me even then that he was exceedingly gifted.
He has a confident grasp of even the most complex of our transactions and we always enjoy working with him. Norton Rose Fulbright has ' business sense and superb domain expertise - ideal advisor for first-time issuers '. The London-based securitisation practice is predominantly focused on residential mortgage-backed transactions, both in the UK and internationally, though it also handles covered bonds, trade receivables and SME lending, as well as advising issuers, cash managers and trustees on post-issue restructurings, defaults and litigation.
Practice head David Shearer is ' a trusted advisor for the top management of any issuer with exceptional expertise in the field of securitisation '.
Key partner Sandrine Sauvel handles deals in the UK and throughout Europe, acting for arrangers, originators, trustees, rating agencies and monoline guarantors. Farmida Bi provides essential advice on corporate trustee and service provider issues. Rae Parsons shows commitment to meeting even the most demanding deadlines. Dan Kennedy; Sarah Fitzpatrick. Forceful but always reasonable. Personable and a pleasure to work with.
Experienced in defending high profile and heavyweight solicitor negligence claims. She is experienced and calm under pressure whilst providing succinct advice on technical legal issues.
Norton Rose Fulbright advises asset managers including the investment arms of a number of financial institutions on fund formation, regulatory issues and investments. It also has an active listed fundraising practice, which handles IPOs on key exchanges. The team advises funds focused on asset classes including energy, infrastructure and transport, alongside debt and insurance products.
Practice head Richard Sheen has a strong track record in asset management and equity capital markets work. Ian Fox and counsel Margaret Simcock are other key individuals in the group. Ian Fox ; Margaret Simcock. He has a long track record of providing practical and commercial advice on investment trusts.
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