Forty-seven Gowling WLG lawyers from the firm's UK LLP have been named 'Best Lawyers' in the 11th Edition of the international peer review publication, with two Partners named as 'Lawyers of the Year' for 2020.
Lawyers from the firm's Birmingham, London, Paris, Munich and Stuttgart offices have been awarded the title of 'Best Lawyers' for their legal expertise as well as their ethics and professionalism of the highest calibre, named across 20 speciality areas including Real Estate, Corporate and Energy & Natural Resources law.
Cementing their success in 2020, Partners Sarah Sasse and Michael Luckman were also named in Best Lawyers® exclusive 'Lawyers of the Year' list in the Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law categories respectively.
Of the forty-seven Gowling WLG lawyers recognised as 'Best Lawyers', Partners Sally Mewies, Andrew Thomas, Paul Inman, Julian Pallett, Martin Thomas and Andreas Wöelfle were also each named in two categories for 2020.
Best Lawyers® is one of the oldest and most respected peer review publications in the legal profession. The annual list of outstanding lawyers is compiled through an unbiased legal referrals process, surveying tens of thousands of the industry's leading figures.
Each listed lawyer has been recognised for market-leading expertise in their specialist area. The full list of those named in the guide is as follows:
UK
Bernardine Adkins: Competition Law
Robert Armour: Energy & Natural Resources Law
David Barron: Intellectual Property Law
Gordon Bell: International Arbitration
Richard Black: Pensions Practice
David Brennan: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Chris Brierley: Banking & Finance Law
Rabinder Chaggar: Real Estate Law
Jonathan Chamberlain: Employment Law
Martin Chitty: Employment Law
Philip Clissitt: Education Law
Jason Coates: Pensions Practice
John Cooper: Competition Law
Nicholas Cunningham: Intellectual Property Law
Patrick Duxbury: Intellectual Property Law
Richard Green: Construction Law
Gordon Harris: Intellectual Property Law
Matthew Harvey: Asset Finance Law
Julian Henwood: Corporate Finance Law
Paul Inman: Intellectual Property Law, Life Sciences Law
Luke Kempton: Intellectual Property Law
Andrew Lawton Smith: Litigation
Michael Luckman: Intellectual Property Law
Hugh Maule: Corporate Finance Law
Lee McBride: Environmental Law
Sally Mewies: Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law
Jeremy Millington: Corporate Finance Law
Lee Nuttall: Tax Law
Michael O'Shea: Construction Law
Julian Pallett: Banking & Finance Law, Insolvency & Restructuring Law
Ashley Pigott: Construction Law
Huw Roberts: Real Estate Law
Glyn Ryland: Pensions Practice (London and Birmingham)
Sarah Sasse: Information Technology Law
Andrew Smith: Litigation
Gillian Stewart: Real Estate Law
Andrew Thomas: Environmental Law, Planning
Martin Thomas: Litigation, Real Estate Law
Mike Trainer: Real Estate Law
Nick Turner: Real Estate Finance
David Vaughan: Corporate Finance Law
Ian Weatherall: Insolvency & Restructuring Law
Germany
Andreas Wöelfle: Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Manuela Finger: Media Law
France
Philippe Rousseau: Intellectual Property Law
Simon Lowe: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Danhoé Reddy-Girard: Real Estate Law