A total of 47 Gowling WLG lawyers from across many of the firm's key sectors and services have been listed in the sixth edition of The Best Lawyers in the UK guide.

As one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession, a listing in this publication signals not only legal expertise, but, also, ethics and professionalism of the highest calibre.

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:

Bernardine Adkins: Competition law

Richard J. Black: Pensions practice

Chris Brierley: Banking & finance law

Jonathan Chamberlain: Employment law

Mark Chester: Real estate law

Martin Chitty: Employment law

Philip Clissitt: Education law

Andrew Manning Cox: Litigation

Nicholas Cunningham: Intellectual property law

Patrick Duxbury: Intellectual property law

James Gordon: Litigation

Peter Hall: Intellectual property law

Julian Henwood: Corporate finance law

Bill Jones: Information technology law

Luke Kempton: Intellectual property law

Paul Kent: Litigation, real estate law

Michael J. Luckman: Intellectual property law

Lee P. McBride: Environmental law

Sally Mewies: Information technology law and intellectual property law

Jeremy Millington: Corporate finance law

Kevin Milton: Pensions practice

Lee Nuttall: Tax law

Michael O'Shea: Construction law

Ashley R. Pigott: Construction law

Glyn Ryland: Pensions practice

Sarah Sasse: Information technology law

Gillian Stewart: Real estate law

Andrew Thomas: Environmental law and planning

David Vaughan: Corporate finance law

Ian Weatherall: Insolvency & restructuring law

David Barron: Intellectual property law

Gordon F. Bell: International arbitration

David E. Brennan: Mergers and acquisitions law

David Breslin: Insurance law

Rabinder Chaggar: Real estate law

Jason Coates: Pensions practice

John Cooper: Competition law

Andrew Dobson: Arbitration and mediation

Richard Green: Construction law

Gordon Harris: Intellectual property law

Paul Inman: Intellectual property law

Nicholas Jacob: Trusts & personal tax law

Julian C. Pallett: Banking & finance law and insolvency & restructuring law

Huw Roberts: Real estate law

Glyn Ryland: Pensions practice

Martin Thomas: Litigation, real estate law

Nick Turner: Real estate finance

March has been a successful month for Gowling WLG, as the international law firm won the award for Global Strategic Initiative of the Year at The lawyer European Awards. The firm was also awarded UK Patent Contentious Firm of the Year at the Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) Global Awards.