| Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira | Stand-out | Creating a market for Spanish distressed debt | 8 | 7 | 7 | 22 | Using a suite of marketing and educational techniques to aid the institutions, the firm created a slew of deals and capitalised on a first- mover advantage, effectively making a market for Spanish distressed debt in the UK. |
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| Linklaters | Stand-out | Dramatising risk with a multimedia approach | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | Secured an interview with Keith Packer, a former BA executive jailed in the US for anti-competitive practices, to create a training tool to convey the importance of compliance for top executives. Praised by clients as unusually effective. |
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| Simmons & Simmons | Stand-out | “Cleantech Curve” | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | A product designed to help start-up companies in the cleantech sector to become viable entities. Sold for a fixed cost, the product packages the firm's know-how into a step-by-step approach to save clients thousands of pounds in legal fees. |
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| Eversheds | Stand-out | Vital statistics for general counsel | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 | Runs workshops to equip in-house lawyers with the ability to use statistics and financial data to demonstrate the value of their departments to their boards and better manage external legal spending. |
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| Portolano Cavallo Studio Legale | Stand-out | Advertising-risk “traffic light” | 7 | 7 | 6 | 20 | Created a tool to advise the advertising industry. Specialist approach to risk in advertising enables a rapid response for agency clients on tight timelines. |
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| Allen & Overy | Highly Commended | “GlobalView” tool | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 | A step change in law firm products, the tool gives clients a picture of changes in global regulation and is equally about its form as its content. Largely targeted at the big banks, the key is its visual, rather than linguistic format. |
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| Linklaters | Highly Commended | HSBC information- adviser secondment | 6 | 6 | 7 | 19 | Seconded a full-time information adviser to the bank to create a risk analysis system for its capital markets team. Indicative of a new wave of highly collaborative and standardised client services. |
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| Allen & Overy | Highly Commended | Global Law Intelligence Unit | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 | A legal think-tank designed to produce accessible global comparative legal analysis for clients. |
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| Dundas & Wilson | Highly Commended | Legal project management tool | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | Real-time updates on legal matters. Enables clients to see trends and issues in high-volume legal work. Clients praised the intuitive interface for increasing flexibility and usability compared with similar products. |
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| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Highly Commended | Crisis-management initiative | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 | Clients attest to the unusually joined-up nature of the firm’s crisis-management expertise, which gives them a head-start in understanding the multilateral legal, media and political issues involved in crisis situations. |
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| Simmons & Simmons | Highly Commended | Online “Key Investor Information Document” (KIID) generator | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | With Morningstar, the firm will provide a service to automate the production of KIID documents, which are now mandatory for all cross-border fund products. |
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| Kromann Reumert | Commended | China network | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 | The firm developed a forum for Danish companies to meet and discuss Chinese business opportunities and share know-how. |
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| Baker & McKenzie | Commended | Global emerging- markets team | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | The team looks for opportunities for clients, and assists their businesses with local legal know-how. Covers more than 100 emerging-market jurisdictions. |
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| CMS Cameron McKenna | Commended | “Reflect” | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | Co-ordinated added-value services delivered through a toolkit designed to prepare partners for client meetings. Enables relationship partner to act as more of a gatekeeper to the whole firm. |
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| DLA Piper | Commended | PPP network | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 | Created a platform enabling clients to share information and best practice on private-public partnerships. |
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| Hogan Lovells | Commended | Co-ordinating client response to planning law changes | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | Grouped key clients and lobbied the UK government on planning-regime reforms. This led to the publication of a select-committee report critical of government’s agenda in planning. |
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| Lawrence Graham | Commended | Family Business Advisory Group | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | The group fosters relationships with wealthy individuals and gives advice on governance and succession planning for family-dominated companies in the Middle East. |
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| PLMJ | Commended | Partnering with Tempus on community projects in Portugal | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | In a relationship that has spanned a decade, the firm has been consistent in adding value to make projects happen. |
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| Wolf Theiss | Commended | “The Power of Relationships” | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | A programme to inspire the firm’s younger lawyers in central and eastern Europe to be better commercial advisers to business. |
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