| Harbottle & Lewis | Stand-out | Pre-conception agreements for UK non-traditional families | 7 | 8 | 7 | 22 | Pioneered agreements to set out parents' responsibilities in a child's life. The work followed the firm's lead role in a groundbreaking Children's Act case that has helped bring the law in line with changing attitudes towards the family. |
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| Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Stand-out | Release of Ron Fuchs from a Georgian prison | 6 | 8 | 7 | 21 | Using an imaginative combination of criminal, civil and commercial legal solutions, the firm secured the release of the Ron Fuchs, the Israeli businessman, from a Georgian prison, and successfully negotiated a substantial cash settlement against Georgia in favour of Mr Fuchs and his business partner. |
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| Lawrence Graham | Stand-out | New Bahamas wealth management structure | 5 | 7 | 8 | 20 | Adapted good governance principles to create the Bahamas Executive Entity (BEE), a first-of-its-kind structure designed to carry out executive functions. International Protector Group, the international fiduciary services provider, has since introduced the BEE to Swiss-based trust advisers. |
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| Garrigues | Highly Commended | Family Ties service | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 | Developed a mechanism and consulting service to help family-run businesses professionalise, allowing them to check the progress of their strategic plan against objective data. To date, the firm has delivered "roadmaps" to companies with a combined revenue of €1.2bn and 4,400 employees. |
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| Mishcon de Reya | Highly Commended | Reputation protection and enhancement | 7 | 7 | 5 | 19 | With a unique blend of law and communications, the firm devised a proactive and open strategy to prevent bad publicity for a high-profile client where traditional public relations strategies had failed. |
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| PLMJ | Commended | Challenging Portuguese inheritance legislation | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | The first successful challenge to existing inheritance legislation in Portugal, using court orders to freeze the respondent's assets. The lawyers' strategy resulted in a €2m out-of-court settlement for their clients, and an expansion of the court's powers by enabling it to consider assets that had not been formally part of the deceased's estate. |
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| Eversheds | Commended | Ensuring the Lisec heirs received their full entitlement | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 | Using an aggressive strategy to challenge the conservative Austrian trusts law status quo, the firm achieved a rare dismissal of the board of a private Austrian trust to ensure Lisec heirs received their full entitlement. |
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| Mishcon de Reya | Commended | Protecting the reputation of Coventry City Football Club | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 | Used the little-known tort of lawful means conspiracy to avoid costly defamation proceedings and protect the reputation of the English football club against a newspaper. |
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| Mills & Reeve | Commended | Divorce UK iPhone app | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | Invented a free iPhone app that provides a "satnav" to the legal and financial processes involved in divorce, video advice from senior family lawyers and a court finder to help pinpoint the nearest court. |
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| Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii | Commended | World heritage site ownership dispute | 5 | 6 | 5 | 16 | Ensured that the Putna Monastery, a world heritage site, triumphed in a controversial ownership dispute with the Romanian state. The firm's strategies were crucial to achieving an irrevocable judgment in the monastery's favour. |
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