SPECIAL REPORTS
Search FT.com
All times are London time
Resources
Search
for law firmsThis law firm appears in
- FT Law 50 2011
- Client Service 2011
- Corporate Law - Emerging Markets 2011
- Corporate Law 2011
- Finance 2011
- Strategy 2011
- FT Law 50 2010
- Climate change and sustainability 2010
- Corporate 2010
- Dispute Resolution 2010
- Financial services 2010
- Risk and regulation 2010
- FT Law 50 2009
- Changing the rules 2009
- Dispute Resolution - non credit crisis 2009
- Financial Crisis and the downturn 2009
- Financial Services 2009
- Government 2009
- Law firm management 2009
- Resourcing 2009
- FT Law 50 2008
- Finance 2008
- Management 2008
- Marketing & PR 2008
- Real Estate 2008
- Responsible Business 2008
- Client Service 2008
- Corporate 2008
- Human Resources 2008
- Public-Private Partnership 2008
All rankings
- FT Law 50 2011
- Bribery and Corruption 2011
- Client Service 2011
- Continental European Firms 2011
- Corporate Law - Emerging Markets 2011
- Corporate Law 2011
- Dispute Resolution-2011
- Efficiency 2011
- Finance 2011
- In-house Teams 2011
- Industry Pioneers 2011
- Pensions 2011
- Resourcing 2011
- Strategy - International Expansion 2011
- Strategy 2011
- Technology 2011
- FT Law 50 2010
- FT Law 50 2009
- FT Law 50 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Standout |
| Innovation | Reshaping the rules around European Union state aid |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 7 |
| Total | 20 |
| Description | Helping to accelerate the European Commission’s previously sluggish processes of approval for state aid, Freshfields combined legal expertise with commercial and political negotiating skills |
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Standout |
| Innovation | Strategic adviser to the German government in the credit crisis |
| Originality | 8 |
| Rationale | 9 |
| Impact | 8 |
| Total | 25 |
| Description | The firm drafted the initial legislative solution to the crisis in one weekend. Later, it developed a unique expropriation act to deal with non-cooperative shareholders of Hypo Real Estate Bank and a new twist on the good bank / bad bank concept |
- * Minimum delay 15 minutes
All times are London time
- Advertise with the FT
- Media centre
- FT Newspaper subscriptions
- FT Conferences
- FT Syndication
- Corporate subscriptions
- FT Group
- Careers at the FT
- Partner sites: Chinese FT.com
- The Mergermarket Group
- Investors Chronicle
- Exec-Appointments.com
- Money Media
- The Banker
- fDi Intelligence
- MBA-Direct.com
- The Non-Executive Director
- © Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2011. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd. Privacy policy
- Terms