| Standout | CME Group | 9 | 9 | 7 | 25 | The London-based legal team worked with the business’s digitisation group, regulators and the Royal Mint to develop a digital gold product and trading platform based on blockchain technology. The distributed ledger technology will provide a digital record of ownership for gold stored at the Royal Mint and allow participants to trade securely and efficiently in real time. |
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| Standout | The Crown Estate | 7 | 8 | 9 | 24 | Played a leading role to restructure the UK’s offshore wind industry. By changing their leasing methodology and taking a risk-weighted approach to new leases, the legal team has helped the UK to deliver 5GW of offshore energy, making it the leading offshore renewable energy generator in the world. |
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| Highly Commended | British Business Bank | 8 | 8 | 7 | 23 | The legal team rewrote the Enterprise Finance Guarantee lending scheme and is helping to reshape the market by guaranteeing new types of financing for small and medium-sized businesses. The state-owned bank now supports 27,000 loans to small businesses in the UK that may not otherwise have access to funds. |
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| Highly Commended | Atom Bank | 7 | 8 | 7 | 22 | Led the work to meet complex regulatory and legal requirements to allow the launch of the UK’s first app-only or digital bank. The fast-growing bank has no branches, tellers or physical outlets for customers, and was set up to challenge the traditional banking model. |
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| Commended | Redes Energéticas Nacionais | 5 | 8 | 7 | 20 | A new general counsel and legal team with strong transactional experience allowed the in-house legal team to lead the Portuguese energy company in its first international deal, acquiring a stake in a Chilean company that owns a key gas pipeline in the central region of Chile. |
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