| Wragge & Co | Stand-out | Building a healthcare regime from scratch | 8 | 8 | 7 | 23 | Conceived a new health code and regulatory framework for Abu Dhabi. A blank page and an enviable budget meant lawyers could cherry-pick the best practices from multiple jurisdictions |
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| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Stand-out | First online auction for purchasers of UK nuclear power sites | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 | Advised Eon on its successful joint venture bid with RWE for nuclear power station sites. Negotiating the complex regulatory regime required significant co-operation between the new owners and the Nuclear Development Authority |
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| Norton Rose | Highly commended | Evaluating boards of directors from new angles | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 | Following its contribution to the Walker Report on corporate governance at financial services companies, the firm worked with behavioural psychology experts to form Bvalco, a multidisciplinary evaluation service assessing board composition and performance |
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| Field Fisher Waterhouse | Highly commended | Educating the UK on data security | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 | Having written the leading textbook on data security, the firm is guiding businesses through the data-security regime. It offers training for private and public bodies, and runs educational initiatives for students |
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| Wragge & Co | Highly commended | Enabling collaboration in the UK electricity sector | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 | Created three alliances between its utility-company client and electricity distribution companies. The 10-year partnerships, totalling £1.6bn ($2.5bn) in value, share risks and rewards of meeting the regulator’s elevated standards |
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| Latham & Watkins | Highly commended | Advising banks on regulatory capital rules | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 | Helped banks draft amendments to the Basel rules on capital requirements, and advised numerous banks on structuring transactions |
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| Norton Rose | Commended | Risk management “in a box” | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 | Built a tool that enables clients to visualise the potential risks of a project from the outset, and cuts down the costs of employing external lawyers |
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| Herbert Smith | Commended | Building a high-speed railway regulatory regime | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | Agreed the new regulatory framework for London & Continental Railways, the operator of the UK’s first high-speed rail link between London and the Channel Tunnel |
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| Gide Loyrette Nouel | Commended | Clearing credit default swap contracts | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | Worked with LCH.Clearnet to build a clearing system for CDS transactions. The complex mechanisms came in response to the Group of 20’s agreement to standardise these opaque, over-the-counter swaps by 2012 |
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| Allen & Overy | Commended | Playing board games in tense meeting rooms | 7 | 6 | 5 | 18 | “The Big Risk Game”, devised by the firm, is bringing role-playing situations into critical contract negotiations |
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| Linklaters | Commended | Clearing interest rate swaps for investors | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | Helped devise a clearing system for buyers in interest rate swap contracts. This protects investors from the risk of cross-border bank insolvencies by elevating them to secured creditors |
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| Baker & McKenzie | Commended | Viewing the financial crisis from all perspectives | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 | In hosting high-profile conferences, the firm helps analyse the relationship between law, economics, politics and sociology in the financial crisis |
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