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- FT Law 50 2009
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- Financial Services - Islamic finance 2009
- Resourcing 2009
- FT Law 50 2008
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- Commercial 2008 (3)
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- Dispute Resolution 2008
- Human Resources 2008
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Wragge & CoFT Law 50 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| 2009 Rank | 11 |
| 2008 Rank | 7 |
| 2009 total score for ALL entries submitted | 182 |
| 2009 score band for ALL entries submitted (/10) | 5 |
| Number of standout entries in FT REPORT | 0 |
| Number of highly commended entries in FT REPORT | 1 |
| Number of commended entries in FT REPORT | 4 |
| 2009: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 6 |
| 2009 Score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/10) | 2 |
| 2008: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 17 |
| 2008 score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/5) | 3 |
| 2009 Profits per Equity Partner (PEP) (£k) | 294 |
| 2009 Score band for PEP (/5) | 1 |
| Assessment of management commitment and innovation value to firm (/20) | 16 |
| Total Innovation Score in the FTLAW50 (/50) | 27 |
Changing the rules 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Dolland & Aitchison and Boots Opticians merger - pension solution |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | An innovative pensions solution involving creation of a customised package of security and income streams |
Client Service 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Automated online work approval |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | Offer to switch Mercedes Benz’ paper forms to an online system. Wragge helped develop a solution to give its client consistency and visibility when instructing law firms |
Financial Services - Islamic finance 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Commended |
| Innovation | Shari'a compliant foreign exchange swap |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | Wa'ad promises were deployed to enable the first European Sharia'a compliant foreign exchange swap. This new product works to significantly simplify both paperwork and costs |
Resourcing 2009
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | In-house outplacement team |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 18 |
| Description | A systematic outplacement service for staff facing redundancy. The firm diverted the human resources team to look for opportunities for its fee earners |
FT Law 50 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| 2008 Rank | 7 |
| 2007 Rank | 5 (-2) |
| 2008: Total score for ALL entries submitted | 300 |
| 2008: score band for ALL entries submitted (/10) | 6 |
| Number of standout entries in FT REPORT | 1 |
| Number of highly commended entries in FT REPORT | 4 |
| Number of commended entries in FT REPORT | 5 |
| 2008: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 17 |
| 2008: score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/10) | 5 |
| 2007: total weighted score for ranked entries in FT REPORT | 20 |
| 2007: score band for ranked entries in FT REPORT (/5) | 3 |
| 2007: Profits per Equity Partner (PEP) | 483 |
| 2007: score band for PEP (/5) | 1 |
| Assessment of management commitment and innovation value to firm (/20) | 18 |
| Total Innovation Score in the FTLAW50 (/50) | 33 |
Finance 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | Developing and launching Smartfund in the UK, the first retail investment product approved by the Financial Services Authority. |
| Originality | 8 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | The firm had to find a way to introduce the Australian concept of separately managed accounts into the UK unit trust regulatory framework. With the introduction of additional transparency, this could see a shake-up of the role of unit trust fund managers. |
Billing and Fees 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | Using CFAs and ATE for commercial cases. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 5 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | A systematic approach where all Wragge litigators are trained in how to use these funding arrangements. |
Commercial 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Submission | Advice to EMAP pensions trustees on takeover by specialist insurer of the pension scheme. |
| Originality | 7 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | The firm facilitated the agreement of the trustees enabling EMAP to leave its pension scheme and the incoming insurer to develop a new market. |
Commercial 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Submission | Central Surrey Health:a public to private transfer of community health services. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | Wragge's partner took a hugely active role and documented from scratch a new model private healthcare company. It was bought by its staff who sell services back to the NHS. |
Commercial 2008 (3)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Submission | The conduct of equal pay claims against a local authority. |
| Originality | 5 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | A fresh approach to the conduct of these politically sensitive cases alongside negotiation of new pay settlements with unions. The firm combines strong project management skills with lateral thinking to expedite the cases. |
Corporate 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | The creation of a contractual profit reserve: a solution to help companies tailor the treatment of profit reserves on a balance sheet. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 7 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 19 |
| Description | This new structure enables pension trustees and the company to agree specifically what the arrangements will be for paying dividends to shareholders. It avoids the common but expensive route of creating a super-imposed company. |
Corporate 2008 (2)
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | M&A-style due diligence for the National Health Service. |
| Originality | 4 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 6 |
| Total | 16 |
| Description | Bringing corporate rigour to due diligence in the NHS, the firm can claim credit for streamlining processes to help the government deliver its surgery target time of 18 weeks. With the Department of Health, the firm devised new ways to deliver the controversial Independent Sector Treatment Centres. |
Dispute Resolution 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Highly commended |
| Innovation | Cinpres Gas Injection v Melea Ltd: longest running dispute in the English patents court. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | A hard fought case to prove that a series of judicial decisions were based on perjured evidence. This "very strange" case, as described by the judicial system, also set a precedent that an employee's perjury constitutes an employer's fraud. |
Human Resources 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Award Level | Commended |
| Innovation | Teaching partners and associates to become coaches using bespoke programme from Kaizen Consulting. |
| Originality | 6 |
| Rationale | 6 |
| Impact | 5 |
| Total | 17 |
| Description | Using coaching to create a safe environment to transfer knowledge. Coaching is flexible and used in 10 minute slots to create a system of regular, responsive feedback. |
Public-Private Partnership 2008
| Rankings at a glance | |
|---|---|
| Project | CVF Alliance Project: the £3.9bn project to build the UK's next generation of aircraft carriers. |
| Award Level | Standout |
| Originality | 6 |
| Creativity | 7 |
| Impact | 4 |
| Total | 17 |
| The lawyers' innovation | In the context of this very complex, first multi-party alliance for the MoD, the firm became the trusted lynchpin for the project. It designed the basic structure, which involved a lot of creative thinking from a 'ring of fire' to protect the MoD's IP to negotiating indemnity insurance to protect the MoD from the effects of poor design. The MoD has issued a legal partnering handbook where the firm's work on this project is held as best practice. |
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