Awards 2026

Arbitration Expert Firm of the Year

• Secretariat

Arbitration Expert Witness of the Year

• Kai Schumacher - AlixPartners

Asset Recovery Expert of the Year

• Ian Casewell - Mintz Group

Asset Recovery Experts Firm of the Year

• Grant Thornton

Commercial Litigation Expert Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Commercial Litigation Expert of the Year

• Alexander Demuth - Secretariat

Competition Economics Firm of the Year

• Compass Lexecon

Competition Economist of the Year

• Rainer Nitsche - E.CA Economics - A BRG company

Construction Expert Firm of the Year

• HKA

Construction Expert of the Year

• Wendy MacLaughlin - gb2

Energy Expert of the Year

• Boaz Moselle - Compass Lexecon

Energy Experts Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Insurance Expert of the Year

• Jonathan Rosen - Arbitration Mediation and Expert Witness Services

Insurance Expert Witnesses Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Investigations Digital Forensic Expert of the Year

• Phil Beckett - Alvarez & Marsal

Investigations Digital Forensics Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Investigations Forensic Accountant of the Year

• Veit Buetterlin-Goldberg - AlixPartners

Investigations Forensic Accounting Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Mining Expert Firm of the Year

• Secretariat

Mining Expert of the Year

• Carla Chavich - Compass Lexecon

Private Client & Offshore Services - Trust and Advisory Firm of the Year

• Rawlinson & Hunter

Private Client & Offshore Services - Trust and Advisory Professional of the Year

• Marie-Thérèse Yates - J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Restructuring & Insolvency Advisers Expert of the Year

• Wei Cheong Tan - Deloitte

Restructuring & Insolvency Advisers Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Tax Expert of the Year

• Humberto Ávila -  Humberto Ávila Advocaci

Tax Experts Firm of the Year

• Ernst & Young

Consulting Firm of the Year

• FTI Consulting

Arbitration

• Freshfields

Asset Recovery

• Harneys

Banking - Finance

• A&O Shearman

Banking - Regulatory

• Allen & Gledhill

Banking - Fintech

• A&O Shearman

Banking - Blockchain

• MME Legal Tax Compliance

Business Crime Defence

• Corker Binning

Capital Markets

• Linklaters

Commercial Litigation

• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Competition

• Freshfields

Competition Plaintiffs

• Hausfeld

Construction

• Pinsent Masons

Corporate Governance

• Freshfields LLP

Corporate Immigration

• Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy

Corporate Tax

• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Data - IT

• Kennedy Van Der Laan

Data - Privacy & Protection

• Fieldfisher

Data - Security

• Hogan Lovells

Employment & Labor

• Baker McKenzie

Energy

• Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Entertainment

• Dentons

Environment & Climate

• Norton Rose Fulbright

Fintech & Blockchain

• A&O Shearman

Franchising

• Bird & Bird

Gaming

• Wiggin

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Patent Litigation

• Hogan Lovells

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Product Liability

• Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Regulatory

• Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Transactional

• Cooley

Immogration

• Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP

Insurance

• Kennedys

Investigations

• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

IP - Patents

• Powell Gilbert

IP - Trademarks

• Bird & Bird

M&A

• Freshfields

Mediation

• Independent Mediators

Mining

• Fasken

Private Client & Offshore Services

• Charles Russell Speechlys

Private Funds

• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Product Regulation & Liability

• Hogan Lovells

Professional Negligence

• Clyde & Co

Project Finance

• White & Case

Public Procurement

• Dentons

Real Estate

• Greenberg Traurig 

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Clifford Chance

Sports

• Bird & Bird

Tax

• Cuatrecasas

Telecoms & Media

• Bird & Bird

Trade & Customs 

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Transport - Aviation 

• HFW

IP - Patent Agents & Attorneys

• Kilburn & Strode LLP

IP - Trademark Agents & Attorneys

• Knijff Trademark Attorneys

IP - Copyright

• Visser Schaap & Kreijger

Business Crime Defence - Bar

• QEB Hollis Whiteman

Competition - Bar

• Brick Court Chambers

Construction - Bar

• Atkin Chambers

Employment & Labor - Bar

• 11KBW

Insurance - Bar

• 7 King's Bench Walk

IP - Patents - Bar

• 8 New Square

Private Client & Offshore Services - Bar

• 5 Stone Buildings

Professional Negligence - Bar

• 4 New Square

Public Procurement - Bar

• Monckton Chambers

Real Estate  - Bar

• Falcon Chambers

Restructuring & Insolvency - Bar

• South Square

Sports - Bar

• Blackstone Chambers

Arbitration

• Prof. Dr. Maxi Scherer, ArbBoutique

Artificial Intelligence

• Giles Pratt, Freshfields

Asset Recovery

• Keith Oliver, Peters & Peters Solicitors

Banking & Fintech

• Adrian Ang, Allen & Gledhill LLP

Business Crime Defence

• Shula de Jersey, BCL Solicitors

Capital Markets

• Thomas Reutter, Advestra

Commercial Litigation

• Marcelo Roberto Ferro, Ferro Castro Neves Daltro & Gomide Advogados

Commercial Mediation

• William Wood KC, Brick Court Chambers

Competition

• Daniela Seeliger, Linklaters

Competition - Plaintiff

• Alex Petrasincu, Hausfeld LLP

Competition - State Aid

• Jacques Derenne, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Construction

• Lindy Patterson KC, 39 Essex Chambers

Corporate Governance

• Nelson Eizirik, Eizirik Advogados

Data

• Clara-Ann Gordon, Niederer Kraft Frey

Employment & Labor

• John Sander, Jackson Lewis PC

Energy

• Ted Greeno, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK

Entertainment

• Christopher Staton Spicer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 

Environment & Climate

• Édis Milaré, Milaré Advogados

Franchising

• Larry Weinberg, Cassels Brock & Blackwell

Gaming

• Jamie Nettleton, Addisons

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Patent Litigation

• Brian Cordery, Bristows

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Product Liability

• Ina Brock, Hogan Lovells

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Regulatory

• Beatriz Kestener, Kestener Vieira Torronteguy e Spegiorin Advogados

Healthcare & Life Sciences - Transactional

• Ulrich Reese, Clifford Chance

Immigration

• Nicolas Rollason, Kingsley Napley

Insurance

• Peter Chaffetz, Chaffetz Lindsey

Investigations

• Clare Montgomery KC, Matrix Chambers

IP - Patents

• Andrew Brodkin, Goodmans 

IP - Trademarks

• Elisabeth Kasznar Fekete, Kasznar Leonardos Advogados

M&A

• Paulo Cezar Aragão, BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão

Mining

• Michael Bourassa, Fasken

Private Client & Offshore Services

• Michael Fischer, Fischer Ramp Buchmann AG

Private Funds

• Kate Downey, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 

Project Finance

• Pablo Sorj, Mattos Filho

Public Procurement

• Anna Ulfsdotter, Ulfsdotter Law

Real Estate

• Marcelo Terra, Duarte Garcia, Serra Netto e Terra - Sociedade de Advogados

Restructuring & Insolvency

• Philip Hertz, Clifford Chance

Sports

• Michele Bernasconi, Bär & Karrer

Tax

• Arne Møllin Ottosen, Kromann Reumert

Telecoms & Media

• Angus Henderson, Webb Henderson

Trade & Customs

• Edwin Vermulst, VVGB Advocaten

Trade & Customs - International Sanctions

• Maya Lester KC, Brick Court Chambers

Transport - Aviation Contentious

• Andrew Harakas, Clyde & Co

Transport - Aviation Finance

• Carlos Sierra, Abogados Sierra

Transport - Aviation Regulatory

• José Elías Del Hierro Hoyos, Del Hierro Abogados

Transport - Shipping

• Eric Machum, Metcalf & Company

Overall Firm of the Year

• Clifford Chance

Pro Bono Firm of the Year

• TBC