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Law Firms Americas Europe Asia Africa 2015 EDITION LAW FIRMS AMERICAS EUROPE ASIA AFRICA Christopher Saul Slaughter & May Robert Hays King & Spalding David W. Rivkin IBA - Debevoise & Plimpton Peter Lukasiewicz Gowlings Larren M. Nashelsky Morrison & Foerster 1 - THE GLOBAL MARKET TOP ADVISORS DIRECTORY Daniel Daeniker 10. Global 100: 2014: A year of mega mergers Homburger with higher revenues Law firms Patent & trademark firms 2 - THE AMERICAN MARKETS Software 28. Canada Services provider Elisabeth Lepique 32. USA Luther 44. Mexico 46. Brazil 55. Peru Sharon White 3 - THE EUROPEAN MARKET 4 - THE ASIAN MARKET Stephenson Harwood 62. Austria 117. Netherlands 148. China 68. Belgium 122. Portugal 154. India 74. France 125. Spain 156. Japan 105. Germany 127. Russia 109. Italy 132. Switzerland 5 - THE AFRICAN MARKET Xavier Hugon 113. Luxembourg 138. United Kingdom PDGB Filippo Troisi Legance # INT19 AN ANNUAL REPORT FROM LEADERS LEAGUE 23 June 2016 NEW YORK BUILD A GLOBAL BUSINESS MEET LEADING IP LAW FIRMS: BUILD A GLOBAL NETWORK Alston & Bird, Fitzpatrick, Fross Zelnick, Knobbe Martens, Cooley, Kilpatrick, Kenyon & Kenyon, Smart & Biggar/Fetherstonhaugh, Dimock EXPERT INSIGHTS Stratton, TMI Associates, Sugimura, Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, China Patent Agent (HK), Carey y Cía, Basham Ringe y Correa, Barreda Moller, Interactive round tables with top management executives Olivares, Mewburn Ellis, Germain & Maureau, Cabinet Plasseraud, • Managing the legal department Jacobacci & Partners, Hoffmann, Herrero & Asociados Eitle... • Intellectual Property / Information technology • Cross border business & international corporate finance MEET LEADING CORPORATE LAW FIRMS: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Covington & ONE-TO-ONE ALLIANCE MEETINGS Burling, King & Spalding, K&L Gates, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 1,200 One-to-One Alliance Meetings held in 2015 Debevoise & Plimpton, Norton Rose Fulbright,Ropes & Gray, Fenwick & West, Hunton & Williams, Bracewell & Giuliani, Schedule your business meetings in advance and meet who matters most to you. Dickstein Shapiro, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Jauregui y Del Valle, Creel, Garcià Cuéllar y Enriquez, Barrera Siqueiros y Torres Landa, Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, NTERNATIONAL GENERAL COUNSELS AWARDS I Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Blakes Cassels & Graydon, Torys, A profession gathers to honor its leading General Counsels, IP and Tax Directors Bennett Jones, Boss & Young, Jun He Law Offices, Zhong Lun Law Firm, Rajah & Tann, Kim & Chang, Amarchand & Mangaldas Meet the entire In-House community in a unique opportunity to reward the most outstanding & Suresh A. Shroff & Co, AZB & Partners, Nagashima Ohno & Legal, Tax and Intellectual Property Departments around the world. Tsunematsu, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune... INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM AWARDS MEET TOP GENERAL COUNSELS & IP COUNSELS: A prestigious gala dinner and Awards ceremony to distinguish the best Law Firms Metlife, IBM Corporation, Zurich Global Life, Nike, Walmart, worldwide Schneider Electric, American Express, Reckitt Benckiser, Ford Motor Company, CA Technologies, Bunzl Distribution, Mercer, Two key practices in the spotlight: Corporate and Intellectual Property. The Estée Lauder Companies, Televisa, Nokia Corporation, Piaggio, The Hershey Company... CONTACT @ILASA2015 #ILASA2015 Olivier Wallois - [email protected] +33 (0)1 45 02 25 44 www.ilasummit.com EDITO GET GLOBAL OR DIE TRYIN’ ovember 2013: UK-based SJ Berwin best player abroad - even if it is not part of the Nannounced its merger with Hong Kong- network? This is a question that should resonate based King Wood Mallesons, which was itself in every General Counsel’s mind. HUGO WEBER established by the merger of Chinese King Wood MANAGING EDITOR and Australian Mallesons Stephen Jaques, thus Hyper-specialization, the only viable option creating a new kind of global law firm with an Figures talk. In many countries, most profitable impressive Asian footprint. Will it be a new firms are structured around a particular practice. benchmark for the legal market? Dentons is Wachtell Lipton, known for its M&A practice, following on the trend with a 2-step growth, and Quinn Emanuel, specialists in litigation, are first with its merger with Chinese Dacheng in both leading the U.S. market with respectively January 2015, quickly followed by a second $5,500,000 and $4,925,000 profit per-partner. highly visible merger with U.S.-based McKenna Through specialization, independent law firms Long & Aldridge. Dentons now counts 6,550 have found a way to differentiate from large ÉLODIE SIGAUX lawyers worldwide. Last but not least, Wragge networks. Whatever the firms’ size, they have ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR Graham Lawrence & Co, the British firm, also to adapt to legal departments’ requests. Linkla- announced its upcoming 2016 merger with ters, Herbert Smith Freehills or Clifford Chance Canadian Gowlings. As a result of those mega have all created the new position of ‘legal project mergers, most of the time under the Swiss verein manager’ to cope with the legal departments’ system, a risk has begun to appear: the standar- needs. A tailor-made project management that dization of legal advices, leading to a leveling definitely seduces large corporations. But in this down of services. Will clients remain free to climate where law firms must hyper-specialize, choose their advisors in foreign jurisdictions? they should pay attention not to overspecialize Will large firms automatically send the work to and therefore run the risk of missing out on their network or help clients out in choosing the some opportunities. LAW FIRMS AMERICAS EUROPE ASIA AFRICA THE GLOBAL MARKET 10 2014: A year of mega mergers with higher revenues 12 The 100 best global law firms 14 Interview with David W. Rivkin, President of the International Bar Association (IBA), Co-Chair of the International Dispute Resolution Group, Debevoise & Plimpton 16 ILASA REPORT THE AMERICAN MARKETS NORTH AMERICA 28 Canada: Leveraging the Natural Resources 29 Top 30 Canadian law firms 30 Interview with Peter Lukasiewicz, External Managing Partner, Gowlings 32 USA’s Rankings of the 100 best performing law firms: United they stand, divided they fall 34 The 100 best US law fims 36 The Art of Growth of King & Spalding 38 Interview with Robert Hays, Chairman, King & Spalding 40 Silicon Valley Power Brokers: A Look inside Gunderson Dettmer 41 Interview with Robert Gunderson, Founding partner, Gunderson Dettmer 42 Interview with Larren Nashelsky, Chair, Morrison & Foerster 44 Mexico: A legal market between two cultures SOUTH AMERICA 46 The Brazilian legal market: increasingly dynamic despite the uncertain economic situation 50 Interview with Pedro Freitas, Managing Veirano Advogados 52 Marcelo Tostes Advogados, innovation and entrepreneurship 54 Interview with Marcelo Tostes, Founder and Managing Partner, Marcelo Tostes Advogados 55 Peru’s legal market is still dominated by locals 57 Interview with Alvaro Valle, Managing Partner, Garrigues, Peru THuRSDAy DECEMBER 3, 2015 14TH EDITION - PARIS THE LARGEST PRIVATE EQUITY & RESTRUCTURING SUMMIT IN EUROPE FOR CEOS, FUNDS, LPS: MORE THAN 1,200 DELEGATES IN 2014 CONFERENCES NETWORKING LuNCH ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS AWARDS CEREMONy AMONG 2014 SPEAKERS: Benoit Durteste Guy Hands Martin Dunnett Managing Director Chairman & CIO Managing Director ICG Terra Firma Warburg Pincus Thomas McComb Hélène Bourbouloux Rob Wright Managing Director Receiver Partner JP Morgan Asset FHB Pantheon Ventures Management Jean-Baptiste Wautier Henrik Lif John Kremer Managing Partner Partner Partner BC Partners Segulah Adams Street Partners For further information, please contact us by phone: +33 (0) 1 45 02 25 00 or visit our website www.private-equity-exchange.com LAW FIRMS AMERICAS EUROPE ASIA AFRICA THE EUROPEAN MARKET 60 Inteview with Thomas Sely, Senior Consultant, Kroll Ontrack 62 Austria: Downturn Spurs Diversification 66 Interview with Thomas Schirmer, Managing Partner, Binder Grösswang 67 Interview with Christoph Lindinger, Managing Partner, Schoenherr 68 The Belgian market: a strategic player in the international market 71 Interview with Alain Vanderstraeten and Pierre Van Fraeyenhoven, 72 Partners, Van Cutsem Wittamer Marnef & Partners Interview with Jean-Pierre Buyle, Partner, Buyle legal 74 Décideurs 100 : Competition & innovation 80 Décideurs 100 82 Décideurs 100 Turnover and Staff 84 Décideurs 100 Productivity per partner and per lawyer 86 Accuracy still thinking bigger 89 Interview with Hervé de Trogoff, Partner, Accuracy 90 Interview with Erik van Duijvenvoorde, Partner, Accuracy 92 BDGS: a high-flying boutique The consolidation phase 94 Capstan, a reference in employment law for companies 98 PDGB: a firm on the rise 99 Interview with Xavier Hugon, Managing Partner, PDGB 101 Interview with Roy Arakélian, Partner and board member of the TerraLex international network, PDGB 102 International Arbitration & litigation: betto seraglini into orbit after a successful launch 104 Interview with Julien Fouret and Thierry Tomasi, Partners, betto seraglini 105 Germany: the most diversified market of the Old Continent 107 Interview with Eric Weil, Partner, Weil & Associés 108 Interview with Elisabeth Lepique, Managing Partner, Luther 109 The Italian Market: a competitive market dominated by domestic firms 111 Interview with Giancarlo Capolino-Perlingieri, Co-founder, CP-DL Capolino-Perlingeri & Leone 112 Filippo Troisi, Senior & Founding Partner, Legance 113 Luxembourg: Stability Means
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