Find out who came out on top in this year鈥檚 Legal 500 league table published today
Ashurst has taken the joint top spot in this year鈥檚 league table of best regarded construction law firms.
The Legal 500 ranking, the most in-depth suvey of legal services which is published today, places Ashurst, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Pinsent Masons in the top tier for London-based lawyers. All three were in the top tier in 2009.
黑洞社区 columnist became a construction partner at Ashurst in May 2009 after eight years at Linklaters, which fell from tier two to three. Ashurst acted for Westfield on the 拢4bn Westfield Stratford City retail scheme and worked on Crossrail.
CMS Cameron McKenna, Clifford Chance and Fenwick Elliott were placed in tier two along with five other firms. Three other 黑洞社区 colmnists - , a partner at Fenwick Elliott, a construction partner at Cameron McKenna and , a partner at Pinsent Masons 鈥� were given special mention.
Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer, which acted for Brookfield in the 拢200m Wembley dispute, moved up a division to join the other seven firms in tier two.
The construction league table, which is one of many categoris, is compiled from qualitative research, as opposed to fee income or number of partners, and includes submissions from the law firms themselves as well as input from over 45,000 clients over the previous year.
Legal 500 verdict on the top three
Ashurst
鈥淎shurst LLP 鈥檚 construction team provides 鈥� sensible and realistic advice鈥�
Berwin Leighton Paisner
鈥渙ffers 鈥� good industry knowledge and value for money 鈥� [鈥 a team that advised the O&M sub-contractor on the 拢6.2bn M25 widening project, and the group also advised a Kuwaiti contractor in international arbitration.鈥�
Pinsent Masons
鈥淭he practice is particularly notable for large infrastructure projects and complex international arbitrations. Recent highlights include acting for the Balfour Beatty/Carillion joint venture on East London Line Project contracts with Transport for London, suppliers, and subcontractors.鈥�
Legal 500: Construction law firms
Tier 1
Ashurst LLP
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Pinsent Masons LLP
Tier 2
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Clifford Chance
Fenwick Elliott LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Herbert Smith LLP
Hogan Lovells International LLP
Mayer Brown International LLP
Nabarro LLP
Tier 3
Allen & Overy LLP
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Clyde & Co LLP
DLA Piper UK LLP
K&L Gates
Macfarlanes LLP
Norton Rose LLP
Reed Smith
Speechly Bircham LLP
Taylor Wessing LLP
Trowers & Hamlins LLP
White & Case LLP
Tier 4
Addleshaw Goddard LLP
Beachcroft LLP
Bird & Bird LLP
Boodle Hatfield
Burges Salmon LLP Bristol
Davies Arnold Cooper LLP
Denton Wilde Sapte LLP
Dundas & Wilson LLP
Eversheds LLP
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
Jones Day
Kennedys
Lawrence Graham LLP
Lewis Silkin LLP
Linklaters LLP
Manches LLP
Maxwell Winward LLP
Olswang
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
SJ Berwin LLP
Slaughter and May
Stephenson Harwood
Wragge & Co LLP
Tier 5
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP
Beale and Company Solicitors LLP
Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP
Bevan Brittan LLP
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
Collyer Bristow LLP
Corbett & Co International Construction
Lawyers Ltd
Fladgate LLP
Forsters LLP
Glovers Solicitors LLP
Hammonds LLP
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP
Maples Teesdale LLP
McGrigors LLP
Simmons & Simmons
Steptoe & Johnson
Travers Smith LLP
Watson Burton LLP
Wedlake Bell LLP
Firms are listed A-Z within tiers
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