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DLA Piper top-tier global rankings from The Legal 500

DLA Piper has topped this year’s Legal Business 100 with revenue of £1,799.5m, an increase of 7% from last year. See our full coverage of the Legal Business 100.

UK, 2017

 

London:

  • Corporate and commercial: Commercial contracts
  • Corporate and commercial: Private equity: transactions – Mid-cap deal capability
  • Real estate: Commercial property: retail
  • TMT (technology, media and telecoms): IT and telecoms
  • TMT: Media and entertainment (including media finance)

 

North West:

  • Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Manchester
  • Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax
  • Crime, fraud and licensing: Crime: general
  • Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
  • Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Liverpool
  • Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Manchester
  • Finance: Banking and finance
  • Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
  • Human resources: Employment
  • Human resources: Pensionsn Projects, energy and natural resources: Energy
  • Projects, energy and natural resources: Project finance and PFI
  • Public sector: Local government
  • Real estate: Commercial property: Liverpool
  • TMT: IT and telecoms

 

Scotland:

  • Public sector: Parliamentary and public affairs
  • Real estate: Commercial property: leisure and hospitality
  • TMT: IT and telecoms
  • West Midlands
  • Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Birmingham
  • Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Birmingham
  • Finance: Banking and finance
  • Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
  • Real estate: Planningn TMT: Intellectual property

 

Yorkshire and the Humber:

  • Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
  • Corporate and commercial: Corporate and commercial: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
  • Crime, fraud and licensing: Licensing
  • Dispute resolution: Banking litigation
  • Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
  • Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
  • Finance: Banking and finance
  • Finance: Insolvency and corporate recovery
  • Human resources: Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
  • Human resources: Employment: Sheffield and South Yorkshire
  • Human resources: Health and safety
  • Insurance: Professional negligence: claimant
  • Projects, energy and natural resources (including PFI): Energy
  • Real estate: Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
  • Real estate: Commercial property: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
  • Real estate: Environment
  • Real estate: Planning
  • Real estate: Property litigation
  • TMT: Intellectual property
  • TMT: IT and telecoms
  • Transport: Transport

EMEA 2018

 

Belgium:

  • EU regulatory: IT
  • EU regulatory: privacy and data protection
  • Fraud and white-collar crime
  • Industry focus: food and beverage
  • Industry focus: IT and telecoms
  • Industry focus: retail
  • Insolvency and restructuring

 

Denmark:

  • Environment
  • Insurance
    France
  • Aviation
  • Industry focus: IT, telecoms and the internet

 

Germany:

  • Media: Press and publishing
  • Public sector: product-related adviceHungary
  • Banking and finance
  • Capital markets
  • Commercial, corporate and M&A
  • Projects and energy
  • Tax

 

Italy:

  • Compliance
  • Industry focus: energy
  • Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
  • Industry focus: luxury goods
  • Industry focus: manufacturing
  • Industry focus: retail
  • Industry focus: TMT
  • Intellectual property: copyright
  • Real estate and construction

 

Kuwait:

  • Commercial, corporate and M&A
  • Intellectual property

 

Morocco:

  • Employment
  • Tourism and real estate

 

Norway:

  • Construction
  • Insurance

 

Poland:

  • Insurance
  • Public law

 

Portugal:

  • Employment
  • Transport

 

Romania:

  • Employment
  • Tax

 

Russia:

  • Commercial, corporate and M&A: St Petersburg and elsewhere
  • Tax
  • Transport

 

Spain:

  • Industry focus: manufacturing
  • Industry focus: retail

 

Sweden:

  • Employment
  • Energy
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance

 

Ukraine:

  • Commercial, corporate and M&A
  • Competition
  • Intellectual property
  • Real estate and construction

 

United Arab Emirates:

  • Real estate
  • TMT

Asia-Pacific, 2018

 

Hong Kong:

  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Tax and trusts

 

Japan:

  • Labour and employment: International firms and joint ventures

 

New Zealand:

  • Insurance
  • Investment funds

 

Philippines:

  • Foreign firms

 

Thailand:

  • Real estate and construction
  • Restructuring and insolvency

US, 2018

  • Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action: pharmaceuticals and medical devices – defense
  • Intellectual property: Patents: licensing
  • M&A/corporate and commercial: M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Outsourcing
  • Media, technology and telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
  • Real estate: Land use/zoning
  • Real estate: Real estate

Canada, 2018

  • Infrastructure and projects: Infrastructure and projects
  • Transport: Aviation
  • Transport: Other
David Burgess, publishing director, The Legal 500
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