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Analysis International firms in London
Firm by firm
Firm
Akin Gump Fred Heller 277 11 11 (9) 23 (24) 1 (1) 0 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Arnold & Porter Tim Frazer 219 14 15 (12) 28 (21) 0 (0) 5 (3) 10%-20% No Yes, 2 every alternate
year since 2003
Arthur Cox Kathleen Garrett 97 10 1 3 0 (0) 0 10%-20% Corporate; finance Rotate trainees from
Dublin to London as
part of training
Baker & McKenzie Gary Senior 706 78 78 308 *(6) 4 Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, 38 a year
Baker Botts Tony Higginson 272 7 7 (6) 16 (15) 0 (1) 1 (0) 10%-20% Undisclosed No
Bingham
McCutchen
Blakes Cassels &
Graydon
James Roome 377 10 11 (11) 27 (20) 0 (0) 1 (1) 10%-20% Financial restructuring; litigation Yes, 2 per year since
2001
David Glennie 290 0 2 1 0 (1) 0 30%-40% Corporate; securities No
Brown Rudnick Scott Burns 101 11 16 (12) 7 (7) 1 (2) 5 (2) 20%-30% Corporate; clean tech; insolvency &
restructuring; private equity; international
arbitration & litigation
Bryan Cave Anthony Fiducia 336 10 10 (10) 38 (25) 1 (1) 0 (3) 20%-30% Banking & finance; financial regulatory;
outsourcing; international
arbitration; private equity & funds
Cadwalader
Wickersham & Taft
Yes, since 2008, taken
on 1 so far
Yes, 2 or 3 a year
since 2001
Robert Link 104 5 6 55 0 (1) 0 Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, approx 5 for 11
years
Chadbourne & Parke Claude Serfilippi 138 10 14 (22) 31 (31) 0 4 (3) 10%-20% Corporate; capital markets Yes, 1 in 2009 and 1
in 2010
Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton
Conyers Dill &
Pearman
n/a 192 9 17 (17) 81 (55) 0 0 Undisclosed Undisclosed 7 in 2008; 9 in 2009.
taking on trainees since
1997
Christopher
Johnson-Gilbert
42 0 3 6 0 (2) 0 0%-10% Corporate; finance No
Covington & Burling Roger Enock 195 9 13 (14) 47 (27) *(2) 3 (2) 0%-10% Undisclosed Yes, since 2004. Taking
on 7 in 2009
Cravath Swaine &
Moore
London head
Total partners
UK-qualified
partners
London partners
‘09 (‘08)
Total no. of other
London lawyers
‘09 (‘08)
London associates
promoted ‘09 (‘08)
London lateral
partner hires
‘09 (‘08)
Planned
headcount growth
in London in next
18 months (%)
In what practice
area?
Philip Boeckman 88 0 4 (4) 17 (20) 0 (0) 0 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Crowell & Moring n/a 173 5 9 (6) 20 (12) 0 (0) 4 (2) Yes Undisclosed No
Do you take on
London trainees?
Cuatrecasas
Goncalves Pereira
Enric Picanyol and
Florentino Carreno
208 0 4 3 0 (2) 0 No N/A No
Davis Polk & Wardwell Paul Kumleben 166 0 7 31 0 (1) 0 Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Debevoise & Plimpton James Scoville 143 10 17 (18) 80 (69) 0 (1) 1 (3) 0%-10% Undisclosed Yes, 4-6 trainees a
year since 2005
Dechert Steven Fogel 281 31 35 (38) 95 (112) 1 (0) 2 (3) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Dewey & LeBoeuf Steven Davis 386 37 48 (50) 122 (128) 3 (4) 0 (2) Probably Undisclosed Yes, since 1996.
12 this year
Dorsey & Whitney Paul Klaas 282 9 11 (10) 34 (25) 1 (1) 1 (1) 10%-20% Corporate; litigation Yes, 4 a year
Duane Morris
Alexander Geisler
& Susan Laws
713 9 8 (11) 1 (11) 0 (0) 1 (0) Yes Undisclosed No
Faegre & Benson Paul Finlan 241 5 5 (7) 16 (14) 1 (0) 0 (0) Possibly No Yes, 2 trainees a year
since 1987
Fox Mandall Som Mandal 50 3 5 7 0 (0) 2 20%-30% Corporate; commercial No
Fried Frank Harris
Shriver & Jacobson
Justin Spendlove 151 7 14 (15) 28 (31) *(0) 0 (1) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Fulbright & Jaworski Lista Cannon 365 12 13 (13) 21 (12) 0 (2) 2 (6) 10%-20% Disputes Yes, currently 4
Garrigues
Gianni Origoni Grippo
& Partners
Gibson Dunn &
Crutcher
Guillermo
Munoz-Alonso
269 0 2 3 0 (0) 0 No N/A No
Marco Zaccagnini 46 0 1 6 0 (0) 0 40%-50% Banking; DCM Occasionally take Italian
trainees in London
Tome Budd &
James Cox
313 14 19 (19) 40 (39) 0 (1) 3 (6) Yes Corporate; finance; Middle East;
real estate; private equity; dispute
resolution
Gide Loyrette Nouel Colin Mercer 122 5 10 44 0 (0) 0 Possibly No Yes, 4 a year since 2007
Gomez Acebo &
Pombo
Fermin Garbayo
Renouard
41 0 1 5 0 (0) 0 No N/A Yes, 3 in 2009, for the
last 2 years
Hogan & Hartson Garry Pegg 494 16 19 (19) 50 (36) 1 (0) 2 (1) 0%-10% Technology, media &
entertainment; IP
Howrey Mark Hodgson 301 8 9 (11) 13 (12) 1 (0) 2 (4) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Hunton & Williams Martin Thomas 403 11 13 (11) 23 (15) 0 (1) 2 (2) 0%-10% Insolvency; litigation;
employment
*Not yet announced
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No
3 a year since 2006
Yes, 2 a year for 6 years
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Full service in London?
No, corporate including oil and gas; emerging
markets (India and Russia); fund formation
Undisclosed
Da Vinci CIS Private Sector Growth Fund; VimpelCom/
Acquisition of Global Telecom
VimpelCom; LUKOIL & LUKOIL Overseas; Urals Energy Public
Company
Yes Undisclosed AT&T; IDM Pharma; GSK Aventis Pharma; The Kaempfer Company; GlaxoSmithKline;
Armour Group; Philip Morris International Management
No, primarily Irish finance and corporate
No but under
review
Undisclosed CRH; Merrill Lynch; Barclays; Siemens; Wyeth No
Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Yes Undisclosed ING; Cargill; Cardinal Health Abbott Laboratories; Ingersoll Rand; Monsanto; Siemens Undisclosed
No, global projects; litigation and international arbitration;
corporate
No, financial restructuring; finance; litigation;
corporate; tax and financial regulatory
Do you plan to
launch new practice
area in London
in next 12 months?
Three recent London
client wins
Name five of
your most active
international clients
No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
No Undisclosed Undisclosed No
No No Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Would you
consider a
London merger?
No, corporate & corporate finance; insolvency & restructuring;
international arbitration & litigation
Undisclosed
Northern Rock; Clydesdale Bank; Environmental
Technology Fund; Index Ventures; ACME Group
Index Ventures; Mangrove Capital Partners; Amadeus
Capital Partners; Clydesdale Bank; Stonefund2; OakInvest
No
Yes No Undisclosed S Kumars Nationwide; Eurasian Natural Resources
Corporation; International Mineral Resources; Emerson
Electric; Fugro
No Undisclosed CVC Credit Suisse; CVC; Goldman Sachs; Pfizer; Bank of America Undisclosed
No Undisclosed Islamic Development Bank; Korean Export Import Bank;
National Joint Stock Insurance
No, corporate; finance; restructuring & insolvency; tax;
antitrust; financial regulation; litigation & arbitration;
intellectual property; employment & incentives
Yes
No
Mauritius law
from London
Mumtalakat; Highstar Capital; Vale; Federal Reserve Bank of
New York; Oaktree Capital Management
Signet Jewellers; Tosca Investment Managers; Doughty
Hanson; Benfield; Central European Media Enterprises
BATCO; GLG Partners; Royal Bank of Scotland; AIG Europe;
EBRD
Goldman Sachs; TPG; ArcelorMittal; GlaxoSmithKline; Dow
Chemical Company
Man Investments; International Finance Corporation; HSBC;
Macquarie Group; Bacardi
Yes No British Horseracing Authority; CBS Interactive; Piper Jaffray Harley Davidson; Merck; Microsoft; Novartis; The Pantheon
Group
Full-service US law Undisclosed RWE; BAT International Finance; Grupo Modelo British American Tobacco; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank;
Sappi; Vivendi
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Marriott International; Nortel; Banco de la Republica de Possibly
Colombia; Hitachi Data Systems Corporation; Ingersoll Rand;
Diebold
No, Spanish and Portuguese law No Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Undisclosed
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Citi; Morgan Stanley; JPMorgan; AstraZeneca; Roche Undisclosed
No, dispute resolution; M&A; fund formation;
insurance; capital markets; finance; restructurings
& tax planning
Undisclosed Undisclosed Siemens’s audit committee; Pernod Ricard; Clayton Dubilier
& Rice; Catlin Group; AXA
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
Yes Undisclosed Lancashire Holdings CNPC Exploration; Scottish Re; Zurich Financial Services Undisclosed
No No JPMorgan; Co-operative Group; Jazz FM Investments Consub Delaware; United Healthcare; US Bank;
Aker Solutions
Yes No Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly
Yes No Soleco UK Pentair, ADC Telecommunications: HB Fuller Company;
Flextronics; Target Corporation
Yes Yes WHICH?; AIG; Dynacast Augere; Colonial Insurance; City and Guilds; Dynacast No
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Goldman Sachs; Virgin Media; Rio Tinto; Merck; Proctor &
Gamble
No, disputes & international arbitration; energy &
projects
No, only Spanish law; corporate finance; M&A and
banking
No, banking; structured finance; DCM; derivatives and
regulatory
Yes Undisclosed GlaxoSmithKline; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling;
Foster Wheeler; ACE European Group; International Finance
Corporation
No Burdale Financial; TDR Captial; BG Group General Electric; FCC; Telefonica; Bridgepoint; La Caixa No
Possibly Fondazione Cariparo; EPPI; ENPACL JPMorgan Securities; Goldman Sachs; Barclays Capital; Credit
Suisse International; Citadel
Yes No Undisclosed Intel Corporation; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Investcorp
Bank; Aetna; Tyco International
No, banking & finance; captial markets; tax;
international dispute resolution; mining; oil & gas
No, M&A; company commercial; banking and finance
and real estate; property development and planning
Possibly Mediacapital Bank; International Finance Corp BNP Paribas; Credit Agricole; Deutsche Bank; SNCF; Societe
Generale
No
Endesa Distribucion Electrica; Impax Asset Management;
Grupo T-solar Global
Impax Asset Management; Grupo T-solar Global; Endesa
Energia; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria; Bank of Montreal
Yes No Gazprom; Mubadala; Access Industries and Renova Undisclosed Possibly
No, antitrust; IP; commercial litigation & arbitration Undisclosed Eli Lilly; Anheuser-Busch Undisclosed No
Yes Possibly Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly
No
Yes
Possibly
No
No
No
Undisclosed
No
No
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Analysis International firms in London
Firm by firm
Firm
London head
Total partners
UK-qualified
partners
London partners
‘09 (‘08)
Total no. of other
London lawyers
‘09 (‘08)
London associates
promoted ‘09 (‘08)
London lateral
partner hires
‘09 (‘08)
Planned
headcount growth
in London in next
18 months (%)
In what practice
area?
Do you take on
London trainees?
Jones Day Russell Carmedy 783 44 46 139 4 (4) 4 Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, 15-20 for last 15
years
K&L Gates Tony Griffiths 779 59 59 (57) 97 (67) 1 (3) 8 (6) 0%-10% No Yes, up to 10 a year
King & Spalding n/a 291 7 7 (7) 20 (20) 2 (1) 2 (1) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Kirkland & Ellis n/a 618 40 33 (24) 61 (55) n/a (6) 4 (0) 0%-10% No 6 trainees a year, this is
the first year
Latham & Watkins Andrew Moyle 582 28 42 (41) 147 (127) 6 (3) 2 (2) Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, since 2006, approx
15 a year
Loyens & Loeff Frank Leijdesdorff 121 0 2 7 0 (0) 0 0%-10% Luxembourg tax No
Magisters Andrew Mac 12 0 1 0 0 (0) 0 0%-10% N/A n/a
Mayer Brown Sean Connolly 639 Undisclosed 109 (119) 282 (187) 2 (13) 10 (15) Possibly Undisclosed Yes, 30 to 35 per year
McCann Fitzgerald Hugh Beattie 66 0 1 4 0 (0) 0 No N/A Yes, 6 trainees a year
for 15 years
McDermott Will &
Emery
Doron Ezickson 617 31 33 (36) 51 (39) 0 (4) 8 (8) Yes Energy; corporate; tax; others Yes, 7 in 2008. Have
been doing for 9 years
McGuire Woods Anders Grundberg 453 12 13 32 0 (0) 1 0%-10% Undisclosed Yes, 1-2 since 2005
Millbank Tweed
Hadley & McCloy
Phillip Fletcher 148 12 13 (13) 32 (48) 0 (0) 1 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Morrison & Foerster Trevor James 376 23 19 (19) 39 (33) 1 (0) 3 (6) 0%-10% Restructuring Yes, for 4 years, 3 in
2009
Mourant Gareth Rigby 30 4 3 7 0 (0) 1 0%-10% Cayman Islands lawyer –
investment funds
NautaDutilh Gaike Daalenoord 88 0 2 8 0 (0) 0 No N/A No
Nixon Peabody Stavros Adamidis 384 3 4 (4) 2 (3) 0 (0) 0 (0) Yes No No
O’Melveny & Myers John Daghlian 244 7 8 37 1 (1) 0 10%-20% Undisclosed Yes, 4 annually for
4 years
Orrick Herrington &
Sutcliffe
Paul Hastings
Janofsky & Walker
Paul Weiss Rifkind
Wharton & Garrison
Martin Bartlam 333 22 24 (20) 53 (37) 0 (0) 7 (3) Undisclosed Litigation; IP Yes, 10 a year for 4
years
Mark Eagan 264 11 14 (14) 30 (18) 1 (0) 6 (4) No N/A 5-6 a year since 2006
Mark Bergman 647 1 2 (2) 16 (14) 0 (0) 0 (0) 10%-20% M&A; securities No
Pillsbury Winthrop Tim Wright 334 6 8 (5) 18 (8) 0 (0) 3 (2) 10%-20% Energy; finance sourcing; IT Yes, 1-2 trainees a year
for the last 5 years
Proskauer Rose Matthew Hudson 190 5 4 5 0 (0) 2 Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Reed Smith Roger Parker 709 109 101 (103) 207 (238) 4 (3) 8 (10) 10%-20% Undisclosed Yes, 30 trainees a year
No
Salans Howard Cohen 181 35 34 62 n/a (3) 4 0%-10% Dispute resolution; restructuring;
insolvency
Yes, 4 a year since 1992
Shearman & Sterling Anthony Ward 200 28 24 (26) 85 (102) 2 (2) 0 (1) Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, since 1999; 13 in 2008
Shook Hardy & Bacon Simon Castley 191 3 3 5 0 (0) 0 0%-10% Undisclosed No
Sidley Austin Drew Scott 672 33 41 (41) 119 (99) n/a (1) 2 (3) Undisclosed Litigation; regulatory; insolvency;
insurance; others
Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett
Skadden Arps Slate
Meagher & Flom
Gregory Conway 175 6 10 (11) 37 (37) 1 (1) 1 (0) 0%-10% Corporate No
Yes, since 1994;
currently around 8
Bruce Buck 462 17 27 (27) 125 (95) 1 (3) 1 (1) Possibly Possibly Around 4 a year
Stikeman Elliott Derek Linfield 227 4 6 12 0 (1) 1 No N/A No, but do have one
in 2009
Sullivan & Cromwell
Uria Menendez
Vanessa Blackmore
and Robert Schlein
Juan Carlos
Manchuca
170 7 21 59 0 (1) 1 Undisclosed Undisclosed No
103 0 1 6 0 (0) 0 0%-10% General corporate Yes, 2 or 3 since 1992
Walkers Antonia Hardy 48 0 6 10 *(1) 1 (9) 0%-10% Undisclosed No
Weil Gotshal &
Manges
Mike Francies 312 20 23 (23) 105 (95) 1 (2) 3 (2) No N/A Yes, since 1998 – 14
in 2009
White & Case Oliver Brettle 405 76 73 (74) 354 (288) 2 (10) 1 (4) 0%-10% Financial restructuring; insolvency;
dispute resolution
Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale & Dorr
Joe Pillman 326 7 12 (12) 66 (36) 0 (1) 2 (1) 10%-20% International arbitration No
Yes, approx 35 a year
since 1996
Winston & Strawn Thomas Benz 437 5 5 (5) 8 (7) n/a (0) 0 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
*Not yet announced
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Full service in London?
Yes No Avivia; Hilton; Avanti Chrysler, SAP, Riverside Company, Standard Bank, Chevron,
General Motors
Yes No Northern Ireland Health Group; Halliburton Microsoft; Halliburton; PPG Industries; Allegheny Technologies;
Honeywell International
No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
Yes No KPS Capital Partners; Terra Firma Capital Partners;
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
Bain Capital; Apax Partners; TowerBrook Capital Partners;
Oaktree Capital; Change Capital
Yes No Undisclosed QIA, Deutsche Bank; ExxonMobil; BC Partners; Marubeni
Corporation
Yes Luxembourg tax Undisclosed Undisclosed No
No
Yes
No
Undisclosed
No Undisclosed Undisclosed UEFA; Microsoft; Shell; Bayer; Intesa San Paolo Undisclosed
Yes No St Modwen Properties; WestLB; Nedbank; Sigma Finance Akzo Nobel; AT&T; The Bank of New York Mellon; Thomson
Reuters; Bank of America
No, restructuring; finance; regulatory No Lehman Brothers; Bank of Ireland; Capmark Diageo; GMAC; RBS; Lehman; UniCredito Italiano Bank No
Yes Possibly Undisclosed Caterpillar; Honeywell; Luxottica; Merrill Lynch; Novartis No
Yes No Undisclosed Trafigura; Tyco International; KPMG USA; Lexis Nexis Recently merged
with Grundberg
Mocatta Rakison
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed No
No, corporate; capital markets; dispute resolution; Restructuring Cadbury; Investec Bank; Vernalis Bank of America; Funai Electric; Echostar Communications;
employment; finance; life sciences; privacy; sourcing; tax;
Sharp; UPS
technology
Full-service Jersey & Cayman law, except litigation No Goldman Sachs; Royal Bank of Scotland; Royal Bank of
Canada
No, corporate; capital markets; banking & finance;
restructuring & insolvency; tax
3i; Citigroup; Royal Bank of Scotland/ABN Amro; Morgan
Stanley; Royal Bank of Canada
No Undisclosed Undisclosed No
No Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed No
No, do not have pensions; employment;
or real estate
Possibly
Possibly
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly
Undisclosed Undisclosed Gas Turbine Efficiency Wyeth; Acer; Nanya Technology Corporation; Powerchip
Semiconductors Corporation
Yes No Societe Generale; Aviva; Schering Plough GE; UBS; Eisai; Societe Generale; Citi Undisclosed
No, corporate; litigation; finance Possibly Swiss Reinsurance; CSR; Citigroup Citigroup; Swiss Reinsurance Company; Brit Insurance;
Doosan; Actis
No No South Hook; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
Chevron Corp; Sharp Corp; Royal Bank of Scotland; Morgan
Stanley; Swiss National Bank
No
Possibly
No
Undisclosed
No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
Yes Possibly Horizon Discovery; Red International Group; Ingenious
Media Group
Bank of New York Mellon; Wyeth; Wells/Wachovia;
Microsoft; Channel 4
Yes No Undisclosed European Bank of Reconstruction & Developmemt; GE;
Halliburton; Heitman International; The Rompetrol Group
No immediate plans
following Richards
Butler & Reed Smith
merger in 2007
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Citigroup; Credit Suisse; Daimler; Dow Chemical; Merrill Lynch Undisclosed
No No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
No, capital markets; corporate; restructuring & insolvency;
funds; insurance & financial services; international
finance; litigation; tax
No, M&A; banking; capital markets; real estate; arbitration;
litigation; IP; tax
No, M&A; private equity; capital markets; banking;
restructuring; energy; tax; arbitration & litigation
Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly
Undisclosed
NXP; JP Morgan; Deutsche Bank; Goldman Sachs; Royal
Bank of Scotland; BNP Paribas
Undisclosed
Possibly Nomura; JSC Mangistaumunaigaz; The Vita Group Access Industries; Anheuser-Busch InBev; Bank of America;
BHP Billiton; Blackrock Financial Management
No No African Rainbow Minerals; Nufcor Energy Merrill Lynch; Deutsche Bank; HSBC; Royal Bank of Canada No
Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Anheuser-Busch InBev; Barclays; Diageo; Goldman Sachs;
Philips
Yes No Unilever; TDG; JPMorgan Infrastructure Investments Fund Santander Bank; Goldman Sachs; Legg Mason; Fenwal
Europe; Allegheny Technologies
No Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed No
Yes Possibly Fidelity Equity Partners; Kaupthing Bank; Teachers Private
Capital
Yes No Samruk-Kaznya National Welfare Fund; Rolls-Royce;
Enerjisa
No, international arbitration & dispute resolution; corporate;
antitrust; aviation; employment; IP; technology
Do you plan to
launch new practice
area in London
in next 12 months?
Three recent London
client wins
Name five of
your most active
international clients
General Electric; Lehman; Providence Equity Partners;
Samsung; AIG
Babcock & Brown; BNP Paribas; Deutsche Bank; Novartis;
Saudi Aramco
No
No
No
No
No
No
Possibly
No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed
Would you
consider a
London merger?
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