8:04 PM Simmons & Simmons LLP – London – Law Firm Profile - Chambers Europe 2015 – Chambers and Partners | ||||
Firm Overview: Simmons Simmons is a leading international law firm with fully integrated teams working through 24 offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm’s strategy is designed to ensure it provides its clients with high-quality advice and delivers value through new ways of working across their five key sectors of asset management and investment funds, energy and infrastructure, financial institutions, life sciences and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT). Simmons Simmons acts regularly on the most innovative cases, deals and transactions in its chosen areas of specialism and receives recognition for the quality of its work from clients and others within these industry sectors. For example, in , Simmons Simmons won 3 awards at the Asia Women in Business Law Awards including Best International Law Firm in Hong Kong, TMT Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards, Legal Innovation for Dispute Resolution at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards, and Innovation Award at the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards. The asset management and investment funds team was named Hedge Fund Journal’s Leading Law Firm for the fifth year running. In Life Sciences the firm was awarded a Client Choice Award in Italy and named Best Specialised Team for Health Pharmaceuticals at the 14th annual Trophees du Droit awards in Paris for the fifth time. The firm was also awarded best legal team at the Telecoms World Middle East Awards and won the Energy and Natural Resources Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards . The firm’s commitment to corporate responsibility is also well recognised. Simmons Simmons was named best international firm for pro bono work at the Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards Europe ; was the highest ranked law firm in Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers six years running until becoming one of only eight Star Performers in ; and has featured in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women for the past three years. Main Areas of Practice: Five sector teams are drawn from the core practice areas of: corporate; dispute resolution; EU, competition and regulatory; employment, pensions and employee benefits; financial markets; information, communications and technology; IP; projects; real estate; information, communications and technology, and tax. Recent major transactions handled by the firm include advising: • The Kyrgyz Republic for the development of laws and regulations, supporting the introduction of Takaful (Islamic insurance) and Sukuk (Islamic securities) • Veolia on the sale of its UK-regulated water businesses (for which the firm was highly commended in the FT Innovative Lawyers Report ) • Henderson Global Investors in the Context of its Joint Venture with TIAA-CREF • R-Pharm on the acquisition of a production plant from Pfizer • Five renowned international banks challenging the Court-sanctioned refinancing agreement of one of the largest industrial groups in Spain • Samsung Electronics on their ongoing dispute with Apple (a multi-jurisdictional patent, design right, copyright and unfair competition litigation case that is being litigated around the world over several years) • SEDCO Capital on the launch of a unique, award winning Shariah-compliant funds platform; significant transactions for longstanding client Telefonica UK including the ?1.5b Smart Metering Programme and a ?1.5b outsourcing • As the external legal advisor to The Hogg Tendering Advisory Committee for LIBOR • Sealed Air Corporation on the sale of a Japanese subsidiary and associated cross-border advice, working with TMI Associates, its joint venture firm in Japan Simmons Simmons also advises on the effects on its clients of the regulatory, enforcement and litigation requirements arising from current market conditions, and is known for its work on landmark financial litigation matters and appeals. Its market-leading Investigations Group has substantial experience in handling the wide range of legal, regulatory and strategic issues to which sensitive, cross-border investigations can give rise and the firm also has one of the largest full-service dispute resolution practices of any firm headquartered in the City of London, covering financial markets litigation, contentious regulatory, corporate crime, professional and product liability and international arbitration, as well as insurance, IP and employment disputes. Firmwide, it has over 250 partners and a total staff of around 1,500 of whom more than half are based in its 22 offices outside the UK.
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