The inaugural Benchmark Europe awards ceremony was held last night (Wednesday, May 15 2019) at The Mandarin Oriental, London. Over 100 private practice, in-house and other guests attended, and photographs from the evening are available here.
Kirkland & Ellis took home the trophy for United Kingdom Firm of the Year, while Debevoise & Plimpton, Garrigues, Gleiss Lutz and McCann FitzGerald were all rewarded for working on the Impact Cases of the Year.
Photos from the event can be viewed HERE
Congratulations to the winners, all of which are listed below:
NATIONAL AWARDS
AUSTRIA
Firm of the Year
Wolf Theiss
Lawyer of the Year
Clemens Trauttenberg
Wolf Theiss
BELGIUM
Firm of the Year
Stibbe
Lawyer of the Year
Oliver Stevens
Stibbe
CROATIA
Firm of the Year
Wolf Theiss
Lawyer of the Year
Dalibor Valinčić
Wolf Theiss
CYPRUS
Firm of the Year
Elias Neocleous & Co
Lawyer of the Year
Chrysanthos Christoforou
Elias Neocleous & Co
CZECH REPUBLIC
Firm of the Year
Peterka & Partners
Lawyer of the Year
Jiří Černý
Peterka & Partners
DENMARK
Firm of the Year
Gorrissen Federspiel
Lawyer of the Year
Henriette Gernaa
Gorrissen Federspiel
ESTONIA
Firm of the Year
Ellex Raidla
Lawyer of the Year
Arne Ots
Ellex Raidla
FINLAND
Firm of the Year
Castrén & Snellman
Lawyer of the Year
Anders Forss
Castrén & Snellman
FRANCE
Firm of the Year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Lawyer of the Year
Claudia Annacker
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
GERMANY
Firm of the Year
Gleiss Lutz
Lawyer of the Year
Markus Meier
Hengeler Mueller
GREECE
Firm of the Year
Bernitsas Law
Lawyer of the Year
Christos Paraskevopoulos
Bernitsas Law
HUNGARY
Firm of the Year
Wolf Theiss
Lawyer of the Year
Zoltán Faludi
Wolf Theiss
ICELAND
Firm of the Year
Lagahvoll
Lawyer of the Year
Jóhann Tómas Sigurðsson
Lagahvoll
IRELAND
Firm of the Year
McCann FitzGerald
Lawyer of the Year
Sharon Daly
Matheson
ITALY
Firm of the Year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Lawyer of the Year
Ferdinando Emanuele
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
LATVIA
Firm of the Year
Cobalt
Lawyer of the Year
Sintija Radionova
Primus Derling
LITHUANIA
Firm of the Year
Ellex Valiunas
Lawyer of the Year
Andrius Smaliukas
Ellex Valiunas
LUXEMBOURG
Firm of the Year
Loyens & Loeff
Lawyer of the Year
Véronique Hoffeld
Loyens & Loeff
NETHERLANDS
Firm of the Year
Houthoff
Lawyer of the Year
Richard Le Grand
Windt Le Grand Leeuwenburgh
NORWAY
Firm of the Year
BAHR
Lawyer of the Year
Jan Jansen
BAHR
POLAND
Firm of the Year
Dentons
Lawyer of the Year
Paweł Pietkiewicz
Greenberg Traurig
PORTUGAL
Firm of the Year
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados
Lawyer of the Year
Francisco Cortez
Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva & Associados
ROMANIA
Firm of the Year
Suciu Popa
Lawyer of the Year
Luminita Popa
Suciu Popa
RUSSIA
Firm of the Year
Peterka & Peterka
Lawyer of the Year
Vlad Rudnitskiy
Peterka & Peterka
SPAIN
Firm of the Year
Uría Menéndez
Lawyer of the Year
Patricia Vidal
Uría Menéndez
SWEDEN
Firm of the Year
Roschier
Lawyer of the Year
Rikard Wikström-Hermansen
Roschier
SWITZERLAND
Firm of the Year
Homburger
Lawyer of the Year
Balz Gross
Homburger
TURKEY
Firm of the Year
Gün + Partners
Lawyer of the Year
Gönenç Gürkaynak
Gürkaynak Attorneys at Law
UKRAINE
Firm of the Year
Asters
Lawyer of the Year
Oleksiy Didkovskiy
Asters
UNITED KINGDOM
Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Lawyer of the Year
Steven Baker
White & Case
PRACTICE AREA FIRM AWARDS
Commercial & Transactions Firm of the Year
McCann Fitzgerald
Competition Firm of the Year
Herbert Smith Freehills
Intellectual Property Firm of the Year
Hogan Lovells
International Arbitration Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
White Collar Crime Firm of the Year
Schellenberg Wittmer
PRACTICE AREA LAWYER AWARDS
Commercial & Transactions Lawyer of the Year
Damian Byrne Hill
Herbert Smith Freehills
Competition Lawyer of the Year
Sven Völcker
Latham & Watkins
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Laëtitia Bénard
Allen & Overy
International Arbitration Lawyer of the Year
Christopher Colbridge
Kirkland & Ellis
White Collar Crime Lawyer of the Year
Peter Burckhardt
Schellenberg Wittmer
Impact Cases of the Year
Goldman Sachs in Supreme Court hearing against Novo Banco
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Google abuse of dominance
Herbert Smith Freehills
Comcast
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Johnson & Johnson
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Intel - Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice
Ashurst
Google v Kelkoo
Herbert Smith Freehills
Daimler
Gleiss Lutz
C-20/15P Commission v World Duty Free Group and C-21/15P Commission v Banco Santander and Santusa Holding
Garrigues
DOCERAM v CeramTec
Hogan Lovells
Government of the United States of America, Commercial Court proceedings by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner against Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems
McCann FitzGerald
Royal Dutch Shell and The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria
Debevoise & Plimpton
Credit Suisse
Schellenberg Wittmer
The Popplewell Proceedings
Holman Fenwick Willan
Rolls Royce in its Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the UK Serious Fraud Office
Debevoise & Plimpton