Ranked as a Top 10 Global Law Firm, with 70+ offices globally, CMS works for you in 40+ countries. With more than 4,500 lawyers CMS offers business-focused advice tailored to your needs, whether in your local market or across multiple jurisdictions. As Europe’s largest law firm, we are also uniquely well placed to help you navigate Brexit.
Regularly cited as one of the leading teams in our field, Dechert combines deep legal expertise with broad governmental experience across a range of industries and policy fields. Based primarily in our London office, we can call upon the sectoral and local expertise of lawyers situated in offices across Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East. This combination enables us to provide our clients with commercially focused legal, strategic and public affairs advice on the full range of international trade-related issues including: export controls, economic sanctions, trade embargoes, anti-corruption, customs procedures, trade defence measures and national security reviews of foreign direct investment.
Brexit planning and strategy is a particular focus of our work. We have helped industry bodies, companies and governments to develop their positions, to define clear priorities, red lines and concrete bespoke proposals, to translate this into an advocacy strategy that best fits their needs and to plan for the different potential outcomes.
In addition to deep UK and EU legal expertise, we have practical and policy experience – including of trade negotiations – developed at the European Commission, the Council and a range of UK bodies including the Prime Minister’s office, the Cabinet office, the Bank of England, HM Treasury, the Foreign office and attorneys general offices. Through this, we have a strong understanding of how the UK and EU institutions operate in practice and the main personalities involved.
With 1,400 legal professionals across 19 cities worldwide, Gowling WLG is an international law firm that is ambitious for your success. Our sector expertise means that we understand clients, their businesses, and the opportunities and challenges that they face. We truly value these relationships. We stand with our clients, striving to ensure they achieve their goals, and thinking ahead to protect their interests. We believe that working closely with our clients, as well as across our teams, creates greater opportunities for success.Our global reach, combined with our sector knowledge and commitment to outstanding service, is why Gowling WLG is the trusted adviser to international clients including FTSE 100 and 250 companies, financial institutions, government departments, and high net worth individuals.And across our business, the power of our relationships consistently delivers results that make a real difference.
HFW is a sector focused law firm. With over 500 lawyers working across 17 offices (and affiliated offices) in Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, we provide a global and seamless service 24 hours a day. We take a progressive approach to our roles in commercial business – thinking creatively and pragmatically to support our clients. Whether we are solving complex issues within the construction, aviation or shipping industries, or providing advice across insurance, commodities, energy and other sectors we are specialist lawyers here to add value to our clients. We think about the commercial solution first, and then underpin our advice with a solid foundation of legal expertise. Brexit is potentially the most significant issue in a generation for companies with investments and businesses in Europe. HFW has a dedicated team of lawyers who are on hand to advise you on Brexit issues and help to provide clarity around the legal and strategic implications for your business. We can help you to identify key legal risks for your business and advise you on managing and mitigating those risks, enabling you to deliver your strategic priorities.For more information on how we can help your business please click here: http://www.hfw.com/brexit
LCP Consulting is the spearhead of BearingPoint’s supply chain management team in the UK.We help businesses operate more profitably and compete more effectively by taking an end-to-end customer-driven view of their supply chains and operations. With over 20 years consulting experience, we have a deep understanding of how supply chains can make major contributions to overall business success.
We offer our clients real depth of consulting expertise – in people, knowledge, tools, methods, and operational and sector expertise.
We harness the potential in our clients’ supply chains by:
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 4,000 lawyers and other legal staff based in 59 offices Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.We have a dedicated international trade treaties practice to assist governments and businesses around the world in navigating international trade law, investment law and trade treaty negotiation. Our experience of international trade and public matters is unrivalled – the global team includes a former prime minister and an ex-UN ambassador, with significant involvement and practice on trade treaties negotiation, interpretation and dispute resolution mechanism, including investor-state mechanisms and arbitration. Governments and blue-chip companies from almost every major global industry rely on our experience to gain the widest possible access to international markets, particularly throughout our key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and life sciences and healthcare. We particularly advise clients to analyse and assess Brexit-related challenges and support them in preparing for upcoming changes in the framework of a new trade relationship between the UK and the EU, concerning tariffs and possible regulatory barriers such as labelling, rules of origin, standards and conformity assessment procedures amongst other trade and related public international law issues. We make strategic use of trade law remedies to maintain level playing fields in domestic markets. We support clients in every aspect of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy proceedings, including questionnaire responses, on-site audits and verification visits, and represent their interests before relevant government authorities and tribunals. Our customs experience enables us to deal with audits and appeals to tribunals and courts resulting from adverse decisions by national customs authorities.Partner Mark Simpson is the London practice head. He started his career in the New Zealand government service, where he gained experience advising on trade-related issues, including work under the auspices of the WTO, APEC and arms of the UN. This included involvement in work concerning the “Singapore issues” under the Doha Round of WTO negotiations and conceptual work on approaches to bilateral free trade agreements.
Shearman & Sterling LLP is a global law firm with approximately 850 lawyers in many of the major commercial centers around the world. Our award-winning global Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory group works on complex cross-border issues and transactions and has advised on a significant number of high profile, first-in-kind, complex regulatory and compliance matters.We provide a full global service to banks, investment firms, brokers, insurance and reinsurance companies, exchanges, SEFs/MTFs, clearing and settlement providers, fund firms, payment service providers and corporations on the laws and regulations of the world’s key financial and commercial centers. Most recently our team has been at the forefront of discussions of how Brexit will affect businesses in the UK and globally. They continue to assess, examine and provide practical guidance on the implications of Brexit for financial institutions. Our practice is truly multi-jurisdictional in its scope, with our core group practicing in London, New York and Washington, DC, and additional regulatory expertise in Toronto, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Brussels, Singapore and Beijing, among other offices. This allows us to match the global presence of many of our clients and provide seamless coverage in core jurisdictions. In the current environment, when so many of the rules are generated out of the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee, our cross-border regulatory practice allows us to stay ahead of regulatory trends and anticipate issues that may be relevant to you. Capitalizing on our regulatory knowledge and insight, we provide innovative solutions on a cross-border and local basis and assist clients in cultivating their relationships with regulators.