- Global Chief Executive: Peter Martyr
- Global Deputy Chief Executive: Don Boyd
- Global:
- Deputy Managing Partner (LLP): Tim Marsden
- Norton Rose partners (worldwide): 900+
- Number of other fee-earners (worldwide): 2,900+
- Total staff (worldwide): 5,900+
Firm Overview: Norton Rose is a leading international law firm.With more than 2900 lawyers, it offers a full business law service to many of the world’s pre-eminent financial institutions and corporations from offices in Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Central Asia. It is strong in financial institutions; energy; infrastructure, mining and commodities; transport; technology and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
Norton Rose is the business name for the international law firm that comprises Norton Rose LLP, Norton Rose Australia, Norton Rose Canada LLP and Norton Rose South Africa (incorporated as Deneys Reitz Inc) and their respective affiliates.
Norton Rose has three principal practice groups: banking and finance; corporate; and litigation and dispute resolution. A number of other stand-alone practice areas operate within these three groups including antitrust, competition and regulatory; employment and labour; employee benefits and executive compensation; pensions; intellectual property; real estate and tax.
Main Areas of Practice: Acquisition finance; alternative dispute resolution; antitrust, competition and regulatory; asset based lending; asset finance; asset management; banking and finance; business ethics and anti-corruption; capital markets; corporate; debt finance; employee benefits; employment and labour; environment, safety and planning; financial services; insurance; intellectual property; international arbitration; investment funds; Islamic finance; litigation and dispute resolution; mergers and acquisitions; occupational health, safety and security; pensions; private equity; projects and project finance; public law; real estate; restructuring and insolvency; securities, regulation and enforcement; structured trade and commodity finance; tax; US corporate finance.
Financial Institutions:
Norton Rose has a leading financial institutions practice, with more than 1,000 specialists world-wide.The strength and depth of its practice across asset managers, banks, insurers and the financial services and markets sector is reflected in its panel memberships of over 50 major global financial institutions. Its work covers all aspects of corporate, regulatory and transactional work, significant strategic mandates, litigation and dispute resolution.
Contact: James Bateson
Energy: Norton Rose has one of the largest global energy teams of any legal practice in the world. The firm’s work is conducted in all the major global energy markets and covers the full spectrum of industry sectors including: climate change, oil and gas, power, regulated utilities, renewables and water. Its breadth of experience is combined with strengths in multiple related disciplines, such as project finance, M&A, environmental safety and planning, litigation and dispute resolution and regulation.
Contact: Simon Currie
Infrastructure, Mining & Commodities:
Norton Rose has a leading international infrastructure practice, which plays a role in almost every major project around the world, including those involving significant development finance. In mining, the firm has experience of acting on transactions in almost every country in the world and the specialist expertise gained by its lawyers through work on some of the largest and most innovative mining deals in recent years means that it is well known for the outstanding quality of its work. The firm also advises clients in every stage of the commodities cycle from financing through to distribution, and specialises in water, soft commodities, metals and oil and gas.
Contact: Martin McCann
Transport:
Norton Rose has some 300 transport specialists covering all legal disciplines, and more asset finance experts than any other international legal practice. Its broad range of experience has earned it a world-class reputation in aviation, rail and shipping. In aviation, it advises on the full range of matters from insurance to regulation and enforcement. In rail, its experience has been gained from all sides of major transactions, encompassing regulatory, infrastructure and light rail work as well as rail finance, rolling stock acquisitions and leasing. In shipping, the firm covers all aspects of admiralty, shipping, marine insurance and transport and also benefits from a number of specialist advisors including qualified Master Mariners and former naval officers.
Contact: Harry Theochari
Technology & Innovation:
Norton Rose provides a full range of legal services to clients in industries where innovation and intellectual property are key, including the communications, media and technology and retail and brands sectors.The technology and innovation team bring together leading practitioners from the firm’s corporate, finance, competition, regulatory, intellectual property, employment, dispute resolution and tax practices. It advises on all aspects of technology and intellectual property development, protection, procurement and licensing and on all types of transactions where technology and innovation are important components such as licence agreements, joint ventures, outsourcing, financing (including project, leverage, vendor and acquisition financing), venture capital and private equity investments and buy-outs, and public and private mergers and acquisitions.
Contact: Mike Rebeiro
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences:
Norton Rose advises major global pharmaceutical, bioscience and technology companies on all aspects of their business from innovation and corporate development, commercialisation and market exploitation through to the maintenance and enforcement of intellectual property rights. In contentious matters, it advises on all areas of litigation (including intellectual property and product liability in complex multi-jurisdictional matters), trade law, recall and crisis management, regulatory, patent counsel and patent prosecution. In corporate and commercial related work the firm advises on financing, developing and executing exit strategies, M&A, commercialised or precommercialisation assets and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and commercial contracts for R&D. In regulatory matters, the firm advises on compliance, antitrust, marketing, pricing and distribution.
Contact: Patrick Kierans
INTERNATIONAL OFFICES The firm also has offices in Abu Dhabi, Almaty, Amsterdam, Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok, Beijing, Bogotá, Brisbane, Brussels, Calgary, Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Durban, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Milan, Montréal, Moscow, Munich, Ottawa, Paris, Perth, Piraeus, Prague, Québec, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw
ASSOCIATE OFFICES The firm has associate offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta