- Senior Partner: Robert Elliott
- Managing Partner: Simon Davies
- Global Head of Corporate: Jeremy Parr
- Global Head of Finance & Projects: Jim Rice
- Global Head of Commercial: Arnaud de La Cotardière
- Number of partners worldwide: 450
- Number lawyers worldwide: 2200
- EUROPEAN OFFICES: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Lisbon, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw
- INTERNATIONAL OFFICES: Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Washington, DC
Firm Overview:
Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm, supporting clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. The firm uses its expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportunities and manage risk across emerging and developed markets around the world.
Main Areas of Practice:
Administrative & Public Law:
Advice on strategic international and national deals where public law is a key element, PFI/PPP, privatisation and M&A transactions in regulated sectors (energy, infrastructure, utilities, defence). Contentious administrative proceedings, lobbying, feasibility and structuring of new regulations.
Banking:
Comprehensive experience spanning the fields of banking and finance, advising financial institutions, companies, governments and alternative credit providers on domestic and international finance transactions across every sector, including acquisition and leveraged finance, bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, regulatory and financial structuring, high yield, real estate finance, trade and emerging markets finance, restructuring and insolvency and asset finance.
Capital Markets:
Expertise across international capital markets, covering: debt, equity, equity-linked, regulatory capital, liberty management, liberty management, high yield, derivatives and structured financings.
Competition/Antitrust:
Expertise in competition law,merger control, state aid, public procurement, utility regulation, market investigations, cartels, abuse of dominance and any related litigation. Specialist lawyers in key jurisdictions in Europe, the USA, South America and Asia.
Corporate & M&A:
Advice on finance and commercial transactions including complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, major listings on stock exchanges around the world, joint ventures, restructuring and privatisations.
Corporate Tax:
Expertise across all tax aspects of corporate transactional (including private equity), finance (including structured finance), international tax planning, contentious, real estate and investment funds work.
Employment & Incentives:
Global advice on all employment and incentives issues, covering contentious, advisory and transactions and share plan, tax and legal advice including plan design and structure, tax (both individual and corporate), regulatory issues, trusts and data protection.
Environment & Climate Change:
Advice on all aspects of environmental and climate change regulation, carbon trading, sustainability and governance, the allocation of environmental assets and risks in M&A, project finance, funds and real estate, and regulatory and environmental dispute resolution.
Financial Regulation:
Advice on financial markets and their regulation for investment and commercial banks, international fund managers and private equity houses.
Insurance:
Expertise in all aspects of the insurance industry including M&A and joint ventures, restructurings and reorganisations (including portfolio transfers), financing (including complex capital markets transactions, regulatory capital, securitisations and derivatives), commercial agreements (including distribution agreements and complex reinsurance arrangements) and insurance regulatory advice.
Intellectual Property:
Expertise in contentious and non-contentious IP including: litigation and dispute resolution relating to patents, trademarks and passing off/unfair competition; complex, high value contracts for the commercial exploitation of IP rights; advice on all IP aspects of corporate, banking and finance transactions (including cross-border M&A, private equity, corporate restructurings and insolvencies and the securitisation of IP rights).
Investment Management:
Advice on the structuring, formation, taxation, regulation and marketing of all types of investment funds investing into all asset classes, as well as advice on asset management spin offs and M&A and the establishment, operation and remuneration of asset management houses and their executives.
Litigation & Arbitration:
Dispute resolution services in a wide range of areas including litigation, arbitration,mediation and other forms of ADR. Services also include crisis management, banking litigation, derivatives and structured products litigation, regulatory investigations, fraud and white-collar crime, cartels and global investigations, insolvency litigation, contentious tax, competition and antitrust litigation, energy and infrastructure disputes, pensions litigation, property and finance litigation.
Pensions:
Extensive experience of the full range of pensions issues, for both trustees and companies, including tailored funding solutions, regulatory, governance and investment issues. Specialist lawyers located throughout Europe.
Private Equity:
Expertise in all aspects of the industry, from establishing the fund and making investments, to ongoing portfolio assistance including restructuring advice, to exiting from those investments.
Projects:
Advice on project financings in the energy and infrastructure sectors: oil and gas, petrochemical, power, green energy (renewables), telecoms, mining, water, PPP/PFI project financing, together with all other aspects of energy and infrastructurerelated acquisitions, investment vehicles, hybrid and structured financing and refinancing.
Real Estate:
Expertise in all aspects of real estate sector work including: premium real estate investment, M&A, development and leasing advice; sale and leasebacks; joint ventures; real estate funds, financing and tax; real estate investment trusts; construction advice; planning/zoning law, policy and practice; rent review and real estate-related disputes.
Restructuring & Insolvency:
Leading expertise across an exceptional spread of transactions covering a wide range of jurisdictions and complexities, including debt restructuring and rescheduling, equity capital raising and restructuring, distressed M&A activity, debtor advisory work, formal insolvency procedures and contingency planning and investigation, asset tracing and insolvency litigation.
Technology, Media & Telecommunications:
Commercial and regulatory advice on major commercial contracts, outsourcing and offshoring, information management compliance and data protection, e-business and IT security, telecoms, satellites, media and broadcasting.
International Work:
Work is handled in all commercial languages and local languages of countries in which Linklaters has offices.