Lovells LLP

In Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America the firm advises clients on how best to raise capital, protect their investments, conduct and grow their business, liaise with regulators and resolve disputes in markets as diverse as Amsterdam, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, New York, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo and Warsaw.

Clients value the strength and depth of Lovells' integrated international reach, collaborative teamwork, commercial knowledge and industry sector understanding of its lawyers.

Typical projects might include advising on a multi-billion dollar multi-jurisdiction M&A transaction, handling the largest-ever whole business securitisation, working on a cross-border real estate sale and leaseback programme, advising on transatlantic patent and other IP infringements, handling the financing of a complex inward investment into an emerging market, advising on private equity investments and divestments and handling disputes in the world's leading centres for arbitration and litigation.

The firm has major strengths in its Banking, Corporate, Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property, Project Finance and Real Estate sectors. This strength is applied to a range of industry sectors including Consumer, Energy, Power and Utilities, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Real Estate and Construction, Public Sector, Services, TMT and Transport.

Lovells is regularly praised by independent commentators on the strength of its practice areas, being ranked number one in the world across a number of them and regularly performing well on rankings by deal volume and value for its transactions advice.

Lovells is innovative in its approach. It has been praised by the Financial Times in its inaugural rankings of law firm innovations for its Mexican-Wave tool for helping clients manage the procurement and delivery of their legal advice, its TransAct training module for M&A deals, its Pro Bono and community activity and the firm's approach towards graduate recruitment.

The firm is a founder member of the Sino-Global Legal Alliance, an innovative alliance comprised of Lovells and nine leading law firms in China.