Legal Advisors/Counsel

ABELS is a Swiss boutique law firm focusing on business law and grouping seasoned lawyers who have accumulated years of experience with top rated business law firms. ABELS lawyers remain true to their core values: focus on their clients' needs and objectives, commitment to excellence and innovation and adherence to the highest standards of professionalism.

Afik Turgeman, Private Label Legal Architecture.

The firm is dynamic, young natured and aims at persistence and legal originality for the promotion of the interests of its clients.

The firm deals with a wide array of legal fields and aims at providing a one-stop legal shop. The firm's departments specialize in mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, commercial and business law, litigation and debt collection, white collar crimes, corporations and securities, international private law, labor law, public law, municipal law, tenders and tax. We also practice antitrust, capital markets, derivatives transactions, investments, real property and a special expertise in shareholders disputes.

Alfaro-Abogados is an Argentine full corporate services law firm with its main office in Buenos Aires and foreign legal consultant branch offices in New York, London and Madrid. It was founded to participate as a player in international transactions, providing legal advice to foreign corporations doing business in Argentina, and Latin America.

Our lawyers have been involved in a broad spectrum of international transactions. They have been trained in the most prestigious universities of Argentina and many of them have received foreign training in the U.S and U.K. By offering multi-lingual attorneys with years of legal experience and a familiarity with local customs and market practice, we are able to provide unsurpassed service to our clients.

Our firm has an extensive international experience bridging the differences in cultural and business patterns between parties to a transaction, in international cross-border and international private transactions (foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances), transactional work, negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution.
The firm has a strong practice, among other areas, in government relations, regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, real estate, investments funds, capital markets, trade finance, banking, trade, insolvency, restructuring, arbitration, labor and international transactions.

BANNING is an independent specialist law firm with a Dutch and international client base and practice. With more than 80 attorneys we work in nine specialist practice groups at our offices in ’s-Hertogenbosch and Rotterdam.

Teams are very regularly compiled from the various practice groups, in order to guarantee the quality and development of our services. Our firm continuously invests in quality. Our contacts may expect our attorneys to be not only professional experts, but also enthusiastic and motivated, focusing on the wishes and backgrounds of our clients and on their business environment. Knowledge of the markets on which our clients operate and of all the new market developments is essential. Specialties Company law, Property law/Property development, International Trade, Maritime law and Logistics, Employment law, Insolvency law & Restructuring, IP & IT law, Liability & Insurance, The law of persons and family law, EU & Competition law

Bharucha & Co. is a one stop solution for all Intellectual Property matters and issues.

Cocalis & Psarras is one of the leading Greek law firms in commercial law. Established in Athens with a long experience in all aspects of commercial law and especially M&As and IP, Cocalis & Psarras have also an impressive litigation record in complex cases that concern commercial law. The market leaders in IT and Telecommunications with a very long commercial and regulatory experience in the field. Cocalis & Psarras are dedicated in providing excellent service to the clients customized to the clients' needs.

Consortium Centro America Abogados was born in 2005 from a strategic alliance between five of the best law firms of each country in Central America, with the purpose of providing top quality regional services in a cost-effective and timely manner. From 2005 until now, Consortium has gained world-wide recognition, becoming the number one law firm in Central America, with the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

Fitzpatrick has grown to over 175 attorneys practicing all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and trade secrets.  Our practice covers the spectrum of intellectual property services, including applying for patent and trademark protection, litigation, appeals, interferences, alternative dispute resolution, licensing, opinions, corporate transactions and due diligence.  In addition to superior legal qualifications, the majority of our attorneys hold scientific degrees and many also have substantial industry experience.  Our clients do business in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, biotechnology, computers, information technology, electronics, medical devices, optics, medical imaging, transportation, telecommunications, finance, food and e-Commerce.

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto has grown to over 175 attorneys practicing all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and trade secrets.

Our practice covers the spectrum of intellectual property services, including applying for patent and trademark protection, litigation, appeals, interferences, alternative dispute resolution, licensing, opinions, corporate transactions and due diligence. We have one of the premier patent litigation practices in the nation, and we also prosecute more than twice as many patents as any other New York-based firm

G. Elias & Co. is a full-service business law firm located in Lagos, Nigeria with a clear focus on quality and commitment to practicing law to the very highest standards.

Securities firms have engaged us to advise on private placements of equity and long-term debt securities by upstream production companies and on the pioneering initial public offerings of securities by upstream and downstream companies.  

We advise regularly on shareholder agreements for companies doing various aspects of oil-and-gas work.  We have also advised on privatizations of petrochemicals, oil service and oil marketing companies.

Counsel in Zhytomyr and Kyiv! Quickly, professionally for reasonable money: drafting applications, complaints, claims, property prytenziy; representation of individuals and legal persons in court, public and private institutions, comprehensive service for natural and legal persons, legal advice in all areas of law.

Lexence is an independent law firm specialized in real estate and corporate & commercial law. Established in 1992, the firm rapidly positioned itself as one of the leading firms in those areas. Lexence is a member of the Meritas network and operates from the heart of the corporate and real estate centre of the Netherlands, the Zuidas in Amsterdam.

The Lexence corporate & commercial lawyers and civil law notaries specialize in providing support for transactions in the widest sense of the word: mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, spin offs and joint ventures, as well as commercial contracts.

Lidings is a Russian law firm, dedicated to advising foreign companies on all aspects of Russian law.

Founded in 2006 and initially specializing in real estate, corporate and commercial law, and arbitration and litigation, the firm’s offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg now comprise more than 20 lawyers providing specialist advice across nine dedicated practice areas.

The international directory the Legal 500 recognized Lidings as “… a firm working to international standards”, and acknowledged its niche position in advising foreign companies investing in Russia.

LK Shields Solicitors is a leading corporate and commercial law firm based in Dublin, Ireland. We are consistently and independently recognised as one of Ireland's leading law firms and we successfully compete at the top tier of the market for legal business in Ireland.

Our clients and market commentators say that we are characterised by our pragmatism, knowledge and business acumen. Founded in 1988, we have acted in some of the most complex and high profile legal transactions and proceedings. In an increasingly sophisticated legal market we believe that it is our job to add value. This means providing accessible and decisive input. We focus on providing solutions for our clients and are noted for successfully adding specialist services to our core activities. The firm’s core practice areas are business, banking and financial services, litigation and dispute resolution and commercial property.

John J. Maalouf, Senior Partner of Maalouf Ashford & Talbot, has been ranked as one of the Top 10 International Trade & Finance Lawyers in the United States for the past six years in a row by the U.S. Lawyer Rankings (2006 – 2011 Editions) due to his commitment to excellence and outstanding client service in the areas of international business law.

Nabil Farag Law Firm is one of the top and highly specialized firms in the maritime legal field in Egypt.During the last year the firm succeeded in many international lawsuits.  Two of them were extremely important to the extent they preoccupied the public opinion in Egypt.Nabil Farag Law Firm was chosen and appointed to be the legal consultant of the Arab Federation of Chambers of Shipping of the Arab State on its last meeting on 10-11 March 2010 and got the honor of being a member of The LCIA London Court of International Arbitration, Arab Users’ Council.

Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC is a multi-award winning international law firm based in Cyprus, with a 47-year experience in the legal profession.

The firm's experienced lawyers provide clients with distinctive advice on national and international law in the following practice areas:

• Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• International Tax Planning
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate, Asset Protection, Wills & Probate
• Information Technology, Internet & e-Commerce
• Administrative & Constitutional Law
• Shipping & Admiralty

Spanish leading law firm, with offices in Barcelona and Madrid. Provides legal and tax advice in all areas of business law.

RCD Tax and Legal Advisors,  firm of reference within the integral legal counselling of businesses, with more than 90 highly specialised, talented and experienced professionals with a global focus of legal advise.

Trowers & Hamlins is an international and City law firm with 121 partners and over 700 staff.  The firm has three offices across the UK and five offices in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Cairo and Oman) as well as a co-operation agreement with two offices in Saudi Arabia and associations with firms in Syria and Jordan.

Trowers & Hamlins have been voted “Legal Firm of the Year” in this year’s FDs’ Excellence Award in association with the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales). The award, supported by the CBI and by Real Business Magazine, is based on the results of a survey of 1,000 Finance Directors across the UK. Finance Directors polled commended Trowers & Hamlins for their “high quality” and “supportive” service.

Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii is a leading law firm headquartered in Bucharest (Romania). It also operates a secondary office in Cluj-Napoca (one of the most important cities in Romania), as well as a representative office in Madrid (Spain). The firm enjoys excellent partnerships with various law offices throughout Romania, as well as Republic of Moldova.

Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii covers all major areas of practice: mergers & acquisitions; corporate & commercial; litigation & international arbitration; energy & natural resources; PPP & public procurement; TMT; employment; insurance; real estate; banking & finance; capital markets; competition; environmental law; IP; tax.