IFLR Europe Awards 2023 | Euromoney Institutional Investor | 9 December 2022 | TBA

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2023 IFLR Europe Awards, celebrating the best in legal innovation in the region’s cross-border market. As ever, we will be recognising the leading deals, firms and teams across a number of categories, including equity, M&A and securitisation and structured finance. We have also introduced some new categories for this year, including a Net-zero Transition Award and Tech Innovation Award, open to both in-house teams and law firms, in addition to a new Digital Finance Award.

2022 Winners

International Law Firm of the Year
• Clifford Chance

Outstanding Contribution to Regulatory Reform
• Edwin Schooling Latter, UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Lifetime Achievement Award
• Sharon Lewis, Hogan Lovells

Deal of the Year: Debt & equity-linked
• World Bank – UNICEF sustainable bond

Deal of the year: Equity
• Hambro Perks Acquisition Company IPO

Deal of the Year: High yield
• Modulaire Group bond

Deal of the year: Loans
• Ethypharm refinancing

Deal of the Year: M&A
• Euronext / Borsa Italiana

Deal of the Year: Private Equity
• Blackstone – Hipgnosis Song Management partnership

Deal of the Year: Project Finance
• Karapinar solar plant

Deal of the year: Restructuring
• DeepOcean

Deal of the year: Structured finance and securitisation
• Project Zeus Public Power Corporation securitisation

Teams Of The Year

Debt and equity-linked
• Clifford Chance

Equity
• White & Case

High yield
• Allen & Overy

Loan
• Clifford Chance

M&A
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Private Equity
• Kirkland & Ellis

Project Finance
• Clifford Chance

Restructuring
• Kirkland & Ellis

Securitisation and structured finance
• Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft

Financial services regulatory
• Clifford Chance

Jurisdictional Law Firms Of The Year

Austria
• Binder Grösswang

Baltics
• Ellex

Belgium
• Clifford Chance

Bulgaria
• Wolf Theiss

Czech Republic
• White & Case

Denmark
• Plesner

Finland
• Borenius

France
• White & Case

Germany
• Latham & Watkins

Greece
• Bernitsas Law

Hungary
• Hegymegi-Barakonyi Baker McKenzie

Ireland
• Arthur Cox

Israel
• Herzog Fox & Neeman

Italy
• Chiomenti

Luxembourg
• Clifford Chance

Norway
• Thommessen

Netherlands
• Clifford Chance

Poland
• Allen & Overy

Portugal
• Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Romania
• Wolf Theiss

Spain
• Uría Menéndez

Sweden
• Mannheimer Swartling

Switzerland
• Homburger

Turkey
• Paksoy

Ukraine
• AVELLUM

In-house Awards

In-house team of the year: corporate
• Enel

In-house team of the year: debt capital markets
• Citi

In-house team of the year: equity capital markets
• Citi

In-house market makers
• Imraan Patel, EG Group
• Peter Soliman, Hambro Perks
• Sylvia Andriessen, Euronext

Individual Awards

IFLR Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame
• Tereza Courmont Vlkova, Paul Hastings

Rising Stars of the year - domestic firm
• Mimo Hussein, Wolf Theiss (Austria)
• Gadi Winter, Bär & Karrer
• Margarida Torres Gama, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Rising Stars of the year - international firm
• Angela Ryu, Allen & Overy
• Dan Tierney, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Sonica Tolani, White & Case

Law Firms Of The Year

US law firm of the year
• White & Case