Norton
Rose Company Information
About
The Norton Rose Company
Norton Rose is an international law firm with over 200 partners,
1,000 lawyers and 2,000 staff worldwide. They provide an integrated
business law service from a network of offices located across Europe,
Asia and the Middle East. In addition to their international headquarters
in London, they have offices in Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok, Bahrain,
Beijing, Brussels, Cologne, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jakarta,
Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Piraeus, Prague, Singapore and Warsaw.
Their
reputation
Whilst Norton Rose offer a full business law service across their
international network, the firm is recognised as having particular
strength in these business areas:
- International
corporate finance: Their corporate finance practice is run
on global lines to facilitate handling cross-border deals. They
know their clients want quick, cost effective advice from the
smaller acquisitions to major contested take-overs and they provide
it.
- Financial
institutions: Specialist financial legal skills lie at the
core of this global practice area. Norton Rose are one of the
best known law firms in the business and have long been recognised
as one of the leading international banking practices. Their projects,
energy and transport finance expertise are recognised as world
class. Working for many of the world's leading financial institutions,
they help develop products and find creative solutions to market
problems whether regulatory or structural.
- Transport:
Their transport practice, perhaps uniquely in the international
legal community, provides top level advice across the entire legal
spectrum of finance, litigation, regulation, and tax in each of
the aviation, tourism, shipping, rail and multi-modal transport
sectors and their related infrastructures.
- Energy
and infrastructure:
Their energy team provides a full range of multi-disciplinary
legal services covering upstream and downstream activities. The
projects team have been consistently rated in the top five internationally
and have a wide range of project experience (including financing)
in airports, energy, LNG, mining and metals, petrochemicals, pipelines,
PPP/PFI, renewables, telecommunications, transport, and water
and waste.
- Technology:
Their technology practice is noted for the breadth of its
expertise, which includes corporate finance, outsourcing, procurement,
licensing and regulatory issues, IP and dispute resolution. They
also have significant experience of advising clients active in
technology-based industries, including food, pharmaceuticals and
biotech and manufacturing.
Their
reputation in these five areas is central to the development of
the firm as a whole, and consequently the overriding focus of their
research and know-how resources is on supporting their practice
in these areas.
Global practice groups
Their principal practice areas are organised along global lines.
- Corporate
finance: Norton Rose are an acknowledged leader in the international
corporate finance market. Their practice includes M&A, privatisation
and restructuring, private equity, capital markets and US securities.
- Banking:
Their global banking practice includes top-ranked teams in
acquisition, asset and project finance, international securities,
Islamic finance, investment funds and restructuring and insolvency.
They regularly act for all the major banks, finance providers
and participants in the global banking industry, as well as for
a range of corporate and sovereign borrowers.
- Dispute
resolution: Norton Rose is widely recognised as one of the
leading law firms in the dispute resolution field. With specialist
dispute resolution expertise available in all their offices, they
have extensive experience of resolving disputes worldwide whether
through litigation, arbitration or mediation, adjudication or
other forms of ADR.
- Competition:
Their competition and regulatory practice specialises in all
areas of competition (antitrust) law, at EU level and in all the
major European jurisdictions. In addition, they have extensive
expertise in sector regulation (especially in energy, telecoms
and transport) state aids, public procurement, WTO and trade law,
and general EU law.
- Real
property: Norton Rose provide advice on all aspects of international
real estate as well as on environmental and planning-related issues.
They have real property expertise in all their key locations and
have been involved in some of the largest and most innovative
development and investment transactions and infrastructure projects
in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
- Intellectual
property and technology: Their international intellectual
property and technology group advise on all aspects of the exploitation,
use and enforcement of IP rights and the acquisition and use of
IT products and services. They offer IP and IT capability throughout
our international network, and have particularly strong expertise
in the UK and Germany.
- Tax:
Their highly regarded tax group operates from London, Paris, Frankfurt
and Amsterdam and advises on all areas of commercial taxation.
The group has particular expertise in asset finance, securitisation,
investment funds, property investment, corporate finance, insurance
and joint ventures. It also has specialist experience of handling
disputes arising from tax-related issues.
- Employment,
pensions and incentives: Their award winning team advises
on all issues relating to employment, pension schemes and employee
incentive schemes. They have employment capability throughout
their international network, with particular strength in London,
Paris, Cologne and Munich.
Industry groups
Norton
Rose encourage their lawyers to develop their industry knowledge
and expertise through participation in one or more of the firm’s
international business groups. The industry groups bring together
lawyers from across their international network and enable the development
and exchange of industry expertise, intelligence and know-how:
- Aviation
- Communications,
media and technology
- Construction
and engineering
- Emerging
and transition markets
- Energy
and utilities
- Financial
institutions
- Food,
pharmaceuticals and biotech
- Insurance
- Projects
- Rail
- Real
estate
- Shipping
- Travel,
tourism and leisure
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