Awards

Awards - receiving industry recognition

One of the things that makes Eversheds different is that we believe in measuring the quality of our service and our focus on client service excellence. By doing so we can provide you with real proof of whether we're both meeting and beating your expectations.

We are regularly judged by independent organisations in a wide range of areas on the quality of our service delivery. Our recent successes include:

• We have won an Financial Times Award for "Innovation in Client Service" and we are ranked as the 4th most innovative law firm.
   
• We have won "Most Innovative Law Firm 2009" by the Dubai Corporate Counsel Group at the IFLR Awards.
   
• We are one of only four law firms that have been listed in The Times Where Women Want to Work Top 50. This is the third year running for Eversheds and the firm joins many of its clients in the Top 50 list.
   
• Our German office has been nominated in the Juve awards "Medium-sized law firm of the year".
   
• Our Danish office has been recognised by the national business newspaper Børsen (the Financial Times equivalent) as one of the country's up and coming Gazelle companies. In order to qualify as a Gazelle, a business must achieve a continuous growth in revenue or gross profit for the last four financial years and must have, in total, more than doubled the revenue or the gross profit in the period.
   
• Our Shanghai office has been named Law Firm of the Year for its antitrust and competition work in China by the Asian Counsel for the second successive year.
   
• We have been named Law Firm of the Year at the European Pensions Awards. We beat off competition from rivals Baker & McKenzie, DLA Piper, Linklaters, Lovells and Wragge & Co for the coveted award. We were praised for our work in pension schemes buyouts, with the team in Ireland singled out for special commendation.
   
• HRH The Prince of Wales has announced that Anthony Arter, is his 2009 Prince's Ambassador for his leadership and commitment to responsible business in London. The Prince's Ambassador Award is part of Business in the Community's Awards for Excellence 2009, which recognises businesses for the positive impact they have on society.
   
• Our Polish office has won the Best Law Firm in Poland award in the field of media and telecommunications and Dr Arwid Mednis, partner, has been recognized as the best lawyer in the field in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine. Wierzbowski Eversheds was also highly rated in the area of mergers and acquisitions, and managing partner Krzysztof Wierzbowski was named as one of the best lawyers in this category. Partner Małgorzata Modzelewska de Raad was also recognized as leading practitioner in the area of antimonopoly and competition law. The ranking also names the 20 leading all-round law firms on the Polish market. We are ranked seventh on the overall list, climbing up the rankings from previous years.
   
• Our website has won two awards at the Fast Fifty awards for law firm websites. We won the Best Website Content and Best Graduate Recruitment microsite awards, beating competition from firms including Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Lovells. This year our website comes in at number nine on the overall list and we were shortlisted in four categories in the awards - Overall, Content, Usability, Best UK Graduate Recruitment.
   
• Gurjit Atwal, partner and Birmingham real estate head, won "Solicitor of the Year" at the Birmingham Law Society Legal Awards 2009.
   
• At the Deal of the Year ceremony on 31 March, our Birmingham corporate team was part of the winning ‘Deal of the Year' team for their role in Hampson Industries PLC's acquisition of Global Technology Systems Inc and Odyessey Inc, associated placing, open offer and debt facilities.
   
• We won the Best Legal Services Award for Regulatory and Commercial work at the 2008 Compliance Register OStCAR Awards (OStCAR stands for ‘Outstanding Service to Compliance and Regulation'). This award is for firms providing legal services to financial services firms, with high quality services, reasonable costs and good industry reputation
   
• At the first ever Green500 and Better Buildings Partnership awards, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, presented us with a Platinum Green500 award for our new global headquarters in London, One Wood Street. We were one of the founding members of Green500, which is a carbon mentoring scheme that aims to recognise and acknowledge organisations that take action to reduce their CO2 emissions, targeting some of the biggest organisations in London. The primary focus of Green500 is to work with organisations with the greatest carbon saving potential, and collectively, these organisations are working together to reduce London's CO2 emissions by 1.5 million tonnes by March 2011.

These awards mean a great deal to us because they are voted for by our clients and those working within the sectors we advise. These include in-house counsel, general counsel and C-Suite executives.