This year Osborne Clarke ranked in 74 practice areas across the Legal 500, of which the Firm had seven improved rankings across:
- London: Corporate Tax; Investment Funds (private); Human Resources (immigration); Risk Advisory (reputation management);
- South East: Dispute Resolution (commercial litigation);
- South West: Crime Fraud; and Intellectual Property
The Firm has achieved 24 top tiered rankings in 2019 – including the following promotions up to tier 1:
- South East: Commercial Litigation
- South West: Intellectual Property
Osborne Clarke also has 37 leading individuals, which is up eight from last year, and 16 Next Generation rankings for the last year.
Here is the full 2019 breakdown:
| Practice area | 2019 |
| LONDON | |
| Corporate and commercial | |
| Corporate tax | 5 |
| Equity Capital Markets small and mid cap | 2 |
| EU and competition - regulatory | 7 |
| FS - contentious | 4 |
| Financial services Non-contentious/ regulatory | 5 |
| Commercial contracts | 3 |
| Mergers and acquisitions (mid market) | 2 |
| Private equity | 2 |
| Venture Capital | 1 |
| Crime, fraud and licensing | |
| Fraud: Civil | 3 |
| Fraud: white collar crime | 4 |
| Dispute resolution | |
| International Arbitration | 4 |
| Commercial Litigation | 4 |
| Finance | |
| Acquisition finance | |
| Asset finance & leasing | |
| Investment funds - private | 5 |
| Investment funds - real estate | 2 |
| Human resources | |
| Employment: employers | 4 |
| Employee share schemes | 4 |
| Health and safety | 1 |
| Immigration | 5 |
| Pensions: non-contentious | 4 |
| Pensions dispute resolution | 2 |
| Private client | |
| Personal tax, trusts and probate | 4 |
| Projects, energy and natural resources | |
| Power (including: Electricity, nuclear and renewables) | 3 |
| Infrastructure (including PFI and PPP) | 2 |
| Public Sector | |
| Healthcare | 4 |
| Real estate | |
| Construction – non contentious | 4 |
| Construction - contentious | 4 |
| Environment | 3 |
| Planning | 3 |
| Property finance | 4 |
| Property litigation | 3 |
| Property development | 2 |
| Property investment | 3 |
| Commercial Property - Retail | 1 |
| Risk Advisory | |
| Regulatory investigations & Corporate Crime | |
| Reputation management | 4 |
| TMT (technology, media and telecoms) | |
| Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity | 3 |
| Fintech | 2 |
| Media & Entertainment | 1 |
| Brand Management (Advertising and marketing, sponsorship and franchising) | 2 |
| IT & Telecoms | 2 |
| PATMA: trade mark attorneys | 4 |
| Intellectual Property | 3 |
| Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology | 4 |
| Transport | |
| Rail | 2 |
| SOUTH EAST | |
| Corporate and commercial | |
| Corporate and commercial | 1 |
| Dispute resolution | |
| Commercial litigation | 1 |
| Finance | |
| Banking and finance | 1 |
| Human resources | |
| Employment | 2 |
| Real estate | |
| Commercial property | 1 |
| TMT (technology, media and telecoms) | |
| Information Technology & Telecoms | 2 |
| Intellectual Property | 2 |
| SOUTH WEST | |
| Corporate and commercial | |
| Corporate and commercial | 1 |
| Corporate tax | 2 |
| EU and competition | 2 |
| Dispute resolution | |
| Commercial litigation | 1 |
| Fraud | 2 |
| Finance | |
| Banking and finance | 1 |
| Corporate restructuring & insolvency | 1 |
| Human resources | |
| Employment | 1 |
| Health and safety | 1 |
| Pensions | 1 |
| Insurance | |
| Professional negligence | 2 |
| Projects, energy and natural resources | |
| Energy | 2 |
| Private Finance Initiative (PFI) | 1 |
| Public sector | |
| Healthcare | 3 |
| Real estate | |
| Commercial property | 1 |
| Construction | 1 |
| Environment | 2 |
| Planning | 1 |
| Property litigation | 1 |
| TMT (technology, media and telecoms) | |
| Information technology (NOW IP & IT) | 1 |
| Intellectual Property | 1 |
| Media and entertainment | 1 |
| Transport | |
| Rail | 1 |
| Total rankings | 74 |
| Leading individuals | Legal 500 region | |
| Jon King | Equity Capital Markets | London |
| Greg Fullelove | Arbitration | London |
| Madeleine Clarke | Property finance | London |
| Gary Lawrenson | Property litigation | London |
| Ashley Hurst | Reputation management | London |
| Nick Johnson | Brand Management | London |
| Arty Rajendra | Intellectual Property | London |
| Lara Burch | Rail | London |
| Tim Simmonds | Investment funds: private | London |
| Lara Burch | Commercial contracts | London |
| Paul Anning | Financial services: Non-Contentious/Regulatory | London |
| Robert Wood | Venture Capital | London |
| Simon Jones | Venture Capital | London |
| Al Livingstone | Corporate and commercial | Bristol |
| Tracey Wright | Tax | Bristol |
| Peter Clough | Commercial Litigation | Bristol |
| Omar Al-Nuaimi | Banking | Bristol |
| Nigel Boobier | Restructuring and Insolvency | Bristol |
| Paul Killen | Employment | Bristol |
| Tom Bussy | Banking | Bristol |
| Mary Lawrence | Health & Safety | Bristol |
| Carl Thompson | Energy | Bristol |
| David Ferris | Energy | Bristol |
| Catherine Wolfenden | Regulatory Disputes | Bristol |
| David North | Commercial Property | Bristol |
| Ian Wilkinson | Commercial Property | Bristol |
| Phil Davies | Construction | Bristol |
| Neil Bromwich | Planning | Bristol |
| Leona Briggs | Property litigation | Bristol |
| Will Robertson | IT and telecoms | Bristol |
| Clare Robinson | Intellectual Property | Bristol |
| Tom Harding | Media and entertainment | Bristol |
| Sara Valentine | Corporate and commercial | Thames Valley |
| Peter Sheppard | Litigation | Thames Valley |
| Hugh Jones | Banking | Thames Valley |
| Danielle Kingdon | Employment | Thames Valley |
| Rebecca Tuffs | Commercial Property | Thames Valley |
| Next generation lawyers | Legal 500 Region | |
| Helen Parsonage | Private funds | London |
| Tim Hart | Commercial Property | London |
| Matt Germain | Environment | London |
| Matt Germain | Environment | Bristol |
| Carl Roche | Property litigation | London |
| Anna Williams | Brand Management | London |
| Jeremy Godley | Rail | London |
| Anna Harlow | Planning | London |
| Jo Forbes | Health and safety | London |
| Artem Doudko | International Arbitration | London |
| Charlie Wedin | Litigation | Bristol |
| John Webster | Planning | Bristol |
| Charlie Wedin | IT and telecoms | Bristol |
| Claire Bundy | Restructuring and insolvency | Bristol |
| David Shakesby | Property litigation | Bristol |
| Marc Shrimpling | Competition | Bristol |
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