Chambers Europe has highly ranked a record 21 Goodwin lawyers and 10 practice areas in its recently released 2023 rankings. Based on interviews with leading lawyers and clients, the Chambers Europe rankings look at a broad range of qualities, including legal ability, professional conduct, client service, and commercial awareness, to provide an independent assessment of counsel throughout the region.
This year, Chambers Europe praised Goodwin for its “strong cross-border offering owing to its international network of offerings,” and “great balance of technical knowledge translated into pragmatic advice.” These results further reinforce Goodwin’s dramatic growth across Europe, as well as the firm’s unparalleled ability to advise both innovators and investors around the world.
The following Goodwin practice areas were highly ranked by Chambers Europe 2023.
France
- Banking & Finance - “Goodwin is active on acquisition and leveraged finance mandates, with further expertise in debt refinancing. The lawyers chiefly act for leading French and international banks and private equity companies.”
- Private Equity - “Goodwin has an impressive private equity team acting on major mid-market and high-end LBOs.”
- Private Equity: Fund Formation - “The department has growing expertise in the formation and raising of major European funds. It advises leading French and international private equity funds.”
- Private Equity: Venture Capital - “Frequently acts on French-US mandates,” and “is a firm that you can trust with complex work.”
- Restructuring/Insolvency - “Leverages its expertise to assist banking clients acting as lenders with debt restructuring mandates,” and “further extends to distressed M&A transactions as well as safeguarding and conciliation proceedings.”
- Tax – “Goodwin has a dedicated and compact team skilled in the tax structuring aspects of corporate and private equity transactions.”
Germany
- Real Estate – “Frequently advises on the structuring and implementation of funds,” as well as handling “investments, sales, lease law and asset management.”
- Real Estate: Finance – “The firm has a strong footprint in financing, advising both borrowers and lenders on refinancings and the mezzanine financing of portfolios and single assets, as well as in regard to the financing of construction projects and green financings.”
United Kingdom
- Investment Funds: Private Equity - “The Goodwin team in London have extensive knowledge and experience in the PE funds space and are very capable of finding pragmatic solutions to complex and unusual issues.”
- Investment Funds: Real Estate - “Goodwin has a strong presence in the London real estate funds market with a bench of respected specialists and an ever-increasing workload of European formation matters.”
France
- Maxence Bloch - Private Equity: Mid-Market
- Marie-Laure Bruneel - Tax
- Arnaud David - Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Arnaud Fromion - Banking & Finance
- Frédéric Guilloux - Banking & Finance
- Thomas Maitrejean - Private Equity: Mid-Market
- Adrien Paturaud – Banking & Finance
- Anne-Charlotte Rivière – Private Equity: Venture Capital
Germany
- Marc Bohne - Real Estate
- Winfried Carli – Banking & Finance
- Peter Junghänel - Real Estate
- Stephan Kock - Real Estate: Finance
United Kingdom
- Samantha Lake Coghlan - Investment Funds: Real Estate
- Justin Cornelius - Investment Funds: Real Estate
- David Evans - Investment Funds: Real Estate
- Michael Halford - Investment Funds: Private Equity
- Ed Hall - Investment Funds: Private Equity
- Oliver Glynn-Jones - Commercial and Corporate Litigation
- Sarah McAtominey - Commercial and Corporate Litigation