This year we are proud to present the first edition of the Who's Who Legal 100: an assessment of the world's top 100 law firms based on our extensive research into the global business law marketplace.
We draw on 17 years of independent research encompassing thousands of hours of interviews with leading lawyers and their clients in over 140 jurisdictions, and hundreds of thousands of votes and recommendations, in order to identify the following 100 firms as the best in the world. Copies of the Who's Who Legal 100 are available to purchase in our online bookshop. Find out more about The Who's Who Legal 100 and our methodology here and read an in-depth analysis of our findings here.
We list firms alphabetically with an explanation of how they came to be selected - we commend them all for assembling remarkable teams of legal talent.
- A&L Goodbody Professional Notice
- Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS
- Advokatfirman Vinge
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Allen & Gledhill LLP
- Allen & Overy LLP
- Allens
- Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co Professional Notice
- Arnold & Porter LLP
- Arthur Cox
- Ashurst LLP
- Baker & McKenzie
- Baker Botts LLP
- Bird & Bird
- Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
- Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Studio Legale
- Brigard & Urrutia Abogados
- Clayton Utz Professional Notice
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Clifford Chance LLP
- Clyde & Co LLP
- Covington & Burling LLP
- Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
- Crowell & Moring LLP
- Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira
- Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Dechert LLP
- Dentons
- DLA Piper LLP
- Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
- Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
- Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP Professional Notice
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
- Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, PC Professional Notice
- Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Gide Loyrette Nouel
- Gleiss Lutz
- Greenberg Traurig LLP
- Haynes and Boone LLP
- Hengeler Mueller
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
- Hogan Lovells
- Hunton & Williams LLP
- Jones Day
- K&L Gates LLP
- Kim & Chang Professional Notice
- King & Spalding LLP
- King & Wood Mallesons
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Kromann Reumert
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- LAWIN
- Linklaters LLP
- Littler Mendelson PC
- Loyens & Loeff
- Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå
- Maples and Calder Professional Notice
- Marval O'Farrell & Mairal Professional Notice
- Mayer Brown LLP
- McCarthy Tetrault LLP
- McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
- Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC Professional Notice
- NautaDutilh NV
- Norton Rose LLP
- Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
- Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Paul Hastings LLP
- Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP Professional Notice
- Pinheiro Neto Advogados Professional Notice
- Pinsent Masons LLP
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- Reed Smith LLP
- Ropes & Gray LLP
- Roschier, Attorneys Ltd Professional Notice
- Schellenberg Wittmer Professional Notice
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
- Sidley Austin LLP Professional Notice
- Simmons & Simmons
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
- SJ Berwin LLP
- Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
- Slaughter and May
- Squire Sanders
- Stibbe
- Stikeman Elliott
- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Taylor Wessing LLP
- Uría Menéndez
- Vinson & Elkins LLP
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Professional Notice
- Webber Wentzel Professional Notice
- Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
- White & Case LLP
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
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Nominees have been selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.