World News Media and their rag World Finance Magazine haven’t really timed this one well. They chose 2008 to launch their "Worl Finance Legal Awards" .
We’d suggest that it isn’t a year to be handing out awards to anybody in the Finance industry or those in the Legal industry associated with oiling the wheels of international finance. But that’s by the by and they’ve just awarded their first "comprehensive Legal Awards, launched this year"
They write in their press release that the awards, covering all aspects of law, were announced in the January/February 2009 edition of the magazine.
The list of winners are as follows. If they’ve managed to sell advertising around every award given they’ve certainly developed a way to generate revenue from some poor unsuspecting lawyers
Team Awards:
Best Tax Team, Canada: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Best Tax Team,France: Taj – Société d’avocats, Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Best Transfer Pricing Team, France: Taj – Société d’avocats, Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Best Banking & Finance Team, Austria: Herbst Vavrovsky Kinsky Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Best Real Estate & Construction Team, Norway: Advokatfirmaet Haavind Vislie AS
Best Tax Team, India: Economic Laws Practice
Best International Tax Team, Cyprus: EURurofast Global Limited Taxand
Best Banking & Finance Team,Finland: Procopé & Hornborg
Best Employment Team, Germany: CMS Hasche Sigle
Best Real Estate Team, Greece: V&P Law Firm
Best Privatisation Team, Turkey: ESINISMEN
Best Real Estate Team, Morocco: Bennani & Associes LLP
Best Banking & Finance Team, Sweden: Hammarskiöld & Co
Best Real Estate Law Firm, Bulgaria: Andonov & Radinska
Best Transfer Pricing Team, India: Grant Thornton
Best Corporate and M&A Team, Turkey: Cerrahoglu Law Firm
Best Banking & Finance Team, Ukraine: Asters
Best Capital Markets Team, Austria: Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati
Best Tax Team, Cyprus: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Best Tax Team, Switzerland: Tax Partner AG, Taxand
Best Tax Team, Poland: Ernst & Young
Best Tax Team, Mexico: Ernst & Young
Best Corporate Tax Team, Luxembourg: LOYENS & LOEFF
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Belgium: Ernst & Young
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Canada: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Best Mergers & Acquisitions Team, South Africa: Bowman Gilfillan
Best Transfer Pricing Team, USA: Duff & Phelps
Best Tax Team, USA: Ernst & Young
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Denmark: Bech-Bruun
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Netherlands: Ernst & Young
Best Banking & Finance Team, Portugal: Goncalves Pereira, Castelo Branco & Associados
Best Banking & Finance Team, Czech Republic: Havel & Holasek
Best Tax Team, Italy: Deloitte
Best Banking & Finance Team, Hungary: Ormai es Tarsai CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Best Tax Team, Romania: Ernst & Young
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Russia: Salans
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Estonia: Raidla & Partners
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Latvia: Lejins, Torgans & Partners
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Lithuania: Sutkiene, Pilkauskas & Partners
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Chile: Ernst & Young
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Colombia: Ernst & Young
Best Mergers & Acquisition Team, Brazil: Barbosa, Mussnich & Aragao
Best Tax Team, Bahrain: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Best Tax Team, Argentina: Ernst & Young
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Brazil: Ernst & Young
Best Transfer Pricing Team, Spain: Deloitte
Best Tax Team, Russia: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Best Corporate & Commercial Law Firm, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Arias & Muñoz
Best Banking & Finance Law Firm, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Consortium – Centro America Abogados
Individual Awards:
Best M&A Lawyer, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica:
Dr. F. Armando Arias R., Arias & Muñoz
Best Mergers & Acquisition Lawyer, Germany: Reinhard Pöllath, P+P Pöllath + Partners
Best Intellectual Property Lawyer Germany: Peter Kather, Preu Bohlig & Partner
Best Banking & Finance Lawyer, Canada: Barry Ryan, McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Best Intellectual Property Lawyer, Canada: Douglas N. Deeth, Deeth Williams Wall LLP
Best Competition & Antitrust Lawyer, USA: Roxane C. Busey, Baker & McKenzie
Best Shipping & Maritime Lawyer, Cyprus: Acis Montanios, Montanios & Montanios
Best Mergers & Acquisition Lawyer, Poland: Andrzej Wiercinski, Wiercinski, Kwiecinski Baehr spk
Best Mergers & Acquisition Lawyer, Mexico: Daniel Del Rio, Basham, Ringe y Correa
Best Mergers & Acquisition Lawyer, France: Daniel Hurstel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Best Corporate Finance & Securitisations Lawyer, Mexico: Luis Nicolau Ritch Mueller, S.C.
Best Capital Markets Lawyer, Luxembourg: Alex Schmitt, Bonn Schmitt Steichen
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Lawyer, Finland: Katri Joenpolvi, Krogerus Attorneys
Best M&A Lawyer, Canada: William M. Ainley, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Best Private Equity Lawyer, Switzerland: Luc Defferrard, Walder Wyss & Partners
Best Private Equity Lawyer, U.S.A.: Kirk August Radke, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Best Tax Lawyer, Belgium: Thierry Afschrift, Association Afschrift
Best Commercial Transactions Lawyer, Switzerland: Jacques Bonvin, Tavernier Tschanz
Best Competition Lawyer, South Africa: Mondo Ntlha, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Best Competition & Anti-Trust Lawyer, Ukraine: Antonina Yaholnyk, Baker & McKenzie
For further information if you really want it , go to www.worldfinance.com
Also, see their video site, http://www.worldfinance.tv, where some of the latest opinion videos are showcased.
And’s here’s some blub about who they are and what they do.(from their pen not ours)
World News Media (WNM) is a leading publisher of quality financial and business magazines, enjoying a global distribution network that includes subscriber lists of the most prominent and senior decision-makers around the world, as well as comprehensive airport, hotel and conference site distribution.
The company has been run from its global headquarters in London for over 15 years and has built up a coveted reputation for excellence across its titles. WNM is dedicated to publishing specialist journals in many areas of business, produced by an award-winning editorial team of journalists and correspondents worldwide, who, in collaboration with media partners such as Reuters, provide authoritative news and features supported by up-to-the-minute, reliable data and detailed analysis of the most complex, dynamic and innovative issues facing business today.
