Who's Who Legal Names Milbank Global Law Firm of the Year in Project Finance for Second Consecutive Year
Sixteen attorneys featured in Project Finance chapter of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2010
NEW YORK, July 30, 2010 – The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has been named Global Law Firm of the Year in the Who’s Who Legal Awards 2010, making this the second consecutive year the firm has received the award. The awards are based on a number of factors, including the feedback received in the ongoing research process, past performance and the overall aggregate number of nominations firms receive from clients and private practice professionals.
“This acknowledgement is not only a terrific recognition of our accomplishments, it is an invaluable objective confirmation of the market’s perception of our Global Project Finance practice,” commented Milbank partner Phill Fletcher, Practice Group Leader of the Firm’s Global Project Finance Practice. “This could not have been achieved without the efforts of every lawyer, paralegal and staff member in our group.”
In addition to identifying the overall leading firm in more than 50 countries and five US states, the awards also recognize the leading firm and individual in each practice area across 31 areas of law and over 100 countries. The Milbank lawyers featured in the Project Finance chapter of The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2010 include:
Milbank’s Global Project Finance practice consistently receives the highest industry accolades. Recent honors garnered by the Firm include:
- Global Projects and Energy Law Firm of the Year – Chambers Global, 2007 and 2006
- Top Clean Energy Project Finance Legal Advisor - Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 2009, 2008 and 2007
- Energy Projects: Power including Renewables Award for Excellence - Chambers USA, 2009 and 2007
- Project Finance: Latin America-Wide (International Counsel) Award for Excellence 2009 - Chambers Latin America
- Best North American Law Firm for Renewables - Environmental Finance and Carbon Finance, 2009 and 2008
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is a leading global law firm that for more than 140 years has provided innovative legal solutions to many of the world’s largest, most complex, “first-ever” corporate transactions and litigation. The firm’s transactional expertise includes capital markets, corporate finance and transactions, project finance, acquisition finance, and other major fields of law practice. Milbank litigation teams resolve disputes involving mergers and acquisitions, proxy battles, financings and securities offerings, intellectual property, white-collar crime, and corporate restructurings, among others. The firm’s clients range from prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises to governments, institutions and individuals. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with offices in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing and São Paulo.