Legal 500 EMEA 2019 recognizes 81 practices and 139 lawyers

The 2019 edition of The Legal 500 EMEA guide includes 81 practice areas and 139 lawyers in Jones Day's European and Middle East offices.

Jones Day has earned Tier 1 rankings in the following nine practice areas:

• Belgium: EU regulatory: Chemicals
• Belgium: EU regulatory: Food
• Belgium: EU regulatory: Pharmaceuticals, medical devices and biotech
• Belgium: EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
• France: Derivatives and structured finance
• France: Environment
• France: Intellectual property: Patents
• France: Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
• France: Private equity: Venture/growth capital

Jones Day is also ranked in the following 72 practice areas:

Belgium

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition: Belgian law
• Competition: EU and global
• Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• EU regulatory: Chemicals
• EU regulatory: Food
• EU regulatory: Information technology
• EU regulatory: Pharmaceuticals, medical devices and biotech
• EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: IT and telecoms

France

• Administrative and public law
• Banking and finance: Transactional work
• Capital markets: Equity capital markets
• Compliance
• Derivatives and structured finance
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
• Dispute resolution: International arbitration
• Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
• Employment
• Environment
• EU competition and distribution
• Industry focus: Energy
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: IT, telecoms and the internet
• Intellectual property: Patents
• Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity: Fund formation
• Private equity: Venture/growth capital
• Project finance
• Real estate
• Tax

Germany

• Antitrust
• Banking and finance: Lending and borrowing
• Capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation
• Corporate and M&A: M&A: Large deals (€500m+)
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
• Employment
• Industry focus: Telecoms
• Information technology: Data protection
• Information technology: Information technology (including contracts)
• Intellectual property: Patent litigation
• Intellectual property: Patent prosecution
• Private equity: Transactions
• Public sector: State aid
• Real estate and construction: Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency: Restructuring
• Tax

Italy

• Banking and finance: Borrower side
• Banking and finance: Lender or arranger side
• Capital markets: Debt
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• EU and competition law
• Real estate and construction
• Tax

Netherlands

• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
• Employment
• Fraud and white-collar crime
• Investment funds
• Private equity
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax

Saudi Arabia

• Dispute resolution
• Projects and energy

Spain

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Intellectual property: Copyright
• Intellectual property: Trade marks
• Private equity
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• White-collar crime

The Legal 500 guide provides researched coverage of 85 countries and more than 2,700 ranked law firms. Practice and lawyer recommendations published in the guide are based on the results of client interviews, the opinions of thousands of lawyers at competing firms, and additional information about the transactions and cases in which the firms were involved. For more information on The Legal 500 and Jones Day's rankings, visit The Legal 500 website.