Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP has ‘a very responsive team, committed to the client and transactions’. The recent merger with US law firm Kramer Levin brings together a buy-side focused US practice with a London sell-side group that has ’very knowledgeable lawyers and is highly reputed in the City’. Lead partner Nick May and counsel Nick Rutter are the standout practitioners, with their work comprising highly structured, complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions for multinational investment banks, blue-chip corporates, fund managers, and insurance companies. The firm has notable expertise in strategic equity derivatives, and its broad exposure to the energy sector brings significant structured finance work from that industry.