The firm is recognised for its work across a variety of its market-leading sectors and specialist teams including Transport, Business Crime and Regulatory Investigations, Real Estate, Environment, Employment, Finance and Private Client.
A number of teams and individuals from Burges Salmon have been shortlisted in the following 11 categories at the Legal 500 Awards 2020:
Teams
- Transport: Firm of the year
- Transport (Rail): Firm (Specialism) of the year
- Private Client (Agriculture and estates): Firm (Specialism) of the year
- Crime, Fraud And Licensing (South West): Firm (outside London) of the year
- Human Resources (South West): Firm (outside London) of the year
- Real Estate (South West): Firm (outside London) of the year
Individual
- Chris Jackson, head of the firm’s Transport team, has been shortlisted for ‘Transport: Individual (London) of the Year’ for his work in the transport sector.
- Building on being named ‘Individual of the Year (London)’ Transport at last year’s awards, the firm’s head of Rail Brioney Thomas has been shortlisted for ‘Individual (Outside London) of the Year’.
- David Hall heads the firm’s Business Crime and Regulatory Investigations team and has received a nomination for ‘Crime, Fraud And Licensing: Individual (Outside London) of the Year’.
- Andrew Eaton has been shortlisted for ‘Finance: Individual (Outside London) of the Year’. Andrew heads the firm’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team.
Roger Bull, Burges Salmon’s Managing Partner, says: “We are delighted to have gone from receiving five nominations last year to eleven nominations in the 2020 Legal 500 UK Awards. These Awards are special as nominations are determined through feedback from in-house counsel, other law firms and barristers. To receive such independent industry-wide recognition across a number of strategically significant practices and individuals within our business is fantastic news. Very well done to all of our teams and to those individuals that have been shortlisted".
The annual Legal 500 UK Awards recognise the very best practitioners and firms operating within the UK market. Award recipients are selected based on months of research and interviews conducted with in-house counsel, firms and chambers across the country.