The Legal 500 UK 2025 Recognizes 15 Arnold & Porter Practices, 13 Lawyers

The 2025 edition of The Legal 500 United Kingdom recognized 15 Arnold & Porter practices for their standout contributions to their respective practices.

The guide also included 39 Arnold & Porter lawyers in their mentions and named seven lawyers as elite “Leading Partners,” one lawyer as “Next Generation Partners,” three lawyers as “Leading Associates” in their guide to up-and-coming lawyers, and three lawyers to the “Hall of Fame.” The Legal 500’s “Hall of Fame” is a recognition that is achieved when lawyers are “widely regarded as being at the very top of the profession” and “have been consistently ranked as leading individuals by The Legal 500 for a number of years.”

Arnold & Porter was recommended in the following practice areas:

• Commercial Litigation: Premium
• Competition Litigation
• Debt Capital Markets
• Employers
• EU and Competition
• Fraud: White-Collar Crime (Advice to Individuals)
• Hedge Funds
• Intellectual Property: Patents (Contentious and Non-contentious)
• Intellectual Property: Trademarks, Copyright and Design
• International Arbitration
• Life Sciences and Healthcare
• Product Liability: Defendant
• Public International Law
• Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
• Venture Capital

The following lawyers were ranked as “Leading Partners”:

• Sean Curran—Fraud: White-Collar Crime (Advice to Individuals); Regulatory Investigations & Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
• Simon Firth—Hedge Funds
• Kathleen Harris—Fraud: White-Collar Crime (Advice to Individuals); Regulatory Investigations & Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
• Patricio Grané Labat—Public International Law
• Hilton Mervis—Commercial Litigation: Premium
• Jeremy Willcocks—Debt Capital Markets
• Adela Williams—Life Sciences & Healthcare

The following lawyers were ranked as “Next Generation Partners”:

• Jacqueline Mulryne—Life Sciences & Healthcare

The following lawyers were ranked as “Leading Associates”:

• Álvaro Nistal—Public International Law
• Tim Smyth—Public International Law
• Eleri Williams— Life Sciences and Healthcare

The following lawyers were recognized in the “Hall of Fame”:

• Ian Dodds-Smith— Life Sciences & Healthcare; Product Liability: Defendant
• David Reed—International Arbitration
• Adela Williams—Product Liability: Defendant