IFLR 1000
The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Linklaters Slaughter and May
	Allen & Overy Ashurst Clifford Chance Gleiss Lutz Hogan Lovells Latham & Watkins Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Van Bael & Bellis White & Case
	Arnold & Porter Baker & McKenzie Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Bredin Prat Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Gide Loyrette Nouel Hengeler Mueller Herbert Smith Jones Day McDermott Will & Emery/Stanbrook O'Melveny & Myers Shearman & Sterling Sidley Austin Stibbe Uría Menéndez Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
	Bird & Bird Covington & Burling Eubelius Garrigues Loyens & Loeff Macfarlanes Mannheimer Swartling NautaDutilh Norton Rose Salans Squire Sanders Hammonds Vinge

Salans is ranked primarily for its strength representing Russian clients for European commission merger notifications and in cartel investigations. In 2011, the firm added a high profile member to its team when it hired David O'Keeffe as senior counsel from Squire Sanders Hammonds.... [more]

Salans is ranked primarily for its strength representing Russian clients for European commission merger notifications and in cartel investigations. In 2011, the firm added a high profile member to its team when it hired David O'Keeffe as senior counsel from Squire Sanders Hammonds. O'Keeffe is a well-known professor and state aid and public procurement expert.

The team, led by Brussels-based Edward Borovikov, is according to one client "very [thorough] and with the deepest level of knowledge. They now what problems they would have in advance and take the time to research before making suggestions."

In significant matters, the firm was advising Russian clients, and some non-Russian clients, on anti-monopoly, state aid, merger control, market sharing and dumping matters. The clients by and large come from a heavy industry background, technology and cosmetics.

The firm's competition practice is spread through offices in Paris, London, Berlin Madrid and Warsaw, among other European jurisdictions. One of its strengths is handling EU competition rules in terms of trade regulations.

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