CAREY OLSEN: Carey Olsen ranked Tier 1 in all 20 practice areas in Legal 500 UK 2025 guide

Press Release from Carey Olsen, Friday 4 October, 2024. 

Carey Olsen continues to be the leading offshore law firm in The Legal 500 UK rankings, achieving Tier 1 in all 20 practice area rankings for the third consecutive year and maintaining its status as the only offshore law firm to achieve a clean sweep of Tier 1 rankings.

Carey Olsen lawyers achieved 69 individual rankings in this year’s guide. The firm’s partners earned 15 rankings in The Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’, which highlights those who are at the pinnacle of the profession, as well as 31 ‘Leading Partners’ rankings and nine ‘Next Generation Partners’ rankings. 14 Carey Olsen associates were named ‘Leading Associates’.

Clients of the firm praised its teams as “the standout in the market, with a strong bench of lawyers and an approach that mirrors that of the City firms”, and placed them “among the most highly trained, well experienced and responsive lawyers I have ever had the good fortune to work with”.

Carey Olsen group managing partner Simon Marks said: “We are proud to have once again been recognised as the leading offshore law firm in The Legal 500 UK rankings. This achievement is a reflection of the high levels of expertise and client service our teams based in Guernsey, Jersey and London provide across a broad range of practice areas. I would like to thank our clients for their support and our lawyers for their continual hard work and dedication.”

The firm’s full practice rankings are as follows:

Guernsey

Tier 1: Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Commercial Property; Corporate and M&A; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Insurance; Investment Funds; Private Client, Trusts and Tax.

Jersey

Tier 1: Banking and Finance; Capital Markets; Commercial Property; Corporate and Commercial; Dispute Resolution; Dispute Resolution: Regulatory and White-collar; Employment; Family; Investment Funds; Private Client, Trusts and Tax.

London

Tier 1: Offshore firms.

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