Norton Rose Fulbright receives 13 Tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK 2025

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has again posted an outstanding performance in the annual Legal 500 UK directory, reflecting the success of its practices across all major industry sectors and great bench strength.

These rankings assess the strengths of law firms in the over 150 jurisdictions and are based on a series of research criteria, including feedback from 300,000 clients worldwide, submissions from law firms and interviews with leading private practice lawyers, and a team of researchers who have unrivalled experience in the legal market.

The firm has been awarded a total of 70 UK practice area rankings, of which 13 are Tier 1, and 111 of its UK-based lawyers have been ranked individually, 15 of whom were ranked for the first time this year.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s Tier 1 rankings include:

• Corporate and commercial: Equity capital markets - small-mid cap
• Finance: Islamic finance
• Finance: Trade finance
• Finance: Transport finance and leasing
• Industry focus: Emerging Markets
• Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Infrastructure: Project finance and development
• Projects, energy and natural resources: Mining and minerals
• Projects, energy and natural resources: Power (including electricity and nuclear)
• Projects, energy and natural resources: Renewables
• Real estate: Commercial property: Corporate occupiers
• TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Fintech: corporate and commercial
• TMT (technology, media and telecoms): Fintech: regulatory
• Transport: Aviation

The 15 newly ranked Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers are Sophie O’Connor, Stuart Neely, Claire Irwin, Hussain Kubba and Melusi Dlamini under ‘Next Generation Partners’; Ruth Cowley, Susanna Rogers, Paul Stothard, Matthew Findley, Charles Whitney and Bernd Bohr under ‘Leading Partners’; and Samson Spanier, India Furse, Chris Aird and Georgie Field under ‘Leading Associates’.

Norton Rose Fulbright provides the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. It has more than 50 offices, globally, with in excess of 3500 legal staff. Its two UK offices are located in London and Newcastle.