Squire Patton Boggs has been ranked top tier in 12 practice areas in the recently released The Legal 500 UK 2025 directory, with an additional 72 highly recommended practice areas across the UK.
A total of 232 Squire Patton Boggs lawyers were recommended overall – including 19 “Hall of Fame” Partners, 31 lawyers ranked as “Leading Partners”, 13 lawyers ranked as “Next Generation Partners”, and a further 18 lawyers named “Leading Associates”.
Top Tier practices:
Birmingham
- Construction
- Environment
- IT and Telecoms
- Pensions
Leeds
- Corporate and commercial
- Corporate tax
- Employment
London
- Commercial litigation: mid-market
Manchester
- Corporate and commercial
- Corporate tax
- Employment
- Health and safety
In addition, a further 72 practices were recommended:
Birmingham
- Banking litigation
- Banking and finance
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial property
- Corporate and commercial
- Employment
- Health and safety
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Property litigation
Leeds
- Banking and finance
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial property
- Construction
- Energy and projects
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Pensions
- Planning
- Property litigation
London
- Artificial intelligence
- Asset based lending
- Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Commercial property: development
- Commodities disputes
- Corporate governance
- Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Derivatives and structured products
- Employment: employers
- Environment
- Equity capital markets: small – mid-cap
- ESG
- EU and competition
- Financial services: contentious
- Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Fraud: civil
- Fraud: white collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Health and safety
- Immigration: business
- International arbitration
- IT and telecoms
- Licensing
- Life sciences and healthcare
- M&A: lower mid-market
- Media: advertising & marketing
- Mining and minerals
- Oil and gas
- Pensions: non-contentious
- Pensions: dispute resolution
- Power: electricity and nuclear
- Private equity: transactions – mid-market
- Product liability: defendant
- Property finance
- Public international law
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Renewables
- Reputation management
- Retail and consumer
- Shipping
- Sport
- TMT
- Trade Finance
Manchester
- Banking and finance
- Banking litigation
- Commercial litigation
- Commercial property
- Construction
- Energy and projects
- EU and competition
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Local government
- Pensions