Sidley was ranked in 22 practice areas in The Legal 500 UK 2023 guide. The firm was recommended for:
- Acquisition finance
- Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Commercial litigation: premium
- Commercial property: investment
- Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Corporate tax
- Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Debt capital markets
- Derivatives and structured products
- EU and competition
- Financial services: contentious
- Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Hedge funds
- Industry focus: life sciences and healthcare
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, £500m+
- Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Private funds
- Property Finance
- Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Securitisation
Lawyers based in Sidley’s London office also received 74 lawyer recommendations by The Legal 500 across their respective practice areas. Notably, Martin Membery was included in the Insurance: Corporate and Regulatory Hall of Fame, and nine partners were highlighted as Leading Individuals:
- Sara George
- Robert Darwin
- David Howe
- Maria Isabel Manley
- Leonard Ng
- James Oussedik
- Matthew Shankland
- Rupert Wall
- Mark Walsh
A further six Sidley lawyers were awarded Next Generation Partner rankings:
- Jifree Cader
- Mark Knight
- Lyndsey Laverack
- Mateja Maher
- Fatema Orjela
- Jade Williams-Adedeji
