Blake Morgan celebrates performance in Chambers and Partners 2022

Blake Morgan in Wales is celebrating after securing an impressive 12 team rankings in the 2022 edition of the Chambers and Partners Guide, highlighting the firm’s wide range of specialisms and its consistent ability to deliver a best-in-class service.

The Guide recognises and recommends the best-performing lawyers and legal firms across the UK. Out of the firm’s 12 team rankings in Wales an impressive nine were ranked as Band 1 including Administrative and Public Law, Construction, Corporate M&A, Employment, Litigation, Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, Restructuring and insolvency and Social Housing.

There was special praise for the firm’s Intellectual Property team, with the Guide praising the “comprehensive IP offering with particularly impressive lines in disputes and research and development agreements”. The Guide also highlighted the firm’s Pensions team for its “significant breadth of experience in the market, with a team that frequently acts for both employers and trustees on schemes of differing sizes”.

The Chambers and Partners Guide also recognises lawyers who are leading in their fields. Sixty-three lawyers from Blake Morgan were ranked in total this year, with 16 from Wales featuring including Jo Davies, SiânJones, Paul Caldicott and Lee Fisher, who were all listed as Band 1 practitioners.

Geoffrey Reed was ranked by the Guide as a ‘Senior Statesperson’ for his “excellent and clear advice”, while Philip Jardine, head of the firm’s Property Services Group, was ranked as an “eminent practitioner”. Out of the individual rankings, 10 lawyers were placed within the highest two bands. Matthew Smith’s Band 1 ranking was a result of his ability to “steer complicated cases through difficult waters in a calm and efficient manner, while one of Rob Cherry’s clients supported his Band 1 ranking by describing him as “a pleasure all round”.

The Guide also highlighted the strength and depth of the talent coming through at the firm with Gillian McCue and Paul Duggan listed as ‘associates to watch’.

Eve Piffaretti, Partner in Blake Morgan’s Cardiff office, said:

“It is always pleasing to see the consistently high performance of so many teams and individual lawyers at the firm recognised and is just reward for everyone’s hard work throughout the past year.  To achieve so many high rankings in the Guide for Wales is a testament once again to the broad and best-in-class offering Blake Morgan provides.

“It makes me equally proud to see the Guide acknowledge the up-and-coming stars of the firm.  At Blake Morgan, we are committed to providing a leading service to our Welsh clients both now and in the future, and the individuals identified by the Guide will no doubt play a key part in that.”