3 August 2026: new Legal 500 EMEA submission deadline

The deadline for submissions to The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) research programme is 3 August 2026.

A notable change for this edition concerns the Commercial, Corporate and M&A category, which will now distinguish between High-end transactions (above €250 million) and Mid-market transactions (below €250 million). Achieving and maintaining a strong ranking in leading legal directories such as The Legal 500 serves as an independent and objective endorsement of a firm’s quality, expertise and excellence within its practice areas. A prominent position in a prestigious legal directory is instrumental in enhancing a firm’s reputation within the legal market. It also has a direct impact on business development opportunities, client acquisition and professional recognition. At Gericó Associates, our team collectively brings more than 15 years of experience in preparing and managing submissions to international legal directories. We have advised several of the world’s leading law firms in this highly specialised field. We maintain ongoing contact with researchers and editors, enabling us to provide clients with the most effective and up-to-date approach throughout the submissions process. Should you require assistance, please contact our international legal directories specialists at info@gericoassociates.com or complete our contact form.

The Legal 500 – 3 August 2026

EUROPE SPAIN

• Banking and finance
• Barcelona: leading firms
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: High-end (above €250m)
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: Mid-market (below €250m)
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Dispute resolution: leading arbitrators
• Employment
• Environment
• EU and competition
• Financial services regulation
• Industry focus: Food
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: Manufacturing
• Industry focus: Retail
• Industry focus: TMT
• Industry focus: Sport
• Insurance
• Intellectual property: Copyright
• Intellectual property: Patents
• Intellectual property: Trade marks
• Private equity
• Projects and energy
• Public law
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• Transport: Shipping
• Transport: Other transport
• Venture capital
• White-collar crime

ALBANIA

• Leading firms

ARMENIA

• Leading firms

AUSTRIA

• Administrative law and public sector
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation
• Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
• Employment
• EU and competition
• Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Intellectual property
• Private client
• Projects and energy
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Tax
• TMT

AZERBAIJAN

• Leading firms

BELGIUM

• Aviation
• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: High-end (above €50m)
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: Mid-market (below €50m)
• Competition: Belgian law
• Competition: EU and global
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Environment
• EU regulatory: Chemicals
• EU regulatory: Financial services
• EU regulatory: Food
• EU regulatory: Information technology
• EU regulatory: Pharma, medical devices and biotech
• EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
• Fintech
• Industry focus: Energy
• Industry focus: Food
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: IT and telecoms
• Industry focus: Media and entertainment
• Industry focus: Retail
• Industry focus: Transport
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• International trade
• Not-for-profit
• Private equity
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• White-collar crime

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition
• Intellectual property
• Real estate, construction and projects

BULGARIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Energy and natural resources
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Intellectual property
• Projects and PPP
• Real estate and construction
• TMT
• Transport (including shipping)

CROATIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Privatisation, projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• Transport (including shipping)

CYPRUS

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Maritime and admiralty
• Real estate and construction
• Tax

CZECH REPUBLIC

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Projects and energy
• Intellectual property
• Projects and PPP
• Real estate and construction
• TMT
• Tax

DENMARK

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy
• Environment
• EU, competition and public procurement
• Information technology
• Insolvency
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Media and entertainment
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping and transport
• Tax
• Telecoms
•  

ESTONIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Fintech
• IP, IT and telecoms
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping and transport
• Tax

FINLAND

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• EU and competition
• Intellectual property
• Maritime and transport
• Real estate and construction
• Tax
• TMT

FRANCE

• Administrative and public law
• Aviation
• Aviation finance
• Banking and finance: Financial services regulation
• Banking and finance: transactional work
• Capital markets: debt capital markets
• Capital markets: equity capital markets
• Compliance
• Construction
• Data privacy and data protection
• Derivatives and structured finance
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
• Dispute resolution: International arbitration
• Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
• EU, competition and distribution
• Employment
• Environment
• Industry focus: Energy
• Industry focus: Food
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: IT and internet
• Industry focus: Telecoms
• Industry focus: Luxury goods
• Industry focus: Sport
• Insurance
• Intellectual property: Copyright
• Intellectual property: Patents
• Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
• Intellectual property: Patent and trade mark attorneys
• Media and entertainment
• M&A: large to mid-market deals (above €100m)
• M&A: smaller deals (below €100m)
• Private equity: Fund formation
• Private equity: LBO
• Private equity: venture/growth capital
• Project finance
• Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Shipping
• Shipping finance
• Tax: Corporate
• Tax: Private
• The regions
• White-collar crime

GEORGIA

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Real estate and construction (and projects)

GIBRALTAR

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Fintech
• Gambling law
• Investment funds
• Private client
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping
• TMT
• Tax

GRECE

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Energy
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Projects and privatisation
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Shipping finance
• Shipping litigation
• TMT
• Tax
• White-collar crime

GREENLAND

• Foreign firms
• Local firms

HUNGARY

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Competition
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• TMT
• Tax

ICELAND

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EEA and competition
• Employment
• Maritime and transport
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• TMT and IP

IRELAND

• Asset finance
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Construction
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Energy and natural resources
• Employment
• Fintech
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Information technology
• Insolvency and corporate restructuring
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Investment funds
• Media and entertainment
• Pensions and employee benefits
• Planning and environment
• Projects and PPP
• Public sector
• Real estate
• Tax
• Telecoms
• Transport
• White-collar crime

ITALY

• Administrative and public law
• Banking and finance: Financial services regulation
• Banking and finance: Borrower side
• Banking and finance: Lender or arranger side
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: High-end (above €100m)
• Commercial, corporate and M&A: Mid-market (below €100m)
• Compliance
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition law
• Employment
• Industry focus: Energy
• Industry focus: Food
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: Luxury goods
• Industry focus: Manufacturing
• Industry focus: Retail
• Industry focus: Sport
• Industry focus: TMT
• Intellectual property
• IP: copyright
• Investment funds
• Private equity
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Shipping
• Tax
• White-collar crime  
• Bologna: Leading firms
• Genoa: Leading firms
• Naples: Leading firms
• Padua: Leading firms
• Turin: Leading firms

KOSOVO

• Leading firms

LATVIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• IP, IT and telecoms
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping and transport
• Tax

LIECHTENSTEIN

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution

LITHUANIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Fintech
• Intellectual property
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping and transport
• TMT
• Tax

LUXEMBOURG

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Fintech
• Insurance
• Investment funds
• IP and IT
• Private equity
• Real estate and construction
• Tax

MALTA

• Aviation
• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Fintech
• Investment funds
• Intellectual property
• Private client
• Real estate
• Shipping

MOLDOVA

• Leading firms

MONTENEGRO

• Leading firms

MONACO

• Commercial, corporate and M&A – Law firms
• Commercial, corporate and M&A – Legal advisers
• Private client – Law firms

NETHERLANDS

• Banking and finance: Asset finance and structured finance
• Banking and finance: Borrower side
• Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
• Banking and finance: Lender or arranger side
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution: Arbitration
• Dispute resolution: Class actions
• Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
• Dispute resolution: Mediation
• Employment
• Energy MERGED (please send one submission with both transactional and regulatory work for one consolidated ranking)
• Environment and planning
• EU and competition
• Fintech
• Fraud and white-collar crime
• Industry focus: Food
• Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
• Industry focus: Information technology
• Industry focus: Media and entertainment
• Industry focus: Retail
• Industry focus: Telecoms
• Insurance
• Intellectual property: Patents
• Intellectual property: Trade marks, copyrights and design rights
• International business reorganisations
• Investment funds
• Private equity
• Project finance and PFI
• Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• Transport

NORTH MACEDONIA

• Leading firms

NORWAY

• Banking and finance (including shipping finance)
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Dispute resolution
• Electricity and renewable energy
• Employment
• EU and competition
• Fishing and aquaculture
• Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Offshore construction (please include shipbuilding work in the Shipping and maritime submission)
• Oil and gas
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Regulatory, compliance and investigations
• Shipping and maritime law (please include shipbuilding work in this submission)
• Tax
• TMT

POLAND

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition/antitrust
• Construction
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy and natural resources
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Investment funds
• Private client
• Private equity
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency
• TMT
• Tax
• White-collar crime

PORTUGAL

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Energy and natural resources
• Intellectual property
• Planning law
• Porto: Leading commercial firms
• Projects and project finance
• Public law
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• TMT
• Tax
• Transport
• White-collar crime

ROMANIA

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• EU and competition
• Employment
• Energy and natural resources
• Intellectual property
• PPP and procurement
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• TMT
• TMT: gambling law
• Tax
• White-collar crime

SERBIA

• Banking and finance
• Competition
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction

SLOVAKIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction

SLOVENIA

• Leading firms

SWEDEN

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Construction
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy
• Environment
• EU and competition
• Fintech
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Insolvency
• Insurance
• Intellectual property and media
• IT and telecoms
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Tax
•  

SWITZERLAND

• Banking and finance: Geneva
• Banking and finance: Zurich
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition
• Construction NEW (please send a separate submission for construction work)
• Data privacy and data protection
• Dispute resolution: Arbitration
• Dispute resolution: Litigation
• Employment
• Fintech
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Private client
• Public law
• Real estate NEW (please send a separate submission for real estate work)
• Regulatory, compliance and investigations
• Sports law
• TMT
• Tax
• Transport
• WTO

UKRAINE

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy
• Intellectual property
• International trade
• Private client
• Real estate and construction
• Tax
• White-collar crime

MIDDLE EAST BAHRAIN

• Banking and finance (including Islamic finance)
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction

IRAN

• Local law firms

IRAQ

• Local firms
• Foreign firms

ISRAEL

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition/antitrust
• Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
• Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
• Dispute resolution: mediation and international arbitration
• Dispute resolution: white-collar crime, investigation and fraud
• Employment
• Energy
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Hi-tech and start-ups
• Infrastructure
• Insurance
• Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
• Intellectual property: disputes
• Intellectual property: filing/prosecution
• Investment and venture capital funds
• Planning and zoning
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• Telecoms and media
• Transport

JORDAN

• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Projects and energy

KAZAKHSTAN

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Energy and natural resources
• IP and TMT
• Real estate and construction (including projects)
• Tax and customs

KUWAIT

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Intellectual property
• Oil and gas
• Privatisation and projects

OMAN

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping

QATAR

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Projects, real estate and construction

SAUDI ARABIA

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• TMT

TAJIKISTAN

• Leading firms

TURKEY

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Compliance
• Competition
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy
• Foreign firms
• IT and telecoms
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Media and entertainment
• Project finance/projects
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• Transport
•  

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

• Banking and finance: Corporate finance (including Islamic lending)
• Banking and finance: Financial services regulation
• Capital markets
• Construction (including disputes)
• Corporate and M&A NEWLY SPLIT RANKING
• Commercial contracts NEWLY SPLIT RANKING
• Dispute resolution: arbitration and international litigation
• Dispute resolution: compliance and investigations
• Dispute resolution: local litigation
• Employment
• Infrastructure and projects (including project finance) (please include non-contentious construction matters here)
• Insurance
• Intellectual property
• Investment fund formation and management
• Offshore
• Oil, gas and natural resources
• Real estate
• Shipping
• TMT

UZBEKISTAN

• Leading firms

AFRICA ALGERIA

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Energy
• Foreign firms

ANGOLA

• Local firms
• Foreign firms

BOTSWANA

• Leading firms

BURINDI

• Leading firms

CAMEROON

• Leading firms

EGYPT

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution: arbitration
• Dispute resolution: litigation
• Employment
• Energy
• Intellectual property
• Projects and infrastructure
• Shipping
• TMT

ETHIOPIA

• Leading firms

GHANA

• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Energy
• Foreign firms
• Infrastructure projects

IVORY COAST

• Leading firms

KENYA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Privatisation and projects
• Real estate and construction
•  

LIBYA

• Leading firms

MOROCCO

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Foreign firms
• Projects and public law
• Tax
• Tourism and real estate

MOZAMBIQUE

• Local law firms
• Foreign law firms

NIGERIA

• Banking, finance and capital markets
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Energy and natural resources
• Real estate and construction
• Shipping and transport

SENEGAL

• Leading firms

SOUTH AFRICA

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Competition
• Construction
• Dispute resolution
• Employment
• Intellectual property
• Investment funds
• Mining
• Projects and infrastructure
• Real estate
• Shipping and transport
• Tax

TANZANIA

• Leading firms

TUNISIA

• Banking and finance
• Commercial, corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Foreign firms

UGANDA

• Leading firms

ZAMBIA

• Leading firms

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