Legal 500 EMEA 2025 ranks leading Jones Day practices and lawyers
The 2025 edition of The Legal 500 EMEA guide ranks Jones Day in 79 areas of practice—including eight Tier 1 rankings—and 272 lawyer rankings. The lawyer rankings include 11 Hall of Fame lawyers, 38 Leading Partners, 15 Next Generation Partners, and 13 Leading Associates.
Jones Day elicits effusive praise for its "ability to anticipate the needs of the business in order to offer precise and accurate advice," in addition to its "personalized approach and specialized expertise, combining years of experience with deep industry knowledge." Clients further attest that "their breadth of knowledge is second-to-none," with additional comments including:
- "The team at Jones Day is outstanding in its ability to capture the issue at stake, to demonstrate its understanding of the situation, and to provide advice on the best way to address it in a very short term when needed. The team supports clients with top-class legal advice."
- "The team provides excellent service, great technical expertise, creativity even under urgent circumstances, and the ability to handle both concrete technical subjects and abstract legal principles."
- "Jones Day provides us with consistent advice across all practice areas, with partners across practice areas working together to ensure coherent and coordinated advice. We can expect the same legal quality from Jones Day regardless of practice area or jurisdiction."
- "Excellent team, very agile and which easily mobilizes its network for international projects."
Jones Day lawyers ranked in Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" (lawyers widely regarded as being at the very top of the profession, and consistently ranked as "Leading Individuals") include:
- Emmanuel Baud (Paris) – France: Intellectual Property - Trade marks and designs
- Florent Bouyer (Paris) – France: Capital Markets - Equity capital markets
- Alban Caillemer du Ferrage (Paris) – France: Derivatives and structured finance
- Didier De Vliegher (Brussels) – Belgium: Real estate and construction
- Philippe Delelis (Paris) - France: Administrative and public law
- Quirine Eenhorst (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Investment funds
- Elie Kleiman (Paris) – France: Dispute resolution - International arbitration
- Françoise Labrousse (Paris) – France: Environment
- Javier López Antón (Madrid) – Spain: Banking and finance
- Pierre-Olivier Mahieu (Brussels) – Belgium: Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Sheila Shadmand (Dubai) – UAE: Dispute Resolution - Compliance and investigations
Jones Day lawyers ranked as Legal 500 "Leading Partners" (true market leaders, with long-established reputations in their sector, lead roles in multiple recent significant matters, and exceptional, widespread recognition and endorsement from peers) include:
- Eric Barbier de la Serre (Paris) – France: EU competition and distribution
- Jasper Berkenbosch (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Restructuring and insolvency
- Fabienne Beuzit (Paris) – France: Insolvency
- Chantal Biernaux (Brussels) – Belgium: Employment
- Renaud Bonnet (Paris) – France: Private equity - Venture/growth capital
- Thomas Bouvet (Paris) – France: Intellectual property: Patents
- Nicolas Brice (Paris) – France: Industry focus - Energy (regulatory and public law)
- Ferdinand Brughmans (Brussels) – Belgium: Banking, finance and capital markets
- Philippe Delelis (Paris) – France: Industry focus - Energy (regulatory and public law)
- Matthieu Duplat (Brussels) – Belgium: Banking, finance and capital markets
- Kaarli Eichhorn (Brussels) – Belgium: Competition - EU and Global
- Rémy Fekete (Paris) – France: Industry focus - Telecoms
- Vanessa Foncke (Brussels) – Belgium: Dispute resolution
- Paolo Foppiani (Milan) – Italy: Real estate and construction
- Charles Gavoty (Paris) – France: Private equity - Venture/growth capital
- Bénédicte Graulle (Paris) – France: Compliance; France: Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Michèle Grégoire (Brussels) – Belgium: Dispute resolution
- Frédéric Gros (Paris) – France: Dispute resolution - Commercial litigation
- Olivier Haas (Paris) – France: Industry focus - IT and internet
- Jean-Pierre Harb (Paris) – France: Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Jörg Hladjk (Brussels) – Belgium: EU regulatory - Privacy and data protection
- Qian Hu (Paris) – France: Derivatives and structured finance
- Mike Jansen (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Erwan Le Douce-Bercot (Paris) – France: Real estate
- Fernando Lillo (Madrid) – Spain: Projects and energy
- Pierre-Olivier Mahieu (Brussels) – Belgium: Private equity
- Florence Moulin (Paris) – France: Private equity - Fund formation
- Holger Neumann (Frankfurt) – Germany: Industry focus - Telecoms
- Floris Pierik (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Private equity
- Ansgar Rempp (Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich) – Germany: Corporate and M&A - M&A: Large deals (€500m+)
- Sheila Shadmand (Dubai) – UAE: Dispute resolution: Arbitration and international litigation
- Cristiana Spontoni (Brussels) – Belgium: EU regulatory: Pharmaceuticals, medical devices and biotech
- Christine Van Gallebaert (Paris) – France: Derivatives and structured finance
- Ate van IJlzinga Veenstra (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Investment funds
- Alexandre Verheyden (Brussels) – Belgium: Competition - Belgian law
- Undine von Diemar (Munich) – Germany: Information technology - Data protection
- Philipp Werner (Brussels) – Germany: Public sector - State aid
- Nick Wittek (Frankfurt) – Germany: Banking and Finance - Fintech
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Next Generation Partners" (lawyers with (generally) five years or fewer at partner level, significant recognition from clients and peers in the market, and recent lead roles on multiple matters) include:
- Antonio Canales (Madrid) – Spain: Dispute Resolution
- Laurent De Muyter (Brussels) – Belgium: Industry focus: IT and Telecoms
- Philip Devenish (Dubai) – UAE: Dispute resolution: Arbitration and international litigation
- Edouard Fortunet (Paris) – France: Intellectual property - Trade marks and designs
- Jean-Gabriel Griboul (Paris) – France: Private equity - Venture/growth capital
- Marta Lahuerta Escolano (Paris) – France: Industry focus - Telecoms
- Iván Martín-Barbón (Madrid) – Spain: Banking and finance
- Javier Muñoz Méndez (Madrid) – Spain: Real Estate and Construction
- Giuseppina Pagano (Milan) – Italy: Capital markets: Debt
- Armelle Sandrin-Deforge (Paris) – France: Environment
- Natalia Sauszyn (Paris) – France: Capital Markets - Debt capital markets
- Elodie Simon (Paris) – France: Environment
- Geoffroy van de Walle (Brussels) – Belgium: Competition - EU and Global
- Jonas Van Den Bossche (Brussels) – Belgium: Commercial, Corporate and M&A; Belgium: Private Equity
- Alexandre Wibaux (Paris) – France: Private equity: Venture/growth capital
Jones Day lawyers ranked by Legal 500 as "Leading Associates" (associate-level lawyers who appear frequently in significant matters and are widely cited by peers and/or clients) include:
- Jérémy Attali (Paris) – France: Compliance
- Silvia Beggiato (Milan) – Italy: Real estate and construction
- Louise-Anne Bertin (Brussels) – Belgium: Real Estate and Construction
- Rodolphe Carrière (Paris) – France: Insolvency
- Colin Devinant (Paris) – France: Intellectual Property: Patents
- Fabio Guidi (Milan) – Italy: Capital markets: Debt
- Anouk in den Kleef (Amsterdam) – Netherlands: Investment Funds
- Marine L'Hostis (Paris) – France: Private equity: Fund formation
- Martin Lotz (Munich) – Germany: Information technology - Data protection
- Flavia Poujade (Paris) – France: Real estate
- Eddy Prothiere (Paris) – France: Intellectual property: Patents
- Karim Tarantino (Paris) – France: Environment
- Kevin Wilcock (Düsseldorf) – Germany: Antitrust
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