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Simmons & Simmons in Who's Who Legal

	Internet & e-Commerce
	4

	Real Estate
	1

	Mining
	1

	Management Labour & Employment
	3

	Competition
	3

	Trademarks
	2

	Product Liability Defence
	2

	Private funds
	6

	Construction
	1

	Patents
	3

	Private funds
	6

	Patents
	3

	Aviation
	1

	Insolvency & Restructuring
	2

	Regulatory Communications
	6

	Life Sciences
	5

	Business Crime Defence
	4

Today, the firm boasts a network of 20 offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Its members are listed 38 times across 15 chapters of this book.

Intellectual Property
Simmons & Simmons has an "enviable IP team" with expertise in all areas of intellectual property, including patent and trademark registration and litigation, technology transfers and corporate transactions.

Partner Kevin Mooney in London is among the highest-scoring nominees in the patents chapter. He is closely followed by Rowan Freeland, also based in London. In the trademarks chapter, David Stone in London and John Slater in Hong Kong are listed.

Seven Simmons & Simmons practitioners feature in the life sciences chapter. The firm represents 18 out of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, as well as a range of major biotechnology and consumer health-care companies. Freeland earns the most votes for the firm in this section, and appears alongside Mooney, Jacques-Antoine Robert in Paris, and Charles Mayo, who heads the global life sciences group in Hong Kong. They are joined in this section by Mark Curtis and Richard Binns in London, as well as Paolo De Carlo in Milan.

London lawyer Miles Alexander and Paris practitioner Jacques-Antoine Robert feature in the product liability chapter. For internet and e-commerce matters the firm has four listed lawyers in this book. Tom Wheadon and Alexander Brown in London are featured, joined by Italo De Feo in Rome and Alexander Shepherd in Dubai.

Corporate and Employment Law
Three lawyers from Simmons & Simmons appear in the private funds chapter. Partner Iain Cullen in London is a "top-hedge fund lawyer" and is joined by Steven Whittaker and Richard Perry. Recent highlights include representing F&C Management Limited on all aspects relating to the launch of its first hedge funds, F&C Amethyst Fund Limited and F&C Ruby Fund Limited.

Partner William Smithson in Lisbon is listed in the capital markets chapter and is described by peers as an "excellent lawyer". Gerhard Gispen heads the firm's Dutch financial markets group and is listed in the insolvency and restructuring chapter.

Mark Hewland in London is noted by rivals as a "very talented" lawyer who advises on all aspects of employment law and appears in the management labour and employment chapter. Appearing alongside him is César Sá Esteves in Lisbon and the "excellent" Fiona Loughrey in Hong Kong.

Competition and Regulation
The firm's recent competition highlights include advising the Civil Aviation Authority on the current London and Manchester airports price-control review. The team also represented the Portuguese Ministry of Economy on the state aid aspects of the creation of the Iberian electricity market.

Listed in the competition chapter from the London office are Tony Woodgate, who earned the most votes for the firm in this section and the "excellent" Martin Smith. Gonçalo Anastácio in Lisbon joins them.

Wheadon and Shepherd make a second appearance in this book in the regulatory communications chapter. Octávio Castelo Paulo in Lisbon, who is described by clients as "very good and my main contact in Portugal", also appears. Simmons & Simmons is represented in the environment chapter by Jacqui O'Keeffe in London.

Dispute Resolution and Projects
The business crime chapter includes the "excellent" Louise Delahunty from Simmons & Simmons in London. She is particularly well known for her anti-money laundering work. Others listed in this chapter are Ed Van Liere in Rotterdam and Nick Benwell in London.

Simmons & Simmons has a "formidable" real estate practice, which includes "outstanding lawyer" Alan Butler, who is listed in this chapter. For construction work, Sjoerd Rutten in Rotterdam is praised and Christophe Asselineau in Paris features in the mining chapter.