2026 Shortlists

Creditor-Side Law Firm of the Year

  • Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
  • Mayer Brown international 
  • Milbank
  • Norton Rose Fulbright
  • Paul Hastings
  • Proskauer

 

Creditor-Side Non-Law Firm of the Year

  • Ducera Partners 
  • Houlihan Lokey  
  • Lazard 
  • Perella Weinberg  
  • PJT Partners  

 

Debtor-Side Law Firm of the Year

  • DLA Piper
  • Freshfields
  • Jones Day
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Winston Taylor

 

Debtor-Side Non-Law Firm of the Year

  • Alvarez & Marsal
  • EY-Parthenon
  • FTI Consulting  
  • Grant Thornton  
  • Moelis 
  • Rothschild & Co  
  • Teneo  

 

LME Firm of the Year

  • A&O Shearman
  • Akin
  • Gibson Dunn
  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Sullivan & Cromwell

 

Chapter 11 Firm of the Year

  • Kirkland & Ellis
  • Latham & Watkins
  • Morrison Foerster
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Weil

 

Offshore Firm of the Year

  • Appleby
  • Carey Olsen
  • Harneys
  • Maples
  • Mourant
  • Walkers

 

Latin American Practice of the Year

Local

  • Bofill Mir Abogados
  • E.Munhoz Advogados
  • Machado Meyer
  • MATTAR
  • Sainz Abogados
  • Tozzini Freire

International

  • Cleary Gottlieb
  • Davis Polk 
  • Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown 
  • White & Case

 

European Practice of the Year

Local

  • Cuatrecasas
  • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
  • Gleiss Lutz
  • Houthoff
  • Loyens & Loeff

International

  • A&O Shearman
  • Greenberg Traurig
  • Linklaters
  • Ropes & Gray
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

 

Asia Practice of the Year

Local

  • Allen & Gledhill
  • Nishimura & Asahi
  • Oon & Bazul
  • Providence Law Asia
  • Tanner De Witt

International

  • Latham & Watkins
  • Linklaters
  • Sidley

 

GRR Pioneering Spirit Award

  • Greenberg Traurig  
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison 
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Alvarez & Marsal
  • Sullivan & Cromwell 
  • Walkers and Grant Thornton 
  • Weil and Ropes & Gray   

 

Contribution to Diversity in Restructuring

  • DLA Piper  
  • INSOL International  
  • IWIRC Flagship International Program Committee  
  • Thornton Grout Finnegan  
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher 

 

Sovereign Debt Restructuring of the Year

  • Cleary Gottlieb, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Lazard – (Ghana restructuring of Saderea bonds)  
  • Weil and Ankura, White & Case and Lazard – (Ethiopia) 

 

Cross-Border Insolvency Academic of the Year

  • Kenneth Ayotte, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, Berkley Law School, California 
  • Anthony J. Casey, Donald M. Ephraim Professor of Law and Economics at University of Chicago Law School  
  • Jared Ellias, Scott C. Collins Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 
  • Robert K. Rasmussen, J. Thomas McCarthy Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science, University of Southern California Gould School of Law 
  • Mark Roe, David Berg Professor of Law, Havard Law School   
  • Eugenio Vaccari, associate professor, Royal Holloway University of London

 

Insolvency Practitioner / Restructuring Officer of the year

  • Angela Barkhouse, Kroll (Cayman Islands) Angela = 1MDB + Atom Holdings 
  • David Kelly, Ed Macnamara & Gillian Bruce (London) and Alison Grant (Leeds), PwC  
  • James Pirie & Alan Roberts, Grant Thornton (Channel Islands) 
  • Jasper Berkenbosch, Jones Day (Amsterdam)
  • Paul Pretlove, David Standish (London) & James Drury (BVI), Interpath 
  • Pulkit Gupta, EY India (New Delhi) 
  • Richard Fleming, Mark Firmin (London) & Ben Cairns (Glasgow), Alvarez & Marsal 
  • Robert Wagstaff, Riveron (Miami) 
  • Simon Edel, Alan Hudson & Stephen Harris, EY-Parthenon (London)  
  • Tiffany Wong and Edward Middleton, Alvarez & Marsal (Hong Kong) 

 

Advocate of the Year

  • Matthew Abraham, South Square (London)  
  • Adam Al-Attar KC, South Square (London) 
  • Daniel Bayfield KC, South Square (London) 
  • Jasmine Cheung, Des Voeux Chambers (Hong Kong)  
  • Marshall S Heubner, Davis Polk (New York) 
  • Duane L Loft, Pallas Partners (New York)  
  • Liv Machado, partner, Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown (São Paulo)
  • Ben Shaw KC, Erskine Chambers (London)  
  • Tom Smith KC, South Square (London) 

 

Future Leader Award

  • Benjamin Butterfield, partner, Morrison Foerster, New York  
  • Adam Crane, partner, Broadhurst, Cayman Islands 
  • Emmanuel D Chua, principal, Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, Singapore 
  • Kim de Bruijn, senior associate, Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam 
  • Victor Dias Vieira Clementino, partner, MATTAR, São Paulo  
  • Andre Ericsson de Carvalho, lawyer, Machado Meyer, São Paulo  
  • Christian P Jensen, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 
  • Jamie Murray-Jones, senior associate, Freshfields, London  
  • Kelly Rothwell, partner, CMS, London  
  • Dr Lydia Tsioli, associate, Weil, London  

 

Outstanding Contribution Award

  • To be announced

 

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