Capping off another year of ground-breaking legal work, S&C was named to the Financial Times’s list of the top 20 Most Innovative Law Firms of 2018 for “Legal Expertise” in the FT North America Innovative Lawyers 2018 special report. Firms on the list were selected from among more than 500 submissions provided to the FT by almost 200 law firms, legal service providers and in-house legal teams.
In addition, the Firm was “Commended” in the following categories:
- “Collaboration” for meeting JPMorgan Chase’s challenge to its external law firms to ensure at least half of the legal teams handling its matters were women
- “Managing complexity and scale” for using an unusual tax structure in the share-for-share merger of Impax Laboratories and Amneal Pharmaceuticals
- “Dispute resolution” for securing a favorable settlement for Barclays