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Freehills experienced a brilliant year in a strong legal market for mergers and acquisitions, with a clean sweep of the 2007 Bloomberg M&A League Tables. Freehills ranked number one in all categories of the Australia/New Zealand and Asia-Pacific ex Japan Bloomberg Tables, released 2 January 2008 (see pp. 5-10, Bloomberg Results).
Freehills has been awarded Australian Law Firm of the Year at the prestigious 8th Annual Chambers Global Awards, on 8 November at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Former Freehills Partner, Stephanie Pursley was awarded the prestigious ‘Private or Corporate Lawyer Award’ at the NSW Women Lawyers Achievement Awards 2007 gala dinner held at The Hilton, Sydney on Friday 19 October 2007.
Freehills continues to outperform the M&A legal affairs marketplace in the first half of 2007 for the sixth consecutive time with number one rankings in both announced and completed Australia and New Zealand M&A deals and the Asia-Pacific ex-Japan M&A deals according to Thomson Financial’s Australia and New Zealand M&A League Tables.
Freehills solidified its position as a market leading law firm on 15 May when the firm collected a number of accolades at the Australian Legal Business (ALB) Magazine Australasian Law Awards.
Freehills has received formal recognition as an Employer of Choice for Women by the Australian Government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, in acknowledgement of the firm’s commitment to supporting and enhancing the career experiences of women within the organisation.
Freehills' high quality work in the Australian financial services sector for 2006–07 was acknowledged last week when the firm was awarded Best Financial Law Firm by FinanceAsia magazine and Law Firm of the Year by INSTO magazine.
Freehills continues its number one position in the strong legal market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), according to Thomson Financial’s Australian and New Zealand M&A League Tables for calendar 2006, which were released today.
Freehills has become the first legal firm in the Asia Pacific region to overhaul its current financial reporting system and replace it with cutting edge technology built upon Microsoft’s innovative SQL 2005 Analytics and Reporting platform.
Maintaining an ongoing focus on meeting and exceeding clients’ needs, Freehills has successfully overhauled its current financial reporting system to replace it with cutting edge technology built upon Microsoft’s innovative SQL 2005 Analytics and Reporting platform.
For the third successive year, Freehills has been awarded the coveted Australian Law Firm of the Year Award at the 2006 Australian Law Awards ceremony in Sydney. Freehills took home a total of six awards on the evening, highlighting an extremely triumphant year for the firm.
Freehills has received a ‘Special Award for Flexibility in the Workplace’ from the Law Society of New South Wales (NSW) for its initiatives in flexible work practices.
Freehills led the Bloomberg M&A League Tables in 2005 and first-half calendar year 2006. Now Freehills again tops the tables with the release of the latest results for quarter three (July–September) 2006.
Freehills’ outstanding success for the 2005/2006 financial year has been recognised and rewarded with the coveted accolade of CFO Magazine’s 2006 Corporate Legal Services Firm of the Year Award.
Freehills’ expertise in mergers and acquisitions and equity markets has once again been celebrated, this time at the 2006 Asia Legal Business Deals of the Year Awards ceremony, which took place in Singapore on Friday, 2 June 2006.
Freehills has claimed a number of accolades in this year’s ALB 2006 Australasian Law Awards, with several of the firm’s practice groups sharing in the spotlight.
Freehills was presented with the Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year Award at the prestigious International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asian Awards ceremony, which took place at the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong on 15 March 2006.
Freehills’ Projects group welcomes the recent Queensland Government announcement that eight projects worth $5.6 billion will be assessed for release as Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the next 12 months.
