Manager-owned businesses need lawyers with deep legal expertise and practical insight. From mergers and regulatory compliance to corporate governance, ensuring you have the right adviser is critical.
Our 2025 list of the best corporate lawyers showcases names with formidable experience in complex transactions and delivering clear, strategic advice while protecting their clients’ business interests.
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- The best corporate lawyers: the complete list
- Methodology: how we choose our recommendations
- The best corporate lawyers: some names to know
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The best corporate lawyers: the complete list
Click on the individual names to be directed to more detailed profiles of each adviser on The Spear’s 500 website. The table is ordered by ranking and then alphabetically by surname.
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Methodology: how we choose our recommendations
Each year, the Spear’s Research Unit reassesses and refreshes its rankings of the leading providers in each sector by gathering data from and about the advisers and firms themselves, assessing submission forms, collating nominations, carrying out peer reviews, reviewing data from third-party sources, gathering references and recommendations, canvassing experts and conducting hundreds of interviews.
Advisers are evaluated using a proprietary scoring system that assigns different weightings to certain attributes. These scores feed directly into each new set of rankings in the Spear’s Indices. Each of these indices are published first online (according to the research calendar) and then in print. Print publication takes the form of the annual Spear’s 500 directory, which includes the top advisers in every index.
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Each featured adviser is profiled on spears500.com. The site allows users to search the Spear’s database of more than 4,000 entities to find one (or more) to meet their specific requirements by filtering for specific attributes such as an adviser’s location, their specialist expertise and information about their client base.
The best corporate lawyers: some names to know
Hannes Arnold
- Focus: Corporate restructuring
- Position: Senior partner
- Firm: Gasser Partner
- Rank: Top Recommended
Based in Liechtenstein, Hannes Arnold’s areas of practice at Gasser Partner include corporate law, civil law and litigation, bank and finance law, and real estate law.
He has particular expertise in commercial matters, such as M&A transactions and corporate reorganisations, and regularly acts for HNW clients, assisting them with both personal and business structuring, ‘often across jurisdictions’, he tells Spear’s. This includes litigating in complex, high-value disputes, and navigating regulatory requirements.
Arnold is a member of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, the International Bar Association, the European Law Society, Liechtenstein’s Chamber of Notaries, the Liechtenstein Arbitration Association and the Liechtenstein Bar Association.
Read Hannes Arnold’s full profile on Spears500.com
Rosalyn Breedy
- Focus: Financial regulation and policy
- Position: Founder
- Firm: Breedy Henderson
- Rank: Top recommended
Rosalyn Breedy works with financial services entrepreneurs and wealth management clients, offering corporate, financial services and commercial advice. A partner at Simons Muirhead Burton until 2022, she is now in her own firm, Breedy Henderson.
She has advised the founders of a new litigation fund on regulation concerning the promotion of financial products in the UK and has provided advice on the rise of digital assets. She also acts on outsourcing and due diligence for potential acquisitions and has a keen interest in the development of new technology products and business models. With her clients based across the world, Breedy tells Spear’s she is ‘confident dealing in much of all the major jurisdictions’.
Breedy can also deal with defamation cases for large companies, and has experience handling finances for a wide range of asset classes.
Read Rosalyn Breedy’s full profile on Spears500.com
Thomas Nigg
- Focus: Complex international cases
- Position: Senior partner
- Firm: Gasser Partner
- Rank: Top recommended
Thomas Nigg, a senior partner at Gasser Partner, is a widely respected Liechtenstein-based litigator and legal practitioner in a broad range of areas of corporate law.
Fluent in German and English, Nigg is ideally suited to advising and acting on behalf of British clients on their commercial endeavours in the jurisdiction, which is renowned for its attractive tax policy. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, financial markets law, foundation and trust law, insurance law and white-collar crime.
Read Thomas Nigg’s full profile on Spears500.com
Ariel Sergio Davidoff
- Focus: International finance
- Position: Founder
- Firm: Davidoff Law
- Rank: Recommended
In 2019, Ariel Sergio Davidoff made a bold career pivot, leaving his successful post as CEO of private bank Kaiser Partners to pursue law. He now runs his own Zurich-based firm, Davidoff Law.
Having worked with UHNW individuals throughout his financial and legal career, he is especially attuned to the needs of clients who own and run large enterprises with multi-million dollar turnovers. His practice is highly informed by his financial nous, and he takes on an estimated ‘80 per cent commercial enquiries and 20 per cent lifestyle’. This spans corporate transactions such as M&As and joint ventures to the occasional real estate or racehorse purchase.
Read Ariel Sergio Davidoff’s full profile on Spears500.com
Laura Uberoi
- Focus: Centi-millionaire and billionaire families
- Position: Partner, head of private wealth finance
- Firm: Addleshaw Goddard
- Rank: Recommended
Laura Uberoi heads up Addleshaw Goddard’s private wealth finance team.
Working at the intersection of law, financing and private capital, Uberoi is uniquely placed to guide UHNW families and family offices – many of whom have a net worth in excess of nine figures – in their lending and borrowing needs, making introductions on their behalf and overseeing transactions.
Clients seek out Uberoi for matters including arranging backing for a venture capital fund, expanding a real estate portfolio, and facilitating an investment in a company, a sports club or a luxury asset.
Read Laura Uberoi’s full profile on Spears500.com
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