Press Release

The Lawyer European Awards ceremony was held at the Hilton Bankside Hotel last night and celebrated the very best of the international legal market. Carey Olsen faced strong competition from 5 other offshore law firms and won the award for legal excellence, depth and bread of expertise, commercial strength, market share and market-leading strategy.

In the past year, Carey Olsen, has increasingly become the leading firm in many of its key markets and is now the largest offshore law firm in the Channel Islands and in the City of London. The firm is the top legal offshore adviser to clients listed on the London Stock Exchange, a place it has maintained for 16 successive years. It is also the clear market leader as legal advisers to Guernsey and Jersey domiciled funds.

This year Carey Olsen has also been named Offshore Firm of the Year at the Chambers Europe Awards and is ranked as a global leader for offshore law based on the consolidated rankings of the principal legal directories, The Legal 500 and Chambers.

Carey Olsen group managing partner Alex Ohlsson said: "I am immensely proud of what our firm has achieved in the past year. We are growing rapidly and are going from strength to strength in our key markets and our specialist practice areas. This award is testament to the high calibre of our teams within our network of offices and I would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners and staff for their continued drive to provide our clients with the highest level of legal advice. They are what makes us a law firm of choice in the jurisdictions in which we operate."