Finalists: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer • Hogan Lovells • Osborne Clarke • RPC • Shearman & Sterling

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) – the winner of this category – advised its client, National Grid, in what the Financial Times described as “the biggest cartel damages action to surface in the English courts”.