Recognition
Leading third-party sources consistently recognize Pillsbury for excellence. Recent awards and rankings include:
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2013 Chambers Global Eleven practices and 27 Pillsbury attorneys have been ranked among the world’s top lawyers according to 2013 Chambers Global Guide. |
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2013 Chambers USA Guide to Leading Lawyers Pillsbury scored 45 practices and 108 individual lawyer rankings in this latest edition. More than half of our practices and over 50% of our ranked lawyers garnered recognition as leading attorneys on a national level. |
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2013 Chambers UK 2013 Chambers UK ranks Pillsbury's Outsourcing and Information Technology practices among the UK's finest. |
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2013 Best Lawyers/US News & World Report In the third annual edition of Best Lawyers/US News & World Report's survey of America’s best law firms, Pillsbury garnered 67 Tier 1 practice rankings. See Pillsbury rankings here. |
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2013 Best Lawyers/US News & World Report Pillsbury was named "Law Firm of the Year" for Trusts & Estates Law by Best Lawyers/US News & World Report's. |
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2012 Legal 500 Legal 500 ranked 88 Pillsbury lawyers and 19 practices in its 2012 US edition. |
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IAOP World's Best Outsourcing Advisors The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) named Pillsbury to the 2013 list of World's Best Outsourcing Advisors. |
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2012 Working Mother Top 100 Companies Pillsbury has appeared on Working Mother magazine's list of 100 Best Companies for the past seven years, including one year as the only law firm ever named among the Top 10 companies. |
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2012 Corporate Counsel "Go-To Firm" According to an in-house counsel survey of Fortune 500 companies, Pillsbury was named a "go-to firm" in four areas: Corporate, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Securities. |
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2012 HFM Week Award for Best OnshoreLaw Firm – Hedge Fund Start Ups For the fourth year in a row, Pillsbury was honored by HFM Week for providing counsel to the hedge funds industry. |
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2012 Trade Finance Awards of Excellence Voted "Best Global Export Credit Agency/Development Finance Institution Law Firm" by Trade Finance Magazine. |
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Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Ranked among the top 25 Most Active Law Firms, by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst, for private equity and venture capital transactions in 2012. Also recognized named among the firms that closed the most private equity and venture capital funds in 2012. |
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2013 NAFE Top 50 Companies for Executive Women Pillsbury named the to the NAFE (National Association for Female Executives) Top 50 Companies for Exective Women for three consecutive years. |
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The BTI Brand Elite: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms 2013 Pillsbury ranks amoug the top 5 percent in premium value out of 650 law firms serving large clients. |
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2012 Euromoney's Best of the Best USA Three Pillsbury partners (Construction, Patent, and Trusts & Estates) named among the 25 Best Attorneys in their respective practice areas (Expert Guides to Leading Lawyers). |
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Three Pillsbury Partners Named to BTI’s 2012 Client All-Stars List Legal industry consulting firm BTI has named Three Pillsbury partners to its annual Client Service All-Stars list. |
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2010-2011 Legal 500 Asia Pacific Legal 500 Asia ranks Pillsbury's China Practice under the best foreign firms for Corporate and M&A work. |
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2011 Legal 500 Legal 500 ranked 67 Pillsbury lawyers and 17 practices in its 2011 US edition. |
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Top 3 in Video Game Law A new survey by Interactive Age ranks Pillsbury among the top three law firms in the US advising on video game law and other interactive entertainment. |
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2010 Law360 Groups of the Year Pillsbury's Energy, Government Contracts & Disputes and Insurance Recovery & Advisory teams were named among legal practice "Groups of the Year" in 2010, according to legal industry wire service Law360. |
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Jane's Transport Finance African Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year Pillsbury’s Ethiopian Airlines $765M financing was named African Aircraft Debt Deal of the Year by Jane's Transport Finance in December 2010. |
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DealFlow Media's PIPEs Report Pillsbury Ranked 4th globally for number of completed PIPE transactions as Issuer Counsel by DealFlow Media's PIPEs Report. |
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2010 BTI Client Service Top 30 Pillsbury ranked 17 on the BTI Client Service Top 30, an annual survey which honors the best law firms in providing client service to the Fortune 1000. Pillsbury also was named “Best of the Best” at anticipating clients’ needs. |
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Who's Who Legal 2012 London-based Law Business Research recognized 24 Pillsbury attorneys in 10 practice areas. |
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2010 Investor Counsel of the Year Named "Best Investor Counsel of the Year" for Chinese companies at the 2010 Top Capital Investment and Investors Awards in Beijing. |
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2010 Turnaround Atlas Award for Distressed Real Estate Deal of the Year Pillsbury was recognized for its representation of Standard Portfolios in its $350 million acquisition of Bethany Holdings. |
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2010 UK Energy & Infrastructure Firm of the Year Pillsbury was among three law firms honored at The Lawyer Awards for our energy and project finance work, including a $20B nuclear project in the UAE and major LNG projects in US and Great Britain. |
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2010 European Outsourcing Assn MultiSourcing Award Pillsbury’s Sourcing practice was honored with an EOA award for the Best Multi-sourcing Project of the Year on behalf of client GlaxoSmithKline. |
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2010 Silver Award: Best US Energy Firm Pillsbury's integrated Energy team was named a Silver Award winner by the International Legal Alliance at their annual summit in Paris. |
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2010 Silver Award: Best U.S. Government Affairs Firm Our public policy and government contracting team was named a Silver Award winner by International Legal Alliance at their annual summit in Paris. In 2009, Pillsbury’s team took Gold, beating out nine other firms. |
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Euromoney Legal Media's 2011 Best of the Best USA Eight Pillsbury attorneys have been named to Euromoney Legal Media's 2011 Best of the Best USA, highlighting the nation's top 25 attorneys in their field on a biennial basis. |
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