DFDL Legal & Tax has once again received numerous accolades in the official Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017 rankings announced on 9 November 2016. William D. Greenlee, Jr., David Doran and Kristy Newby join Jim Finch as ‘leading lawyers’ in the rankings, with a further 19 DFDL legal advisers designated as ‘recommended’ across a range of jurisdictions and practice areas, many for the first time.
The recognition of expertise of so many DFDL team members certainly contributed to the top-tier status achieved by the DFDL Myanmar and DFDL Lao PDR offices, as well as the ‘recommended’ status for DFDL Thailand and DFDL Vietnam, across a broad range of practice areas.
The awards assess the leading law firms and lawyers in the region based on their breadth and diversity of experience, as well as consistency, innovation and the significance of projects worked on. The full results are detailed below:
Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017
Top-Tier Firm
| Business Unit | Practice Area |
| DFDL Lao PDR | Leading firms |
| DFDL Myanmar | Corporate and M&A |
| Projects (including energy) |
Recommended Firm
| Business Unit | Practice Area |
| DFDL Thailand | Banking and finance |
| Corporate and M&A (including capital) | |
| Projects and energy | |
| Real estate and construction | |
| Restructuring and insolvency | |
| Tax | |
| TMT | |
| DFDL Vietnam | Banking and finance |
| Corporate and M&A | |
| Projects and energy | |
| Tax |
Leading Lawyers
| Business Unit | Practice Area | Lawyer |
| DFDL Lao PDR | Leading firms – Leading individuals | Kristy Newby |
| DFDL Myanmar | Corporate and M&A – Leading individuals | James Finch |
| Projects (including energy) – Leading individuals | William D. Greenlee, Jr. | |
| DFDL Thailand | Projects and energy – Leading individuals | David Doran |
Recommended Lawyers
| Business Unit | Practice Area | Lawyer |
| Lao PDR | Leading firms | Kristy Newby |
| Walter Heiser | ||
| Myanmar | Corporate and M&A | James Finch |
| Nicholas Towle | ||
| William D. Greenlee, Jr. | ||
| Projects (including energy | William D. Greenlee, Jr. | |
| Thailand | Banking and finance | Audray Souche |
| David Doran | ||
| Paul Volodarsky | ||
| Phattharaporn Phetpong | ||
| Corporate and M&A (including capital markets) | Audray Souche | |
| Martin Desautels | ||
| Rashane Leerabandhu | ||
| Projects and energy | David Doran | |
| Phattharaporn Phetphong | ||
| Real estate and construction | Angus Mitchell | |
| David Doran | ||
| Restructuring and insolvency | Audray Souche | |
| TMT | Angus Mitchell | |
| Rashane Leerabandhu | ||
| Tax | Jack Sheehan | |
| Nipaporn Supha-utchaichan | ||
| Vietnam | Banking and finance | Hoang Phong Anh |
| Jérôme Buzenet | ||
| Martin Desautels | ||
| Corporate and M&A | Huynh Dai Thang | |
| Jérôme Buzenet | ||
| Projects and energy | Jérôme Buzenet | |
| Tax | Jack Sheehan | |
| Tu Ha |
See the full results here.
