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Minter Ellison Lawyers
With over 280 partners and almost 1000 other lawyers, the Minter Ellison Legal Group (www.minterellison.com) operates through an integrated structure of legal, industry and client knowledge groups to provide a comprehensive range of legal services to business and government. The Group’s key practice areas are banking & finance; corporate and commercial; litigation; competition & regulation; construction; engineering & infrastructure; human resources and industrial relations; government; insurance; intellectual property; investment & financial services; planning & environment; property; resources & energy; tax; technology & communications; and tourism and leisure.
In recent surveys and guides, Minter Ellison is:
- ranked as a leading firm in ten areas of practice evaluated in Asialaw Profiles 2002, the definitive guide to Asia’s leading law firms
- the most highly ranked Australian-based law firm across 50 areas of Practice in the 2000-2001 edition of Legal Profiles, an independent survey of client opinion
- the second largest law firm in Australia, according to Business Review Weekly’s annual survey for 2001
- the 25th largest law firm in the world (2000 Global 50 survey conducted by Britain’s Legal Business and the American Lawyer magazines)
- ranked 5th in the 2000 M&A Legal Advisory League Table for Australia and handled the second highest number of initial public offerings in Australia that year.
