Judge Sachs awarded at African Legal Awards

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CLASA chief executive Alison Lee said Sachs had made a tremendous contribution to the legal community and our rule of law. Award winners included Clifford Chance which scooped the headline International Law Firm of the Year Award. The firm was one of four international firms to secure awards.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom secured the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team of the Year for its work helping Southern Sudan recover misappropriated oil assets while Norton Rose Fulbright walked away with Corporate Team of the Year and DLA Piper won the CSR Award.

Local firms did well

Willie Du Plessis of South African electricity utility Eskom Holdings, won General Counsel of the Year while Aspen Pharmacare secured the Legal Department of the Year Large Team Award. The leading Kenyan law firm Anjarwalla & Khanna beat of stiff competition to win the African Law Firm of the Year Award. It was also a good night for South African law firms with Webber Wentzel and Bowman Gilfillan both securing two awards apiece.

Webber Wentzel picked up the transportation and infrastructure and energy and natural resources awards, while Bowman Gilfillan walked away with the property and construction award as well as the highly-competitive banking, finance and restructuring category, which it secured for its work advising on the procurement and execution stages of the Medupi and Kusile coal-fired power stations in South Africa - the largest power stations of their kind currently under construction anywhere in the world.

The awards ceremony was attended by 200 private practice and in-house lawyers and was hosted by Legal Week in association with CLASA.

For more information, go to www.africanlegalawards.com.