Overview
(October 1, 2025, London) – Steptoe has received seven practice and ten individual rankings for lawyers in the 2026 edition of Legal 500 United Kingdom. Legal 500 rankings are based on a series of criteria, including work conducted by law firms over the past 12 months, experience and depth of teams and areas of specialization.
The following Steptoe practices and lawyers are ranked:
Practice Areas
- Fraud: Civil
- Fraud: White-Collar Crime (advice to individuals)
- Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market
- International Arbitration
- Public International Law
- Commercial Property: Development
- Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
Individual Lawyers
- Alex Green – Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market
- Christophe Bondy – International Arbitration
- Jonathan Raynes – Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market
- Leigh Mallon – Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market
- Matthew Coleman – Public International Law
- Natalia Gofman – Fraud: Civil; Commercial Litigation: Mid-Market
- Thomas Innes – Public International Law
- Zoe Osborne – Fraud: White-Collar Crime (Advice to Individuals); Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
What our clients are saying:
"The Steptoe team are consummate professionals, with client-care skills that put them a cut above the rest."
"They manage to have the personal touch with individual clients while still bringing the resources of a big law firm to bear."
View the list of recommendations at Legal 500 UK.
About Steptoe
In more than 110 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. For more information, visit www.steptoe.com.
