• For the second year in a row the International Law Office, ILO, has honoured De Brauw with the Client Choice Award in its Client Choice Guide 2010. Our partner Dieter Wolff won the Client Choice Award for best M&A lawyer. 
   
• In the Legal 500 EMEA 2009 edition De Brauw maintains its top position in The Netherlands. De Brauw is recommended, more than any other firm, as tier 1 in a total of 14 research areas.
   
• The Chambers Global 2009 edition rates De Brauw top tier in no less than 3 researched areas of expertise: Capital Markets / Equity, Dispute Resolution and Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions. Chambers also ranks De Brauw top tier in Climate Change, Europe-wide. 21 partners are recognised as leading lawyers, more than at any other firm. 
   
• The Chambers Europe 2009 edition ranks De Brauw in the highest category for 11 practice groups and identifies 47 partners as "leaders in their field".
  
  
• In the Legal 500 EMEA 2009 edition De Brauw maintains its top position in The Netherlands. De Brauw is recommended, more than any other firm, as tier 1 in a total of 14 research areas.
  
  
• De Brauw was elected The Netherlands Law Firm of the Year 2009 at the Chambers Europe Awards.
  
  
• The 2010 edition of IFLR1000 rates De Brauw top tier in Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions. 12 partners are recognised as leading lawyers.
   
• The International Financial Law Review, IFLR, has honoured De Brauw with two awards in 2009: Netherlands Law Firm of the year and the IFLR European Private Equity Deal of the Year. 
   
• Managing Intellectual Property has honoured De Brauw with the Netherlands IP Firm of the Year Award, 2009.
  
  
• The International Law Office, ILO, honours De Brauw with a Client Choice Award in its Client Choice Guide 2009.
  
  
• Financial Times Innovative Lawyers has ranked De Brauw 20th in the overall rankings for all of Europe and 2nd for continental Europe in FT Law 50. De Brauw is the only Dutch firm to be ranked.
  
  
• De Brauw has been named Netherlands Law Firm of the Year 2008 in the Who´s Who Legal Awards. This is the third consecutive time the firm has been recognised in this way, and has won the award every year since its inception.
   
• PLC Which Lawyer has named De Brauw the number-one firm in the Netherlands in 2008, and ranked the firm in all 17 practice areas, including 9 tier-one rankings.
  
  
• De Brauw has been honoured with the Chambers Europe Award for Excellence 2008 in the Netherlands. This award does not only reflect a law firms pre-eminence in key practice areas, but also notable achievements over the past 12 months, whether this is outstanding work, impressive strategic growth or excellence in client service.
   
• We have won Lawyer of the Year Awards for M&A, IP and Employee Benefits (KSU Publishing, 2008).
   
• "De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is the leading independent law firm in the country. With ability across the board, it is the premier choice for Dutch corporates….” The Legal 500 EMEA, 2007
   
• De Brauw was named "Best Law Firm of the Netherlands" by the Dutch legal publisher KSU in March 2007. De Brauw also received this prestigious biennial award in 2005.  
   
• In the Dutch M&A League Tables for 2007 De Brauw led in number of deals and ranked second in value.
   
• International Tax Review 2006 named De Brauw Netherlands Tax Firm of the Year. They had previously identified our tax partners Dick Hofland and Paul Sleurink as leading individuals in the Netherlands.