Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2024: open for nominations

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Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2024: open for nominations

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The Europe, Middle East, & Africa awards research cycle has now begun - do not miss out on this opportunity to be recognised in 2024

The Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2024 is excited to announce the launch of the research process. To nominate leading women practitioners, rising stars, firm initiatives, and in-house counsels and teams, please follow the link below. All the award categories, criteria, key dates, and the awards methodology can be found on the Women in Business Law Awards website.


For any questions about the awards or the research processes, please contact our lead researcher, John Harrison.

For any queries about business development and commercial opportunities related to the awards, please contact our producer Tanya Gujral.

Last year’s Women in Business Law Awards virtual ceremony, winners list, and shortlists are available to view for no fee at Winners 2023 and Shortlist 2023.

The essentials

All professional accomplishments to be taken into consideration (deals and cases) for the individual awards must have closed in 2023 to be included in the research. Any professional accomplishments to have not concluded by 31 December 2023 will not be given consideration. Individual awards are weighted equally regarding each practitioner’s professional accomplishments and their advocacy, influence, and thought leadership.

To be given consideration as a Rising Star, the individual practitioner should have no more than fifteen years’ professional experience, be under forty years old, and be acting at partner level. All other nominees should be submitted for their practice area specialism.

Firm initiatives that started in previous years and are ongoing may be included for any of the firm award categories. If the initiative was not active in 2023, it will not be given consideration for the awards.

Please note that the Women in Business Law Awards is supported by Managing IP but run independently to the IP Stars research.

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