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The American Lawyer Announces its Fifth Annual Global Legal Awards Winners
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The American Lawyer is pleased to announce the finalists for our 2017 Global Legal Awards, in which we honor matters that demonstrate the industry's ability to navigate complex international legal issues.

With well over 200 entries from firms across the globe, the competition was fierce and the high-stakes nature of the work on full display. We have honored finalists across four main categories: Citizenship, Disputes, Mergers and Acquisitions and Finance.

Grand prize winners from each of the four categories will be announced at a dinner celebration Sept. 25 at the Edison Ballroom in New York.

This year's honorees handled matters from Argentina to Indonesia and many places in between. They worked on refugee matters, alcoholic beverage company acquisitions, Chinese chemical company deals and much more. We saw one of the first post-Brexit deals, inversion structures and firms overcome major regulatory hurdles to get their clients' deals done. Multibillion-dollar arbitration disputes abounded, as did comprehensive corruption investigation work. Awards were given out for work in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, Canada, the United States and more.

We look forward to celebrating these efforts and announcing our grand prize winners in September.

Citizenship

Global CSR Project of the Year

Winner: Legal Ethics Training Program in Ghana

Honorees: White & Case; Fordham University School of Law; Faculty of Law, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration

Global Pro Bono Deal of the Year

Winner: Shining a Light On Rural India: Advising Mera Gao Power

Honoree: Latham & Watkins

Global Pro Bono Dispute of the Year

Winner: International Death Penalty Project

Honorees: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Cornell Law School's Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide

Global Pro Bono Advocacy Project of the Year

Winner: European Refugee Crisis

Honorees: Morrison & Foerster; Latham & Watkins; TrustLaw; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Debarliev, Dameski & Kelesoska Attorneys at Law; Glinska & Mi kovi Law Firm; joint law office Mari & Mujezinovi in cooperation with Kinstellar; CARE USA legal department; The American National Red Cross legal department; Norwegian Refugee Council legal department; Mercy Corps legal department

Finance

Global Finance Deal of the Year: Capital Markets (Equity)

Winner: Postal Savings Bank of China IPO

Honoree: Clifford Chance, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Haiwen & Partners, King & Wood Mallesons

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