Lex Mundi
Your World Ready Partner
Lex Mundi is the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 100+ countries. Our member firms are able to offer clients preferred access to more than 21,000 lawyers worldwide – a global resource of unmatched breadth and depth.
Each member firm is selected on the basis of its leadership in – and continued commitment to – its local market. Our principle is one independent firm for each jurisdiction. Firms must maintain their level of excellence to retain membership within Lex Mundi.
Through close collaboration, information-sharing, training and inter-firm initiatives, the Lex Mundi network is an assurance of connected, on-the ground expertise in every market in which a client needs to operate. Working together, our members are able to seamlessly handle their clients’ most challenging cross-border transactions and disputes.
Member law firms are located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. Through our nonprofit affiliate, the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, members also provide pro bono legal assistance to social entrepreneurs around the globe
About Lex Mundi Member Firms:
Lex Mundi member firms are top-tier law firms in their respective jurisdictions and among the most experienced and knowledgeable in the world. They deliver indigenous insight, a market-specific focus and global connections to a diverse range of domestic and international clients.
Each member firm is admitted only after substantial due diligence and must undergo regular quality and peer review procedures in order to retain membership in the exclusive Lex Mundi network. Working with Lex Mundi member firms you can be assured that you will be connected to:
Quality Representation
Our top-tier member firms are committed to providing not only exceptional legal work but superior client service as well. Each firm is admitted only after substantial due diligence and must undergo regular quality and peer review procedures to retain membership in the network.
Preeminent Law Firms
Lex Mundi member firms are among the most experienced and knowledgeable in their jurisdictions. They deliver indigenous insight, a market-specific focus and global connections to a diverse range of domestic and international clients.
Local Market Knowledge and Industry Sector Experience
Our member firms deliver unmatched “on-the-ground” expertise to clients. Through their indigenous insight – local knowledge built from hands-on, accrued experience of how markets develop and the forces and factors that affect them – Lex Mundi firms have the connections and capabilities to help shape innovative strategies for clients in any industry, at any level, virtually any place in the world.
Expertise for Complex Legal Challenges
Member firms have the local-market knowledge, experience and understanding necessary to handle clients’ complex challenges and opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions; private equity; project finance; capital markets (debt and equity); litigation and dispute resolution; corporate governance; intellectual property; real estate; and labor and workforce issues in a wide variety of industry sectors.
Seamless Service
Our global network is an unrivaled resource for clients seeking solutions for cross-border transactions, matters and disputes across multiple jurisdictions. Member firms are accustomed to working together according to our seamless service protocols, which provide basic guidelines, procedures and best practices for how members collaborate on behalf of a common client. This assures that clients benefit from the broad, deep local expertise, know-how and connections of multiple Lex Mundi member firms while experiencing the ease of working with a single firm.
Global Reach
Lex Mundi’s broad international coverage, including 21,000 lawyers in 160 member firms spanning 100+ countries, assures that clients receive the fullest possible range of services from legal professionals who have in-depth, region-specific expertise in every major jurisdiction.
Why You Can Have Confidence in the Quality of Lex Mundi Firms
Recruiting Standards and Procedures
We employ a rigorous method of selecting and admitting new member firms. Potential members of our global network are evaluated on criteria that include quality, responsiveness, ability to provide a full range of legal services, reputation, use of technology, management structure, training programs and ethical standards.
Membership Review Policy and Procedures
While we apply high standards when approving membership, we also acknowledge that changes can occur in firms over time. To assure that our members continue to be the most highly regarded firms in their jurisdictions – and that they remain committed to providing responsive, exceptional legal services – we regularly review each firm. If a firm does not meet our established criteria, membership is not renewed.
Service Standards
Each member firm adheres to a general service philosophy as well as to specific standards, such as responding to a request the next business day or sooner. This provides clients (as well as referring members) with the assurance and confidence of knowing they will receive consistently high levels of skills and service.
Involvement of Clients
We have formed a Client Advisory Council to provide critical feedback directly from in-house counsel of multinational corporations on the best ways to serve clients and to offer ongoing advice on Lex Mundi policies and projects for consideration.
Professional Development Support
Our professional development team and professional development committee assist member firms in acquiring, developing and continuously improving the knowledge and professional skills of their lawyers to better serve the global needs of clients.
Lex Mundi – The Law Firms that Know Your Markets.
