Congratulations to Cadwalader’s Wes Misson for being recognized in today’s launch of the 2021 Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers Special Report. In the Sustainability category, Wes was featured for his representations on nine environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related fund facilities in the U.S. since the start of 2020. The FT gave a shout-out to Wes’ work earlier this year advising Bank of America on a $4.1 billion ESG-linked credit facility tied to Board diversity for funds managed by The Carlyle Group. The full write-up, along with other highlighted sustainability case studies, is available here.

The firm was also honored for its work on the LIBOR transition, named as the winner in the “Creating New Standards” category, and including a feature article in which Financial Services partner Lary Stromfeld – who leads the firm's LIBOR Preparedness Team – describes their work drafting important State of New York legislation to govern the LIBOR transition.

Additional FT recognitions include the firm’s Financial Services team being shortlisted in the “Innovation in Digital Legal Practice” category for its development of a platform for automating structured notes documents – and overall, the firm was shortlisted within the “Most Innovative Law Firm in North America: Practice of Law” category.

Congrats to all our colleagues and all the FT awards honorees!