Simmons scoops Queen's Award for overseas trade
City firm Simmons & Simmons is the only law firm to win a Queen's Award for enterprise this year for its achievements in international trade.
The award recognised the firm's 'outstanding achievements in international trade, resulting in substantial growth in overseas earnings and in commercial success'.
Queen's Awards are awarded annually to businesses for achievements in international trade, innovation or sustainable development, and winners are able to display the Queen's Award emblem for five years.
The firm had to submit growth revenue figures from the last three years for its overseas offices, and for international deals done from its London base.
These were assessed by an independent auditor and the application was considered by a judging panel, including officials from the Department for Trade and Industry, trade unions and members of the business community.
Some 123 awards were made this year out of 1,008 entries.
City firms Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith, Linklaters, Norton Rose, Richards Butler, along with Surrey's Shadbolt & Co, have also won awards in recent years.
Simmons senior partner Janet Gaymer said: 'One of the firm's key objectives is to ensure that the level of legal service to clients, coupled with a commercial perspective, is consistently high, and the benchmark for this is growth in international turnover.'
Victoria MacCallum
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