Financial News is delighted to announce the winners of its fourth annual Legal Services Awards Europe. The 2017 awards celebrate the achievements of the best law firms, teams and individual lawyers supporting the financial markets throughout the past year.

Highly respected by his external legal counsel, Gombert is a rare example of a powerful in-house European private equity lawyer. He joined from law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 2011 where he focused on private equity mergers and acquisitions, and was US buyout house Bain Capital’s first European general counsel.