What the directories say:Legal 500 2024‘Mike Hawthorne was incredibly personable and quick to understand industry specific issues and deliver strong legal advice.’‘Totally at home with cross-border disputes concerning multiple jurisdictions and foreign law.’Legal 500 2023 Pinsent Masons LLP‘s practice routinely undertakes high-value banking litigation work for major clients in London, with experience in complex, cross-jurisdictional cases. Derivatives work is a mainstay of the practice, with partner Mike Hawthorne highly active in this area. ‘The team is always very ready to collaborate and provide innovative solutions ensuring efficiency and maintaining high standards.’‘Mike Hawthorne is is always a reliable, responsive and co-operative partner’‘Mike Hathorne is excellent – laser attention to detail on financial products and very easy to work with.’Legal 500 2022 ‘Mike Hawthorne: attentive and user-friendly with clients and counsel, while being ruthless with the opposition. Mike is vastly experienced, endlessly energetic, and obsessed with fighting his client’s corner in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. Legal 500 2021 'Mike Hawthorne is a stand out individual at Pinsents. His legal knowledge is second to none, his litigation experience and judgement is always spot on, and his versatility is outstanding in that he is willing to turn his hand to any commercial law area.''Mike Hawthorne is a banking litigation star. He is top drawer when it comes to banking law knowledge, litigation experience and judgement. He is one of the few London City solicitors that you can be confident can deal with any form of banking dispute', ‘Extremely reliable and flexible. Absolutely the same level or better than magic circle firms.‘Legal 500 2020 'Mike Hawthorne and Stuart McNeill form a great team, which is very focused on client needs. They have outstanding knowledge of derivatives contracts and a very practical approach to case management. ... Very responsive and prompt, with deep knowledge of the financial products in dispute. The team also has a practical and proactive approach to the litigation process, as well as a good commercial approach that makes its costs very competitive.'Legal 500 2019: "Michael Hawthorne is 'a brilliant technical lawyer, with excellent depth of experience'."Legal 500 2018 "Michael Hawthorne grasps the complexities of a case extremely quickly".