{"id":2523,"date":"2025-10-09T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olaniwunajayi.net\/london\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:37:27","slug":"the-legal-500-uk-2026-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/the-legal-500-uk-2026-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaniwun Ajayi (UK) LLP Recognised in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2026 Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are delighted to be ranked in the latest edition of the Legal 500 UK 2026 Guide, Band 6 for Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans and Band 4 for Emerging Markets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm also congratulates our London team, Chuks Ibechukwu (Managing Partner), Howard Barrie (Senior Partner), Juanita Derex-Briggs (Counsel), and Akemi Kishimoto (Senior Associate), who have each been recognised as Recommended Lawyers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recognition reflects our continued commitment to delivering exceptional legal services across jurisdictions and advancing excellence in cross-border finance and emerging markets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2540\" class=\"wp-image-2540\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TestimonialsLegal500-Legal500-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2541\" class=\"wp-image-2541\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TestimonialsLegal500_2-Legal500-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2537\" class=\"wp-image-2537\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Testimonials_Chucks-Legal500-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2538\" class=\"wp-image-2538\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Testimonials_Howard-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2539\" class=\"wp-image-2539\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Testimonials_Juanita-Legal500-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2536\" class=\"wp-image-2536\" src=\"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Testimonials_Akemi-Legal500-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to be ranked in the latest edition of the Legal 500 UK 2026 Guide, Band 6 for Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans and Band 4 for Emerging Markets. The firm also congratulates our London team, Chuks Ibechukwu (Managing Partner), Howard Barrie (Senior Partner), Juanita Derex-Briggs (Counsel), and Akemi Kishimoto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,7],"tags":[21,37,38,36],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deals","category-news","tag-awards","tag-legal-500","tag-legal-rankings","tag-recognition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oalp.vr4creativity.com\/london\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}