Ben Wheway

The term ‘global elite’ conjures up images of a group of cosmopolitan, international businesses, drawn from all of the world’s major financial centres. The reality, however, is much more Anglocentric, and…

Ben Wheway

Partners at Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing have voted through their transatlantic merger, with the newly combined Winston Taylor…

Ben Wheway

The proposed merger of Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader is set to bring together two firms with starkly contrasting recent histories.…

Ben Wheway

If it is voted through by partners, the Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader merger looks set to be the biggest law…

Ben Wheway

Ashurst’s quest for a US merger has been one of the longest-running stories in the legal world, with the firm…

Ben Wheway

Behind the LB100’s headline figures, closer analysis of the data provides deeper insight into the varying fortunes of the UK’s…

Ben Wheway

The UK’s 100 largest law firms have broken through the £40bn revenue mark for the first time, with their combined…

Ben Wheway

New research drawing on the views of almost 80,000 law firm clients has revealed the LB100 firms that are most…

Ben Wheway

Ashurst Value: Billing and efficiency 76.09 Billing transparency 75.01 Billing: value for work done 75.09 Communication & case/matter management 80.95…

Ben Wheway

Late last year, Legal Business and Legal 500 unveiled a data project that has been in the works for some…

Ben Wheway

More than half of the UK’s 100 largest law firms posted double-digit revenue increases for the last financial year, with…

Ben Wheway

When it comes to rating and ranking the best law firms, there’s no shortage of metrics to choose from. Whether…

Ben Wheway

What do clients really think about the service they get from your firm? Every year, the Legal 500 asks hundreds of thousands…

Ben Wheway

The data doesn’t lie – it’s been a good year for the Global 100. Eighty-eight of the world’s largest firms…

Ben Wheway

Since the A&O Shearman merger went live in May, there has been no shortage of market speculation about which transatlantic…

Ben Wheway

Freeths, Freshfields and Vodafone were among the big winners at this year’s Legal Business Awards, which were revealed to a…

Ben Wheway

Freeths, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Vodafone were among the big winners at this year’s Legal Business Awards, which were revealed…

Ben Wheway

Cooley has moved to bolster its London ranks following a number of recent senior departures with the hire of a…

Ben Wheway

Fifteen years of Legal 500 data offers big-picture view of Stateside elite’s relentless advance into London private equity arena Of…

Ben Wheway

‘Challenging market conditions’ – a quick search of the LB news archives finds that phrase, or some variation of it,…