The Euro Elite 2019
Significant hires
US giant Kirkland & Ellis has lost private equity duo David Arnold and Gavin Gordon (pictured) to Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Long-rumoured to be on their way out of the City office, the pair joined Kirkland from Ashurst in 2010 in one of the firm’s first major private equity lateral hires in London. Clients Gordon has …
Dealwatch: Insolvencies provide work for CC and Gateley
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised food chain Pret A Manger as it agreed to acquire all of Eat’s 94 shops for an undisclosed sum. The London team was led by corporate partners Richard Youle, Katja Butler and Linda Davies. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer also advised Pret on antitrust while Travers Smith acted for the …
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Legal 500 Data: Behind the story
The Legal 500 2019 UK rankings DAC Beachcroft’s leaders are interviewed here. We look at the firms’ UK tier 1-3 rankings in The Legal 500. View the editorial commentary of the rankings
The Euro Elite Top 25
Rank Firm Region The Legal 500 rank Size rank Lawyers Partners Recent partner promotions Offices Revenue 1 Uría Menéndez Iberia 1 4 602 132 5 14 €240.7m 2 Cuatrecasas Iberia 4 2 911 219 10 27 €277.4m 3 Garrigues Iberia 5 1 1458 306 15 32 €364.6m 4 Noerr Germany 2 6 461 96 4 …
The Euro Elite Methodology
Legal Business’ Euro Elite comprises independent law firms based in more than 40 European jurisdictions, rather than the local offices of international firms. To compile the 100 firms featured in this report Legal Business analysed more than 150 of the largest law firms in Europe by the number of lawyers, as well as more than …
The Euro Elite 100
Baltics Firm Total lawyers Total partners No. of offices Sorainen 226 32 4 Ellex 180 40 3 COBALT 165 34 4 TGS Baltic 130 29 4 Primus Derling 80 18 4 Benelux Firm Total lawyers Total partners No. of offices Loyens & Loeff 865 214 11 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 446 60 6 Stibbe 384 …
The Last Word: Elite forces
As part of our annual Euro Elite report, management at independent firms in Europe give their views on today’s market challenges International focus ‘In 2017 we had a record performance. 2018 was a year of big investment to consolidate our development in Africa and the Middle East but we did it halfway through the year. …
Law Tech special – Spring 2019
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