LB100 Second 25: A brooding gloom in sunshine Nathalie Tidman On paper, an 11% jump in average revenue to £135.5m for the second 25 looks like a great leap forward…
Case study: Kennedys Nathalie Tidman Kennedys senior partner Nick Thomas describes 2018/19 as a year of consolidation: ‘The acquisitions are up and running and, despite…
Case study: Brodies Thomas Alan With the expansion of UK and international firms north of the border, as well as the stepping down of former…
LB100: Main Table Legal Business Best viewed full screen – click full screen button on bottom right of table.. Download pdf version. Go to The…
Scotland: Art of the possible Margaret Taylor Wherever you look, there are women filling legal roles that had previously appeared closed to them in Scotland: Lorna Jack…
Top Trumps, City-style – Who holds the cards in private equity? Georgina Stanley If there’s one City practice that has barely paused for breath in recent years, it is private equity (PE). Global…
The Global 100: The devil you know – The two visions for Freshfields Nathalie Tidman ‘Some of the management are dinosaurs. They don’t understand how important this is.’ So speaks one loyalist Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…
Global 100 overview: Escape velocity as the world’s largest firms pick up momentum Marco Cillario Compared to the dramatic events that have defined each of the three previous years, 2018/19 was relatively benign for the…
Global 100 – Letter from Silicon Valley Marco Cillario For reporters used to the profession’s usual cautious pronouncements, it is striking how enthusiastic California lawyers are about the outlook;…
Global 100 Methodology and notes Legal Business The firms that appear in the 2019 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by revenue.…
Global 100 2019 – Main table Legal Business Please click the Full Screen button at the base of the table to see all columns. View table as a…
The private client debate: A family affair Mark McAteer Mark McAteer, Legal Business: Is there much appetite within family offices to forum shop? And whose responsibility is it to…
Ticking boxes – Is City law going beyond the platitudes on ethnic diversity? Thomas Alan ‘People are so scared to talk about race in the UK,’ Linklaters senior partner Charlie Jacobs says. ‘They think it’s…
The Euro Elite Overview: Life in the bubble Dominic Carman Europe’s independent law firms fared much better in 2018 than most of the EU economies in which their clients operate.…
The Euro Elite Top 25 Legal Business Rank Firm Region The Legal 500 rank Size rank Lawyers Partners Recent partner promotions Offices Revenue 1 Uría Menéndez Iberia…
The Euro Elite: Market overviews Dominic Carman Ireland The Emerald Isle may be small – its two million-workforce delivers a tax take of just €50bn – but…
The Euro Elite Methodology Legal Business Legal Business’ Euro Elite comprises independent law firms based in more than 40 European jurisdictions, rather than the local offices…
