LB100 Overview: Marathon, not a sprint Nathalie Tidman The phrase has long been a cliché among industry circles, but no-one is better at being cautiously optimistic than a…
LB100 Second 25: The great leap upwards Tom Baker Analysing and then explaining the performance of the LB100’s 26-50 bracket is far from straightforward. The monumental disruption of the last…
LB100 Second 50: Regional View – Faster, higher, stronger Mark McAteer The regional and smaller national firms that sit in the 51-100 bracket of the Legal Business 100 (LB100) have again…
LB100 Second 50: City and Boutique – Percentage play Mark McAteer The 21 London-based firms that sit in the second half of the LB100, many of which are specialist, focused players,…
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The Last Word: Going the distance Legal Business ‘One of the things I’ve learnt from the pandemic is individual wealth and freedom is nothing without collective wealth and…
We’ve listened: important new changes to The Legal 500 UK 2022 Georgina Stanley This month’s issue of Legal Business may be dedicated to the largest firms in the UK by revenue but sibling…
LB100 proves pacier than hoped but there’s plenty of ground still to cover Nathalie Tidman While commentary from LB100 leaders in recent years may have occasionally sounded like a broken record, with gingerly repeated soundbites…
Life During Law: Natasha Harrison Tom Baker My maths teacher was married to a criminal barrister, so I did a mini-pupillage at his set. Loved it but…
The Legal Business Awards and GC Powerlist UK 2021: Great to be back! Mark McAteer Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith and easyJet were among the major winners at the 2021 Legal Business Awards, which returned as…
Sponsored briefing: Interview: Mohammed R Alsuwaidi – chair, founding partner, Alsuwaidi & Company Guest Blog Can you give our Legal Business readers an overview of Alsuwaidi & Company. Alsuwaidi & Company is a full-service business law…
Revolving doors: Goodwin lures capital markets guru as Ashurst boosts derivatives practice Tom Baker Amid the latest round of lateral hires, Goodwin has picked up capital markets partner and ESG specialist Ariel White-Tsimikalis from Bryan…
Revolving doors: private equity spree continues as Gibson Dunn hires buyout team from Vinson & Elkins Tom Baker Continuing the private equity theme set by last week’s spate of hires, Gibson Dunn has appointed a trio of buyout partners from…
Revolving doors: Kirkland picks up Freshfields private equity stars again as seven partners depart pre-IPO Mishcon Tom Baker With echoes of David Higgins’ landmark $10m switch in 2017 , Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost two up-and-coming private equity…
‘Similar but different’: Osborne Clarke’s veteran senior partner Saul hands the baton to Clough Nathalie Tidman Having overseen a time of significant growth for Osborne Clarke, Andrew Saul (pictured) is making way for Peter Clough to…
Revolving doors: Disputes dominate as Willkie and HFW make major London team hires Tom Baker In a headline week for the London disputes market, a three-partner antitrust litigation team from Quinn Emanuel’s market-leading practice has…
Dealwatch: Golden ticket for Skadden and Taylor Wessing as they lead on Netflix’s Roald Dahl acquisition Nathalie Tidman Pundits on the apparently unceasingly bullish deal markets have become well-versed in pointing to sectors that have particularly been stoked by…