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Bigger than eBay and News Corp: making sense of Kirkland’s staggering scale

Bigger than eBay and News Corp: making sense of Kirkland’s staggering scale
Alex Ryan
Alex Ryan
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30 March 2026
Financial results

The world’s first $10bn law firm. The scale of Kirkland’s 2025 financial results defies easy comprehension, with the firm now generating more revenue than Linklaters, Freshfields and Clifford Chance combined.

That headline turnover figure emphasises just how far ahead of its competitors the firm has now moved, after first rising to the top of the Global 100 in 2018.

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