For the first time, The European 100 takes a look at the international firms operating in Europe The European 100 has traditionally focused exclusively on independent firms. This approach excluded any firm that is a member of a branded international alliance and the European offices of international networks – although many firms operate a Swiss […]
It’s been a hard slog, but European firms are finally growing, with combined turnover up by €200m to hit €8.2bn in 2013 This year marks the fifth year in a row that The Lawyer has produced the European 100. Our annual ranking of the continent’s top 100 independent law firms has evolved over that time […]
INDEX Gide Loyrette Nouel Noerr Uría Menéndez Gleiss Lutz Rödl & Partner This is an executive summary. To access the full report with profiles of the top 50 firms and detailed analysis of historical trends, click here . 6. Gide Loyrette Nouel Managing partner: Stéphane Puel Staff: 1,047 Fee-earners: 648 Qualified lawyers: 539 […]
INDEX Garrigues Fidal Loyens & Loeff Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Hengeler Mueller This is an executive summary. To access the full report with profiles of the top 50 firms and detailed analysis of historical trends, click here. 1. Garrigues Managing partner: Fernando Vives Staff: 2,134 Fee-earners: 1,594 Qualified lawyers: 1,417 Partners: 289 Equity partners: 261 Female […]
The financial year has ended, the bills are in, and results time is upon us. Fladgate was first out of the blocks with a good story to tell: its revenues were up 16 per cent and PEP up by a third. Other well-organised early reporters are Weightmans, where turnover is up by 6 per cent, […]
The news that Kaplan Law School is to shut down its Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) sent shockwaves through much of the legal education market last week. Kaplan’s revelation that it could not make the bar course pay should make the Bar Standards Board (BSB) sit up and take note. To the cynical outsider, charging tens of students […]
Simmons boss says his firm’s out-of-Town offering is in a different league Which is the odd one out? Allen & Overy’s Belfast office, Berwin Leighton Paisner’s Manchester base or Simmons & Simmons’ Bristol arm? Simmons managing partner Jeremy Hoyland is adamant it is the latter. The firm launched in Bristol in 2012 in the midst […]
Move of the week McGuire Woods has hired Simon Neilson-Clark as a restructuring and insolvency partner. He was previously a partner at DLA Piper and has 25 years’ experience representing borrowers, lenders and insolvency practitioners in distressed situations involving international structures. UK London Kingsley Napley has hired Zoë Sive as a private client […]
When Britvic ‘borrowed’ Clare Thomas as GC during its bid for AG Barr, she didn’t envisage it would be permanent, but the mix of responsibilities, from product development to company strategy, was too tempting to throw away When former Addleshaw Goddard M&A partner Clare Thomas stepped into the breach as interim general counsel at Britvic […]