The record growth seen among swathes of US firms last year was echoed across Continental Europe, as 2021 saw the largest jump in combined revenue in the history of The Lawyer’s Euro 100 report. The combined revenue of all 100 firms for the 2021 financial year grew by roughly €1bn between 2020 and 2021, rising […]
This post has been updated with The Lawyer’s 2021 ranking of the top 100 European law firms by revenue. For many firms in Europe, the difficulties of 2020 turned out to be how to meet capacity when workflows roared back in the second half, and how to keep their staff motivated through waves of lockdowns […]
Leading European firms have hailed digitisation as the next step forward for the profession on the Continent. Speaking in a series of video interviews as part of the release of The Lawyer European 100, managing partners from top firms in Germany, Ireland and Sweden have expressed optimism for 2020 and 2021, despite the pandemic. Luther […]
The mass defection of nearly 150 lawyers from Fidal to KPMG last year resulted in the French giant losing its position as Europe’s largest independent law firm, data gathered for The Lawyer European 100 2020 reveals. Fidal saw an 11.7 per cent fall in revenue in 2019, from €367m to €324m (£284.4m), as a result […]
The combined revenue of the 100 largest independent firms in Europe continued to rise in 2019, The Lawyer can reveal – but firms are bracing for a reversal of fortunes in 2020. Total turnover for the 100 firms rose 5.2 per cent last year, from €10.4bn in 2018 to €10.94bn (£9.6bn), continued an upwards trend. […]
Europe’s largest independent law firms have identified their own peers as their expected main source of competition over the next three years, dismissing the continued arrival of international firms on the Continent as only a secondary threat. Just under three-quarters of independent firms responding to attitudinal questions asked during the research process for this year’s […]
Despite a slight fall in corporate activity, European firms remained busy in 2018, with several reporting a hike in turnover contributing to an overall record increase in total revenue over the past five years
Iberian firm Garrigues has lost its position as Europe’s largest independent law firm, according to The Lawyer’s European 100 report, with a French firm claiming the title after a rise in turnover of nearly 8 per cent. French giant Fidal has regained its spot at the top, posting a turnover rise from €341.3m in 2017 […]
The combined turnover of the largest independent European firms has broken through the €10bn barrier for the first time, exclusive data gathered by The Lawyer reveals this week. Collectively, the firms featured in this year’s European 100 report brought in a combined €10.4bn in 2018, up 6.5 per cent from €9.76bn in 2017. It is […]
More than half the European 100 either had no net change, or a net decrease, in female partner numbers last year.
Independent European firms are more worried about cyber security risks to their business than they are about global politics, Brexit or the Trump administration, exclusive research has revealed. Almost two-thirds of firms responding to the European 100 survey this year said they had identified cyber security as a risk for their business in 2018. The […]
Revenue growth slowed for many European law firms last year, with many blaming the UK’s referendum over its membership of the EU as the major cause.