Revealed – The UK200: The Independents 2023
The full list of the UK firms ranked 101-200 by revenue in 2023.
The full list of the UK firms ranked 101-200 by revenue in 2023.
Law folklore dictates that any indication of a transactional slowdown will see a growth in contentious business. But despite economic fragility, partner hiring has favoured corporate and finance stars rather than litigators for much of 2023. The US firms are, as always, to blame for this. Indicative data from Atlas by Codex Edge shows that […]
The East Midlands harbours few notable attractions beyond Chatsworth House’s festive allure and Nottingham’s modest shopping and nightlife scene. The legal sector here lacks a standout player, with only a faint echo of recognition for Browne Jacobson and Freeths, and the disappearance of once-independent entities like Fraser Brown into the fold of serial acquirer Knights […]
The smaller you are, the harder it is to grow – that’s a basic rule of the UK200 law firms. In most years, great hulking brutes like DLA Piper will put on millions in revenue, while tadpoles like Brachers or Morr & Co (who they?) struggle to eke out any organic growth at all. But […]
As the largest firms in London battle each other for star hires and marquee clients, there’s another bout of fisticuffs going on in the mid-market. This month The Lawyer published its London 50 report, featuring a new ranking of the capital’s largest UK law firms by revenue. Linklaters came out on top, bringing in an […]
Merger negotiations between two firms of different sizes can be a tricky process. Here, a number of mid-tier managing partners give their view on how to win the hearts of potential smaller matches when on the acquisition trail.
Now the dust has settled on UK firms’ financial results season it should be obvious who the winners and losers were in 2022/23, right? Firms with the highest PEP or revenue are nestling snugly in the former camp, those lower down are populating the latter. But ask any law firm leader and they’ll most likely […]
Few firms have had their finances scrutinised more publicly over the past five years than DWF. Indeed, not that many have seen more change either. Back in March 2019, the firm raised nearly £100m in the largest legal market IPO to date. This month, private equity business Inflexion Private Equity Partners completed its take-private of […]
Howes Percival? A decade ago, the answer would have been: in the doldrums. Six years of declining revenue at the Midlands firm – one of the ever-diminishing number with vaguely amusing names (RIP Moon Beever) – saw it exit the UK top 100 in 2009 and drop as low as 133rd place by 2014. But […]
The first firm outside the UK top 100 to offer a newly-qualified salary of £100,000 has arrived. What’s more, its chargeable target remains an attractively low 1,400 hours. There’s only one catch for those wishing to take advantage of this enticing proposition… you’ll need to be a pensions lawyer. In 2020, The Lawyer reported that […]
Profits are falling and costs are rising. On the latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast, the team chat about why profit isn’t a dirty word: Love it or hate it, PEP is part of a firm’s branding and the status of its lawyers; Profit matters for firms’ long-term health and investment; Would-be partners should use […]
Farrer & Co, Forsters and Fladgate don’t need high leverage to make real estate and private client work for them
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