Global 200: conquests and consolidation in the $1bn club
Armed with a 19 per cent revenue hike, Kirkland has toppled Latham to lead the 39 $1bn-plus firms in this year’s Global 200 ranking
Step forward, litigators: you’re in the driving seat in the global elite
Litigation, the engine of the stratospheric domestic profits for US firms, is, ironically, the calling card for the UK’s elite law firms if they are ever to crack America, writes The Lawyer’s editor Catrin Griffiths.
How Kirkland became Big Law’s brightest star
Using Global 200 data, The Lawyer reveals which law firms have failed to keep pace with the global market, and what this group’s performance since 2008 can tell us about the future for the world’s top law firms
Hogan Lovells confirms Euro real estate trend with Paris partner hire
Hogan Lovells has become the latest international firm to invest in its Continental real estate offering, hiring Bersay & Associés’ Michaël Lévy as a partner in its Paris office.
Global 200 Real Estate: What GCs really want
When it comes to major clients’ external legal providers panels, anecdotal and specific suggests that the direction of travel is overwhelmingly one way: smaller.
Global 200 Real Estate: Greenberg tops US rankings
The Lawyer’s Global 200 report reveals the makeup of the largest real estate teams in the US.Bragging rights go to Greenberg Traurig, which has the largest US real estate team with 150 partners followed by Holland & Knight with 139 and DLA Piper with 100.
Freshfields targets real estate work in Mexican Wave 2.0
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is working with a number of UK firms that handle lower margin work on major real estate deals as part of its continuing focus on the property sector, The Lawyer’s latest report shows.
Global 200 Real Estate: building a global presence
For a growing number of global firms, real estate as a sector is increasingly core, with key areas such as private equity, tax and finance taking centre stage.
Global 200 Real Estate: Mayer Brown snubs nearshoring with lower cost City-based team
Mayer Brown has bucked the trend for nearshoring in the regions, forming a lower cost property management team based in its London office to deal with all aspects of real estate-related management work.
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Global 200 Real Estate: firms’ top priority sectors revealed
Law firms should target deals in the commercial office, private rented, hotels and logistics sectors to ensure they stay at the forefront of the global real estate market, new data from The Lawyer reveals.