The long-awaited consolidation of the legal market accelerated in 2013, which was a record year for large UK law firm mergers, with 28 deals announced involving at least one top 100 UK firm or firms that when merged will be likely to join the top 100 in 2014.
This follows a similarly record year in 2012, when there were 26 announced mergers involving at least one top 100 UK law firm.
