Whatever happened to PRIME? – Drift sets in for once lauded diversity project
Thomas Alan assesses the initially lauded, now forgotten social inclusion initiative ‘Forgive my ignorance, can you tell me what you…
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Still more promise than delivery but Paul Hastings shows signs of progress
Thomas Alan assesses the fortunes of the US giant after a (relatively) expansive 2018 Paul Hastings’ recent London history could…
Reports of the death of CC’s sponsor practice prove exaggerated but surviving isn’t thriving
Marco Cillario finds much more substance to CC’s PE business than the usual critique but stopping managed relative decline will…
Keystone becomes second UK law firm to float in 2017 while Gordon Dadds goes shopping
Recently listed Gordon Dadds acquires tax advisory business CW Energy November saw New Law player Keystone Law become the third…
Solid foundations but a struggle to build – Can BLP regain the confidence of its 2000s heyday?
Last year did not run smoothly for Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). Merger talks with Greenberg Traurig publicly fell apart amid…
Focus: Gide Loyrette Nouel
Lawyer headcount 503 Partners 104 Revenue €190m (-1%) Offices Paris, Brussels, London, Warsaw, Moscow, Istanbul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Ho…
Focus: Hengeler Mueller
Lawyer headcount 264 Partners 90 Revenue €257m (+6%) Offices Berlin, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Shanghai Key clients General Electric,…
Focus: Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners
Lawyer headcount 425 Partners 87 Revenue €124m (+5%) Offices Rome, Milan, Bologna, Padua, Turin, Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Hong Kong, London…
Focus: Wolf Theiss
Lawyer headcount 307 Partners 64 Revenue €70m (-10%) Offices Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia, Tirana, Vienna,…
Focus: Garrigues
Lawyer headcount 1,408 Partners 297 Revenue €349.4m (+3%) Offices Spain: A Coruña, Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Las Palmas, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia,…
Focus: Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
London office headcount: 69 lawyers, 19 partners Fee-earner headcount change since 2011: n/a London head: Tim Frazer Office speciality: Life…
Can Shearman finally get ahead of the curve after 15 years of diminishing returns?
Georgiana Tudor assesses the New York-headquartered firm’s sluggish development Like all major global law firms, Shearman & Sterling has had…
No more Taylor Who? Flair and a bit of vision take Taylor Wessing to next step but what now?
Matthew Field and Victoria Young talk to Taylor Wessing head Tim Eyles and assess the firm’s prospects ‘When Tim Eyles…
David made Goliath – Kerr on Bird & Bird’s re-invention as a leading global TMT shop
Victoria Young talks to veteran chief David Kerr about growing pains and going even more global There’s no doubt chief…
‘We needed to move on’: Why Fieldfisher has turned its back on the dating game
Victoria Young speaks to the management duo about the transformed mid-market player ‘We’ll be the first to admit the firm…
The £637m bet – Slater & Gordon on its daring play in UK’s personal injury market
Michael West talks to the Australian PI giant about its eventful Quindell acquisition After over three months of intensive due…
Silver linings playbook: can Norton Rose Fulbright bring its disputes team into the global elite?
Sarah Downey assesses the post-merger state of NRF’s dispute resolution practice With Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF)’s eye-catching union now over…
Always a bridesmaid: can Nabarro revive itself post-Lehman without a partner?
Sarah Downey reports on the property leader’s attempts to position itself. With its five-year financial performance standing out as one…
Rest in pieces
Reckless ambition, inept management and greed: a case study in how not to run a law firm In February 2009,…