Global 100
Global 100 – Letter from Silicon Valley
For reporters used to the profession’s usual cautious pronouncements, it is striking how enthusiastic California lawyers are about the outlook;…
Global 100 Methodology and notes
The firms that appear in the 2019 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by revenue.…
Global 100 2019 – Main table
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The Global 100 debate – Will stars or institutions define the law’s elite?
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: Ten years ahead, what will a global elite firm look like? Charlie Jacobs, Linklaters: I don’t…
Global 100 Asia Focus: Long-term greedy
The clichéd view of the Asia legal market is that it is a very difficult place for international firms to…
Global 100: Methodology and end notes
The firms that appear in the 2018 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by…
The City’s big four report steady growth in a boom deal year as CC leads Magic Circle
After last year’s double-digit revenue growth for three of the big four Magic Circle firms, 2017/18 financials for the same…
Global 100: The stories of the year
2017 July Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer co-managing partner Chris Pugh stepped down less than halfway into his term, making him the…
Global 100 Overview: They might be giants
It has been a dramatic year for the world’s top 100 law firms in three respects. Our prediction that the…
Global 100: Wrecking ball – Inside Kirkland & Ellis’ creative destruction
They said rapid growth is hard if you are already big. Last year it hiked revenue 19% from $2.65bn. They…
Global 100 ten-year view: Bad timing
In the last boom year in 2008 before the global financial crisis took its toll, the picture was rosy for…
Irresistible forces
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: Looking at the top of the market, how is buying behaviour changing? Donny Ching, Royal Dutch…
Market comment: A year of living dangerously
‘There isn’t much to differentiate between law firms. It is predominantly relationship-based, not on massive differentials in service.’ Chris Newby,…
Reversal of fortunes – A decade-spanning view of the Global 100
Back in 2007 UK-based firms were living large on a boom in the City and sterling. A global financial crisis…
The Global 100 overview: Atlas shrugged
Political shocks, gyrating currencies and choppy markets – it has been yet another testing year for the Global 100. Legal…