Simmons & Simmons has boosted revenue to £615m and increased average profit per equity partner (PEP) to £1.13m, driven in part by investment in AI and talent.

Private equity has invested £1.2bn into UK legal over the past five years, with half of that coming in 2024. That’s still quite a small amount given the size of the market, but that hasn’t stopped… ...

The new corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud is coming into force on 1 September, under the Economic Crime and ...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and Slaughter and May advised on a $140m transaction that saw Close Brothers’ Winterflood Securities unit sold to Marex Group.

Even for the most elite law firms, relevance depends on how well they move around their clients. The biggest clients don’t think in silos. So, the law firms advising them can’t afford to either. That’ ...

DWF has tapped both Kennedys and DAC Beachcroft for five partners to strengthen its major injury and casualty practice. The hires from Kennedys are Richard West, who was the firm’s global head of… ...

Pérez-Llorca has deferred its partner distributions for a month, as the Iberian firm prepares to extend its 12-month payment schedule to a 14-month system. The switchover, which will take six months… ...

The Takeover Panel has recently published a consultation paper (PCP 2025/1) on dual class share structures, initial public offerings (IPOs) and share buybacks and two new practice statements on profit ...

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has reported revenue growth of 4 per cent and a profit uplift of nearly 10 per cent in its last financials as a legacy firm.

Clifford Chance’s global revenue has reached £2.4bn, in a year in which US investments saw the firm land work across the Atlantic for Legal & General, ExxonMobil and Total. While Legal & General… ...

On 19 June, I attended the launch of techUK’s Green Paper on the Future of Digital Twinning in the UK—an event that opened my ...

Linklaters’ revenue rose by 11 per cent over 2024/25, as profits grew across all its core markets, including the UK and the US. The firm’s turnover increased from £2.1bn to £2.32bn in its second… ...