The record growth seen among swathes of US firms last year was echoed across Continental Europe, as 2021 saw the largest jump in combined revenue in the history of The Lawyer’s Euro 100 report. The combined revenue of all 100 firms for the 2021 financial year grew by roughly €1bn between 2020 and 2021, rising […]
2020 was an unusual year for firms on the Continent, with revenues hit by the pandemic – but what is the big picture of how they are faring and how does the Euro top 10 compare to that of a decade ago?
Research carried out by The Lawyer suggests that the overwhelming majority of the UK’s second 100 law firms took advantage of the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the first wave of lockdown this year. Every one of the 39 firms interviewed for the UK 200: The Independents report had used the furlough scheme […]
The largest firm in the UK’s second tier of law firms turned over £30m in 2019/20 in a steady year for regional and national practices, with further consolidation likely. Boodle Hatfield tops the UK 200: The Independents ranking after producing revenue of £30.3m over 2019/20, in what is the first time the highest placed firm […]
Benelux’s largest firm, Loyens & Loeff, has set itself a target of achieving a 30 per cent female partnership by 2025, requiring it to almost double its numbers in just five years. Loyens is one of just 43 European 100 firms to have added female partners in 2019, but its female partnership proportion was still […]
The mass defection of nearly 150 lawyers from Fidal to KPMG last year resulted in the French giant losing its position as Europe’s largest independent law firm, data gathered for The Lawyer European 100 2020 reveals. Fidal saw an 11.7 per cent fall in revenue in 2019, from €367m to €324m (£284.4m), as a result […]
The combined revenue of the 100 largest independent firms in Europe continued to rise in 2019, The Lawyer can reveal – but firms are bracing for a reversal of fortunes in 2020. Total turnover for the 100 firms rose 5.2 per cent last year, from €10.4bn in 2018 to €10.94bn (£9.6bn), continued an upwards trend. […]
The growth in cases involving multiple jurisdictions and a proliferation of disputes arising from liquidations and receiverships are helping offshore specialists flourish
With a female partnership proportion of 41 per cent, Greenberg Traurig tops The Lawyer’s diversity rankings, yet with nine firms reporting a drop in women partner numbers and three featuring only men at the top level, progress still needs to be made
Technological advances are, at best, patchy in this part of the world, but some practices have plans to make up the ground
The proportion of women at Europe’s biggest law firms has continued to rise but that increase has slowed, The Lawyer’s European 100 2017 reveals. In 2016 no firms had a majority female partnership. In 2015 women represented over 50 per cent of the partnership at French firms Fromont-Briens and Lefèvre Pelletier. The former merged with […]
German lawyers are working hard to help the burgeoning number of clients with tech-related legal requirements