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Shoosmiths’ PEP passes £1m milestone in record year
Strong performance across corporate, litigation and real estate fuels 30% profit per equity partner growth against 5% revenue increase to £217.2m
Browne Jacobson’s revenue hits record £137m after 16% growth
UK top 50 firm rings in financial reporting season as it posts fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth
DWF group CEO to retire
Nigel Knowles to stand down from CEO role on 1 August; insurance services division head Matthew Doughty named CEO-elect
Sullivan & Cromwell adds regulatory heavyweight in London from A&O Shearman
Barnabas Reynolds joins having co-led A&O Shearman’s financial services regulatory group, in rare London lateral for US firm
DLA Piper, CMS, Ashurst hike NQ pay
Firms raise pay to between £120k and £140k as battle for junior talent continues
TLT names financial services head as new senior partner
Andrew Lyon to take the reins from Sasha Butterworth on 1 January 2026
Travers Smith, Simpson Thacher guide £1.7bn NHS landlord take-private
Travers guides Assura on acquisition by Simpson Thacher-repped KKR and Stonepeak
Kinstellar builds in Asia with Cambodia launch
Top European independent forms association with two Cambodian firms after debuting in Southeast Asia last year through Vietnam tie-up
Seventh Paul Weiss partner exits for litigation boutique in wake of Trump deal
Melissa Zappala joins Washington DC firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee following its launch in May by quartet of prominent Paul Weiss litigators
Baker McKenzie names next global chair
London-based Sunny Mann to succeed Milton Cheng, who works out of Hong Kong, in October
Former US attorney leaves Paul Weiss for Jenner & Block in wake of Trump deal
Damian Williams latest to leave New York firm after White House deal to avoid executive action
Dentons builds in Germany with DLA Piper duo
Partner Jan Pohle joins in Dusseldorf alongside a senior associate to boost global giant’s tech and data protection offering
Three firms steer Kimberly-Clark sale of majority stake in international tissue unit to Brazil’s Suzano
Kirkland & Ellis and Baker McKenzie guide Kleenex tissue-maker Kimberly-Clark as Freshfields counsels Suzano
German Bar Association strikes first AI partnership to offer tech to its 60,000 members
Leading German legaltech firm Bryter to offer AI productivity tools at discounted rates
Cravath, Winston & Strawn guide Chart’s $19bn Flowserve merger
Winston guides Chart and Cravath acts for Flowserve in deal to create gas and liquid technologies leader
Linklaters appoints former Shearman co-head as first Americas chair
Rainmaker George Casey to oversee US strategy in new role having joined the firm from Shearman last year
Crowell merges with life sciences boutique, opens Boston office
Tie-up with 24-lawyer Faber Daeufer & Itrato boosts Crowell’s emerging companies and life sciences capabilities
Dechert adds four-lawyer Orrick finance team in London
Sushila Nayak joins to serve as a leader of Dechert’s CLO effort in London alongside three further lawyers
HSF’s merger with Kramer Levin goes live
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer boasts revenue of more than $2bn; points to focus on US growth
Eversheds Sutherland to launch new ‘fully integrated’ Irish practice after local arm’s talks with William Fry break down
Up to 20 partners are likely to join new Eversheds Sutherland arm for expected September launch