Global 100 2024 Legal Business Overview: G100 defy gloom to pass $150bn While last year saw the Global 100 struggling against market headwinds, this year…
LB100 2024 Legal Business Doubling up: LB100 firms set 10% growth benchmark as more than half pull off double-digit hikes More than half of…
Euro Elite 2024: Ireland – Under pressure Nathalie Tidman Despite recent laments from London corporate pundits over a depressed deals market, the view of many is that the Irish…
Euro Elite 2024: Italy – Time to shine Marta Geraci The instability caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and exacerbated by Russia’s war with Ukraine, with the resulting gas supply difficulties…
Euro Elite 2024: Nordics – Horizon scanning Marie Johansen Nordland With soaring interest rates, global instability, as well as political and economic insecurity both at home and abroad, the beginning…
Euro Elite 2024: Southern Europe – Treading carefully Alex Marsland The Southern European market has been largely dictated by the recent inflow of foreign investment to the region, as the…
Euro Elite 2024: Switzerland – Endurance race Georgia Tuxford Switzerland’s legal market faces similar reversals to the world at large: regulatory shifts, geopolitical flux and technological advancements are keeping…
Euro Elite 2024: Baltics – Baltic conditions Claudia Loy Throughout the pan-Baltic region in 2023 there was an overriding sense of instability in the legal market. Although there have…
Euro Elite 2024: Benelux – Moving with the times Tanya Drobnis For independent, full-service firms operating across the Benelux countries, the global uncertainty and turmoil of the last few years has…
Euro Elite 2024: CEE – Firm foundations Elinor Coombs The CEE markets continue to suffer from conflict-driven instabilities in the region, with sanctions still impacting most industries and European…
Euro Elite 2024: France – More of the same? Anna Huntley Described by Darrois Villey tax partner Loïc Védie as ‘better than expected’, 2023 was nonetheless a year marked by uncertainty…
Euro Elite 2024: Germany – Navigating tumultuous waters Clara Mozes As Germany faced the prospect of its first two-year recession since the early 2000s, the legal market grappled with an…
Euro Elite 2024: Iberia – Out the other side Daniela Costa It first appeared that cautious optimism would characterise the Iberian legal market in 2023 but no-one predicted quite how turbulent…
Resistance is agile – Euro Elite firms adapt to survive amid global turbulence Mark McAteer Last year, our annual Euro Elite survey of 100 leading independent firms across more than 40 jurisdictions found partners in…
Global London: Resistance is futile – can firms keep the good times going as the market starts to cool? Mark McAteer It had to come. Among the Global London leaders interviewed in last year’s report, there was an inevitable consensus that…
Global London case study: Sidley Holly McKechnie London headcount: 212 lawyers, 44 partners Lawyer headcount change since 2017: 24% London managing partner: Tom Thesing Office specialties: Private…
PE lessons: Shearman’s losses and Cravath’s gains show the value of City buyout teams – and the dangers of misfiring Alex Ryan While it may be an oversimplification to say that there has been a certain inevitability to Shearman & Sterling’s decline…
