Freshfields is advising Merck on its $10bn acquisition of respiratory-focused pharmaceutical company Verona Pharma, in a ...

Linklaters has made a significant addition to its global restructuring and insolvency bench, hiring an eight-lawyer team from ...

Bird & Bird  has posted a 6% increase in turnover to €672.6m (£580.5m) for 2024-25, with the results marking the firm’s 33rd ...

Macfarlanes, A&O Shearman and Uria Menendez have picked up lead roles on Santander’s £2.65bn acquisition of TSB, in the ...

National firms Cripps and Michelmores have shelved their proposed £100m merger, around a month after the two firms confirmed ...

I thought I pulled off a really smart trick, but actually I was a complete idiot’. This is the verdict of Ian Rosenblatt on ...

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer has increased salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) London associates to £145,000 – the first ...

Ashurst has broken £1bn in revenue for the first time after posting an 8% increase to £1.034bn for 2024-25, up from last year ...

Gowling WLG, A&O Shearman and Wilson Sonsini are among a line-up of law firms to have advised on Clio’s $1bn acquisition of ...

Weil is pushing ahead with rebuilding its London funds bench, picking up A&O Shearman partner Phil Baynes, who rejoins the ...

In Legal Business’s new Meal Deal Maker series, Melissa Fogarty, co-head of Clifford Chance’s corporate practice, reveals her sandwich of choice from Pret, reflects on what’s shaped her dealmaking ...

The full table of stats and data from the 2025 Global London report, which ranks the top 50 international law firms (firms headquartered outside of the UK) by London lawyer count. Click on the headers ...