Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) grew its revenue to £49.9m for the first half of the 2013-14 financial year, marking a 7% increase on the same period last year.

Managing partner Michael Chissick (pictured) said the firm had seen a "pickup in economic activity", saying he was "chuffed" at the figures, which are the firm's best start to a year since 2008.

Chissick singled out two of the firm's international offices for particular praise, as well as the London corporate department.

"Our Brussels office has had a terrific six months, and Paris is also doing very well. In London, corporate is doing very well indeed, and there has been strong performance in the dispute resolution and financial institution teams.

"The service sector generally is performing well; there's more activity and corporate deals and I'm not seeing any warning signs that the second half of the year won't be equally as strong."

In an internal memo to staff, Chissick commented: "After a turbulent couple of years we are now in much better shape and can look forward to the second half of the year."

"Some of our peers are currently posting double digit growth for the first six months and so we mustn't be too complacent. There is still a lot of work to do."

Yesterday (12 November) Olswang released its half-year figures, which showed a 15% increase in revenue for the first six months of 2013-14 to £57.6m

In 2012-13, FFW saw a 2.5% year-on-year dip in revenue to £95m, though the fall came against an 8% rise in profits available to equity partners.