UK top 50 financial results 2017-18: all the figures as they come in
A running record of all the 2017-18 financial results as they are announced
July 20, 2018 at 12:00 AM
3 minute read
This year's financial results season is now in full swing, as the UK's largest firms begin to unveil their headline figures for 2017-18.
The early announcements suggest law firms are yet to feel any major impact from the ongoing uncertainty around Brexit, although currency fluctuations have played their part, and many firms are looking at the coming year with some trepidation ahead of the UK's split from the EU next March.
Here, we'll be keeping a running record of all the results as they come in – click on the links below to keep up to date with all our latest coverage.
- 23 July: Burges Salmon boosts turnover to new record high as PEP falls for second consecutive year
- 23 July: Ince posts double-digit fall in UK revenues as total turnover falls 5%
- 20 July: Withers posts modest revenue gains as PEP nudges up 5.5%
- 19 July: DAC Beachcroft hands out £7.7m in bonuses after double digit increase in profit
- 18 July: Gowling WLG revenues jump 17% in second full post-merger year as top of lockstep rises
- 17 July: Mishcon and Gateley join growing list of top 50 firms posting rising revenues for 2017-18
- 13 July: Mills & Reeve and Fieldfisher widen scope for bonus handouts after strong financial results
- 12 July: Linklaters sees PEP growth halt as firm cites impact of investment
- 12 July: Travers Smith boosts PEP by 24% as revenue soars to almost £150m
- 11 July: Clydes posts double-digit increase in net profit in 20th year of successive growth
- 11 July: Addleshaws' revenue soars by nearly 25% to record high as profit climbs by more than a third
- 9 July: Hill Dicks top line dips below £100m after insurance business split as PEP heads upwards
- 5 July: Allen & Overy sees revenue and PEP tick upwards as firm restates US ambitions
- 4 July: Freshfields posts double-digit PEP hike as firm restarts revenue growth
- 4 July: Herbert Smith Freehills posts double-digit PEP surge but revenues stay flat
- 3 July: Clifford Chance kicks off magic circle reporting season with 5% revenue rise and 16% PEP hike
- 3 July: Shoosmiths posts double-digit profit and revenue growth as PEP soars to record high
- 28 June: Stephenson Harwood continues revenue growth as PEP falls for second consecutive year
- 28 June: Bird & Bird boosts PEP by almost 10% on the back of international expansion
- 27 June: Ashurst PEP climbs 10% to just under £750k as revenue edges up 4%
- 25 June: Simmons posts double-digit revenue rise as net profit climbs 19%
- 25 June: Pinsent Masons posts 6% rise in turnover as firm cites impact of sustained investment
- 18 June: Taylor Wessing posts double-digit growth to reach record revenue high after 'best year yet'
- 14 June: CMS boosts global revenues by 31% to €1.3bn in first results since Olswang-Nabarro merger
- 13 June: Fieldfisher posts another year of double-digit growth as GDPR work proves rich pickings
- 8 June: Dentons posts 36% PEP hike as revenues rise in first financial results since Maclays tie-up
- 8 June: Osborne Clarke shrugs off Brexit concerns to post double-digit revenue and PEP hikes
- 6 June: TLT continues consistent growth with 10% revenue hike to break £80m mark
- 21 May: Gateley posts 8% revenue growth and makes first law firm acquisition since 2015 IPO
- 17 May: Eversheds Sutherland PEP jumps 12% to break £800,000
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