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International Edition

The Disruptors: How Paul Weiss and Freshfields are Transforming the Global Elite Race

They have starkly different backgrounds. But both firms have succeeded in ways that other firms have not when breaking into significant foreign markets. Leaders at both firms explain how.
11 minute read

International Edition

The 2024 Global 200: The Year Law Firms Had to Get Smart (And Ruthless)

Despite a 10-year low for worldwide M&A activity profit per equity partner at the top firms grew by 12.4%, as they pruned their equity ranks and closed offices.
8 minute read

International Edition

Chinese Law Firms Are in Trouble as Downward Spiral Show No Signs of Easing

More than half of the firms that make up the China 45 have seen gross revenue decline in 2023.
8 minute read

International Edition

The 2024 Global 200 Ranked by Revenue

The 200 largest law firms in the world, made up mainly of U.S. firms, saw growth increase in the latest fiscal year, with some regions out-performing others.
7 minute read

International Edition

Even in a Down Market, APAC Firms Are Not Giving Up on Scale

The majority of the 50 largest law firms in the region are based in mainland China.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Eversheds Sutherland Elects New Co-CEOs Beginning in Spring 2025

Austin-based Lino Mendiola and London-based Keith Froud will replace the current leaders, who oversaw the 2017 merger that created the trans-Atlantic firm.
4 minute read

The Recorder

'Social Inflation' in California Insurance Market Drives Kennedys' West Coast Expansion

U.K.-based law firm Kennedys has been rapidly growing in America since merging with insurance law firm Carroll McNulty & Kull seven years ago.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

'Ready to Move Forward': Lewis Brisbois COO Talks About Priorities and His Move

Richard Davis said he was attracted to the fact "that this management team acknowledged some of the challenges but was really ready to move forward."
5 minute read

International Edition

How Hogan Lovells' South African Dream Crashed—Twice

Hogan Lovells is closing its office in Johannesburg saying it wants to focus on strategic markets but there's much more behind the African exit.
5 minute read

International Edition

A&O Shearman Hires Veteran Latham Paris Partner to Expand Debt Finance in Europe

The hire fits into A&O Shearman's ambitions to expand its French and pan-European leveraged finance capabilities.
2 minute read

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