Forsters is set to vacate its Mayfair home with a move to Baker Street in late 2023. The firm is currently based over four sites and last November, The Lawyer reported it was looking at premises in Marylebone, with 72 Wellbeck Street under consideration. Instead, it has opted for a move to 50,000 sq ft […]
Tunbridge Wells-founded Cripps Pemberton Greenish has elected its head of corporate as its new managing partner, with its leader of 10 years set to step down next year. James Beatton will replace Gavin Tyler from May 2023. Tyler has served two five-year terms as managing partner, taking the firm through two mergers, first with Kent’s […]
In 2016 Howard Kennedy adopted an all-equity partnership; now it’s reintroduced a salaried tier. Here’s why.
Fladgate has become the first City firm to announce its financial results for 2021/22, revealing a 30 per cent rise in revenue. Turnover has grown to £66.5m, up from £51.1m while average profit per equity partner is expected to exceed £875,000, a record for the firm. It marks a strong recovery from the disruption the […]
Brabners has expanded out of its home base in Lancashire for the first time by opening an office in Leeds. The firm has announced it will launch in Yorkshire in the summer as part of a “step-change” in the firm’s ambitions. The first partner through the door will be Marcus Armstrong, a corporate partner from […]
Private wealth firms with Russian clients can get ahead of the game by being transparent about what they are doing now… or take the gamble of doing nothing at all
Lewis Silkin has expanded in Northern Ireland though a merger with local tech, IP and media firm Forde Campbell. The move adds three partners to Lewis Silkin’s Belfast offering, which was launched in 2021 when the firm merged with employment boutique Jones Cassidy Brett. Lewis Silkin initially launched on the island of Ireland in 2018 […]
Shakespeare Martineau has added another law firm to Ampa, its ever-growing ‘house of brands’. Mayo Wynne Baxter, which has offices in Brighton, Eastbourne, its original home of Lewes and four other locations across Sussex, will retain its own name but be integrated into Ampa, the holding LLP which contains Shakespeare Martineau as well as consumer-law […]
BDB Pitmans has rounded off the year by sealing a merger with a private client boutique. The firm, itself the product of a 2018 merger between Bircham Dyson Bell and Pitmans, will combine with City-based Portrait Solicitors in April 2022. Portrait was formerly the private wealth team of Denton Hall (now Dentons) and still works […]
Another private equity house has taken its first foray into the legal sector with the acquisition of a UK200 firm. Consumer firm Fletchers Solicitors has been acquired by an affiliate of Sun European Partners. The private equity business looks for “defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities” and focuses on the business […]
While some of London’s smaller firms are vanishing, there are plenty more where they came from
Royds Withy King and Goodman Derrick are in advanced merger discussions with a view to creating a new firm called RWK Goodman next year. Royds Withy King ranks 93rd in the latest edition of The Lawyer UK200 with revenue of £36.9m. Goodman Derrick meanwhile ranks 171st with revenue of £14.2m. Both firms have seen slow […]