Foot Anstey managing partner John Westwell is to step down from the role after 14 years in change, with the firm’s head of real estate set to replace him. Southampton-based Martin Hirst, who joined the firm from Blake Morgan in 2016, will become managing partner on 30 April 2022. Westwell will stay on as a partner […]
Bold moves are often rewarded, especially during times of crisis – just ask Harbottle & Lewis
Blake Morgan’s senior leaders have declared the firm’s era of consolidation over and set for growth, despite an underwhelming set of financial results for 2020/21. Turnover at the firm declined by 13 per cent last year, from £71.2m to £61.7m. This was due to various factors, including a Covid slowdown, a change in work-in-progress valuations […]
Ambitious Manchester-headquartered firm JMW has a strategy to break London that isn’t without risk, but so far it seems to be working
Harbottle & Lewis saw a 10 per cent jump in revenue and a 28 per cent rise in average profits per equity partner (PEP) in the last financial year, with the latter figure nearing £1m. Average PEP stood at £936,000, up from £727,000 in 2019/20, with the highest-earning partner taking home £2.6m. Revenue, meanwhile, rose from […]
London firms Wedlake Bell and Moon Beever are to merge as of 12 July 2021. Wedlake Bell ranked 87th in The Lawyer UK 200 in 2020 with revenue of £37.7m. The firm’s core groups are real estate, private client and business services, with disputes work integrated into all three. Last year’s revenue breakdown saw real […]
Clarke Willmott has reported revenue growth of 2.5 per cent for 2020-21, with a strong second half of the financial year offsetting the downturn caused by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Turnover grew from £51.7m to £53m, a fourth successive year of increased revenue, although the firm has still not reached its record year […]
Browne Jacobson has posted revenue of £85m for the 2020/21 financial year, a 5 per cent increase on the previous year’s figure of £80.9m. It is the twelfth year in a row of increased turnover for the Nottingham-founded firm, which has spread into Birmingham, London, Exeter and Manchester and harbours greater national ambitions. New managing […]
Fladgate has launched a new offering that will provide non-legal services to its clients. The new business, branded Walgate, will be a subsidiary of Fladgate and will eventually encompass a range of different offerings: with six to eight service lines expected to be rolled out over the course of the next two years. The first […]
With the uncertainty of the pandemic retreating we could see a few mid-market mergers.
Top 200 firms Harrison Clark Rickerbys (HCR) and Hewitsons are in the final throes of a merger deal. The deal is expected complete by the end of May, adding Hewitsons’ Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes and London network to HCR’s nine locations of Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Hereford, London, Reading, Worcester and the Wye Valley. The […]
Fladgate has appointed a corporate lawyer as its new senior partner. Sunil Sheth took up the role on 1 April 2021, replacing Richard Reuben, who will remain with the firm in its real estate practice. Reuben seved three years in the role, although the job title has reverted from ‘chairman’ to ‘senior partner’ during his […]