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The Largest UK Law Firms 2026 – Who’s Banking What in Big Law

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The UK legal market just keeps getting bigger and richer as deals and US law firms make a major impact on big UK law firms. In 2025, collective revenues for UK law firms sailed past £52 billion, with the big firms at the top hoovering up an ever-larger slice of the pie.
The UK law firm earnings show massive increases for some firms and equally large take-home pay, as we recently reported.
Whether you’re a graduate eyeing that training contract or a GC shopping for counsel, LawFuel’s UK law firm survey looks at who’s who in British Big Law right now.
The Complete UK Law Firm Revenue League 2026 . .
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Latham Raids A&O Shearman Again. City Lateral Wars Escalate.

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A&O Shearman has lost three London finance partners to Latham & Watkins — real estate finance heads, a structured finance lead and all the market cachet that comes with them. That’s not “normal churn.” That’s a headline in a City still digesting the Allen & Overy–Shearman merger fallout. Real estate finance partners David Oppenheimer, (pictured)

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BigLaw’s $4.6 Trillion Year Sees Kirkland & Top Firms Dominate

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M&A Market Soars to Record $4.6 Trillion Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor BigLaw firms continue to sit at the top table when it comes to mega deals with the market showing 2025 deals valued at $4.6 trillion in global transaction value – a 49 percent surge over 2024 figures, according to the London Stock Exchange

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Sports Law Deal Sees Latham Lure Two Sport Law Stars From Hogan Lovells

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Latham & Watkins isn’t just hiring; it’s buying headlines in the sports law arms race. On January 6, the New York office pulled off a pair of marquee additions by luring partners Matthew Eisler and Russell Hedman from Hogan Lovells to supercharge its Entertainment, Sports & Media, and M&A & Private Equity practices. These aren’t

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One Partner, Seven Million Pounds: Inside Big Law’s New Pay Reality

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Big Law’s Seven-Million Pound Question: Who’s Really Winning? A senior partner at a global law firm took home just over seven million pounds last year, according to newly disclosed figures. That is not a LawFuel typo, a bonus anomaly, or a rogue spreadsheet error. It is the modern upper limit of elite legal pay, written

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Big Law’s Capital Squeeze Sees Partners Pay Up, Firms Power On

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The legal profession has always had a peculiar relationship with money. Partners, after all, are supposed to be owners of their firms, yet increasingly, they’re being asked to prove their commitment with their wallets.

Welcome to the world of capital contributions, where making equity partner isn’t just about your billable hours anymore. It’s about how much cash you can pony up to join the club.
Here’s the thing about Big Law’s approach to partner capital: there isn’t one.

Survey data from about 80 Am Law 200 firms reveals a system that’s, to put it charitably, all over the shop.
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US Law Firms Double Down on Super Size London Takeover

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US law firms have turned London into their most important international bridgehead, increasing their lawyer ranks in the City by nearly 60 percent over the past decade and reshaping the U.K. legal market in the process.​

The number of lawyers working in London offices of U.S.-headquartered firms rose from 4,889 in 2015 to 7,710 by the end of 2024, a 58 percent increase over ten years.​
In total, 84 U.S. firms now have a London presence, underlining the City’s role as the key European hub for U.S. practices.
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How BigLaw Salary Wars And AI Are Upending The Legal World

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How BigLaw and AI Is Changing the Law Business Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor In December 2025, Cravath once again kicked off a new salary scale for associates, pushing first-year salaries to $225,000, with eighth-years pulling $430,000+. Not to be outdone, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins matched within days. And more pay deals occurred,

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3,100 Lawyers, One Story Get Big, Get Niche, or Get Bought

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Cadwalader’s planned merger with Hogan Lovells is less a love story and more a rescue mission with excellent branding, creating a 3,100‑lawyer, US$3.6 billion outfit that will instantly sit in the global top five by revenue.

For Hogan Lovells, it is scale and New York depth; for Cadwalader, it is survival with dignity and a new logo.

The combined Hogan Lovells Cadwalader will have about 3,100 lawyers and more than US$3.6 billion in annual revenue based on 2024 figures, making it the world’s fifth‑largest firm by revenue and one of the largest law firm mergers ever attempted. – Register to read more . . .

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