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Paul Weiss Add Infrastructure Partner From Simpson Thacher in London

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Paul Foote will be joining the firm in London as Head of European Infrastructure M&A within the Corporate Department. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds on a wide variety of sophisticated domestic and cross-border transactions. “Paul is a talented private equity and infrastructure M&A […]

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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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Britain’s Top Barristers by Pay – The KCs Who Turn Courtroom Skill into Seven Figures

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Since I wrote about Britain’s highest-paid barristers a year ago, the select group of the UK’s top barristers continues to expand, with fees commanded that rival top CEOs.

What we didn’t report on was the sort of money received by the elite UK barristers, apart from quoting the Legal Futures report from 2018 that 125 UK barristers earned over £1million all those years ago.

The UK’s highest-paid barristers are more than just courtroom stars. They are strategic advisors, thought leaders, and, increasingly, agents of change in a rapidly evolving legal market.

However there is little publicly available information aout barrister earnings.

With top hourly billing rates hitting £5000 an hour or more, a barrister billing 1500 hours a year (perfectly common for a top law partner) brings home £7.5m.

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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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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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The Public Want Blood: Class Action Awareness Hits Five-Year Peak

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The British public have developed rather a taste for watching corporations squirm in court. Portland’s latest Reputation and Accountability report reveals that awareness of class actions has reached its highest level since 2020. The citizenry are increasingly keen to see litigation deployed as a cudgel against corporate misbehaviour.

Based on a poll of nearly 2,000 UK adults, the study shows 27 percent now report high awareness of class actions, up from 24 percent last year. This is despite the Competition Appeal Tribunal experiencing a slight dip in filings during 2024. The public, as Portland drily observes, is starting to notice. Log in to read more . . .

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Private Equity Eyes Big Law And Top Firms Are Opening the Door

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The Private Equity Law Firm Play Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributor Private equity is circling the legal sector, a new breed of law firm is exploring ways to monetise its most valuable asset: equity in the partnership. Both Cohen & Gresser, a litigation boutique, and global player McDermott Will & Emery have reportedly been in discussions

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