The UK’s top 10 law firms are now valued at more than £17bn according to legal recruiters Douglas Scott. Director, Jonathan Nolan says this value can be reached by looking at last week’s placing of law firm Gateley on AIM, which gave it a market cap of £100m, or five times reported profits. He calculates DLA Piper at £2.02bn, Clifford Chance at £2.295bn, Linklaters at £2.605bn, Allen and Overy at £2.66bn, Freshfields at 2.74bn, Hogan Lovells at £1bn, Herbert Smith at £1.16bn, CMS Cameron McKenna at £1.05bn, Ashurst at £1.045bn and Norton Rose Fulbright at £0.555bn.
19 June 2015
Law firms in the money
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Weightmans—Jason Slatcher
Weightmans appoint new Chief Technology Officer
Mishcon de Reya—trainees
Mishcon de Reya announces trainee retention rate of 86%
Sackers—Charlotte Adams & Fraser Sutton
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