The Lawyer Hot 100 2026. The most closely watched list in the UK legal calendar returns, shining a light on the individuals ...

If securing success in five commercial trials last year wasn’t achievement enough, George Spalton KC of 4 New Square Chambers appears to have plenty more milestones lined up ahead. Acting on behalf ...

If there’s been a big football deal in the past few years, it’s likely Northridge’s Ian Lynam was on it. Chelsea’s £4.25bn sale? Yep. Michele Kang’s acquisition of the London City Lionesses? Sure.

Having qualified at Freshfields, litigator Gayathri Kamalanathan returned to private practice following more than a decade as head of litigation and enforcement at Deutsche Bank and Danske ...

Beth Mather’s 2025 was defined by deal volume, variety and control. As a partner and national head of corporate at Gateley, ...

Graham Kirk is a rare creature. Over the past three years he has had a senior dual role, helming the legal and company secretarial functions of Cobham and Ultra — two legally and ...

It was a year of change in 2025 for the legal team at engineering and sustainable development firm Arup. And at the helm throughout was global general counsel Margot Day. Day spent the ...

As head of the firm’s public law, regulatory and banking/financial regulatory groups, Henri Savoie is at the intersection of ...

Very few lawyers can credibly claim to have redefined what a law firm can be; fewer still in a market as structurally conservative as Sweden’s. In 2025, Maria-Pia Hope did exactly that.

Charlotte Elves may only have been called in 2022 but she’s already established herself as the junior counsel par excellence, ...

Christopher Aird spent 2025 making his name synonymous with renewables. One offshore wind financing followed another, then another, with Poland in particular proving fertile ground.

Late last year in an interview with The Lawyer, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher global chair and managing partner Barbara Becker said the firm’s growth was going “like a rocket ship”. She wasn’t kidding.