List of largest United Kingdom–based law firms by revenue

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This is a list of the world's largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue in the financial year 2024. This data is based on the law firms official financial report for the 2023/24 financial year running from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. The list contains the 17 law firms which generated over half a billion US dollars in this period. 16 of which are London-based and 1 headquarter in Manchester.

Note: A few UK based law firms have merged with another entity which may be located outside of the UK for example London's Allen & Overy merged with New York's Shearman in May of 2024, the result of this is the removal of the US revenue and number of lawyers from the list to just account for its UK operations. As well as this some data from the number of lawyers at the firms are from the 2022/23 financial year as the firms have not updated as of 12/01/25.

Largest United Kingdom Based Law Firms
FirmRevenue (US$)Number of

practicing Lawyers

Revenue per

Lawyer

Headquartered
Clifford Chance $2.810 billion3,319$846,641London, England
Linklaters $2.730 billion3,075$887,805London, England
Allen & Overy $2.690 billion3,358$801,073London, England
Freshfields BD $2.550 billion2,038$1,251,227London, England
Herbert Smith

Freehills

$1,594 billion2,299$693,345London, England
Ashurst $1,173 billion1,719$682,373London, England
Clyde & Co $1,043 billion2,138$487,839London, England
Eversheds

Sutherland

$0.915 billion2,616$349,770London, England
Bryan Cave

Leighton Paisner

$0.840 billion1,275$658,824London, England
Slaughter & May $0.805 billion594$1,355,219London, England
Pinsent Masons $0.793 billion2,330$340,343London, England
Simmons &

Simmons

$0.701 billion974$719,713London, England
Bird & Bird $0.665 billion1,600$415,625London, England
Addleshaw

Goddard

$0.606 billion1,197$506,267London, England
Taylor Wessing $0.587 billion1,179$497,880London, England
Osborne Clarke $0.543 billion1,205$450,622London, England
DWF $0.531 billion1,100$482,727Manchester, England


This is a list of the world's largest United Kingdom–based law firms by revenue in the financial year 2022. [1]

Global rankFirmRevenue (US$)LawyersRevenue per lawyer (US$)
12 Allen & Overy $2,597,910,0002,821$921,000
13 Clifford Chance $2,550,900,0002,547$1,002,000
16 Linklaters $2,350,490,0002,684$876,000
17 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer $2,276,264,0002,062$1,104,000
24 CMS (EEIG) $1,964,175,0004,334$453,000
35 Herbert Smith Freehills $1,467,201,0002,299$638,000
36 Eversheds Sutherland $1,453,516,5622,616$556,000
55 Ashurst $1,087,411,0001,719$633,000
65 Clyde & Co.$975,577,0002,148$454,000
74 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner $845,190,0001,190$710,000
81 Pinsent Masons $749,559,0001,728$434,000
83 Slaughter and May $729,889,000594$1,229,000
92 Simmons & Simmons $644,529,000973$662,000
96 Bird & Bird $612,365,0001,543$397,000
107 Addleshaw Goddard $548,035,0001,197$458,000
109 Taylor Wessing $543,087,0001,079$503,000
126 DWF $470,222,000694$678,000
128 Osborne Clarke $465,603,0001,205$386,000
129 Fieldfisher $457,727,000779$588,000
147 Kennedys $387,930,0001,123$345,000
150DAC Beachcroft$371,130,0001,166$318,000
152 Macfarlanes $366,929,000404$909,000
154 Withers $356,285,000778$458,000
158 Irwin Mitchell $341,934,000816$419,000
169 Mishcon de Reya $315,461,000545$579,000
186 Stephenson Harwood $282,059,000507$556,000
188 HFW $278,768,000495$563,000
194 Watson Farley & Williams $266,471,000579$460,000

This list excludes firms with a large presence in the UK that structure their operations as a Swiss Verein. This is because these firms structurally differ from the firms listed above, especially when it comes to sharing profits. Some of these firms include DLA Piper, Baker McKenzie, Dentons, Norton Rose Fulbright and Squire Patton Boggs among others.

See also

References

  1. "The 2023 Global 200 Ranked by Revenue". Law.com International. Retrieved 11 March 2024.