Talent wars, private equity and number crunching: LB’s most read features of 2024

From transatlantic mergers to dizzying new heights of competitors within the conflict for expertise at each affiliate and accomplice stage, 2024 has been busy. That will help you mirror on the 12 months that was and what’s coming subsequent across the nook, listed below are LB’s 20 hottest options of 2024, as voted for by you – our readers.

We’ll be again with a lot rather more in 2025.

Market forces: Paul Weiss, Kirkland and the conflict for London expertise

Paul Weiss’s audacious hiring spree in London acquired everybody’s consideration, not least Kirkland & Ellis, whose ranks it repeatedly raided. In April, Elisha Juttla and Georgina Stanley analysed how the methods of each companies are taking part in out.

Elite: The rise of the in-house lawyer in personal capital

The Metropolis’s high personal fairness attorneys, from personal apply and in-house, mirror on the rise of personal capital, the evolution of the GC function at PE companies, and what the longer term would possibly maintain, as advised to Cameron Purse in September.

When the going will get powerful – International London companies dig in as market actuality bites

After years of fast recruitment, unsure occasions have slowed progress amongst International London companies, however as Holly McKechnie noticed in April, savvy companies are strategically making ready for a market revival.

Baker McKenzie: One eye open

In February, Elisha Juttla delivered a deep dive into Baker McKenzie’s management, which has earned reward for its clear technique amidst tragedy and controversy, asking whether or not the sleeping large has lastly awoken.

‘When you construct it’ – companies put collectively infra dream groups as market booms

London’s infrastructure lateral market has been scorching, with US companies aggressively recruiting. This January, Harry Vercoe explored the important thing components driving this development/

‘I’ve referred to as companies and requested why somebody isn’t a accomplice but’ – the feminine GCs shaking up PE

Feminine GCs at personal fairness companies from Carlyle to KKR and Apollo to Bridgepoint mentioned tradition, careers, and the challenges of succeeding within the powerful world of personal capital with Georgina Stanley in September.

‘How arduous are you ready to work?’ – companions who’ve made it on how they constructed a e-book of enterprise

Company and personal fairness companions at varied profession levels shared ideas with Elisha Juttla in December about how one can construct a e-book of enterprise in London’s uber-competitive market.

A wake-up name to these resisting integration’: HSF US merger marks additional shift in direction of profit-sharing

The announcement of Herbert Smith Freehills proposed US merger with Kramer Levin made headlines this Autumn; in November, Anna Huntley examined the larger image behind the newest transatlantic tie-up.

Stress take a look at – companions on how they take care of a life below strain

Metropolis companions spoke to Elisha Juttla and Holly McKechnie in June about how lengthy, unpredictable hours in transactional work take their toll on psychological well being, and why the business nonetheless wants to alter.

Legal guidelines of attraction: how elite companies are ramping up their expertise retention techniques

With the battle to recruit and retain star companions changing into extra intense, the world’s high companies are shaking issues as much as fend off the competitors, as explored by Elisha Juttla in November.

Late bloomer: how Paul Weiss made up for misplaced time on the worldwide stage

Paul Weiss has made extra headlines than most this 12 months with a brand new worldwide technique that has shaken up the market – Elisha Juttla regarded again on the way it all went down

LB’s instances of the 12 months

From group actions to competitors claims and ESG-related litigation, 2024 has been a 12 months of complicated and multifaceted disputes – Alex Ryan and Bethany Burns analysed the important thing traits and instances in April.

What Gen Z attorneys really need from their careers

Are ‘woke’ Gen Z attorneys tearing up the established order? Alex Ryan set about to search out out in June, chatting with attorneys of all ranges of seniority on how attitudes to work are altering.

The ESG report 2024

As ESG continues its stand up the agenda to enterprise elementary, LB checked out how the highest companies are responding in October.

Marking a merger: how is BCLP’s transatlantic tie-up faring?

From arduous information to future plans, Tom Cox spoke to BCLP’s London leaders and market observers to get their verdict on how the transatlantic tie-up has gone down.

Doubling up: LB100 companies set 10% progress benchmark as greater than half pull off double-digit hikes

2023-24 was a bumper 12 months for the UK’s high 100 legislation companies with a median 10% enhance in income, Ben Wheway dug into the LB100 information this December to see what was driving the expansion.

Euro Elite 2024: Artwork of resilience

LB took its annual have a look at the Euro Elite this February, discovering the traits setting the agenda for Europe’s high companies.

Attending to know Kramer Levin – a information to HSF’s merger accomplice

Every part you needed to find out about Kramer Levin (however had been afraid to ask) – Alex Ryan set out all the small print on HSF’s new US merger accomplice.

International 100 defy gloom to cross $150bn

The world’s largest legislation companies defied gloomy predictions to crash by means of the $150bn mark on this 12 months’s International 100. Alex Ryan crunched the numbers to learn the way.

Scaling up: a glance again on the final ten years of disputes in London

A decade after LB’s first Disputes Yearbook, Bethany Burns and Alex Ryan checked in with London’s litigation elite in April to search out out what has modified within the final ten years.

Inexperienced Ambassadors: The Authorized 500 unveils new analysis into the attorneys preventing for a sustainable future

Meet Authorized 500’s Inexperienced Ambassadors: the attorneys championing sustainability in main areas internationally.