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

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

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

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.

Amy Wallace occupies one of the more-unusual roles in consumer tech. Since joining Yoto in 2021 as chief legal officer, she has steadily expanded her remit, taking on the additional role of ...

Do you find patents exciting? Alex Wilson — scientist-turned-lawyer and founding partner of Powell Gilbert — sure does. After ...

Aprajita Dhundia is the model of a star junior hire. She spent over a decade in Kirkland & Ellis’s London private equity ...

It’s been full steam ahead for Emma Gilks since she replaced David Holdsworth as TDR Capital general counsel at the end of 2024. Though she had been part of a three-strong team prior to the ...

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.

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 ...

No one knows the insurance or aviation markets better than 7KBW’s Gavin Kealey KC, so when a multibillion-dollar case relating to the Russian aviation industry headed to the courts in ...

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 ...