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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After eight years in the public law team at legacy Herbert Smith Freehills, senior associate Shameem Ahmad took the plunge and left corporate law. She first worked as director of advocacy for ...

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.

As head of the public law team at Edinburgh-headquartered Balfour & Manson, Sindi Mules has been involved in an array of eye-catching litigation. The For Women Scotland (FWS) case was no exception.

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 ...

Splitting his time between London and New York, Neil Barlow has become a central force in Clifford Chance’s transatlantic private equity practice, helping to anchor the firm’s position at the heart ...