For anyone familiar with the composition of the global legal elite, this year’s Global 200 table will have produced few surprises. With $6.5 billion in sales, Kirkland & Ellis reigns supreme, and the vereins press up against other U.S. elites to round off the top 10.
But then the secrets of the Global 200 don’t often appear at the table’s upper reaches. For the first time, a Brazilian law firm entered the 200, Mattos Filho, with a revenue of $263.9 million, closing in on firms perhaps better known on the international stage, including Watson Farley & Williams, the U.K.’s Stephenson Harwood and China’s Fangda.
