Debora de HoyosAnglo-American giant Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has posted a 13% increase in fee income in the first set of financial results following its transatlantic marriage last year.

The firm, the result of the merger last February by Chicago’s Mayer Brown & Platt and Rowe & Maw, posted year-end revenues for 2002 of $740m (£471.1m), against the legacy firms’ combined 2001 total of $655.7m (£417.4m).