Addleshaws was named UK Firm of the Year, with Legal Week’s editorial panel citing the successful merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co and Theodore Goddard and the work of the firm’s respected management team.

Milbank added to a year of heavyweight hires and some key European instructions to take the International Firm of the Year prize, beating a shortlist that included US rivals Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Weil Gotshal & Manges.