Simmons & Simmons has become the latest firm to post its half-year results, with the top 20 practice seeing a 6% increase in revenues for the first half of the current financial year.

The 200-partner firm generated fee income of £124.8m for the first six months of the 2011-12 year – up from £117.7m at the same point last year. The top-line rise translated into a 24% increase in profits.