Microsoft PowerPoint - Strategic Research on External and Corporate Investment in the UK Legal Sector - January 2016


January 2016


Strategic research on investment in the UK legal sector


Our research highlights the impact that external investment is having on what was previously a highly fragmented and traditional sector dominated by a broad sub scale middle market with the sector at a 'tipping point'. A significant number of newly capitalised firms have now entered the market with innovative operating models that give a competitive advantage.

Our research centres around two key themes:

  • The drive for consolidation in the market with the potential for over £3bn of revenue changing control and for 75% of the existing UK Top 200 firms to disappear.

  • A move to a profit model over a PEP model, resulting in a focus on efficiency with £200m of unrealised profit identified in the Top 200 alone.

With over £510m already invested in the UK legal sector, momentum is gathering.


For a copy of the research contact John Llewellyn-Lloyd or Benjamin Cryer 020 7614 5917

john.llewellyn-lloyd@arden-partners.com or benjamin.cryer@arden-partners.com



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