Key facts and figures
- 700 people worldwide, including 120 partners and 300 other lawyers
- Breadth of expertise that includes commercial litigation and arbitration, corporate, commercial, employment and pensions, energy, finance, funds, insurance, intellectual property, marine and international trade, projects, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, regulation, tax and transportation
- Clients include a wide range of listed and private companies, institutions and individuals
- Nine offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East: Beijing, Dubai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Piraeus, Shanghai and Singapore
- London is the largest office, with 500 people including almost 300 lawyers
- Recognised as one of the fastest growing law firms in Asia (Fast 30 list 2010, Asia Legal Business), we have 170 people across our five Asia offices - 25 per cent of total firm headcount - including 100 lawyers
- In jurisdictions where we do not have offices, we have alliances and relationships with leading independent law firms
- Recent awards include those for asset and corporate finance (2012), litigation (2012), regulation (2012), Hong Kong law firm of the year (2011), trade finance (2011), finance - Hong Kong (2011), shipping (2011), aviation (2010), corporate finance (2010), people management (2010) and UK law firm of the year (2009)
- In Legal Week magazine's 2012 client satisfaction report, based on survey responses from 1,200 clients from European and Asian companies, SH scored the highest of any City of London firm for 'personal / partner relationships'
- Worldwide revenue for 2011-12 of £110 million and average profit per equity partner (PEP) of £505,000
Above information is correct as at January 2013