Pinsent Masons announces FY24/25 results

This year we have advised our clients on the attainment of some of their most significant strategic challenges and opportunities, including:

• Onboarding with Heineken as their sole legal provider in the UK
• Advising long-standing client MFG on its £2.5bn acquisition of more than 700 Morrisons petrol and EV development sites
• Advising Carlton Power on its hydrogen pipeline, including the establishment of a pioneering joint venture with Schroders Greencoat LLP to fund and develop a UK-wide portfolio of green hydrogen projects, and securing some of the UK Government’s first hydrogen funding contracts under its Hydrogen Allocation Round (HAR1).
• Advising on Sydney Metro, the largest public transport infrastructure project in Australia involving the building, operating, and maintenance of a network of four metro lines, 46 stations, and 113km of new metro rail.
• Advising on the highest value bonus claim brought before Dubai International Financial Centre Court
• Representing Teva pharmaceuticals in its UK and Europe-wide litigation to revoke Bristol Myers Squibb’s compound patent and supplementary protection certificate (SPC) in relation to the blockbuster anti-coagulant drug Eliquis (Apixaban)

• Grew our footprint, opening offices in Riyadh and Shenzhen
• Kicked off our market-leading collaboration with V7Go which has already yielded efficiencies internally and for clients
• Made 13 lateral hires and promoted 24 to our partnership
• Appointed our first director of transformation
• Named by The Times as a top 50 employer for gender equality
• Awarded the ‘Gold award’ in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 

• Doubled the number of people in our business conducting pro bono work and built a network of over 60 pro bono champions
• Partnered with Business in the Community on their Responsible AI Labs initiative that will result in a best practice blueprint for businesses utilising AI in their operations
• Provided pro bono advice to Kids in Need of Defence (KIND), helping more than 25 children gain British citizenship
• Gave pro bono advice to PCD Research on its funding of research programs for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, an inherited condition that affects approximately one in 7,500 people
• Offered the highest number of training contracts in the legal sector to students from the 10,000 Interns Foundation which seeks to improve Black representation in professional services