City monitor · November 2026
Amsterdam: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Amsterdam over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, in which practices and with which firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 96
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- -9.9%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 13.5%
- Partner share of moves
- 25
- Firms that hired
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 96 lateral moves in Amsterdam, 0.7% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 111 to 100 (-9.9%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.
The partner share is 13.5%, below the market's 27.7%, so most movers are associates and counsel. A step up in title came with 15.6% of moves (market 12.9%).
- Partner13.5%
- Counsel14.6%
- Associate68.8%
25 firms hired at least one lateral in Amsterdam in the window. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 66.7% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. CMS ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 11-20 band.
By practice, Litigation & Disputes comes first, involved in 31.2% of arrivals here (39.9% across the market). A change of city came with 23.3% of moves (market 20.5%).
For a firm planning a hire in Amsterdam, a flat market means candidates are not being pulled by a wave: the case for a move has to come from the platform.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CMS | 11-20 |
| 2 | Addleshaw Goddard | 6-10 |
| 3 | Clifford Chance | 6-10 |
| 4 | NautaDutilh | 3-5 |
| 5 | Jones Day | 3-5 |
| 6 | DLA Piper | 3-5 |
| 7 | Dentons | 3-5 |
| 8 | A&O Shearman | 3-5 |
| 9 | Simmons & Simmons | 3-5 |
| 10 | Freshfields | 3-5 |
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eversheds Sutherland | 6-10 |
| 2 | Bird & Bird | 3-5 |
| 3 | Simmons & Simmons | 3-5 |
| 4 | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3-5 |
Related monitors and reports
Practices in Amsterdam
- Litigation & Disputes30 moves
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Hiring in this market
Reports
- Amsterdam Partner Market 2026: Partners Are a Thin Slice of Hiring
Partners make 13.5% of lateral moves into Amsterdam firms, 48.7% of the market's partner share and far below London's 29.3%. Three years of moves say the same, and a small circle of large firms does most of the hiring.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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