Practice monitor · November 2026
Shipping & Maritime: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who changed firm in Shipping & Maritime over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, where they went and which firms hired them.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 93
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +30.1%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 28.0%
- Partner share of moves
- 46
- Firms that hired
What the data show
In the Sartori & Partners lateral record, 93 lawyers joined a new firm in Shipping & Maritime from November 2025 to October 2026, 0.7% of all lateral moves we tracked. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 95 moves against 73 the year before, the count rose 30.1%. It outpaced the market's own change of +9.0%.
With partners at 28.0% of arrivals, the mix is in line with the market's 27.7%. On settled windows partner moves alone went from 29 to 26 (-10.3%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. A step up in title came with 11.8% of moves (market 12.9%).
- Partner28.0%
- Counsel17.2%
- Associate54.8%
Lateral hires in Shipping & Maritime were spread across 46 firms. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 52.7% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. Clyde & Co ranks first by lateral arrivals, in the 6-10 band.
City figures here cover the three years to October 2026. By city, London comes first (15.0% of arrivals), then New York (9.9%). A change of city came with 19.0% of moves (market 20.5%).
For a firm hiring in Shipping & Maritime, a rising market means candidates have options: move quickly once a shortlist exists.
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 | Clyde & Co | 6-10 |
| 2 | Holman Fenwick Willan | 6-10 |
| 3 | Stephenson Harwood | 6-10 |
| 4 | DWF | 6-10 |
| 5 | Hill Dickinson | 3-5 |
| 6 | Dentons | 3-5 |
| 7 | Jones Walker | 3-5 |
| 8 | DAC Beachcroft | 3-5 |
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephenson Harwood | 6-10 |
| 2 | Hill Dickinson | 6-10 |
| 3 | DWF | 6-10 |
| 4 | Holman Fenwick Willan | 3-5 |
| 5 | Watson Farley & Williams | 3-5 |
| 6 | DAC Beachcroft | 3-5 |
| 7 | Keystone Law | 3-5 |
| 8 | Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker | 3-5 |
| 9 | Seward & Kissel | 3-5 |
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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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