2017

2017 - Maintained a strategic presence in the UK, Europe and the Middle East with a reduced platform.

2016

2016 - Named ‘Law Firm of the Year in Europe (Funds Formation) for the 15th consecutive year at the Private Equity International Awards

2016 - Ranked #1 in the Acritas Asia Pacific Law Firm Index

2016 - Global Chairman Wang Junfeng named ‘Most Innovative Individual Lawyer’ at the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2016, with the firm scoring a hat-trick

2016 - New office opens in Cambridge, UK

2015

2015 - Stuart Fuller re-appointed as Global Managing Partner for a term of five years

2015 - Ranked #12 in the 2015 Acritas Sharp Legal Global Elite Brand Index

2015 - Ranked as the Most Innovative Law Firm in the Asia-Pacific region for the second consecutive year at the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2015

2015 - New office opens in Singapore

2014

2014 - Ranked 6th global law firm in terms of lawyer numbers in the AMLaw Global 100

2014 - Ranked #14 in the Acritas Sharp Legal Global Brand Elite Index

2014 - Ranked in the top 25 most innovative law firms at the Financial Times Europe Innovative Lawyers Awards 2014

2014 - Most Innovative Law Firm Asia-Pacific at the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2014

2014 - New office opens in Sanya, China

2014 - New office opens in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in association with the Law Office of Majed Almarshad

2013

2013 - On 1 November 2013, SJ Berwin combines with King & Wood Mallesons

2013 - Ranked #15 in the Acritas Sharp Legal Global Brand Elite Index

2013 - Stephen Minns appointed as Chairman of the Australian Board

2013 - New office opens in Luxembourg

2013 - Sue Kench appointed as first female Managing Partner of King & Wood Mallesons Australia

2012

2012 - Wang Junfeng appointed Global Chairman

2012 - Stuart Fuller appointed Global Managing Partner

2012 - Ranked #16 in the Acritas Sharp Legal Global Brand Elite Index, our first appearance in the rankings

2012 - On 1 March 2012, Mallesons Stephen Jaques combines with King & Wood and King & Wood Mallesons is formed

2012 - Stephen Kon elected Senior Partner of SJ Berwin

2009

2009 - Arculli Fong & Ng merges with King & Wood in Hong Kong

2007

2007 - King & Wood headcount reaches 1118. Nine offices in mainland China established.

2006

2006 - King & Wood opens Hong Kong office and is the first PRC law firm approved by the Minister of Justice of the PRC to open an office in Hong Kong

2004

2004 - Mallesons Stephen Jaques merges with Kwok and Yih in Hong Kong

2004 - SJ Berwin merges with Knopf Tulloch & Steininger in Germany

1993

1993 - King & Wood establishes one of the first partnership law firms in Beijing, China

1989

1989 - Stephen Jaques Stone James merges with Mallesons to become Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Australia

1982

1982 - SJ Berwin is founded in London, UK

1982 - Stephen Jaques & Stephen merges with Stone James of Perth, Australia and changes name to Stephen Jaques Stone James

1974

1974 - Stephen Jaques & Stephen cements its first interstate merger with Davies Bailey & Carter in Canberra, Australia

1888 - Stephen and Stephen changes name to Stephen Jaques & Stephen in Australia

1856 - Muttlebury, Malleson and Coster is founded in Melbourne, Australia

1853 - Montague Stephen is established in Sydney, Australia

1849 - Stephen and Stephen is founded in Sydney, Australia

1832

1832 - Stone James is founded in Western Austalia