Coming in with turnover a shade under £100m, the inaugural set of financial results for Bond Dickinson – formed through the merger of legacy firms Bond Pearce and Dickinson Dees in May last year – has propelled it to 37th place in Legal Week’s top 50, the higher of the two new entrants in this year’s chart.

Now the firm has completed a post-merger redundancy consultation, resulting in anticipated job losses for fewer than 25 employees, and has finalised a two-tier partnership structure with full and junior equity ranks alongside a modified lockstep, it looks to have settled in to its new position – as well as its new London office – pretty smoothly.