Despite a difficult year, amid the stories of cuts and plunging revenues, the legal elite’s time-honored habit of chasing, recruiting and also losing top partners has persevered, and nowhere more so than in Europe.

In 2020, we saw big hires in everywhere from Belgium to France, and Germany to Italy. A lesser known market territory causing a stir is Luxembourg, which, though small and often overlooked, is fast becoming a destination of choice for top international law firms. Expect that trend to continue into 2021.