Shares in Knights Group (KGH:AIM), the acquisitive legal services firm, jumped 4% to 450p after it announced a deal to buy Mundays, one of the south east’s  biggest commercial law firms. Established over sixty years ago in Weybridge, Mundays is a full-service independent law firm with a strong corporate, real estate and private client offering. Revenues for the year to last July were ...

Iconic boot brand Dr Martens (DOCS) has enjoyed a strong start to life on the stock market with its shares very much in demand from investors. Such demand has also helped three of its directors land huge windfalls, who all sold a big chunk of shares at the 370p issue price, which was at the top end of its IPO price range. Chief executive Kenny Wilson bagged £20.4 million after selling over ...

In a year in which ‘quality growth’ stocks stretched their outperformance over ‘value’ stocks, notwithstanding a late bounce-back in the latter on the announcement of a Covid vaccine, it seems odd that UK investors should have overlooked the legal sector. As it is, most legal services and related stocks registered double-digit percentage losses last year with many underperforming the ...

The crisis has created something of a structural shift in the legal sector, with many traditional Top 100 law firms having to ask partners to put up cash to keep their businesses going. This has provided legal and professional services business Knights (KGH:AIM) with a unique opportunity to tempt senior fee-earners away from the big law firms, together with their client base. Knights was ...