We’re proud that our innovative efforts to achieve a truly inclusive and diverse environment, and to advance social equality, are being recognised externally through a series of achievements and award wins:
Firm Awards
- Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2020 – ranked 49th in the list which profiles the best employers in the UK for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans staff
- 2019 – Ranked 2nd in the Social Mobility Employer’s Index
- 2019 – The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers (6th)
- 2019 – Number 6 in Universum Global's World’s Most Attractive Employers for Business Students
- 2019 – Number 7 in Universum's Ideal Employer Ranking for Business Students in the UK
- 2019 – The Times Top 50 Employers for Women for the 9th consecutive year
- 2019 – National Undergraduate Employability Awards Top 100 Undergraduate Employers
- MIND Workplace Wellbeing Index 2019 – Silver Award
- Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards – 'Influential business of the year 2018'
- Social Mobility Employer Index 2018 – ranked as the Top Employer for Social Mobility
- British LGBT Awards 2018 – Best LGBT+ Network Group
- Business in the Community’s Best Employers for Race list 2017 and 2018
- 2017 – Business in the Community Workplace Equality Award for recruitment
Individual Awards
- 2019 – Philip Davidson, Partner, ranked 7th in EMpower 15 Advocate Executives list and Richard Iferenta, Partner, ranked 45th in the EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executives list
- 2018 – Richard Iferenta, Partner, Top 10 most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the UK
- Our Deputy-Chair, Melanie Richards, was ranked 1st in the inaugural HERoes Female Champions of Women in Business list presented in the Financial Times
We also work with a number of specialist diversity organisations, many of whom recognise our work as a leading practice including,
- Business Disability Forum
- Business in the Community Gender and Race campaigns
- City Mental Health Alliance
- City Parents
- Employers for Carers
- Mind
- Social Mobility Foundation
- Stonewall
Working with these organisations helps us measure our progress in these areas and share best practice. We’re also signatories on a number of high-profile diversity-related charters that support public accountability in this area including,
- HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter
- Race at Work Charter
- Tech Talent Charter
- Our Deputy-Chair, Melanie Richards, is a founding member of the 30% Club Steering Committee, which focuses on increasing female representation in FTSE Boards and Leadership