Roland Turnill and David Johnson Named Among Financial News’ Fifty Most Influential Lawyers 2025

Slaughter and May is pleased to announce that David Johnson, Managing Partner elect, and Roland Turnill, Senior Partner, are named in Financial News’ 2025 Fifty Most Influential Lawyers list. The list celebrates the top 50 legal professionals and leaders working in Europe. Roland has been included in the list since 2021, and David is a new entry for 2025.

“Corporate star” David Johnson, a longstanding head of one of the firm’s corporate groups, has over 30 years’ experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions, commercial agreements and governance matters. David joined the firm in 1991 and became a Partner in 2000. Having spent his career at the pinnacle of public and private M&A, he will become Managing Partner from August 2025.

Roland Turnill, who became Senior Partner in 2024, having previously been Co-Head of our Corporate/M&A Practice and Financial Institutions Group, is noted as “one of the City’s most experienced corporate lawyers” and continues to play a central role in shaping the firm’s strategy and supporting key client relationships, while maintaining an active practice. His principal areas of work are public and private M&A, joint ventures, activism defence, governance and crisis management.