Which law firms act for which FTSE & Eurotop listed companies?

Today I learnt how to find out which law firms act for which FTSE and Eurotop listed companies.

Chambers and Partners produces an annual FTSE and Eurotop survey. Their researchers "contact the Heads of Legal for each of the companies in the Euro 100 and the FTSE 100 & 250, asking them to list the firms they instruct most often".* Chambers then helpfully lists the results on its website. You can view lists for the following categories:

FTSE 100

• The FTSE 100 by company

FTSE Eurotop 100

• Legal advisers to the FTSE Eurotop 100
• The A-Z of law firms acting for the FTSE Eurotop 100
• Law firms ranked by number of total survey mentions
• Firms with one mention in the 2011 survey

FTSE 250

• FTSE 250 by company
• FTSE 250 by firm

This makes me very happy.

* http://www.chambersandpartners.com/FTSE-Survey

FTSE 350 Constituent Companies - Current and Historical Lists

Today I learnt where to find current and historical lists of FTSE 350 constituent companies.

First I tried the London Stock Exchange website and the Financial Times. Both have good data but not exactly what I needed today. The FTSE itself provides a current list, but for historical data you need to contact the sales team. That was no good, as I didn't want to incur a large cost.

So then I looked at BIALL's How Do I? Wiki which had an entry on the exact same thing I needed, called "FTSE indices - lists of constituent companies". From this I learnt that there is a quarterly publication called Company Guide (from Charterhouse Communications) which includes FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies. Hurray!

Finally I contacted City Business Library, which holds the last 3 years of Company Guide, and I was kindly informed that their neighbour, the Guildhall Library, holds even longer runs that you can photocopy from. Job done. Whether or not my enquirer will make the trip up to Guildhall is another matter...

LSE's Historical Statistics:
http://www.londonstockexchange.com/statistics/historic/historic.htm

FT's Market Data Archive:
http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Data-Archive
FTSE's Current Constituents:

http://www.ftse.com/Indices/UK_Indices/Constituents.jsp

BIALL's How Do I? Wiki. Page on FTSE Indices:
http://biallpr.pbworks.com/w/page/5259177/FTSE%20indices%20-%20lists%20of%20constituent%20companies

City of London Libraries:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/