Cameron McKenna
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| Headquarters | 78 Cannon Street London EC4N 6AF United Kingdom |
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| No. of offices | 71 |
| No. of lawyers | 3500 (2016/17) |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Key people | Stephen Millar (Managing Partner) Penelope Warne (Senior Partner) |
| Revenue | £735.2 million (2015/16) |
| Date founded | 1 May 1997 (London) |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | cms.law |
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, trading as CMS, is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, England. It has over 250 partners and 71 offices across Europe, the Middle East, South America and Asia.
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP is a member of the CMS organisation of law firms. When considered as a single firm, CMS is one of the ten largest law firms in the world (by number of lawyers: American Lawyer 2016).
The origins of the firm date back to 1779 and the law practice of T Hewitt.
In 1997 Cameron Markby Hewitt merged with fellow City of London law firm, McKenna & Co, to form Cameron McKenna (renamed CMS Cameron McKenna in 1999). The firms of Cameron Markby and Hewitt Woollacott & Chown had merged in 1989 to become Cameron Markby Hewitt. Prior to that Cameron Kemm Norden of New Street, London, EC2, off Bishopsgate, merged with Markbys of London Wall, either in 1980 or 1981. After 17 years at Mitre House, near the Barbican, the firm moved into its Cannon Place headquarters in July 2015, situated above Cannon Street Station.
Henry Markby, a name partner in legacy firm Cameron Markby Hewitt, is alluded to (usually in an unflattering manner) in a number of Oscar Wilde's plays, most notably in The Importance of Being Earnest, when Lady Bracknell says that her solicitors are Markby, Markby and Markby.
Markby, who was President of the Law Society of England and Wales in 1887, had fallen out with Wilde, a former friend, for reasons unknown.
The partnership incorporated as a limited liability partnership in 2005.
In January 2008, CMS Cameron McKenna expanded its European presence through the acquisition of the Romanian law firm Hayhurst Robinson.
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