AI capability profile
Simmons & Simmons
Simmons & Simmons is an international law firm headquartered in London, known for its market-leading AI practice, in-house AI expertise (Percy, Copilot), and advisory work on AI regulation and governance.
- Tracked since
- 2025
- Tracked moves
- 8
- Capability areas
- 7
- Technologies named
- 1
Where AI is being used
Capability areas derived from every publicly tracked move at this firm.
GenAI Assistant
2 movesSimmons & Simmons partners with Legora, building on AI frontrunner status
Contract Review & Drafting
2 movesSimmons & Simmons partners with Legora, building on AI frontrunner status
Knowledge Management
1 moveSimmons & Simmons partners with Legora, building on AI frontrunner status
Infrastructure & Platform
1 moveSTRIDE global digital regulation tracker launched, claimed first law-firm MCP service
Technology in use
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In their own words
Attributed statements captured on tracked moves.
“Legora is a powerful platform that will further drive efficiency, elevate our work and enhance our level of service to clients, supporting our existing group of exceptional AI tools, including Percy, Copilot and the hundreds of agents that are now in operation within the firm." — Alex Brown, Head of TMT & AI Executive Sponsor, Simmons & Simmons”
“By embedding innovation and technology adoption into the way contribution is measured and rewarded, we're supporting our ambition of becoming a truly AI-enabled law firm. — Emily Monastiriotis, Global Managing Partner”
“I'm proud of Simmons' position as a leader in legal AI and the innovative work we're doing that continues to set the benchmark in the industry. — Emily Monastiriotis, Global Managing Partner”
Tracked activity
Every move TVPi has recorded for this firm, newest first.
- InvestmentJul 1, 2026
Financial results cite AI investment as growth driver
Simmons & Simmons reported revenue up 12% to £690m and PEP up 11% to approximately £1.25m for the year ending April 30, 2026, attributing growth partly to major investment in AI capabilities as part of a newly launched five-year business plan aiming to become a leading AI-enabled law firm.
- PartnershipJul 1, 2026
Simmons & Simmons partners with Legora, building on AI frontrunner status
International law firm Simmons & Simmons announced a partnership with Legora to deploy its legal AI platform across the firm's global offices. Legora will support client-facing teams and operate alongside Simmons & Simmons' existing generative AI tools, including its proprietary Percy and Microsoft Copilot. The move extends the firm's "build and buy" AI strategy, which already includes a multi-award-winning in-house AI team and a dedicated AI regulation/governance practice.
- PartnershipJun 5, 2026
Partnership with Flank for autonomous agentic NDA review
Simmons & Simmons partnered with Berlin-based agentic AI company Flank to deploy autonomous AI agents for NDA review at scale, described in trade press as among the first deployments of truly agentic AI in a legal services context.
- Internal BuildJun 5, 2026
Harmonica semantic regulatory search tool built in-house
Simmons & Simmons built Harmonica, a proprietary regulatory search tool using sentence transformers and vector embeddings for semantic regulatory matching, combined with a data pipeline, GenAI, and human-in-the-loop legal review for regulatory intelligence work.
- Policy / GovernanceMay 1, 2026
New bonus scheme rewarding "meaningful" GenAI use
Simmons & Simmons introduced a bonus scheme effective May 1, 2026, that rewards meaningful GenAI use, allowing up to 50 hours per category and a 100-hour overall cap toward contribution recognition; designated AI champions can allocate the full 100 hours to GenAI use.
- Internal BuildFeb 26, 2026
STRIDE global digital regulation tracker launched, claimed first law-firm MCP service
Simmons & Simmons launched STRIDE (Simmons Technology Regulation Intelligence for the Digital Economy), a global digital regulation tracker/database covering Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, claimed to be the world's first Model Context Protocol (MCP) service offered by a law firm, enabling AI agents to query regulatory data directly.
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- OtherSep 24, 2025
Launch of UK's first dedicated AI Law Internship
Simmons & Simmons announced the UK's first dedicated AI law internship program, with applications opening October 15, 2025, and the program starting April 2026 with 8 places. The program targets talent pipeline development specifically for AI-focused legal practice.
- OtherSep 19, 2025
Percy wins FT Innovative Lawyers 2025 "Innovation in AI" award
Simmons & Simmons' proprietary in-house GenAI tool Percy (originally launched Nov 2023) won the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe 2025 award for 'Innovation in AI.' The recognition highlighted the firm's continued investment in and refinement of Percy as a benchmark legal AI tool.
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AI Activity Score
66
Rank #2 of 164
↑ Rising
Activity by quarter
Move mix
- Internal Build2
- Partnership2
- Other2
- Investment1
- Policy / Governance1
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