Physics and recent results from LHCb

The LHCb experiment has collected more than 1 fb −1 of integrated luminos- ity in 2010 and 2011 and is producing a large amount of results in beauty and charmed meson physics. An overview of the most recent results on rare B decays, CP violation, and charmless B meson decays will be given along with an outlook to the physics perspectives and to the LHCb upgrade.