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Cadwalader focuses on Europe with London restructuring hires
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A&O falls behind on associate pay table as it announces a freeze
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Travers Smith in surprise discrimination defeat
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Disruptive Models: ABS tally for 2013 reaches 2012 level as Shakespeares becomes latest to convert
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Cadwalader focuses on Europe with London restructuring hires
- 21 May 2013 10:16
US firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is focusing its restructuring practice on Europe with the hire of partners Holly Neavill and Louisa Watt, who have joined the firm's London office.
Neavill was previously a partner at Latham & Watkins London office, although she began her career in the US. She has worked on some high profile restructurings and distressed M&A deals, including advising the committee of bondholders in the restructuring of the publicly-listed Italian directories business SEAT Pagine Gialle last year.
A&O falls behind on associate pay table as it announces a freeze
- 21 May 2013 08:16
Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the latest of the Magic Circle to reveal that it is holding its associate salaries at last year's levels, meaning its associates will rank as the lowest paid of its rivals so far.
The firm will continue paying newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers £61,500; £1,500 less than Slaughter and May, £2,500 less than Linklaters and £3,500 less than Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Travers Smith in surprise discrimination defeat
- 20 May 2013 12:50
Top 50 City firm Travers Smith has suffered the rare public humiliation of losing a high profile discrimination case after a tribunal found the firm denied a former trainee a place in the firm because she had fallen pregnant.
The Central London Employment Tribunal found that Travers 'contrived to prevent Katie Tantum from being offered a post as a newly qualified solicitor because of her pregnancy', according to a statement by Tantum's solicitors, Leigh Day & Co.
Disruptive Models: ABS tally for 2013 reaches 2012 level as Shakespeares becomes latest to convert
- 20 May 2013 08:33
The number of firms granted alternative business structure (ABS) status in 2013 has now hit the same level as for the whole of 2012, as Shakespeares last week became the latest mid-tier outfit to announce it has been granted a licence.
Shakespeares was the 72nd firm to obtain a licence in 2013, the same number as obtained a licence in total in 2012 after the Solicitors Regulation Authority began accepting applications on 3 January.
