CMA plucks from Freshfields and Hogan Lovells in ongoing restructure Legal Business As part of an ongoing restructure, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has made three key appointments to its legal…
Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters Legal Business The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering…
Shearman London tax head Priestley quits as exits mount for US firm Legal Business Shearman & Sterling‘s London tax head Sarah Priestley has now also quit the firm, closely following in the footsteps of…
Hogan Lovells’ Hamburg head resigns amid spying investigation Legal Business Hogan Lovells‘ Hamburg office managing partner Eckard Schwarz has resigned over claims of illegal surveillance by an employee of former…
Pinsents and Linklaters act on latest big pharma deal as Teva sells Allergan generics business for £600m Legal Business Pinsent Masons and Linklaters are advising on Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ sale of UK and Ireland business Activas Generics for £603m…
Ince & Co replenishes Singapore hub with senior appointments Legal Business Ince & Co‘s Singapore venture, Ince Law Alliance, has hired three more lawyers and has appointed a new managing director…
Global 100 debate: the view from the top Legal Business To mark this year’s Global 100 report, we gathered a group of senior figures at the top of Tower 42…
GC Powerlist Summer Reception – Home House truths Legal Business Ambition, Millennials, corporate guff – we gathered more than 60 GCs and FT columnist Lucy Kellaway to debate the pleasures…
Leadership and the modern GC: a special report Legal Business We teamed up with Reed Smith to ask which skills the GCs of tomorrow will need to lead and what…
A period of silence from the profession on access to justice would be welcome Legal Business Inevitably with an event as dramatic as Brexit, the unintended consequences keep coming. One of the less noted is the…
The Last Word – My way Legal Business ‘Do not come to a problem from dogma or rigid ideology.’ Tony West, PepsiCo As part of our Insight report…
Life during Law: Aedamar Comiskey, Linklaters Legal Business I’m the fifth of six children. By child five, your parents are very relaxed. You can do what you want!…
Freshfields and Baker Botts take pole position on F1 sell off Legal Business Over 100 lawyers involved as PE firm sells sport to Liberty Media Just six months a partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s…
CMS returns to Hong Kong to enhance Asia disputes practice Legal Business CMS opened in Hong Kong in September through its German branch CMS Hasche Sigle, re-entering the city as part of…
The IT crowd: Travers, Kirkland and Freshfields team up on $8.8bn Micro Focus/HPE deal Legal Business Travers Smith and Kirkland & Ellis last month teamed up to advise UK tech firm Micro Focus on its $8.8bn…
Olswang exits continue as merger claims swirl around TMT player Legal Business More than 30 partners have left the firm in the last 18 months Having emerged as one of the worst…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in October 2016 Legal Business CC and Davis Polk On $8bn China IPO: Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Postal Savings Bank of China on its…
White & Case opens Australia practice with ten-partner project finance raid on HSF Legal Business Simultaneous Melbourne and Sydney launches filled with former Freehills lawyers White & Case is to open two offices in Australia…
Perspectives: Peter Wexler, Schneider Electric Legal Business French energy management company Schneider Electric has been on a buying spree lately, most recently with its £3.4bn acquisition of…
The rise of the machines: Slaughters latest to join rush to embrace artificial intelligence Legal Business Matthew Field reports on the latest from Global 100 players in legal tech Long regarded as the most conservative of…
