‘Private capital is a super creative industry’ – KKR Europe GC Susanna Berger Cameron Purse Susanna Berger – Managing director, general counsel for Europe, KKR & Co Year of qualification: 2002 University of Chicago Law…
‘A PE firm is one of the most interesting places for an in-house lawyer’ – Cinven GC Babett Carrier Cameron Purse Babett Carrier – General counsel, Cinven Shearman & Sterling, 1996-2012 Arma Partners, 2013-14 Cinven, 2015-present I come from a family…
The Private Equity Elite: the top general counsel in PE Cameron Purse What does it take to run the legal team in one of the most profitable deal shops in the world?…
Elite: The rise of the in-house lawyer in private capital Cameron Purse ‘The industry has changed massively. When we started, we were working with single product mid-cap PE shops, and these have…
The AI debate: ‘If it frees up my time to be more strategic and more creative, then that’s great’ Cameron Purse Cameron Purse: Talk us through your professional journeys with AI, and generative AI in particular. When did it become a…
Dialling in the deal – the inside track on the Vodafone/Three merger Cameron Purse Whatever metric you track, 2023 was a poor year for M&A. One bright spark amid the gloom was the proposed…
Table toppers – the law firms leading the pack in the latest Legal 500 research Cameron Purse Almost 1,200 firms have secured spots in the most recent UK Legal 500 Solicitors research, which provides law firms, in-house…
‘The wind was taken out of everyone’s sails’ – the M&A report 2023 Cameron Purse 2021 was always going to be a tough year to follow. Quite how tough, few could have foreseen at the…
Onward, Singapore: King & Spalding names new managing partner as Sidley backs laterals in the city state Cameron Purse As a growing number of international firms pivot their focus in Asia to Singapore, King & Spalding’s appointment of banking…
Onward, Singapore: King & Spalding names new managing partner as Sidley backs laterals in the city state Cameron Purse As a growing number of international firms pivot their focus in Asia to Singapore, King & Spalding’s appointment of banking…
Legalease Research Services: Held to account Cameron Purse The team at BT Legal has spent the past three years changing the way it deals with external lawyers and…