David Stevenson

The fast-paced Premier League last week handed two lucrative deals to LB100 firms Gateley, Howard KennedyFsi, Hill Dickinson and DWF,…

David Stevenson

After a relatively quiet few weeks for mid-tier merger mania, Davenport Lyons and Howard Kennedy FSI have done the decent…

David Stevenson

The third partner to leave Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) for Jones Day in under six months, former head of restructuring and insolvency…

David Stevenson

Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has this time found an in-house replacement legal director Peter Rees QC, today (10 February)…

David Stevenson

Following last year’s announcement from Field Fisher Waterhouse that it was looking to move a number of its London support functions…

David Stevenson

With transactional activity on the rise international firms including Bird & Bird, K&L Gates, Trowers & Hamlins and Reed Smith…

David Stevenson

In the third largest M&A deal in the UK this year after Liberty Global’s $10bn takeover of Ziggo and Amec’s…

David Stevenson

New Year surge in high-value deals after subdued year While deal activity was down again in 2013, last year’s growth…

David Stevenson

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP’s) depleted finance department has seen a further partner exit after acquisition finance partner Marcus Jamson this month…

David Stevenson

As the banking crisis and collapse of Dewey fade from memory, a band of emerging giants continue their long-term push…

David Stevenson

Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May has taken the unprecedented step of making a lateral hire, recruiting US securities partner…

David Stevenson

Significantly increased debt has been a recurring theme for many of the latest limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts filed at…

David Stevenson

Legal services market reforms are being blamed for job losses at Bolton-based UK top 60 insurance firm Keoghs, which has…

David Stevenson

Baker & McKenzie and Reed Smith will further extend their global footprints, with Bakers looking at another low-cost offshore base…

David Stevenson

Top-20 Global 100 firms Norton Rose Fulbright and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have made significant and experienced additions to their…

David Stevenson

Last year’s growth in confidence in the corporate sector together with fundraising activity among a number of large private equity…

David Stevenson

With only Asia showing any real growth in M&A work for law firms during 2013, it is unsurprising that major international…

David Stevenson

For many watchers of the upper reaches of City law, Latham & Watkins has in recent years established a profile…

David Stevenson

Having completed a crucial overhaul of its management and remuneration structures towards the end of 2013, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) would have hoped…

David Stevenson

The long-awaited consolidation of the legal market accelerated in 2013, which was a record year for large UK law firm…