DLA adds ‘practical’ regulatory expertise with hire of former high-ranking SFO lawyer Hamish McNicol DLA Piper has hired a former Serious Fraud Office (SFO) division head in response to multinational clients increasingly demanding ‘expertise on…
Law Society predicts no-deal Brexit could halve UK legal sector turnover growth Hamish McNicol The UK legal sector could lose nearly £3bn in turnover growth and have 10,000 fewer jobs by 2025 with a…
A&O Fuse start-up among first to take space at Barclays’ law tech lab Hamish McNicol A start-up from Allen & Overy’s (A&O) Fuse innovation hub is one of the first 17 companies to join banking…
‘Cracking place to do business’: Burness Paull leverages international growth in 7% revenue uptick Hamish McNicol It has been a choppy year for the Scottish economy but local independent Burness Paull has used a 30% increase…
In-house: RBS to tackle peaks and troughs with flexible legal providers Hamish McNicol The need for a more ‘nimble and agile’ environment is driving the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) foray into the…
In-house: big names move shop as BT’s Fitz goes into medical research and tech giants see exits Hamish McNicol Three of the global in-house community’s leading lights have announced moves in recent weeks, with former BT general counsel (GC)…
DWF hires the brains behind Freshfields’ Manchester hub for new managed services role Hamish McNicol National operator DWF has bolstered its services clout ahead of a touted stock exchange listing with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus…
Big deals – meet the GCs running the headline deals Hamish McNicol The global M&A market is booming. Bill Mordan, general counsel at FTSE 100 drug-maker Shire, would know. Shire’s board recently…
To list, or not to list? More, and much bigger, firms are asking that question Hamish McNicol As DWF positions to float, Hamish McNicol asks if the legal IPO is going mainstream Eversheds Sutherland co-chief executives Lee…
Client profile: Martin Cook, Funding Circle Hamish McNicol The London office of peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle is exactly what you would expect from one of the UK’s largest…
Burges Salmon cautious over challenging market as PEP dips against modest revenue growth Hamish McNicol A ‘challenging market’ led to sluggish revenue growth at Burges Salmon for the last financial year, while profit per equity…
Gowling WLG revenue climbs to £455m in second post-merger financial results Hamish McNicol Gowling WLG has replicated a broadly strong year for law firms after adding nearly 17% to its top line. The firm’s…
End of Sir Cliff’s BBC privacy battle ushers in new rules on reporting investigations Hamish McNicol Old-fashioned defamation disputes may rarely create significant precedent these days but the rapidly evolving area of privacy is a very…
Comment: Deal View – DLA moves house in London but can it break free? Hamish McNicol Shifting to an agile-working office is a peculiar experience. Two camps quickly emerge: those excited by change and colleagues happy…
Addleshaws’ appetite for expansion grows amid strong 23% lift in revenue Hamish McNicol Addleshaw Goddard wants to expand in any possible way and in any possible place following a sustained period of growth and…
Growth for Scottish independents Brodies and Shepherd Wedderburn as uncertainty looms Hamish McNicol Scottish independents Brodies and Shepherd and Wedderburn have continued to grow despite a backdrop of what both describe as political and economic…
Allen & Overy Fuse start-up Bloomsbury sold to Facebook for $23m Hamish McNicol Allen & Overy (A&O) is unlikely to replace the start-up that has been snapped up by Facebook just two months…
Barclays presses counsel for radical shake-up by 2021 as it unveils final panel Hamish McNicol Barclays is intent on pushing dozens of major law firms to adopt a radical overhaul in working arrangements in time…
Client profile: Richard Price, Anglo American Hamish McNicol Shortly before Richard Price went in-house as group general counsel (GC) and company secretary at Anglo American, the legal team’s…
Sole-adviser relationships: Commitment issues Hamish McNicol Commitment. Marriage. Honeymoon. Divorce. Conversations about single-supplier legal advisory mandates are rife with relationship-strewn analogies. While no two arrangements are…
