A host of UK firms including Bond Dickinson, TLT and DAC Beachcroft have been appointed to West Yorkshire authorities’ legal framework (WYLAW) for three years. A total of nineteen law firms have been appointed across ten lots which include childcare law, general litigation, routine property and contracts, commercial and IT. National firms Browne Jacobson, Ward Hadaway and Weightmans also feature …
Spanish banking giant Santander has appointed a host of firms including Slaughter and May, Ashurst and Reed Smith to its UK legal panel for three years.
Disruptive general counsel (GC) Christine Cordon has departed her role at luxury travel company Secret Escapes to become head of legal at venture capital business Arts Alliance Ventures.
LB100 firm Gordon Dadds is in ‘very advanced negotiations’ to become an AIM-listed law firm by August this year, following a recent share offer of £18.75m by Work Group.
AIM-listed law firm Gateley has posted a double-digit increase in revenues for this financial year, with turnover up 16% from £67.1m to £77.6m.
Double-digit fee growth for A&O, Links and CC but Freshfields stalls Dramatic swings in foreign currencies against Brexit-battered sterling have lifted reported results from London’s big four, with double-digit growth rates for Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s growth, however, has stalled in what has been a record year …
Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, DLA Piper and Eversheds Sutherland were selected last month to tier one of the Department for Transport (DfT)’s first £50m rail panel. As part of the panel appointment, which lasts until 2020, the four firms will act on rail franchise competitions, major rolling stock procurements and infrastructure projects.
My dad was a cab driver and my mum a factory worker. She was also a photographer’s assistant and met my dad at a wedding. After that she vowed to never drink again because she met my dad. I went to a local state school in Wembley. I got into Oxford. There weren’t many people …
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The LB100’s regional players have seen starkly divided fortunes with the South West players sailing ahead while northern firms face choppy waters Collectively, the 29 regional firms in the second half of the Legal Business 100 (LB100) trail in the wake of other peer groups. While average revenue is £38.4m, a little below the £39m of the second …
