Interviewed for our annual in-house lawyer survey, leading GCs give their take on risk management, becoming business advisers and collaboration Agile minds ‘Digital technology is something that is upon us. A lot of law firms and in-house departments will start thinking about how we harness the power of AI or technology to help us and …
Simmons & Simmons added to its international banking practice with the hire of Kirsty Barnes, formerly Gowling WLG’s head of banking and finance in the UK. Barnes brings with her experience in leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and corporate lending transactions. CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang hired pensions partner Tim Green from DWF, …
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Law firm leaders discuss the challenges of putting values on their corporate agenda and how to balance purpose with the profit motive Heads out of the sand ‘Most firms realise the importance of values. I don’t think I’ve spoken to a single managing partner who isn’t doing these things. There are two basic drivers – …
Linklaters mourns death of M&A partner Iain Wagstaff (6 September) Linklaters partner Iain Wagstaff died at the age of 44 following a cycling accident. A&O loses M&A heavyweights to Skadden following failed US merger talks (12 September) Allen & Overy lost two well-respected City corporate partners just days after its merger talks with O’Melveny …
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Allen & Overy (A&O) suffered another significant loss with the departure of litigation partner Marc Florent to Baker McKenzie. Florent is experienced in banking disputes, particularly in the wholesale and retail banking areas, asset management, funds and sponsors on cross-border matters. A&O also lost its head of fraud Mona Vaswani to US rival Milbank, Tweed, …
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No-deal Brexit, accountants, Millennials and soothsaying – LB100 leaders give their views on a hazy 12 months ahead Change is gonna come ‘You cannot continue having 10-15% growth every year – not even the Chinese economy has achieved that! The profession as a whole has had a good year, but the rate of growth has …
LB100 law firms The firms that appear in the Legal Business 100 (LB100) are the top 100 law firms in the UK (usually LLP partnerships but also some alternative business structures – see footnotes), ranked by gross fee income generated over the financial year 2018/19 – usually 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2019. We …
Top 50 firms ranked by highest top of equity 1-50* Equity partners:non-equity partners % of partners that are equity partners PEP Equity spread 1 Fieldfisher 83:292 22% £800k £250k to £4,300k 2 Slaughter and May 102:7 94% £2,895k £1,780k to £3,650k 3 Hogan Lovells 529:262 67% £1,039k £320k to £3,200k 4 Clifford Chance 394:168 70% …
