Marco Cillario assesses the latest rounds at London’s big five The overall number of partner promotions at Magic Circle firms has dropped 10% this year to 89 after nearing 100 in 2017.
Global 100 player Covington & Burling is taking a shot at the German private equity market, launching an office in Frankfurt after taking a six-partner team from Heymann & Partner, which has shut down after 12 years. Focusing on private equity, tech and healthcare, the firm’s third European base opened on 3 April and counts …
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As the inevitable fallout from the $900m Bryan Cave/Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) tie-up continues, Addleshaw Goddard is following up on its Asia ambitions by announcing the hire of legacy BLP regional head Bob Charlton. Based in Hong Kong, Charlton will lead Addleshaws’ Asia-Pacific operations, with firm-wide managing partner John Joyce telling Legal Business the firm …
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Dentons, the world’s largest globetrotting firm, has added 17 partners from an ailing Australian shop and announced a combination with seven firms across three continents over the past few weeks. As 25-partner Australian firm DibbsBarker shut down, Dentons in May acquired ten of its partners in Sydney and two in Melbourne, while another five launched …
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I grew up in North West London. My parents came from working-class, Irish Catholic backgrounds from Liverpool. Nobody had been to university. My mum left school at 14 but she was always keen on education. I did law at Bristol University. It was in the pre-Thatcher days and I was lucky enough to be sent …
‘An earthquake’; ‘very shocking’; ‘difficult to understand’; ‘one of the most relevant moves in the market over the last few years’: if you want members of the Spanish legal elite to come up with the most melodramatic expressions they can find, mention Juan Picón and Latham & Watkins. You can easily see why. The news …
Latham & Watkins’ City lateral hires outside its traditional transactional heartlands have been in the news for a while, but this time it is US rival Kirkland & Ellis tapping the Magic Circle for a surprising IP hire. The firm announced today (14 May) that Allen & Overy’s (A&O) global head of IP Nicola Dagg …
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US firms have been busy expanding their European finance ranks this week, with Latham & Watkins scooping yet another Magic Circle partner and Ropes & Gray hiring a leveraged finance partner in London. In its race to the top of the German legal market, Latham has come back to London’s big four for the third …
Partners and staff at Linklaters will have to notify the firm of any personal relationships with colleagues that may lead to conflicts of interest, according to new rules introduced this week. The firm’s ‘guidance on how to manage relationships at work’ says it expects partnership and staff members to discuss such relationships with an office, group …
Latham & Watkins is ramping up its ambitions to expand beyond its traditional transactional heartlands in the City after tapping the Magic Circle for another financial regulation partner. The US giant has made its fourth regulatory lateral hire in the City in less than two years with the hire of Linklaters’ London partner and former Asia …
