‘Not everybody gets corrupted. You have to have a little faith in people.’ The parting shot from Woody Allen’s iconic 1979 film Manhattan resonates among the Wall Street elite lamenting the increasing lure of megabucks within even the most clubby of partnerships. In a legal community renowned for its glacial pace of change, New York …
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London headcount: 121 lawyers, 19 partners Lawyer headcount change since 2014: 1% (-17% partners) London head: Litigation partner Sunil Gadhia sits on the 11-strong executive committee Office specialities: M&A, antitrust and disputes
London headcount: 144 lawyers, 28 partners Lawyer headcount change since 2014: 15% (-7% partners) London head: Pranav Trivedi Office specialities: M&A, arbitration, litigation and white collar
We had Skadden’s 30th anniversary party at Kensington Palace. Very cool. I’ve been here most of those 30 years. I took a year and a half off between high school and college in the States. I spent most of my youth surfing and had a dream to finish high school in Hawaii.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has become the latest firm to take drastic financial measures as the Covid-19 pandemic reaches new heights – suspending partner pay and cutting salaries elsewhere. The move comes as the number of confirmed cases of the virus in the US soared to nearly 200,000 today (1 April) and the number of …
Allen & Overy has pre-empted a likely financial hit from the coronavirus crisis with a host of measures, including altering profit distribution to partners, increasing partner capital levels and freezing some investments and recruitment. The firm confirmed today (31 March) what it described as ‘prudent management measures’ as part of its ‘ongoing scenario planning’ as the …
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Ashurst has launched a consulting business with the hire of a senior Deloitte partner in Australia to deal with growing client demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said today (31 March) it had hired Philip Hardy, a partner at the Big Four consultancy since 2008 and head of its Australian governance, regulation and conduct …
Allen & Overy has not let market turmoil wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic get in the way of its US recruitment ambitions, having re-hired IP litigation partner Paul Keller from Norton Rose Fulbright in New York. The move, announced today (30 March), comes as part of its strategy to accelerate investment into its US business …
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‘Even two weeks ago no-one predicted such a catastrophic impact from the coronavirus. Things have turned very quickly.’ This City restructuring partner’s words carry some irony, given that the restructuring and insolvency community has for years waited in vain for a sequel to the global financial crisis of 2008/09. However, the trigger event in this …
Allen & Overy has again thrown itself behind its strategy to accelerate investment in its US business after fruitless merger talks with O’Melveny & Myers, having hired a pair of federal enforcement partners from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington DC. The addition of Billy Jacobson and Jonathan Lopez, both veterans of the fraud section …
