Sarah Downey, Author at Legal Business

Remaking legal education – after 18 years at Europe’s largest law school, Savage confirms retirement

In a career spanning dead-end jobs and the upper echelons of the global legal market, Nigel Savage, the man who…

Legal innovation – Connect2Law’s Jabbari to join Parabis to extend ABS portfolio and set up regional network

Just weeks after resigning from Manchester-based consumer services and personal injury (PI) firm Pannone following its £33m acquisition by ASX-listed Slater…

In-house lawyers to be affected by impact of ABS as hundreds of corporates consider conversion

Sarah Downey

Up to 700 companies, public authorities and charities could currently be considering the business case for applying to become an…

Professional negligence – Matthew Arnold & Baldwin to appeal against dismissal of £10m claim against Watson Farley

Sarah Downey

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin has said its client plans to appeal against the High Court’s decision last week to dismiss a…

Homegrown BPO – Hogan Lovells puts South Africa at centre of new business support initiative

Sarah Downey

Transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells has put South Africa at the centre of its cost savings plans for clients, setting up…

Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank blame litigation for drop in Q4 profits

Sarah Downey

Financial institutions report multibillion-dollar effects of post-crisis costs Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank have become the latest major financial institutions…

LLP latest: Taylor Wessing posts 4% increase in UK fee income

Sarah Downey

Taylor Wessing has become the latest LB100 firm to post its limited liability partnership accounts via Companies House, which show…

Leadership: Norman enters the fray as CC takes soundings for new global corporate chief

Sarah Downey

Clifford Chance (CC) has begun its nominations process for a potential successor to the role of global corporate chief following…

LLP latest: Hogan Lovells stands out for lack of debt as accounts show 5.4% increase in profit before tax

Sarah Downey

Transatlantic LB100 firm Hogan Lovells has become the latest to release its LLP accounts for the 2012/13 financial year, posting a…

Deal Watch: CC, Freshfields and A&O act on Liberty Global’s €6.9bn acquisition as Dentons and LG float Hurricane

Sarah Downey

Three Magic Circle firms have scored lead advisory roles on Liberty Global’s €6.9bn acquisition of Netherlands’ largest cable operator Ziggo,…

Joined up thinking – GCs push to make collaboration more than a buzzword

Sarah Downey

Collaboration has become a buzzword as progressive GCs press their advisers to parcel up work between them. Legal Business asks…

‘Like a comfortable old shoe’ – HMRC review attempts to push reset button on its relationship with partnerships

Sarah Downey

City tax partners have long accused HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) of unfairly treating all partnerships as tax avoidance vehicles…

LLP latest – Bird & Bird and Eversheds pay cost of expansion and restructuring

Sarah Downey

The cost of Bird & Bird’s strategic investment in 2012/13 became apparent today (27 January) with the filing of its limited…

Texas launch – Arnold & Porter opens Houston presence with four-partner Hogan Lovells litigation team

Sarah Downey

Washington-headquartered Global 100 law firm Arnold & Porter has become the latest to launch in Houston with the hire of a…

Deal watch: Taylor Wessing and Freshfields advise on HSBC Jordan bank deal

Sarah Downey

HSBC’s steps to streamline its business by disposing of non-core global assets has gifted Taylor Wessing and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…

Cyber warfare – Norton Rose Fulbright hires global chief information security officer

Sarah Downey

Top ten LB100 firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has moved to further protect client information with the hire the former head…

In-house: RFU rejigs legal team as deputy head joins sports firm Couchmans

Sarah Downey

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has reconfigured its in-house legal team recently, promoting in-house lawyer Angus Bujalski (pictured) to lead…

Fallout begins as Dundas & Wilson suffers spate of partner exits post-CMS merger deal

Sarah Downey

The fallout from Dundas & Wilson‘s recently announced takeover by CMS Cameron McKenna has begun in earnest, with the Scottish firm confirming…

New Year, new job: Hogan Lovells boosts global partnership by 29 in latest promotion round

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Hogan Lovells has increased the number promoted to partnership this year to 29, of which 11 made the cut in…

LLP results 2012/13 – CC reveals drop in management committee pay as LG records further decline in turnover

Sarah Downey

Clifford Chance’s (CC’s) limited liability partnership accounts for the 2012/13 year have revealed a 5% drop in total remuneration paid…