Tom Moore, Author at Legal Business

‘No one had done it in the London market’: Clifford Chance’s former head of antitrust launches City boutique

Oliver Bretz, former global head of antitrust at Clifford Chance, is leaving after 15 years at the Magic Circle firm to…

The king is dead – hunting out the new breed of dealmakers in banking lawyers sights

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The veteran deal bankers have moved on and there’s a new pecking order with US banks and credit funds staking…

City comp scheme to create first panel

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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of authorised financial services firms, is currently…

Building a base: Akin Gump launches London trainee scheme

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is launching its first trainee scheme outside of the US in a move that…

Baker & McKenzie turns to DLA again to add partner in Johannesburg

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Baker & McKenzie has lured a partner from rival global behemoth DLA Piper for the second time in a month,…

Hunting titans: Quinn and HSF take lead as former Goldman Sachs bankers and UBS face off

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Unsurprisingly for a high-profile claim against a global investment bank, litigation heavyweights Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Herbert Smith…

Targeting Europe: James Roome set for a place on Akin Gump’s global board

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London-based restructuring guru James Roome, who carried a 28-partner team from Bingham McCutchen to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld…

‘Doing more for the large clients’: Simmons & Simmons posts 8% rise in revenue

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Top-20 UK firm Simmons & Simmons has seen revenue rise 8% for the first six months of the 2014-15 financial year…

‘Shining examples’: Three law firms make Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list

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Weightmans, Addleshaw Goddard and Oxfordshire-based Brethertons Solicitors have all made it on to the top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list.

£58.11 per sq ft: Bird & Bird loses major patent litigator as it commits to £8.3m annual rent bill

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Mark Heaney, who heads Bird & Bird’s highly regarded electronics sector group, is leaving for US firm Baker Botts at the…

‘Rather impersonal’: Financial Services Compensation Scheme set to create first legal panel

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The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of authorised financial services firms, is currently…

Significant departures: BLP and Olswang heads of arbitration both leave for the bar

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Nicholas Fletcher QC, who has led Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s international arbitration practice for the last five years, has resigned from…

Dealwatch: Davis Polk and Linklaters act on UBM’s £565m rights issue

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Corporate partner Simon Witty, who Davis Polk & Wardwell hired from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2012 to launch its English…

Baker & McKenzie overhauls pay structure in Europe and Asia

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Larger regional pools to replace national pay by year end. The world’s largest law firm, Baker & McKenzie, is set…

Consumed – Can burning ambition from Down Under recast Herbert Smith for the global stage?

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With the fall-out from the merger of Herbert Smith and Freehills subsiding, the emerging global challenger needs to galvanise its…

‘We will continue to review and innovate in this area’: Baker & McKenzie overhauls pay structure in Europe and Asia

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The world’s largest law firm, Baker & McKenzie, is set to overhaul its longstanding remuneration system in Europe and Asia,…

A ‘massive’ difference in value: Sotheby’s picks Freshfields to defend it against Caravaggio claim

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer litigator Paul Lomas is leading Sotheby’s defence against a professional negligence claim after the auction house sold…

Women in law: BLP signs up to 30% female partnership target by 2018

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Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has become the tenth major law firm in the UK to establish a gender target, committing…

Revolving doors: Squires lures London partner from Covington in energy disputes push

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Squire Patton Boggs has made its first lateral hire in London since its merger in May, hiring arbitration partner Ben…

Herbert Smith Freehills’ heavyweight misses out on management post after elections

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Herbert Smith Freehills‘ (HSF) partnership vote for its global partnership council has revealed the firm’s post-merger dynamics, with prominent corporate…