Squad of Global 100 firms lines up on £9bn Worldpay disposal Tom Baker ‘Compelling rationale’ sees UK and US legal teams advise as Vantiv moves in A host of US and UK-based international…
‘Unprecedented in scale’: City bluebloods advise as Tata separates UK pension scheme Tom Baker Travers Smith, Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells all advised as Tata Steel last month signed a long-awaited agreement to…
Investment costs force insurer LV= to pull plug on legal services Tom Baker In a further setback for insurers hoping to take advantage of the post-Legal Services Act landscape, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society…
‘A clear cut case’ – Ex-KWM employees win £1m pay-out from employment tribunal Tom Baker After being on the verge of accepting a six-figure sum last month, a group of 288 former King & Wood…
Hogan Lovells to handle appeal as TfL refuses Uber new licence Tom Baker Hogan Lovells has been drafted in to advise Uber as the US-based ridesharing company launches a legal challenge to Transport for…
Magic Circle prove mettle as Tata and ThyssenKrupp agree €15bn steel JV Tom Baker Following last month’s separation of Tata Steel’s business from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS), Linklaters and Slaughter and May…
Bar watchdog issues public apology to silk over Djibouti allegations Tom Baker The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has today (19 September) issued a highly unusual apology to Serle Court’s Khawar Qureshi QC…
A first for everything: Ex-Linklaters partner breaks new ground with High Court appointment Tom Baker As the profession’s liberal wing casts a sceptical eye over the Bar’s lack of diversity, former Linklaters capital markets partner…
Never waste a crisis as Ashurst and Hogan Lovells step in amid Bell Pottinger’s administration woes Tom Baker As scandal-ridden PR agency Bell Pottinger collapses into administration, Ashurst, Hogan Lovells and Mishcon de Reya have swept in to take…
In-house wrap: Air France confirms new law chief as EDF and PwC make senior hires Tom Baker It has been a busy week for in-house moves, with three major companies seeing significant changes in their legal teams.…
He’s back – DWF signs up Sir Nigel Knowles as chair in rare c-suite shuffle for the profession Tom Baker It remains extremely rare for law firm leaders to re-emerge at another practice, but then Sir Nigel Knowles has always…
CC pushes on with stateside lateral spree adding disputes trio in Washington Tom Baker As a season of disputes and regulatory hiring for international firms in Washington DC continues apace, Clifford Chance (CC) has continued…
Lawyers On Demand thinks it’s going to solve your secondee problem with its latest product launch Tom Baker Mounting client demand for secondees has long been a bugbear for City law firms, a reality that one of the…
Five years on from pioneering S&G acquisition of Russell Jones, Aussie pioneer splits from UK business Tom Baker Another chapter in the turbulent story of Slater and Gordon (S&G) has unfolded, with the beleaguered listed legal pioneer today…
‘Unprecedented in scale’: Travers, Slaughters and Hogan Lovells advise as Tata Steel separates UK pension scheme Tom Baker Travers Smith, Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells have all advised as Tata Steel today signed a long-awaited agreement to…
Revolving doors: Fieldfisher hires from Hogan Lovells as global players make international appointments Tom Baker Fieldfisher has made a major addition to its London corporate team while DWF, Watson Farley & Williams, O’Melveny & Myers…
Financials 2016/17: Trowers & Hamlins steadies ship with double-digit turnover rise Tom Baker Top-50 UK firm Trowers & Hamlins has recorded increases in turnover and profit per equity partner (PEP) to recover from last year’s…
‘Right to be voluntary’: Litigators respond to Jackson’s latest fixed costs proposals Tom Baker City disputes partners have responded cautiously to proposals put forward by Lord Justice Jackson to extend the fixed recoverable costs…
Shorter trial scheme undergoes first full test as court allows BP appeal in $70m claim Tom Baker The first case brought to trial under the London courts’ ongoing shorter trial pilot scheme has concluded on 27 July,…
Snap Inc names Munger, Tolles & Olson partner as new general counsel Tom Baker Snap Inc has named Michael O’Sullivan as its new general counsel (GC), after former legal head Chris Handman stepped down from…
