Rising Star: Matt Bland, Linklaters Legal Business Key clients: Friends Life, Julius Baer, Novartis, Lloyds Banking Group Partner since 2008 Why corporate? The sheer variety. The access…
Rising Star: Chris McGaffin, Slaughter and May Legal Business Key clients: ARM Holdings, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Shire, Aggreko, WS Atkins Partner since 2015 As a grammar school boy from Northern…
Rising Star: Charles Hayes, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Legal Business Key clients: CVC Capital Partners, Charterhouse Capital Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Middle East sovereign wealth funds Partner since 2016…
Rising Star: Victoria Sigeti, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Legal Business Key clients: Cinven, 3i Group, Permira, General Atlantic Partner since 2015 A key deal for me was the IPO of…
Rising Star: Alison Smith, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Legal Business Key clients: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Tesco, Smiths Group Partner since 2015 As a teenager I was desperate to be a criminal…
The business and human rights debate: The new judges Mark McAteer With new legislation putting human rights on the business agenda, we teamed up with Herbert Smith Freehills to gather lawyers…
The M&A Report: ‘Who Are Ya?’ – Mark Rawlinson: Freshfields’ playmaker leaves the pitch Madeleine Farman There is little space at the top among the elite M&A dealmakers, but as of October there is a vacancy…
Global 100 debate: the view from the top Legal Business To mark this year’s Global 100 report, we gathered a group of senior figures at the top of Tower 42…
Rain men – goodbye Harvard Kool-Aid, hello plain speaking at Linklaters’ c-suite Matthew Field With high-billing duo Charlie Jacobs and Gideon Moore taking the helm at Linklaters there is renewed swagger on Silk Street.…
The art of leadership in Asia – an evolving role for legal heads James Wood What does leadership mean in a region where the role of the in-house lawyer is rapidly evolving? ‘Becoming an in-house…
Taught leaders – executive training for the ambitious GC James Wood Leadership training has until recently neglected the growing ranks of GCs. To begin our Insight special with Reed Smith, we…
The next step – meet the GCs determined to seize leadership roles Kathryn McCann An ambitious generation of in-house counsel is determined to take on leadership roles, despite corporate pressure to stay in the…
Leadership and the modern GC: a special report Legal Business We teamed up with Reed Smith to ask which skills the GCs of tomorrow will need to lead and what…
Perspectives: Peter Wexler, Schneider Electric Legal Business French energy management company Schneider Electric has been on a buying spree lately, most recently with its £3.4bn acquisition of…
Perspectives: Louise Pentland, PayPal Legal Business As GC of Nokia during the complex carve-out and sale of its handsets division to Microsoft, Louise Pentland refined her…
Perspectives: Penny Dudley, Bupa Legal Business When Penny Dudley, former legal director of Bupa’s international health insurance division, was asked to move into the chief legal…
Perspectives: Maria Varsellona, Nokia Legal Business Nokia’s transformation over the last few years has tested the leadership skills of all function heads. In April 2014 it…
Perspectives: Clare Wardle, Coca-Cola European Partners Legal Business Recruited from FTSE 100 company Kingfisher to oversee the legal function at the newly-merged soft drink entity Coca-Cola European Partners…
Perspectives: Sabine Chalmers, Anheuser-Busch InBev Legal Business ‘The leadership aspect of my role has definitely increased as the company has grown,’ notes Sabine Chalmers, Anheuser-Busch InBev’s chief…
Perspectives: Albert Wang, 3M Legal Business ‘There are all sorts of platitudes about leadership,’ says Albert Wang, general counsel (GC) for Asia-Pacific at 3M. ‘You hear…
