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Francesca Fanshawe

The tally of City firms calling on salaried partners to increase their capital investment in response to new HM Revenue…

Francesca Fanshawe

With the blurring between criminal and civil law becoming ever more prominent, Mishcon de Reya announced last week that Alison Levitt QC,…

Legal Business

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has brought in a former chief executive of Cheshire and Kent County Councils, Sir Michael…

Legal Business

Transatlantic mid-market private equity firm and UK pub owner GI Partners has announced the appointment of new general counsel (GC)…

Francesca Fanshawe

Barclays’ in-house legal team is to offer around 80 work experience placements to students from socio-economic groups under-represented in the…

Sarah Downey

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has lost another two City banking partners, with real estate finance duo Andrew Flemming and Jo Solomon…

Francesca Fanshawe

National Express has appointed Burges Salmon’s head of corporate and financial institutions Sandra Forbes as group general counsel and company secretary,…

Legal Business

The Supreme Court will next week preside over a precedent-setting case to decide if partners of limited liability partnerships (LLPs)…

Legal Business

CMS Cameron McKenna and Dundas & Wilson have placed 60 support staff roles at risk following the duo’s recently announced union.

Legal Business

With the impact of the latest cuts to legal aid yet to bite, the number of practising solicitors in the…

Legal Business

Litigation boutique Stewarts Law has moved to rebuild its employment capability with the hire of longstanding Dentons employment partner Richard Nicolle,…

Legal Business

The long-trailed 2014 budget yesterday (19 March) brought few surprises to the legal business community, although nonetheless some disappointment, as…

Jaishree Kalia

While talks of the giant south-east combination between Blake Lapthorn, Boyes Turner and Morgan Cole to create a £100m firm fell…

Sarah Downey

Energy giant BP, which has paid around $1bn in external legal fees in relation to the Gulf of Mexico oil…

Legal Business

Two multi-million pound regional deals have been announced in the past week, as Wragge & Co advises Birmingham City Council on…

Legal Business

Olswang has made a further senior TMT lateral on the Continent, boosting its Brussels and Paris practices with the hire of…

David Stevenson

Boasting an extensive international network to push its financial services credibility, Baker & McKenzie is also extending its links with industry…

David Stevenson

While partnership promotions among the City elite have generally been on the wane in recent years, Slaughter and May has…

Jaishree Kalia

He may have only replaced Mark Harding late last year but Barclays‘ recently appointed group general counsel Bob Hoyt has…

Legal Business

With Stephenson Harwood’s chief executive Sharon White this month reappointed for a further three-year term, the high profile transactional lawyer has…