Hope floats: DWF seeks £75m from expected March IPO Hamish McNicol DWF is planning to raise around £75m in an expected listing on the London Stock Exchange next month. The firm…
KPMG ups the ante with 145-lawyer hire in France and new consultancy service Marco Cillario KPMG has added its name to the list of Big Four accountants ramping up their legal service offering in recent…
Luminance valuation hits $100m as Slaughters stumps up in $10m investment round Thomas Alan UK legal tech leader and Slaughter and May ally Luminance has received further backing from existing investors, propelling the start-up to…
MoFo strikes London pay dirt with hire of Latham finance co-chair Kandel Marco Cillario Further evidence of significant lateral movement between US players in London emerged today (7 February), with news that one the…
Corporate partner David Wilkinson wins Fieldfisher senior partner election Tom Baker Corporate partner David Wilkinson has beaten competition from real estate head Anthony Phillips to win Fieldfisher’s senior partner race, replacing…
‘Ongoing struggle’: Linklaters shuts down former director going public with concerns over firm culture Marco Cillario Linklaters has been granted an interim injunction against a former director of business development and marketing seeking to raise his…
Revolving Doors: Weil loses buyout rising star McGonigle to fund as Fried Frank taps Linklaters’ finance team and King & Spalding and Simmons & Simmons make European hires Anna Cole-Bailey The most significant moves are not always to rival law firms as the exit of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ City…
Cooley leverages Brexit uncertainty to launch in Brussels Marco Cillario Four years after launching in London, West Coast US firm Cooley is to launch its second European base in Brussels. The…
City revenues shoot up 16% after another bumper year for Quinn Emanuel Tom Baker Disputes heavyweight Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has continued its impressive run of form in London as City revenues for 2018…
Cyber-attack hacks at DLA profit as strong UK performance lifts revenue 5% Hamish McNicol Growth in DLA Piper’s UK business has pushed the firm’s international LLP top line to £919m, but 2017’s cyber-attack has…
Double whammy for Ashurst as London head quits for BCLP and Macfarlanes hires former corporate head Marco Cillario Ashurst London managing partner Simon Beddow and former corporate head Robert Ogilvy Watson have quit the firm to join Bryan Cave…
DWF equity partners stump up 60% profit share to fire up planned float Hamish McNicol DWF’s equity partners will be paid 40% of what they used to earn in an anticipated stock exchange listing, although…
Bird & Bird reports 11% uptick in first-half revenue as LLPs reveal rich pickings for ExComm Marco Cillario Bird & Bird’s nine executive committee members took home €6.4m in the year to April 2018, its LLP accounts showed…
Dentons UK top earner reaped benefits of Maclays takeover with 27% pay rise Marco Cillario Dentons’ highest paid UK partner took home £1.4m in the year to April 2018 compared to £1.1m the year before,…
LLP accounts show BLP flagging ahead of Bryan Cave merger as profit fell 21% Thomas Alan Legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner was hit by a 21% drop in profit and 3% dip in revenue in its last…
Deal watch: City and US firms defy tough M&A market with deal duo as Gateley takes the cake on Patisserie Valerie collapse Nathalie Tidman Slaughter and May, Sullivan & Cromwell, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Ashurst have defied a challenging market to take key…
City biz services staff under threat again as Taylor Wessing mulls 34 redundancies Marco Cillario The transfer of business services roles into low-cost bases shows no sign of slowdown in 2019, with top 20 UK…
Hogan Lovells partner leaves firm after watching pornography at work Marco Cillario A Hogan Lovells partner has agreed to leave the firm after being caught viewing pornographic images on a work computer. The…
CMS 2017/18 accounts reveal profit rise despite £30m cost of merger Marco Cillario The three way union of CMS, Nabarro and Olswang cost the partnership £28.9m in ‘reorganising, restructuring and integrating’ the merger…
MoJ faces parliamentary grilling over IT network meltdown Thomas Alan The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has come under fire in parliament after widespread IT disruption wrought chaos on the functioning…
