Deal View: After years of missed opportunities Weil flirts with a broader City advance Nathalie Tidman Investment in Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ City arm has long come in fits and starts, avoiding broader M&A ambitions to…
The Last Word: 2020 visions Legal Business ‘The next decade will decide whether firms become more like the Big Four or develop their own distinct model. They…
Cracking Wall St is the prize of the decade for City leaders Alex Novarese If much of the commentary in this issue focuses on what has gone awry for major UK law firms in…
Remembering Mr Disruption – The innovator’s legacy for the profession Alex Novarese Barely into 2020 and news came that probably the most influential business thinker of the last 20 years had passed…
The 2010s marked an unsung crisis in law firm leadership Alex Novarese Astute readers will note that our cover feature on 2020 forecasts spends as much time casting its eye back on…
Letter from… Warsaw: Weil’s withdrawal from CEE marks a new phase, not the end, of international firms’ regional domination Marco Cillario Neglected by foreign advisers for years, the Central and Eastern European (CEE) legal markets enjoyed a few moments of popularity…
2020 forecast: City giants forced to offer flexible partnership Alex Novarese I’m going to resist the urge to bang on about the year in review, Brexit or even offer a 2010s…
Unheralded comes regulation of City law Alex Novarese Ask senior figures in the profession what has materially changed in the legal industry over the last decade and answers…
The Last Word: The client view Legal Business Interviewed for our annual in-house lawyer survey, leading GCs give their take on risk management, becoming business advisers and collaboration…
Letter from… Brussels: Brexit convulsions prove no problem for Brussels hands as the age of tough antitrust enforcement proves a boon Marco Cillario In mid-October, when Legal Business decided it would dedicate this column to analysing the Belgian legal market, there was still…
If A&O’s new team can’t get a mandate, who can? Alex Novarese Writing at the end of November, with this issue hitting desks only a day or two before the candidates for…
Deal View: Freshfields silences critics with four-piece Cleary team but can it keep up the pressure on Wall St? Nathalie Tidman ‘Supercharging it’ and ‘pretty wild’ are not superlatives usually cropping up on your average conference call with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.…
Deal View: A&O’s corporate practice has matured nicely but will O’Melveny fallout take its toll? Nathalie Tidman Habitually viewed as the poor relation to its unparalleled banking and finance practice, Allen & Overy (A&O)’s corporate team has…
Letter from… Sydney: After the churn of the foreign influx, Australian legal elite look primed for their golden age Marco Cillario Some speak of the dawn of a ‘golden age’ for the market; others of a sugar rush for the country’s…
Dynamic forces – The Legal 500 UK launch unveils new approach Georgina Stanley Late last month we published the first Legal 500 UK guide since I took over as editor. While changing something…
Whatever happened to the PR as managing partner consigliere? Alex Novarese For a pundit often claimed to be dismissive of the PR community, the subject of this leader may surprise. The…
The Last Word: The values are everything Legal Business Law firm leaders discuss the challenges of putting values on their corporate agenda and how to balance purpose with the…
New Law needs a new dictionary to get that promised break through Alex Novarese For more than a decade now technology and innovation jargon has been pushing its way inelegantly into the legal sphere.…
Deal View: Five years on – How Akin Gump’s Bingham acquisition turned bust to boom in the City Nathalie Tidman ‘Our team was nearly twice the size of Akin Gump’s London team. There was potential for vulnerability on both sides.…
Letter from… Amsterdam: Dutch lawyers find a deft balance amid testing times in cross-border trade Marco Cillario The secret to making your country attractive to foreign investors at a time when populism is reshaping global politics and…
