News review

Marco Cillario

After 26 consecutive years of revenue increases Bird & Bird, which has grown its top line by 162% over the…

Marco Cillario

The impact of Britain’s exit from the EU on the international strategy of City firms is still largely obscure –…

Marco Cillario

Leonard Green acquires gym chain for £600m 2017 has continued to provide rich pickings for firms with marquee private equity…

Legal Business

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May advised UK’s ‘big six’ energy providers Npower and SSE on the merger between…

Nathalie Tidman

Travers Smith, one of Bridgepoint’s go-to firms, has sealed another mandate in the form of the private equity (PE) house’s…

James Wood

The chart below illustrates the overall key performance indicator (KPI) scores as defined by the Client Intelligence Report (www.clientintelligencereport.com), for 30 of the…

David Burgess

To the public dismay of AT&T’s chief executive Randall Stephenson and general counsel David McAtee, the US Department of Justice…

Kathryn McCann

I grew up outside London and left school at 16 to start a mechanical engineering apprenticeship. I didn’t have A-levels…

Marco Cillario

‘Surprising’ was the adjective frequently deployed by City partners in October when merger talks between Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and…

Kathryn McCann

Following Gateley’s landmark listing in 2015 where partners pocketed a combined £25m, some senior partners have taken home almost £500,000…

Tom Baker

The ongoing Slater and Gordon (S&G) saga shows no sign of abating, as the Watchstone Group (formerly Quindell) in October…

Marco Cillario

Marco Cillario assesses whether Nextlaw is a network or Dentonsʼ Uber With typical distaste for the status quo, Dentons chair…

Kathryn McCann

As speculation continues in the Irish market as to which international law firm will be the next to come knocking…

Alexander Boyes

Alexander Boyes and Hayley Eustace review the latest launch of the UK edition The 2017 edition of The Legal 500…

Marco Cillario

Elite US firms ramped up their London partner headcounts in October, with Kirkland & Ellis making up a record 97…

Tom Baker

Legal professional privilege (LPP) was thrown a lifeline last month, when mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) was granted…

Marco Cillario

Latham and Cleary advise as Siemens and Alstom combine US law firms took the lead as Siemens agreed to combine…

Marco Cillario

Freshfields and K&E act on Monarch administration Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s restructuring chief Ken Baird and finance partner Catherine Balmond led…

Kathryn McCann

In a major boon to the UK property market, recent changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) have sparked a…

Legal Business