Allen & Overy beats UK rivals to top 2015 deal table for European private equity Madeleine Farman Allen & Overy (A&O)’s growing private equity (PE) team has had a strong year, topping Dealogic’s European PE table after…
A&O teams up with Deloitte for pioneering joint venture targeted at banking giants Madeleine Farman Axiom and Ashurst follow with similar service to meet regulations In the first marquee joint venture between a Magic Circle…
‘Natural choice’: long relationships see Freshfields and Linklaters bag roles on Poundland bid Legal Business Both Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer scored lead roles on an attempt by South Africa’s Steinhoff International Holdings to take…
Magic Circle firms lead on £615m Swiss takeover of British electronics company Legal Business Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have advised on the acquisition of British electronics company Premier Farnell by…
American dream: Bond Dickinson seals exclusive tie-up with Womble Carlyle Kathryn McCann The alliance will see all UK work referred to Bond Dickinson With US merger plays by Addleshaw Goddard and Berwin…
Ashurst retreats in Europe, closing Stockholm and Rome Madeleine Farman Ashurst closed the doors to two of its European offices in June, confirming it will dissolve its Swedish offering with…
The finance view: Bespoke and busy – no return to the cookie cutter but plenty of creative lawyering for City’s property finance teams Legal Business Victoria Young reviews the changing property finance landscape Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) head of real estate finance Naveen Vijh surveys…
Life during law: Stephen Lloyd, Allen & Overy Madeleine Farman I haven’t the faintest idea why I became a lawyer. I’d signed up to be a management consultant after university…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in June 2016 Legal Business NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT AND A&O LEAD NUCLEAR JV
Lloyds offers bonus for help filling senior legal roles amid shake-up Legal Business Unease over department restructuring continues Lloyds Banking Group is pushing an incentive scheme to its lawyers to secure new recruits…
Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Bakers secure spots on defence multinational’s first panel Kathryn McCann Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie are among nine firms to have won places on French multinational aerospace, defence…
Revealed: SFO records £2.1m spend on Forex investigation Legal Business External legal spend hits £330k on dropped inquiry Having closed its investigation earlier this year due to ‘lack of evidence’,…
Bankrupted Russian oligarch wins injunction barring Dechert from acting in $180m dispute Legal Business A High Court judge has ruled Dechert was wrong on the law relating to legal privilege, barring it from acting…
Barclays to extend value accounts framework as part of latest panel review Legal Business More firms set to repay bank if targets missed Barclays is planning to extend the value account system it introduced…
Pearson kicks off second US panel review after finalising litigation roster Legal Business Launch of US corporate review follows UK panel selection Pearson, the largest education company and book publisher in the world,…
Client-facing pitch sees corporate star Jacobs take Linklaters senior partner role Legal Business Pitching himself as an outward-facing leader has paid off for Linklaters M&A heavyweight Charlie Jacobs (pictured), who won the firm’s…
Financial reporting season kicks off: strong growth for OC, Forsters, TLT and Browne Jacobson Legal Business The fashion is for UK firms to announce good results early and first out of the blocks this year have…
DLA to cut 200 UK jobs as global firms trim support roles Legal Business Norton Rose and Dentons follow suit as offshoring takes flight DLA Piper is to cut 200 business support jobs in…
Associate pay up across Magic Circle as Freshfields wraps bonuses into base salaries Legal Business NQs at Freshfields receiving £17.5k extra Newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have received the largest bump in pay…
Magic Circle chase Chinese law as Linklaters launches Shanghai spin-off Legal Business The decision by Linklaters to spin off part of its Shanghai office in a bid to then merge with it…
