News review

Sarah Downey

One Crown Office Row (1COR) saw six of its barristers take silk in this year’s round of Queen’s Counsel (QC)…

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Continental Europe the next priority as firm chases larger international revenues Kennedys formed another international association last month, this time…

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Linklaters has selected Shanghai Capital Law & Partners and Shanghai Kai-Rong Law Firm as targets as management works to establish…

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Skadden heads US M&A tables while Freshfields leads in Europe Deal lawyers are unsurprisingly predicting another busy year in M&A…

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Victoria Young canvasses veteran lawyers on the outlook for bespoke financing in 2016. It’s been flavour of the month for…

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Linklaters has got the year off to a flying start for equity capital markets work, leading on the announced initial…

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FRESHFIELDS AND STEPHENSON HARWOOD CHECK IN FOR PRIORY SALE Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Stephenson Harwood led on the sale of…

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Victoria Young talks to Chris Lowe and Lothar Wegener about their ambitions for the firm ‘It’s not about: “Here’s an…

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My parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. My father came after being conscripted against his will in the Tsarist army…

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CASES AGAINST LAW FIRMS DOWN Figures collated by RPC suggest the post-financial crisis wave of professional negligence claims against law…

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is stripping back its global support network in favour of its new Manchester back-office centre as it…

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400 support staff to be housed five minutes away from HQ While peers have chosen low-cost hubs farther afield in…

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Ashurst and RPC are among a quartet of firms that have won places on Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)’s UK legal panel,…

Kathryn McCann

Both The Law Society and The Bar Council have called for legal professional privilege (LPP) to receive statutory protection in…

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Banking head takes over as Davies departs for Lloyds Linklaters global banking head Gideon Moore defeated five other candidates to…

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One of the first firms to benefit from sweeping liberalisation of the legal services market in 2012, Parabis Group has…

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Putting aside the rivalries that result in little collaboration or innovation within the legal market, DLA Piper has struck a…

Kathryn McCann

Eversheds will continue to search for a US deal after the firm’s top target, Milwaukee-based Foley & Lardner, ended merger…

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Linklaters, Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Hogan Lovells landed major roles in November advising on the government’s…

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Linklaters continues to leverage its relationships with Chinese banks and corporates, winning four high-profile capital markets mandates as the country…