Winston & Strawn pulls in corporate and finance teams Legal Business Mass hire from Pillsbury sees 15 partners defect. Winston & Strawn, which had been looking to bolster its finance and…
Q&A: Mishcon de Reya’s Kevin Gold talks peers, New York and international strategy Legal Business High-flying City firm Mishcon de Reya recently kicked off a review of its strategy, aiming to create a ten-year vision.…
Gibson Dunn partner suspended after misleading High Court Legal Business Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray was found to have deliberately misled the High Court regarding evidence presented in…
Links, A&O and HSF win roles on Sabadell’s £1.7bn TSB takeover Legal Business Less than a year after Lloyds floated TSB Bank, Linklaters, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) all…
Cross-border £1.1bn Liberty Living deal sees raft of firms pick up mandates Legal Business The trend of foreign money flowing into the UK real estate market continued last month. This time the investment came…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in March 2015 Legal Business CC, LINKLATERS AND LATHAM & WATKINS WIN KEY ROLES ON PIRELLI TAKEOVER Advised by Clifford Chance (CC), China National Chemical…
Latham halves its offices in the Middle East Legal Business DWF picks Dubai for first international office and puts three-year growth plan in place With just 35 lawyers spread across…
Pinsents launches infra-focused Australia outpost Kathryn McCann After much speculation, Pinsent Masons announced the launch of an infrastructure sector-focused practice in Melbourne and Sydney last month, with…
News in brief – April 2015 Legal Business SLATER & GORDON SPENDS £637M ON QUINDELL’S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIVISION Australian law firm Slater & Gordon signed a £637m deal,…
Freshfields’ northshoring planned on radical scale as City leader repositions for changing law market Legal Business Internal worries as firm’s new low-cost hub could affect up to 800 roles Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s decision to jump on…
Severn Trent sticks by Eversheds as sole adviser until 2020 Kathryn McCann FTSE 100 water company Severn Trent has reappointed Eversheds as its sole adviser for a new five-year term, despite having…
Linklaters suffers blow as US firms hire trio of leading partners Legal Business Linklaters lost a trio of heavyweight partners in February with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Kirkland & Ellis cherry-picking…
Barclays Investment Bank hires new global GC Legal Business Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s co-chair of its financial institutions Mark Shelton is leaving the US firm to join Barclays Investment…
Mishcon gains ABS licence to include non-lawyers in partnership Legal Business Mishcon de Reya has become the latest firm to acquire an alternative business structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation…
Branching out: RPC, Eversheds and Bird & Bird create new consultancy offerings Legal Business The recent push by major UK firms into non-legal services looks set to continue, with Bird & Bird and RPC…
Growing confidence and smaller intakes boost Magic Circle’s trainee retention rates Kathryn McCann February saw a flurry of trainee retention rates announced, with the Magic Circle and top-tier firms posting higher rates than…
A new generation and challenges ahead as BLP leader takes helm Tom Moore Tom Moore on the challenges faced by BLP’s new leader While Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) staged something of a recovery…
Latham leads the way with $300m revenue hike as US elite posts robust 2014 results Legal Business Jaishree Kalia assesses the winners and losers as the US reporting season kicks off The broad-based economic recovery in the…
Global elite firms have insurance sector consolidation covered Legal Business Early 2015 has seen key deals take place as the insurance sector consolidates, with Canada’s property and casualty insurer Fairfax…
Life During Law – John Reynolds Legal Business If you wanted to do litigation, there was no better place than Herbert Smith. I have no idea why but…
