Financial results 2013/14: BLP’s PEP up 35% and revenue 6% David Stevenson In one of the most anticipated sets of financial results of the 2013/14 financial reporting season, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)…
Slaughters, A&O and Linklaters announce associate pay increases Legal Business Trainees, NQs and PQEs to receive salary boost. Setting the bar for trainee, newly-qualified (NQ) and associate pay last month…
Weil’s City banking head Stephen Lucas joins Kirkland Legal Business One of the best-known names in the leverage buyout market, Stephen Lucas, is set to join Kirkland & Ellis from…
In need of sponsors – can a bank-dominated A&O get the hang of this private equity thing? Jaishree Kalia Jaishree Kalia assesses A&O’s latest attempt to break into the buyout game. There was never any obvious reason for Allen…
Always a bridesmaid: can Nabarro revive itself post-Lehman without a partner? Legal Business Sarah Downey reports on the property leader’s attempts to position itself. With its five-year financial performance standing out as one…
OC joins Magic Circle on Dixons Carphone tie-up Legal Business Carphone Warehouse and Dixons merge along with DEMB and Mondelez Major M&A mandates have over the past month seen Linklaters,…
Hogan Lovells second global firm to exit Prague in a month Legal Business Transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells has become the second top-ten Legal Business 100 firm in recent weeks to announce it is…
Clyde & Co to launch in South Africa with Webber Wentzel hires Jaishree Kalia Clyde & Co has launched two offices in South Africa with the hire of a four-partner team from Linklaters’ local…
‘The right to be forgotten’: Cleary client Google dealt a blow by ECJ’s privacy ruling Legal Business Decision contradicts EU advocate general’s previous non-binding guidance. After years of attempts by Brussels to tighten up Europe’s data privacy…
Clyde & Co whistleblower case sees Supreme Court hand partners protection Legal Business Partners who expose malpractice in their own law firm will now be protected by whistleblower legislation, the Supreme Court ruled…
Barclays’ Americas chief Michael Crowl set to join UBS Legal Business Barclays’ high-profile managing director and general counsel (GC) for the Americas, Michael Crowl, is to head UBS’ US wealth management…
Sainsbury’s unveils new panel as Lloyds appoints insurance GC Legal Business Significant in-house announcements in May saw King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin and TLT awarded first-time spots on Sainsbury’s panel,…
Life During Law: Nilufer von Bismarck Legal Business There were different challenges during the downturn, you had to look to different markets. Challenges are always there and you…
Asia-Pacific: Taylor Wessing launches in South Korea with local tie-up Sarah Downey Taylor Wessing last month became the latest international firm to set up in South Korea, establishing an association with local…
Worth the money: Barclays to introduce value accounts for upcoming legal panel Sarah Downey Failure to meet value targets set to result in firms partially refunding banking giant As Barclays’ long-awaited review of its…
The Crown Estate’s Peeke to join Land Securities in legal head role Legal Business Land Securities, the UK’s largest listed property company, has hired The Crown Estate’s deputy head of legal Alex Peeke as…
Latest partnership rounds confirm another tough year to make the grade at City leaders Francesca Fanshawe Partnership promotion figures unveiled in April saw a slight improvement on the dwindling numbers seen in earlier announcements, although still…
Life during law: Helen Burton Jaishree Kalia The first deal I worked on when I qualified at Allen & Overy (A&O) was for David Morley and everything…
Irwin Mitchell’s outgoing chief executive John Pickering on change in the sector and why it was time to hang up his boots Legal Business Announcing his retirement last month, Irwin Mitchell’s longstanding head and current group chief executive John Pickering pointed to ‘the changing…
BLP’s head of banking and finance litigation defects to King & Spalding Sarah Downey Hughes’ exit follows spate of departures from international firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s head of banking and finance litigation, David Hughes, is…
