The head, the tail, the whole damn thing: UK firms suffer again as Global London sharks circle Thomas Alan With recent financial results displaying the added bite of US firms in the City, it appears their approach to the…
Moment of truth: New Law champion Axiom unveils float plans but break up of its business raises doubts Thomas Alan Axiom making good on long-trailed plans to float will be a milestone for New Law. Thomas Alan assesses if the…
Apathy and a multimillion-pound shortfall define beleaguered KWM Europe insolvency Thomas Alan Thomas Alan finds reality setting in for creditors and former partners more than two years on ‘My immediate thought was:…
‘A third way’: Taylor Wessing enters alliance with West Coast leader Wilson Sonsini Marco Cillario Marco Cillario assesses Taylor Wessing’s alliance with Silicon Valley royalty Wilson Sonsini as RPC forges US insurance partnership While the…
International Arbitration Centre launches: the City finally gets the world-class disputes space it has been waiting for Alex Novarese For years, seasoned practitioners have bemoaned the lack of top-notch arbitration facilities in London, casting an envious eye at the…
Apollo hamstrung as Freshfields helps Berry complete eleventh-hour bid for UK plastics group Thomas Alan Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer successfully advised US manufacturing company Berry Global as it completed a late bid for UK-headquartered RPC Group,…
Dealwatch: Global 100 firms share spoils on flurry of private equity and public M&A mandates Legal Business Slaughter and May is acting on the £1.3bn unsolicited bid for doorstep lender Provident Financial. Corporate head Andy Ryde (pictured)…
Legal 500 Data: Behind the story David Burgess Baker McKenzie tops this year’s Global London rankings by headcount. Here we look at the firm’s London rankings in The…
Life during law: Claire Wills Nathalie Tidman I’ve been 27 years at Freshfields. I’m not sure where the time has gone. It’s International Women’s Day on Friday…
Sponsored briefing: Tracing assets – what you need to know Guest Blog K2 Intelligence’s Darren Matthews on what successful asset search and recovery looks like Understanding the form, value and recoverability of…
EY makes further inroads into the legal sector after acquiring Thomson Reuters’ LPO arm Thomas Alan Less than a year after it acquired Riverview Law, EY has maintained its acquisitive form by agreeing to buy the…
‘The glue’: Ince Gordon Dadds secures legacy international branches to network Tom Baker Four months after its headline merger, Ince Gordon Dadds has secured £23m of business by formally incorporating five international legacy…
Freshfields mints eight partners in the City in renewed 22-strong global promotion round Thomas Alan Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted 22 lawyers to partner, including eight in London, amid a stronger promotion round for the…
SRA attempts to prosecute A&O lawyer over controversial Weinstein gagging deal Tom Baker An Allen & Overy (A&O) solicitor has been recommended for prosecution by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over a controversial…
Revolving Doors: Akin Gump does the double, Kirkland boosts funds and Sidley recruits crime veteran as US firms power lateral market Thomas Alan Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld led the way in the City lateral market last week after hiring two funds…
‘Immensely rewarding’: Moore gets second term as Linklaters managing partner Marco Cillario Linklaters managing partner Gideon Moore will stay in his role until April 2022 after the partnership re-elected him for a…
Pinsents, Bird & Bird, BCLP and Network Rail the big winners at the 2019 Legal Business Awards Thomas Alan Pinsent Masons, Bird & Bird, Network Rail and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) were among the major winners at the…
No Kira in latest Fuse cohort as A&O announces new start-ups set to join incubator Thomas Alan Leading AI platform Kira Systems will not feature in the latest cohort of tech companies in Allen & Overy (A&O)’s …
Slaughters becomes latest to reveal underwhelming gender and ethnicity pay gap Thomas Alan Slaughter and May has published its first partner-level pay gap report, revealing that male partners earn on average 8.9% more than…
‘Executing our strategy’: MoFo London revenue surges 25% but global turnover drops Marco Cillario Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has added its name to the growing list of US firms with London offices outperforming the…
