Pre-float DWF hires GC as another litigation funder lists and Burford secures $1.6bn Hamish McNicol DWF has appointed a group general counsel (GC) ahead of its touted London Stock Exchange (LSE) listing early next year. Litigation…
Deal watch: Busy year-end as Japanese group buys Swiss power grid and Malaysian funds invest in Battersea Marco Cillario City deal teams are having a busy run-up to Christmas, with Baker McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Addleshaw Goddard and Linklaters leading…
Watson Farley management get second term as half-year revenue comes in flat Hamish McNicol Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has re-elected its management duo for a further five years. Chris Lowe and Lothar Wegener (pictured…
LLP accounts: Linklaters posts fall in profits as top earner doubles income at Macfarlanes Marco Cillario Operating profits at Linklaters dipped 1% to £472.3m, while Macfarlanes’ highest-earning partner brought home almost £4m in 2017/18, the two…
A&O opening Fuse tech lab for third round as it partners on £1.2m AI legal services project Thomas Alan Allen & Overy (A&O) will open its technology incubator space Fuse to a third group of companies from early next year,…
Slaughters lifts associate salaries alongside performance-related bonuses Thomas Alan Slaughter and May has increased its salary rates for newly qualified (NQ) associates by £3,000, with junior associates also seeing an…
Comment: Women redefining City law – a few teachable moments and the odd necessary evil Georgina Stanley When high-profile GCs still talk of being mistaken for a PA (as BT’s Sabine Chalmers was not that long ago),…
Comment: PRIME and the rise of law’s tick-box diversity ‘solution’ Alex Novarese The sheepish evasion now emanating from the once-lauded social mobility project PRIME is an abject lesson in what ethically ails…
The Simmons interview: What to worry about Alex Novarese Legal Business: Simmons seems to have come out of a period of malaise. What have been the primary drivers for…
The GC (re)defined: Beyond the cookie cutter Mark McAteer What is it like to work as a lawyer in a fast-paced, risk-laden, tech-driven ‘disruptive’ company? How do general counsel…
Banking and finance focus: Back to the future Nathalie Tidman ‘The truth is no-one’s got the faintest idea what finance practices will look like in the future,’ shrugs Tony Bugg,…
‘No blueprint’: Looking back at Lehman’s wind-up Marco Cillario Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE)’s 5,500 employees left the London office at 25 Bank Street on Friday 12 September 2008…
City horizons: The Legal Business view on the profession for you to cut out and keep Alex Novarese On occasion, we are asked to give our house view at partner conferences and the like. Undertaking one such gig…
The GC outlook: more for more and more to come Alex Novarese As a long-term observer of the legal profession, I view the development of GCs with an oxymoronic mix of admiration…
PRIME and the rise of the tick-box ‘solution’ Alex Novarese The sheepish evasion now emanating from the once-lauded social mobility project PRIME is an abject lesson in what ethically ails…
The Last Word: The clients’ view Legal Business Interviewed for our in-house lawyer survey, some leading general counsel give their views on ethics, law firm engagement and technology…
Life during law: Leona Ahmed Hamish McNicol My dad was born in Kashmir and was in the Pakistani Air Force, posted to Turkey. India and Pakistan were…
Who Represents Who: The data behind the story Amy McDermott Clifford Chance finance clients, 2017 As LB looks at the future of finance, we look at the clientele of the…
Legal tech focus: Is Kira the real deal? Hamish McNicol AI contract analysis system Kira has been on a trying journey. Having landed $50m in funding, Hamish McNicol and Thomas…
Legal tech focus: Slaughters’ tech ally Luminance makes impact but battle for City elite wages Hamish McNicol Luminance has shot to prominence unlike any other UK legal tech start-up. But Hamish McNicol finds there is still plenty…
