The Icarus syndrome – the highs and lows of Slater and Gordon Tom Baker Pride before a fall. Everything was going well when the world’s first listed law firm, Slater and Gordon, announced another…
Higher learning Catherine Wycherley 1998 seems like a lifetime ago, where e-commerce was a fantasy for ordinary people just discovering the internet. Yet 1998…
Alphas – the hunt for female deal stars (and why it’s hard to be a City woman) Nathalie Tidman ‘You will have to go out and find the women – they won’t come to you,’ warns Travers Smith partner…
M&A/Corporate Nathalie Tidman Aedamar Comiskey and Jessamy Gallagher, Linklaters Linklaters’ head of corporate Aedamar Comiskey (pictured above) stands as one of the few…
Private equity Nathalie Tidman Claire McDaid, Willkie Farr & Gallagher While it is always difficult to untangle the platform from the individual, Willkie Farr…
Finance Nathalie Tidman Yen Sum, Sidley Austin Operating in some of the most fluid areas of finance, restructuring and funds specialist Yen Sum…
Mid-tier Nathalie Tidman Penelope Warne, CMS The gracious style of CMS UK senior partner Penelope Warne (pictured above) belies a practitioner with rock solid…
The last word: Deals or no deals Legal Business 2017 ended with surprising confidence in a rebounding market. Here we ask the City’s leading corporate players for their prognosis…
Deal view: Eversheds deal team – so much promise but so much steady Hamish McNicol Newcomers to London quickly learn the rules of the escalator: stand still on the right or keep moving on the…
Letter from… Milan: Living in style yet still playing the generation game Marco Cillario ‘All the top people in this country have grey hair,’ notes one Milan playmaker. It is a truth Italians know…
Disputes Eye: Enyo goes to ground – what next for the pioneering disputes shop? Tom Baker It has been the question raised over wine by many seasoned litigators for months now: what’s going on at Enyo…
A shock to the system as Freshfields heavyweight departs Alex Novarese Given that it has been so well telegraphed that the $10m lateral was coming to the Square Mile, the shock…
Women deal stars: plenty to celebrate so ditch the understatement Alex Novarese In a blow for traditionalists, our latest cover feature eschews profiling a group of hard-working, smart, highly-confident men who are…
Slashing to victory – the most dangerous myth Alex Novarese ‘Turnover for vanity, profit for sanity.’ How many times have you heard that phrase or variations of the theme espoused…
Life during law: Tom Cassels, Linklaters Marco Cillario My family moved from London to Essex in the seventies, we bought a big house with a big garden and…
‘Incredibly strong’ – debt counsel gear up for another boom year in leveraged finance Nathalie Tidman Nathalie Tidman finds lawyers bemused by crazy pricing and a wall of debt ‘Short of Trump nuking North Korea, I…
DLA whittles senior partner race to three-way contest as elections grip the City Hamish McNicol Hamish McNicol looks at the frontrunners amid a bumper season of senior leadership changes DLA Piper is making up for…
Latham and SH cheer as latest silk round bountiful for Red Lion and Garden Court Tom Baker Arbitrators dominate solicitor appointments amid creation of 119 new silks as Latham does double Red Lion Chambers and Garden Court…
After an expansive 2017, Norton Rose Fulbright starts year with Asia pullback Marco Cillario Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) made headlines in 2017 by pulling off mergers in the US and Australia, but 2018 has…
An ‘amicable’ discussion sees Weil Gotshal exit Hungary as 20-strong team joins Bird & Bird Marco Cillario Bird & Bird has bolstered its Budapest operations by adding a 20-strong Weil, Gotshal & Manges team, bringing the US…
