Market report: Baltics – Still waters Legal Business Following a raft of consolidation, the biggest players in the Baltics are experiencing a much more settled market Baltic firms…
Market report: Southern Europe – A long recovery Georgiana Tudor While Turkish firms have dropped out of The Euro Elite this year, recession continues to plague firms in Greece The…
Market report: Nordics – Over a barrel Legal Business Following a turbulent period of falling oil prices, independent firms in the Nordics are finding profitable new markets Crude oil…
Market report: Benelux – Neighbourhood watch Tom Baker Benelux firms have to contend with global competitors as geopolitical uncertainty hangs over the region The Benelux countries have experienced…
Market report: Russia and the CIS – The new silk road Georgiana Tudor While deal flow in Russia remains hampered by sanctions over the war in eastern Ukraine, local firms have made efforts…
The Big Four – they’d have done it by now if they cared Alex Novarese At the debate I recently attended on future of law-type stuff everything was proceeding to plan. Once the panel finished…
Education: not broke, fat chance of a fix Alex Novarese Forget the casual observer, even some keen observers are bemused by the current passion for reforming legal education displayed by…
Royaume-Uni, nil points: why the true Eurovision is independence Mark McAteer Compiling our second annual Euro Elite report this month reminded me of when the late Rodrigo Uría, then managing partner…
The last word: Elite theory Legal Business ‘I’m very optimistic about our model.’ Jason Mogg, Kinstellar As part of our annual Euro Elite report, management at independent…
Sponsored briefing: Offshore construction risks Guest Blog Navigant’s Tony Farrow describes how the particular risks of offshore oil and gas extraction present unique challenges for parties involved…
Thames Water invites tenders for £48m provision with new regulatory and disputes panel Tom Baker Thames Water has opened to tender its legal services provision worth £48m in total, inviting pitches from up to 10 firms for…
Ropes & Gray finance duo Wesseldine and Wheeler exit firm for King & Spalding Legal Business Ropes & Gray finance partners Mark Wesseldine and Fergus Wheeler have left the firm, for the City arm of King…
Fieldfisher grows finance practice with hire of K&L Gates’ Moller Tom Baker Fieldfisher has appointed Stephen Moller as a partner from K&L Gates, further bolstering the firm’s finance team after its April…
Simpson Thacher and CC act on $12.2bn real estate sale of Logicor to CIC Georgiana Tudor Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance (CC) have advised Blackstone and China Investment Corporation (CIC) respectively, as Blackstone announced…
Revolving doors: Dechert hires in Frankfurt, Watson Farley in Hamburg, McDermott in Dusseldorf Georgiana Tudor In a week of European-focused lateral hires, firms have expanded their German ranks. Dechert hired in Frankfurt, Watson Farley &…
OC team sets up boutique as Andersen launches in Cologne Legal Business Six lawyers from Osborne Clarke’s (OC) procurement team have left to establish a new law firm in Cologne, named Esch Bahner…
‘Long-term growth’: Lewis Silkin appoints CMS director of change Georgiana Tudor Lewis Silkin has appointed Graeme Wood as chief operating officer (COO) from CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, ‘to support long…
‘Logical next step’: Pinsent Masons buys specialist diversity and inclusion business Brook Graham Kathryn McCann Pinsent Masons has acquired specialist diversity and inclusion (D&I) business Brook Graham for an undisclosed sum, fresh from buying a…
Simpson Thacher acts for CVC on record-breaking €16bn new fund Legal Business Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s London office has advised CVC Capital Partners on its record-breaking €16bn fundraising.
‘Fundamentally different’: MasterCard and Visa to face new £300m UK retailers’ interchange fee claims Tom Baker Humphries Kerstetter has launched a series of new £300m competition damages claims against MasterCard and Visa, on behalf of a…
