Deal watch: Corporate activity in May 2016 Legal Business SULLIVANS AND WACHTELL ADVISE ON $62m BAYER DEAL Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen & Overy (A&O), and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &…
Lloyds offers bonus for help filling senior legal roles amid management shake-up Legal Business Lloyds Banking Group is pushing an incentive scheme to its lawyers to secure new recruits into senior legal roles following…
Tchenguiz dispute latest: court orders SFO to list documents in £3bn case Legal Business The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been ordered by London’s High Court to list documents it had inadvertently disclosed in…
Simmons builds out real estate practice with Goldman Sachs hire Legal Business Nearly a year after tapping Barclays for its corporate offering, Simmons & Simmons has hired from the in-house community once…
Record revenues: Freeths and Birketts enjoy bumper growth in 2015/16 Matthew Field National law firm Freeths and Ipswich outfit Birketts are the latest LB 100 firms to report their financials, both enjoying…
London head Rawlinson takes chair post at global giant Baker & McKenzie Madeleine Farman Baker & McKenzie has appointed its first British chairman with London head Paul Rawlinson winning an election to replace current…
Revolving doors: DWF makes major corporate City hire as A&O and Stephenson Harwood make international appointments Legal Business DWF has appointed a new London head of corporate while Allen & Overy (A&O) and Stephenson Harwood have both made…
Odds against you: New figures show BAME applicants less likely to succeed as judges than white counterparts Kathryn McCann The Official Statistics Bulletin published yesterday (2 June) by the Judicial Appointments commission (JAC) has revealed that black and minority…
Deutsche Bank exits continue as Hooper leaves for funds firm Legal Business Just days after news of the departure of Deutsche Bank’s global legal strategy head Emma Slatter, it has emerged that…
‘Making a splash’: Ashurst hires RBS executive in syndicated loans push Madeleine Farman In a bid to market itself more innovatively to clients, Ashurst has hired RBS head of EMEA loan markets Dave…
Shell to cut back on project lawyers as it finalises legal structure post-BG merger Kathryn McCann Royal Dutch Shell has announced its target operating model after finalising its £35bn takeover of BG Group in February, and…
Kingfisher legal chief Wardle joins newly-merged Coca-Cola bottler Legal Business In a week that has seen several high-profile moves within the in-house community, Kingfisher group general counsel (GC) Clare Wardle…
‘Not thought through’: City partners call on Government to protect impartiality of Land Registry Legal Business Senior lawyers have called on the Government to protect the independence of the Land Registry following proposals to privatise its…
‘Right not to rush’: SRA extends consultation over super-exam for trainees Legal Business The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has acknowledged strong opposition as it extends its consultation on its controversial plans to introduce…
A new triangle: Fieldfisher targets three key sectors in latest strategy Victoria Young Echoing its trademarked ‘virtuous triangle’ strategy of the past, Fieldfisher has picked three sectors to ‘turbocharge’ as it rolls out…
KWM cutbacks hit 37 support staff in the City Legal Business King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has made 37 business services jobs redundant in London as part of wide-reaching cutbacks across…
A&O hires Simmons IP star Noor in patent court play Madeleine Farman In preparation for the new Unified Patent Court (UPC), Allen & Overy (A&O) has strengthened its life sciences practice with…
Here come the accountants: PwC Legal hires former Milbank partner to head City finance division Legal Business PwC Legal has hired former Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy partner Laetitia Costa to run its banking and finance team…
Norton Rose opens in San Francisco with entire Sidley Austin public finance team Legal Business Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) is to expand its public finance practice and open up a new office in San Francisco…
BAT appoints new legal chief following internal team overhaul Legal Business British American Tobacco (BAT) has appointed Irish lawyer Ronan Barry as its new legal chief to succeed incumbent Benoit Belhomme…
