Real estate, financial integration and Maher: the particulars of the ambitious BLP/Greenberg union Tom Moore Firm leaders discuss selling points as deal goes to a vote As Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) closes in on its…
Corporate is king as Dejonghe and Ballheimer win vote to lead Allen & Overy until 2020 Jaishree Kalia After a four-month election, Allen & Overy (A&O)’s C-suite for the next four years was revealed last month with corporate…
Legal freelancing enters the big league as LOD seals £25m merger with Australian firm Legal Business In the largest New Law merger to date, the UK’s biggest freelance lawyer service Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has sealed…
City lawyers form pro-Brexit coalition led by 8 New Square QC Victoria Young Lobby groups set up on both sides as questions loom large for the country’s legal framework Debate among lawyers over…
City firms line up on Asahi deal as SABMiller’s merger with AB InBev draws nearer Legal Business A&O, Freshfields and Hogan Lovells advise on €2.55bn sell-off In preparation for one of the largest corporate deals of the…
Wall Street elite go head to head in largest ever Chinese acquisition Sarah Downey Continued interest in European assets by Chinese investors peaked last month, as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk &…
All change Down Under as Skadden closes Sydney office after 27 years Legal Business Clifford Chance sees senior exits as Clydes makes more hires in region The Australian market saw some of the world’s…
Abu Dhabi exodus continues as Simmons becomes the latest major firm to pull out Tom Moore With many major law firms losing money in the Middle East after overinvesting during the oil boom in the 2000s,…
‘We needed to move on’: Why Fieldfisher has turned its back on the dating game Legal Business Victoria Young speaks to the management duo about the transformed mid-market player ‘We’ll be the first to admit the firm…
Life during law: Avril Martindale Jaishree Kalia I had no intention of doing law. My father was a detective in the Scottish flying squad. I wanted to…
News in brief – March 2016 Legal Business EE LEGAL HEAD REVEALS PLANS POST-TELCO MERGER Following BT’s high-profile £12.5bn takeover of UK mobile business EE, it has emerged…
Taxation without representation – would you pay for the Law Society to represent you? Tom Moore From court fee hikes to a mooted City law tax to legal aid cuts, the profession’s relationship with government is…
The bigger short – third party funding bets on new markets and models Legal Business Historically confined to David vs Goliath claims, a new band of dispute funders are pushing the model into new frontiers.…
Golden goodbyes – changing faces and fortunes at the City’s top banking teams Jaishree Kalia As the golden generation of banking rainmakers retire, Legal Business takes a look at the core teams of the City…
The battle within: Risk management and professional indemnity survey 2016 Legal Business With cyber risk exploding and storm clouds over the economy, it’s harder than ever to balance risk with commercial realities.…
Too many reasonable men? What ails law firm leadership Legal Business As two of the most highly regarded leaders in the Square Mile – David Morley at Allen & Overy (A&O)…
BLP/Greenberg: unique, compelling, bloody difficult Alex Novarese In the age of the anodyne corporate law firm, you can at least say a marriage of Berwin Leighton Paisner…
From Chancery Lane to Waterloo – it’s time for the Law Society’s levy to go Multiple Authors There is a reason that the slogan ‘No taxation without representation’ has echoed through history. The rally cry of the…
Here we must run, just to stay in place – what it takes to be a law firm partner in 2016 Legal Business Macfarlanes’ Charles Martin reflects on the paradoxes facing the modern partner I confess the analogy is not perfect, but reflecting…
It’s high time we moved on – why legal education fails the key test Legal Business Nigel Savage argues that legal education is falling further behind the realities of the industry Let’s get this in context…
