‘An excellent outcome for the creditors’: Collyer Bristow makes £24m settlement over Rangers FC advice Sarah Downey The liquidators for Scottish football club Rangers have confirmed a £24m settlement has been paid by City firm Collyer Bristow…
Hiring a silk: Stone Chambers chief Steven Gee QC to depart for City disputes boutique Joseph Hage Arronson Sarah Downey High flying disputes boutique Joseph Hage Aaronson is set to enhance its City team with the hire of leading silk…
Guest post: The PM’s ‘foreign fighters’ plan – probably lawful Legal Business In Australia, the Prime Minister announced new counter-terrorism powers which he intends to introduce in a bill in the next…
‘Shining examples’: Three law firms make Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list Tom Moore Weightmans, Addleshaw Goddard and Oxfordshire-based Brethertons Solicitors have all made it on to the top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list.
A €20m loan: Fried Frank faces multi-million pound professional negligence claim Sarah Downey US firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson is facing a €10m-plus professional negligence claim at London’s High Court made…
£58.11 per sq ft: Bird & Bird loses major patent litigator as it commits to £8.3m annual rent bill Tom Moore Mark Heaney, who heads Bird & Bird’s highly regarded electronics sector group, is leaving for US firm Baker Botts at the…
Diversity: Norton Rose Fulbright sets 30% female partner target for 2020 Legal Business Norton Rose Fulbright has set a target for its female partnership globally, aiming for 30% representation by 2020.
‘Second major addition to the European disputes practice in as many months’: Skadden hires Dechert’s London arbitration head Legal Business US firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has enhanced its respected disputes practice having today (18 November) announced the…
Troubled markets: Allen & Overy lays off four Moscow associates as firms face sanctions fallout Jaishree Kalia The US and EU sanctions in Russia are taking their toll on some of the international firms located in the…
RBS Litigation: Bird & Bird loses major instruction on RBS Group Action to Fladgate Legal Business A major blow has been dealt to Bird & Bird as it has emerged that the firm has lost its…
2,000 lawyers across 28 offices: Bingham loses out on rescue merger as Morgan Lewis acquires 227 partners Jaishree Kalia Following much touted speculation of the potential merger between US firms Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Bingham McCutchen, Morgan Lewis…
Bringing a ‘new dimension’: King & Spalding hires Linklaters securities partner Legal Business Linklaters’ partner Tom O’Neill has swapped Silk Street for Old Broad Street with King & Spalding making a double hire to…
‘Naturally delighted’: Jeremy Hoyland re-elected as Simmons & Simmons managing partner Legal Business Simmons & Simmons’ partnership re-elected Jeremy Hoyland as managing partner after an uncontested election, seeing him begin a second four-year term on…
The Student View: Norton Rose Fulbright’s Jonathan Ball on forensics, IP and his route to law Daniel Coyne Jonathan Ball of Norton Rose Fulbright initially worked as a scientist before becoming a lawyer, and is now an Intellectual…
H1 2014/15: ‘The way we’d planned it’ – RPC half year revenue rises by 16% Sarah Downey City law firm RPC has recorded a 16% rise in its first half-year revenue from £38.7m in the same period…
‘A testament to our strategic direction’: Naunton and Jones ditch real estate boutique dream to join King & Wood Mallesons Legal Business Senior Eversheds partners William Naunton and Clive Jones, who handed in their resignations at the start of this year with plans…
The Friday Edit: Property is hot once more and the dangers of upsetting Susan Legal Business We’re halfway through November and it’s Friday, so here’s our regular look back at some of the stories that have…
Comment: Magic Circle real estate withdrawal isn’t a myth, but it’s not that simple Legal Business In a 2011 piece on the decimated real estate market in the City, we noted that few senior property partners…
A major instruction: DLA Piper instructed by Vodafone for Spanish tax fraud investigation Legal Business DLA Piper lawyers from London and Madrid have been called in by Vodafone to investigate allegations of tax fraud at…
Partner exits pile up: Edwards Wildman loses leading Hong Kong insurance partner to Simmons & Simmons Legal Business Having been plagued with a series of partner departures from London, Edwards Wildman Palmer has now taken a hit to…
