Herbert Smith Freehills boosts US investigations with hire of former assistant attorney and SEC chief John O’Donnell Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF’s) Manhattan office has capitalised on the US revolving door with the hire of John O’Donnell, a former…
Management overhaul at Travers Smith with appointment of four new department heads Legal Business Travers Smith has overhauled the management of its private equity, financial services & markets, real estate, and banking and corporate recovery…
Barclays cuts legal roster by 30% in global panel review as American firms find success Caroline Hill Barclays has turned to a raft of US firms, including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Latham & Watkins, for…
Financial results 2013/14: Nabarro posts static revenues while PEP jumps 10.5% Sarah Downey Top-30 LB100 firm Nabarro is the latest to unveil its 2013/14 financials, with annual turnover broadly flat at £116.7m, a…
Olswang’s head of real estate finance quits for Dechert Legal Business Olswang’s head of real estate finance Eleni Skordaki has quit the firm after nearly ten years to join Dechert’s City finance…
Financial results 2013/14: A&O’s PEP up by 7% to £1.12m as turnover rises 2% to £1.23bn Jaishree Kalia The second of the Magic Circle firms to disclose its 2013/14 financial results, Allen & Overy (A&O) has reported an increase…
Norton Rose Fulbright hires CMS Cameron McKenna DCM partner Legal Business Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has hired CMS Cameron McKenna banking and finance partner Nigel Dickinson to its debt capital markets team.
Law Society asks Met Police to investigate Wonga for fake solicitor letters Legal Business The Law Society has asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate Wonga after it emerged that the UK’s biggest payday lender…
Squire Patton Boggs brings in former Dundas partner to head UK real estate litigation team Legal Business Squire Patton Boggs has made its first UK partner hire since the May announcement that Squire Sanders would unite with…
RPC in talks with breakaway Edwards Wildman partners alongside Cooley and Foley & Lardner Legal Business RPC is in talks with a potential breakaway group of Edwards Wildman City partners – made up of corporate partners Niall…
Partner promotions: Baker & McKenzie makes up 65, Withers 7 Sarah Downey In the annual eye-watering reminder of just how large Baker & McKenzie really is, the top ten LB100 firm this week…
Bird & Bird secures dual Indonesia tie-up in continued Asia push Legal Business Bird & Bird has signed strategic cooperation agreements with two Indonesian law firms, intellectual property specialists K&K Advocates and business law…
Guest post: The hollow middle since 2008 Legal Business I call it the hollow middle, but Knowledge@Wharton prefers ‘disappearing middle.’ Here’s what, writing in their pages, the CEO of…
Deutsche Bank appoints new global head of regulatory affairs Legal Business Following the departure of Deutsche Bank’s compliance and regulatory affairs chief Andrew Procter to Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in March,…
Wonga to pay £2.6m for ‘unfair and misleading’ debt collection practices Legal Business Wonga, the UK’s biggest payday lender, has entered an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which will see it…
Lawyers on Demand launches in Manchester Legal Business Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP’s) spin-off lawyer contracting service Lawyers on Demand (LoD) is set to launch its first hub outside…
Comment: A self-deceiving return to business as usual Legal Business In 2010, Georgetown University, under the direction of Professor Milton Regan, held a conference of academics, practitioners and leading thinkers…
Law Society proposes significant cuts to practising certificate fee and compensation fund Legal Business The Law Society Group has put plans in place to slash lawyers’ practising certificate fees by almost 17% from the…
SRA announces replacement for outgoing chair Charles Plant Legal Business The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today (24 June) announced that one of its board members, Enid Rowlands, will succeed outgoing…
Guest post: Snake Hall – the games tax lawyers have played Richard Moorhead I recently finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, a truly brilliant novel about the ascent of Thomas Cromwell to political…
