Hogan Lovells gives voice to partners under 45 with new board level role Legal Business Higson elected ahead of move to single global CEO Hogan Lovells has taken a step towards giving its younger partners…
GC appointments for EY, HarperCollins and BNY Mellon Legal Business Reshuffles see trio promoted to fill senior roles Three high-profile in-house counsel appointments in the UK and US last month…
Great expectations – Neuberger speaks Sarah Downey Lauded as the outstanding jurist of his generation, Lord Neuberger carried huge weight of expectation on assuming the leadership of…
Back in the machine – opportunity and threats amid much-changed debt markets Jaishree Kalia After years in the post-Lehman doldrums, the finance markets are springing back to life. Legal Business assesses the forces powering…
Shock horror: economic revival makes it as impossible as ever to make partner Alex Novarese It’s not going to come as a huge shock to our readership of jaded veterans to hear this but the…
DISSENT: A precarious professionalism Legal Business UCL’s Richard Moorhead argues the integrity and professionalism that City lawyers take for granted is all too easily swayed The…
Whose money making machine? Not all law firms will be richer in a bank-lite world Legal Business Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
The last word – the state of law firm leadership Legal Business With a spate of executive elections taking place recently, we ask the c-suite at leading City firms how management has…
Heading to The Ivy: Legal Business and RPC team up for GC Power List Summer Reception Alex Novarese We’ve made it no secret that a major aim for Legal Business and its Legalease stablemates is to better engage…
Worth the money: Barclays to introduce value accounts for upcoming legal panel Sarah Downey Failure to meet value targets set to result in firms partially refunding banking giant As Barclays’ long-awaited review of its…
The Crown Estate’s Peeke to join Land Securities in legal head role Legal Business Land Securities, the UK’s largest listed property company, has hired The Crown Estate’s deputy head of legal Alex Peeke as…
Latest partnership rounds confirm another tough year to make the grade at City leaders Francesca Fanshawe Partnership promotion figures unveiled in April saw a slight improvement on the dwindling numbers seen in earlier announcements, although still…
Life during law: Helen Burton Jaishree Kalia The first deal I worked on when I qualified at Allen & Overy (A&O) was for David Morley and everything…
Irwin Mitchell’s outgoing chief executive John Pickering on change in the sector and why it was time to hang up his boots Legal Business Announcing his retirement last month, Irwin Mitchell’s longstanding head and current group chief executive John Pickering pointed to ‘the changing…
BLP’s head of banking and finance litigation defects to King & Spalding Sarah Downey Hughes’ exit follows spate of departures from international firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s head of banking and finance litigation, David Hughes, is…
Senior Clydes ship finance partner joins Curtis Davis Garrard Legal Business Senior maritime player Matt Hannaford is leaving Clyde & Co’s transport finance group with a team of three to join…
‘A treasure trove for potential claimants’ – forex scandal to bring windfall of instructions to UK firms Legal Business US class action filed ahead of DoJ findings targets more than a dozen investors UK financial disputes partners are gearing…
CMS junior partners to pay up to £50k in response to HMRC shake-up Sarah Downey CMS Cameron McKenna has called on its fixed-share partners (FSPs) to make a substantial contribution of capital in light of…
HSF shakes off post-merger politics in favour of sole global corporate head as Ferraro takes over Legal Business Setting aside the notoriously difficult post-merger politics of selecting one partner to run a core practice area, Herbert Smith Freehills…
European deal wave anticipated amid growing market confidence Legal Business Holcim/Lafarge merger and Vivendi’s SFR acquisition lead the way Corporate partners are forecasting the next big European M&A wave after…
