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Retail IPO surge on back of increasing confidence Capital markets partners attest to an end to the jitters that have…

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Top 30 UK firm Irwin Mitchell last month lost its place on energy giant National Grid’s legal panel to Shakespeares,…

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Home entertainment company Virgin Media has completed an overhaul of its executive following its £15bn acquisition by Liberty Global in…

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I used to pretend I decided to be a lawyer at 16. My sister made a visit to me in…

Sarah Downey

Energy giant BP, which has paid around $1bn in external legal fees in relation to the Gulf of Mexico oil…

Francesca Fanshawe

Just a couple of weeks after online fashion retailer Boohoo.com became a stock market sensation, seeing its stock soar 50%…

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The past week was one for lateral hires outside the City, as Brodies boosted its oil and gas practice with the hire…

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Eversheds has made good on its African expansion strategy by signing a partnership agreement with existing relationship firm CWA Morocco, establishing…

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Pinsent Masons is getting ready for its first management elections since current managing partner David Ryan was elected in 1999, after…

Francesca Fanshawe

Global drinks brand Diageo has appointed Slaughter and May, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons as its ‘general preferred suppliers’ for the UK…

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Squire Sanders has unveiled largely flat 2013 results in the US, with revenue at the top 15 LB100 firm, which is…

David Stevenson

With the weight of economic power widely-regarded to be shifting east, a tie-up between Chinese merger talks partners Zhong Lun and…

Sarah Downey

Leading private client firm Withers has confirmed it will appeal a recent High Court decision that ordered the firm to pay…

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Stephenson Harwood has received formal approval to work with Singapore firm Virtus Law from the local Attorney General’s Chambers. Under the…

Caroline Hill

Hogan Lovells and Clifford Chance (CC) have secured leading corporate roles on European investment group Investindustrial’s €2bn disposal of aerial service provider…

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Building on its existing offices in the Silicon Valley and New York, Osborne Clarke (OC) is rolling out its strategy of…

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced it is opening in Seoul, South Korea, joining a growing number of UK…

Alex Novarese

Disaggregated, wrestling with tight margins, reliant on defensive mergers and probably still with more than 5,000 un-needed solicitors in England…

Francesca Fanshawe

Irwin Mitchell has secured a £60m four-year finance package with an additional £30m ‘accordion’ facility with HSBC, Lloyds and Royal…

Sarah Downey

Global accountancy giant EY has hired Addleshaw Goddard’s corporate managing partner Philip Goodstone in a bid to build up its…