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Legal Business

There’s an interesting tension between Sir Nigel Knowles prediction of legal behemoths straddling the globe with investment bankers outriders (or…

Sarah Downey

Just weeks after resigning from Manchester-based consumer services and personal injury (PI) firm Pannone following its £33m acquisition by ASX-listed Slater…

Sarah Downey

Up to 700 companies, public authorities and charities could currently be considering the business case for applying to become an…

Legal Business

The last LLP filings of SJ Berwin in the financial year before its merger with King & Wood Mallesons reveal…

Jaishree Kalia

Allen & Overy (A&O) has pointed to the growth and profitability of its Madrid office and the recovery of the Spanish…

Legal Business

DLA Piper International’s net debt decreased by 32% while cash in the bank dropped almost 15% according to its most recent…

Sarah Downey

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin has said its client plans to appeal against the High Court’s decision last week to dismiss a…

Legal Business

DLA Piper’s co-chief executive (CEO) Nigel Knowles is to replace Tony Angel as global co-chairman in a senior management shake-up which…

David Stevenson

In the third largest M&A deal in the UK this year after Liberty Global’s $10bn takeover of Ziggo and Amec’s…

Legal Business

Morgan Lewis has boosted its London white collar crime capability with the hire of Irwin Mitchell’s head of regulatory and…

Legal Business

The increasingly wide-ranging and cross-departmental regulatory needs of clients sees Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) today (3 February) launch a 600-lawyer international…

Legal Business

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) today (3 February) took a further step towards building up its German capability following the collapse of…

Sarah Downey

Transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells has put South Africa at the centre of its cost savings plans for clients, setting up…

Legal Business

It’s been obvious that something fundamental happened to the world economy during 2008, ushering in the worst relative trading conditions…

Legal Business

The term BigLaw has been around in the US for a while but in recent years this catch-all tag for…

Legal Business

The first Legal Business edition of the year coincides with a major project for us: the second edition of our…

Legal Business

Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…

Legal Business

As global and domestic firms look to end the 2013/14 financial year on a high, we ask senior management figures…

Sarah Downey

Financial institutions report multibillion-dollar effects of post-crisis costs Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank have become the latest major financial institutions…

Legal Business

Energy giant to analyse in-house team and links with UK and US counsel National Grid’s group general counsel (GC) Alison…