Law firms

Francesca Fanshawe

Osborne Clarke (OC) has made its 25th lateral hire in 18 months, while managing partner Simon Beswick has revealed plans…

Legal Business

The UK government’s game-changing decision to build the first nuclear power plant for a generation has seen Herbert Smith Freehills…

Jaishree Kalia

Private equity exits are turning 2013 into the best year for UK IPOs since around 2010 as Slaughter and May and Simpson…

Legal Business

Confident. That’s the mood as Legal Business conducts its second annual poll of in-house counsel. For all the talk of…

Francesca Fanshawe

As former co-head of Bird & Bird’s London-based international life sciences sector group and rated intellectual property (IP) litigation partner Trevor Cook joins WilmerHale’s…

Francesca Fanshawe

The latest instalment of Ashurst’s senior management elections has seen Ashurst Australia’s chair Mary Padbury voted in as vice chair…

Sarah Downey

The recent dissolution of Tooks Chambers was widely regarded as a sign of the times, as legal aid cuts coupled…

Legal Business

One of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, Morrisons, has revealed its first-ever legal panel, with Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst,…

Sarah Downey

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner and former City head Tim Jones has been hired as general counsel to England Rugby…

Legal Business

The market for legal services will never be the same again. Mergers, alternative business structures, multi-disciplinary practices, law firm failures, onshoring, offshoring and the continual…

David Stevenson

Linklaters‘ now decade-long effort to carve a credible position in the private equity market has been dealt a serious blow as…

Legal Business

One of Italy’s most successful football teams, Inter Milan, has turned to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as it becomes the…

Sarah Downey

The highly fluid Paris market has seen nine partners and ten associates walk out of Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ regional office to join Gide…

Sarah Downey

A&L Goodbody has received unwelcome national press and the ire of a former client after declaring a conflict of interest in…

Sarah Downey

In what was initially billed as merger talks but has turned out to be far more of a takeover Penningtons…

Legal Business

‘While the current education and training system has served us well, technology, changing consumer demands and the regulatory system itself…

Legal Business

If formal management elections are a sign of a firm coming of age then Mishcon de Reya, the second fastest…

Caroline Hill

A popular long term board member with the social skills needed to pull together a newly-merged transcontinental firm, Ashurst’s announcement today…

Caroline Hill

As Vodafone replaces outgoing UK corporate and external affairs director Justine Campbell with group legal director for corporate and commercial,…

Legal Business

Following an extensive review of its legal support services in May, Wragge & Co has made 26 full time equivalent (FTE)…