Further DLA regional fall out as Eversheds hires Birmingham managing partner and head of technology Legal Business DLA Piper has suffered further regional losses as Birmingham managing partner Mark Beardmore and head of technology and sourcing Simon…
Record breaking $49bn Verizon bond issue sees Debevoise and Davis Polk secure lead roles David Stevenson Debevoise & Plimpton and Davis Polk & Wardwell have landed roles on Verizon Communication’s record breaking $49bn US bond issue. The deal…
Comment: The age of turbulence has only just begun for the UK’s top 100 firms Alex Novarese Respectable, yes, but 2012/13 was a tough year, even by the post-Lehman standards law firm leaders have become accustomed to.…
Trainee retention: Eversheds, Clyde & Co, CMS Cameron McKenna and Simmons reveal rates Legal Business The number of training contracts being offered by City firms may have dropped by over 20% but the recently revealed…
Revolving Doors: September ushers in hires for Bakers, Clyde & Co, Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Irwin Mitchell David Stevenson A return to business as usual this September has brought a wave of lateral hires including 4,000-lawyer Baker & McKenzie’s…
Dysfunctional, inefficient and expensive: City Law Society responds to MoJ consultation on regulation Jaishree Kalia The City of London Law Society (CLLS) has responded to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) call for evidence over concerns…
Don’t blame your shareholders for tax avoidance decisions, Farrer & Co report warns FTSE 100 bosses David Stevenson Company directors facing scrutiny over their low corporate tax bill are not able to effectively blame their decisions on their…
Redundancy watch: MMS loses 28 staff and Shakespeares launches consultation as Ashurst’s Scottish fallout continues Francesca Fanshawe Redundancy is a word that has been heard rather less over the quieter summer months but yesterday (9 September) Scottish…
Comment: If the mid-tier’s days are numbered why do they keep doing so well? Alex Novarese We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…
Latin America pulls in insurance firms as Kennedys launches in Bogota Mark McAteer Following recent news that insurance specialist Kennedys is to merge with Simpson & Marwick in Scotland, the firm announced on…
Glaxo reviews advisers as A&O & CC take lead roles on £1.35bn Ribena and Lucozade sale Jaishree Kalia As GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reviews its preferred law firms in a decision that could see the healthcare giant create a formal…
Deal watch: Hogan Lovells, RPC in key work for Kodak and AstraZeneca as DLA Piper reveals major High Court win Sarah Downey This week has seen two of the larger global challenger firms reveal significant wins on behalf of major international clients.…
Guest post: A fight to the death- can the Law Society and its regulatory arm continue as now? Legal Business ‘My terms of reference include a requirement to propose a framework that promotes the public and consumer interest, promotes competition,…
Lateral movement: Martin explains Macfarlanes’ current hiring spree Sarah Downey One of the biggest surprises to come out of Macfarlanes lately is not that it was one of the strongest…
Comment: The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year Alex Novarese Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…
Legal aid reform: Grayling scraps competitive tendering plans Legal Business Fears that the government is reducing the justice system to a ‘stack it high and sell it cheap’ model were…
Return of the accountants: KPMG and EY consider ABS Sarah Downey Global accountants including KPMG and EY have the UK’s legal sector firmly in their sights as they consider their options…
Revolving doors: Linklaters boosts Asia restructuring practice while SJ Berwin makes key disputes hire Francesca Fanshawe In the second recruit to its Hong Kong office in the last couple of weeks, Linklaters has hired former Allen…
Clydes and Charles Russell establish new footprints while Kinstellar snares 10-lawyer team from Dentons’ expanding Kazakhstan operation Sarah Downey The start of September has seen international firms reinvigorate their expansion plans, with Clyde & Co revealing an Indonesian alliance…
Clifford Chance snares BLP’s contentious tax head Sarah Downey Senior exits from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) continue apace as Clifford Chance has confirmed the hire of Liesl Fichardt, the…
