From a big bang to a whimper – infighting and calls for reform of regulatory framework Legal Business Caroline Hill and Sarah Downey assess the agendas in the MoJ’s review of regulation The Ministry of Justice (MoJ)’s decision…
Lloyds sees knock-on effect of GC for group legal hire Legal Business In-house promotions and moves often have a domino effect across the wider legal function and Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is…
Barclays £5.8bn rights issue sees CC, Sullivans and Freshfields in the lead Legal Business Barclays has begun the biggest capital raising by a UK bank since 2009, under which Clifford Chance (CC), Sullivan &…
Life During Law: Lord Goldsmith QC Legal Business I’ve been really fortunate. I’ve had extraordinary opportunities in my career. I’ve had the opportunity not just as a hands-on…
The legal elite dominates big-ticket mandates including Vodafone’s $130bn Verizon sell off Legal Business The autumn deal-doing season kicked off in style in September as Vodafone announced the $130bn disposal of its 45% stake…
Deal watch: September sees significant rise in deal activity Legal Business Lloyds privatisation Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer led the line in September advising Lloyds Banking Group on the…
Back to school: lateral hire market picks up with renewed vigour as autumn arrives Legal Business BLP sees three partners depart; London hires hit double figures for September The lateral hire market in the City picked…
Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper lead the UK pack in The Legal 500 Legal Business National heavyweights score for breadth of recommendations as CC shines in the City Eversheds has once again emerged as the most…
Layton leads the field as CC set for managing partner election Legal Business The race to fill the shoes of Clifford Chance (CC)’s longstanding global managing partner David Childs has reached a decisive…
Guest blog: Do you heart QualitySolicitors? Legal Business I’ve spent the last two days at the QualitySolicitors conference in Manchester. I was invited to chair the opening session…
Asia Pacific: DLA hires four-strong Jones Day team in Beijing Francesca Fanshawe DLA Piper has further bolstered its Asia Pacific offering with the hire of a four-lawyer IP team from Jones Day in…
Bircham Dyson Bell ex-partner struck off for £2m client overcharging and false expenses Legal Business A former Bircham Dyson Bell partner has been struck off the Roll after knowingly overcharging clients, misusing client funds and making…
Guest post – Opinion: SFO confirms 8 Bribery Act ‘Projects’ – enforcement rhetoric will convert into action Legal Business ‘We have some 68 cases on our books at present, including matters under development in our intelligence section; these include…
Ever reducing panels: AIG reveals new look firm line-up Legal Business The in-house trend towards panel downsizing is again in evidence as AIG today (26 September) revealed a 25-strong list of…
Approved: Ashurst achieves full financial integration and single profit pool Sarah Downey Ashurst today (26 September) effectively threw down the gauntlet to a number of its newly-merged competitors by announcing it has ‘overwhelmingly’…
Deal round-up: Bakers, Bird & Bird and Simmons advise on multi-billion energy programme as BLP takes on PFI bond issue David Stevenson The UK government may be short of funds but it has generated high value deals for Baker & McKenzie, Berwin…
Skadden and Shearman take lead roles as struggling BlackBerry agrees $4.7bn sale Jaishree Kalia Following dashed hopes that BlackBerry’s new handset would reverse its falling fortunes, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Shearman & Sterling…
Consolidation in the second 50 – Manches and Penningtons confirm talks David Stevenson From within the over-crowded space that is the lower of half of the LB100, beleaguered 139-lawyer Manches has emerged as being…
Virtual law: Mercedes-Benz UK GC sets up Radius Law Sarah Downey The virtual law space has a new entrant after former Mercedes-Benz UK group general counsel and head of compliance Iain…
Tension and infighting as barristers resign from BSB panel over quality assurance scheme Legal Business Tensions surrounding the regulation of the various limbs of the legal profession are at an all-time high as this week…
