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…
Redundancy woes: Bond Dickinson and Watson Farley are latest major law firms to review support staff roles Francesca Fanshawe Redundancy consultations continue to dog the City’s top 100 firms as Bond Dickinson and Watson, Farley & Williams last month…
European M&A: Big ticket summer mandates scooped by Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Freshfields and Macfarlanes Legal Business Despite corporate partners attesting to a summer lull (if only by their absence from the office), the past month brought…
Merger frenzy hikes LB100 income but growth masks another tough year Mark McAteer Lawyer count passes 60,000 but profits fall at top UK firms The latest Legal Business 100 results show the total…
Life during law: Mark Rawlinson Legal Business I was in the first ever gender-mixed year at my college in 1976. I got on very well with one…
Revolving doors: Macfarlanes continues lateral hiring spree as DWF and Walkers make key appointments Jaishree Kalia As Macfarlanes’ tightly focused business model goes from strength to strength amid testing market conditions, its rate of lateral hires…
Barclays goes external to replace group GC Mark Harding Legal Business In a surprise announcement, Barclays has today (30 August) revealed that Bob Hoyt has taken over from Mark Harding as…
Panel review – Aviva reveals new look line up Caroline Hill Global law has largely won the day for Aviva as it today (30 August) announced that Latham & Watkins, Ashurst, DLA Piper,…
Keeping up with Kinsella: Slater & Gordon’s slowly but very surely approach to mergers set to continue Sarah Downey If you had reached the impression that Slater & Gordon’s acquisitive streak had come to a natural pause, if only for…
Guest post – Syria: the UK can legally use force Legal Business In some ways this week, with the recall of Parliament and the UK tabling a UN resolution, seems like a…
Financial results 2013: Bakers reveals double-digit profit growth against global turnover increase of 5% Caroline Hill Baker & McKenzie has revealed above average financial performance for 2012/13, with a global revenue increase of 5% to $2.419bn…
Regulatory work: Cadwalader and Cleary face off over Ryanair/Aer Lingus, while Links and HSF advise on PPI compensation pot Jaishree Kalia In a move being watched with interest by M&A lawyers and competition experts throughout Europe, the Competition Commission (CC) has…
Ireland’s lucky number seven: Irish Treasury appoints septuplet of firms to its legal panel Sarah Downey Thanks to the economic turbulence that has plagued the Irish nation since 2008, Dublin’s largest firms continue to collect hefty…
Compliance drive – BLP’s financial services partner joins Barclays investment arm as EMEA head David Stevenson As leading retail and investment banks bolster their internal compliance functions it has emerged that Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) financial services…
RSM Tenon in administration as three UK firms carve out Challinors Sarah Downey The break-up of debt-laden Midlands firm Challinors took a ‘hunter turned hunted’ twist yesterday afternoon (22 August) after administrator RSM…
Trainee retention: Macfarlanes & Latham reveal numbers Legal Business Macfarlanes has become the latest City firm to decide on its trainee retention rates, with 18 out of 24 trainees –…
Takeover potential – Linklaters & Simmons lead on Amec’s £700m bid for Kentz David Stevenson Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons‘ longstanding corporate relationships with Amec and Kentz have gifted them with a potentially lucrative takeover bid…
Revolving Doors: Ashurst makes key energy hire in New York as Gibson Dunn and Squire Sanders expand in London Jaishree Kalia Ashurst this week announced the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) energy partner Charles Williams in a bid to boost…
UK PI bandwagon – Slater & Gordon buys Fentons and reveals 2012/13 results Legal Business Slater & Gordon today (21 August) made further inroads into the UK personal injury (PI) market as it formally announced…
