Double digit growth for Macfarlanes as firm disputes ‘new normal’ Legal Business A depressed transactional market in the UK has had little effect on the financial performance of Macfarlanes, with the high-performing…
Reporting season floodgates open as four major City firms reveal 2012/13 revenues Jaishree Kalia Reporting season has opened in earnest in the City as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer today (5 July) reveals it has bucked…
Slaughter and May steps in for Siemens on €1.7bn sale of stake in NSN Legal Business Shearman & Sterling has led for Nokia on its €1.7bn buyout of Siemens’ stake in Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) in…
Litigation drives growth as Stewarts Law sees PEP break the £1m barrier Legal Business The success of litigation-focused firms is again in evidence today (3 July) as Stewarts Law announced an increase in turnover…
Litigation watch: Weil and Quinn Emanuel successful in high profile Barclay brothers Court of Appeal case Caroline Hill A high profile Court of Appeal decision has today (3 July) seen Weil Gotshal & Manges and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart…
After the surge a pause – expansive A&O sees a lull in growth as first Magic Circle player confirms 2013 results Jaishree Kalia Having been the stand-out City player in its weight class since the 2008 banking crisis re-shaped the global legal market,…
Guest post: Criminalising corporate law – proposed UK fraud penalties take a leaf out of the US sentencing guidelines Legal Business Tough new proposed sentencing guidelines for bribery have been published in a consultation which closes in early October. The proposals…
White & Case continues capital markets drive as Milan boasts full DCM suite Jaishree Kalia White & Case has made no secret of its strategic objective to boost its global capital markets capability and last…
Litigation watch: SJ Berwin wins IP battle for Sky against Microsoft Sarah Downey SJ Berwin has scored a significant victory in the important tech area of intellectual property rights in cloud data storage,…
Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Form over substance? Sarah Downey The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last week published a draft Code of Practice setting out their approach to the use…
71 new shareholders and a Madrid chief – today on Baker Mac’s intranet Caroline Hill It says something about the evolution of the legal market when a single global law firm makes up more partners…
Financials update – Field Fisher Waterhouse pays the cost of merger mania Sarah Downey After a turbulent year that saw it unsuccessfully attempt merger discussions with both Laurence Graham and Osborne Clarke, Field Fisher…
The daily grind – toil and tension as Hogan Lovells gets past the honeymoon period Legal Business It’s been three years since the trailblazing transatlantic pairing of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells. Legal Business assesses if the…
Hard-wired – meet the ‘tabloid’ lifting the lid on the world’s largest legal market Jaishree Kalia Since its 2006 launch, irreverent blog Above The Law has built a huge audience and given voice to an increasingly…
Global 100: In the club David Stevenson As the international legal market stratifies, the gap between executive class and economy is widening in the Global 100. Here…
Global 100: Scheduled departures Jaishree Kalia Asia continues to dominate when it comes to new offices opened by Global 100 firms. But despite the attraction of…
Global 100: The long haul Mark McAteer A decade of flying the Global 100 has left some legal players frazzled while others have become increasingly energised. Here…
In the game – will new rules on success fees see litigators take a gamble? Miriam Fahey Three years after the Jackson review, reforms to litigation costs have finally arrived. But one change in particular, damages-based agreements,…
Global 100: Latham & Watkins Mark McAteer Despite facing considerable reverses in the wake of the 2008 banking crisis – which saw a sharp fall in revenues…
Global 100: Methodology Legal Business FINANCIAL YEAR-ENDS Financial data shown is for the last financial year – either calendar year 2012 or 2012/13. Financial years…
