The Legal Business Awards and GC Powerlist UK 2021: Great to be back! Mark McAteer Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith and easyJet were among the major winners at the 2021 Legal Business Awards, which returned as…
Sponsored briefing: Interview: Mohammed R Alsuwaidi – chair, founding partner, Alsuwaidi & Company Guest Blog Can you give our Legal Business readers an overview of Alsuwaidi & Company. Alsuwaidi & Company is a full-service business law…
Revolving doors: Goodwin lures capital markets guru as Ashurst boosts derivatives practice Tom Baker Amid the latest round of lateral hires, Goodwin has picked up capital markets partner and ESG specialist Ariel White-Tsimikalis from Bryan…
Revolving doors: private equity spree continues as Gibson Dunn hires buyout team from Vinson & Elkins Tom Baker Continuing the private equity theme set by last week’s spate of hires, Gibson Dunn has appointed a trio of buyout partners from…
Revolving doors: Kirkland picks up Freshfields private equity stars again as seven partners depart pre-IPO Mishcon Tom Baker With echoes of David Higgins’ landmark $10m switch in 2017 , Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost two up-and-coming private equity…
‘Similar but different’: Osborne Clarke’s veteran senior partner Saul hands the baton to Clough Nathalie Tidman Having overseen a time of significant growth for Osborne Clarke, Andrew Saul (pictured) is making way for Peter Clough to…
Revolving doors: Disputes dominate as Willkie and HFW make major London team hires Tom Baker In a headline week for the London disputes market, a three-partner antitrust litigation team from Quinn Emanuel’s market-leading practice has…
Dealwatch: Golden ticket for Skadden and Taylor Wessing as they lead on Netflix’s Roald Dahl acquisition Nathalie Tidman Pundits on the apparently unceasingly bullish deal markets have become well-versed in pointing to sectors that have particularly been stoked by…
Kirkland breaks own record again to make up 151 new partners and 19 in London Nathalie Tidman With the boldness the market has come to expect from the world’s highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis has again…
GC Powerlist UK 2021: Inclusions list Legal Business Please see below for a link to an online pdf of GC Powerlist United Kingdom 2021: GC Powerlist United Kingdom…
Pinsents, Travers Smith and easyJet the big winners as Legal Business Awards returns to Grosvenor House Mark McAteer Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith and easyJet were among the major winners at the 2021 Legal Business Awards, which returned as a…
Revolving doors: Ashurst makes senior high yield hire from Shearman as WilmerHale sees double departure to G100 rivals Tom Baker Amid another hefty round of parner recruitment, Ashurst has made a senior hire in London, bringing in Jacques McChesney as…
Rare blow for Cravath as Freshfields hires Zoubek to co-head Wall Street M&A team Nathalie Tidman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Cravath M&A partner Damien Zoubek to co-head its New York corporate practice alongside Ethan Klinsberg,…
Slaughters galvanises succession to name Finkler and Turnill its next generation leaders Nathalie Tidman In an unusual display of forward planning for a City leader, Slaughter and May has already earmarked Roland Turnill (pictured)…
Revolving doors: McDermott makes Paris antitrust move as HSF bolsters German corporate offering Mark McAteer The past week has seen a number of moves between Global 100 players in Europe, as well as some significant…
Q&A with Investec: Banking for law firm partners in times of change Guest Blog Making partner is a huge step up for any lawyer and it’s one that can have a major impact on…
Revolving doors: Stephenson Harwood lands former A&O partner in restructuring push Tom Baker Stephenson Harwood has made a significant addition to its restructuring practice, hiring former Allen & Overy partner Tim Crocker in…
Dealwatch: Latham and Linklaters bet on £2.2bn William Hill disposal as £1.2bn easyJet rights issue flies Nathalie Tidman While it could hardly be said to have slowed down over summer, the deal market has nevertheless ramped up since the…
Revolving doors: Shoosmiths calls up Telefónica GC as post-summer recruitment spree begins Tom Baker Headlining a hectic week of partner recruitment, Shoosmiths has landed in-house veteran and former Telefónica UK general counsel Ed Smith…
Guest comment: ESG, the war for talent and the GC Guest Blog Evangelos Apostolou of the EMEA and Asia-Pacific In-House Counsel group at Major, Lindsey & Africa discusses why demand for ESG-ready…
