Global elite joins Japanese and offshore heavyweights as Takeda persists with Shire bid Thomas Alan Life sciences giant puts £46bn offer on table for Irish rival Magic Circle duo Slaughter and May and Linklaters have…
Dealwatch: PE deals continue to dominate agenda for City firms Legal Business Ropes & Gray’s London arm advised on the largest-ever UK private equity software buyout. Helen Croke (pictured) led the team…
Rich pickings for Travers Smith and Freshfields as Bridgepoint cashes in on Pret Marco Cillario Ten years after acquiring Pret A Manger in a deal worth £350m, private equity house Bridgepoint is selling it for…
Client Intelligence Report: Data View – Euro Elite Focus David Burgess The European region of the Client Intelligence Report received feedback from just over 2,500 in-house lawyers and legal spend decision…
Who Represents Who: Snapshot of best performers’ clients in The Euro Elite David Burgess We take a further delve into some of the best performers in Legal Business’ Euro Elite table, looking at the…
Life during law: Paul Maher Marco Cillario I grew up in North West London. My parents came from working-class, Irish Catholic backgrounds from Liverpool. Nobody had been…
Kirkland and Baker McKenzie chart course for €950m sale of Danish shipping giant Thomas Alan Kirkland & Ellis and Baker McKenzie have secured key roles as Turkish freight shipping operator UN Ro-Ro launched its sale…
KPMG: Still not a law firm, still not being taken lightly Hamish McNicol KPMG’s global head of legal Jürg Birri (pictured) does not know how much it will cost to reach its target…
McDermott’s mass lawyer swoop casts shadow over DLA financial renaissance Hamish McNicol It has been a bumpy few months for DLA Piper. Just as the dust was settling following McDermott Will &…
SFO makes interim director appointment as Linklaters hires DPP Alison Saunders Tom Baker The white-collar crime arena has seen significant upheaval in recent weeks, with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) making an uninspiring…
Reports of the death of CC’s sponsor practice prove exaggerated but surviving isn’t thriving Marco Cillario Marco Cillario finds much more substance to CC’s PE business than the usual critique but stopping managed relative decline will…
Magic Circle partner promotions: numbers fall but gender diversity improves Marco Cillario Marco Cillario assesses the latest rounds at London’s big five The overall number of partner promotions at Magic Circle firms…
Covington continues European expansion with Frankfurt private equity launch Marco Cillario Global 100 player Covington & Burling is taking a shot at the German private equity market, launching an office in…
Dentons gets even more polycentric with seven-way tie-up and Australia hires Marco Cillario Dentons, the world’s largest globetrotting firm, has added 17 partners from an ailing Australian shop and announced a combination with…
Addleshaw Goddard recruits legacy BLP Asia head Marco Cillario As the inevitable fallout from the $900m Bryan Cave/Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) tie-up continues, Addleshaw Goddard is following up on…
Magic Circle duo secure key mandates as Novartis sells its €13bn stake to GSK Thomas Alan Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed pivotal roles on a $13bn deal which sees GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) acquire…
Dealwatch: Transactional teams move into gear in strong spring showing Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) (pictured) has secured a key corporate role for engineering company and long-term client The Weir Group…
Client Intelligence Report: Data View – Middle East Focus David Burgess Demonstrating value is paramount for all in-house legal teams, concerned as it is with how legal work intersects with business…
Who Represents Who: The FTSE 100 clients using LB100 firms for work in Spain David Burgess ‘Off the Richter scale’ is a look at the Iberian legal market, so this month our data view takes a…
Life during law: Richard Youle, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Marco Cillario When I moved to Hull from Sheffield at five my next-door neighbour was a just-born, [Linklaters partner] Alex Woodward –…
