Building the team: Paul Hastings hires Ashurst banking partner Jaishree Kalia Paul Hastings, which is intent on bulking up its English and US law finance practice in the City, has boosted…
Partner promotions: Ashurst 20-strong round includes 45% females while Macfarlanes reduces round to five Sarah Downey Ashurst has this morning (8 April) announced its 20-strong partner promotion round, which will take effect from 1 May 2015,…
Selling part of the Queen’s bank: Ashurst and Slaughters advise on RBS sale of Coutts International Jaishree Kalia Ashurst and Slaughter and May have won lead roles advising on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) sale of its…
An 11-strong panel: Ashurst and Addleshaws lose out as Carillion finalises adviser review Legal Business Construction giant Carillion has finalised its legal panel review, with Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard losing spots and Irwin Mitchell gaining…
A £1bn offer: Linklaters, Ashurst and Gibson Dunn win roles on Domino Printing acquisition Jaishree Kalia Linklaters, Ashurst and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have all landed roles on Japanese electronics company Brother Industries’ acquisition of UK…
Accounts revealed: Profits rise 10.8% in Ashurst’s first post-merger filings Jaishree Kalia Ashurst‘s first post-merger limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts show the firm’s operating profit increased 10.5% from £193.8m to £214.2m for…
Ashurst Australia head steps down while HSF picks up Ashurst corporate duo in Asia Jaishree Kalia Ashurst’s John Carrington, who helped handle the integration of Blake Dawson, has retired as Australian managing partner with no successor,…
Asia round-up: Hogan Lovells turns to A&O for first partner based in Vietnam, while Bakers appoints new MP Sarah Downey Hogan Lovells has put its first partner on the ground in Vietnam, recruiting Allen & Overy’s (A&O) senior associate Jeff…
Updated: ‘I like building businesses’ – Ashurst blow as ex-head Geffen quits with corporate partner for Gibson Dunn Jaishree Kalia It had been long rumoured but the loss that Ashurst clearly wanted to avoid has materialised as it was today…
Revolving doors: OC hires from Bakers in international push while Ashurst and Dentons build European presence Legal Business Last week saw LB 100 firms Dentons, Ashurst and Osborne Clarke (OC) expand European offices while Addleshaw Goddard boosted its…
‘It is to improve efficiency’: Ashurst cuts back overnight production team as it looks to offshore Tom Moore Top 20 firm Ashurst has made 15 redundancies to its overnight production staff in London nearly halving the City firm’s…
Cadwalader grows London team as Ashurst capital markets partner returns to the firm Sarah Downey US firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has made a key hire to its global capital markets practice with Ashurst partner…
Weil boosts finance practice with Ashurst hire in New York Jaishree Kalia US firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges continues to boost its global finance practice with the hire of Ashurst banking partner…
Ashurst starts out-of-hours worker redundancies Jaishree Kalia The past year has seen a number of UK firms scale back their back-office support teams to become more efficient…
Ashurst, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters advise banks on competition inquiry Sarah Downey International firm Ashurst and Magic Circle trio Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters are advising the UK’s biggest banks over an…
Ashurst downsizes Adelaide office as head relocates Jaishree Kalia Global top-40 firm Ashurst is scaling back its Adelaide office headcount as its only Adelaide-based partner and office head Tanya…
Stress testing the strategy – post-merger Ashurst calls in Bain for ‘market insight’ Jaishree Kalia It’s been a bumpy road into the Global Top 50 but with a high stakes merger with Australia’s Blake Dawson…
Real estate: Ashurst and Reed Smith lead on prime £300m New Bond Street acquisition Tom Moore Ashurst’s head of real estate investment David Jones has advised opposite Reed Smith on the £300m purchase of a 50,000 sq…
Linklaters former DCM partner Nigel Pridmore joins Ashurst Hong Kong Jaishree Kalia Linklaters former finance partner Nigel Pridmore has joined Ashurst in Hong Kong, following in the footsteps of London debt capital markets (DCM)…
Ceasefire or guerrilla skirmishes – Ashurst struggles to reconcile its post-merger factions Jaishree Kalia Jaishree Kalia reports on the uneasy peace still hanging over the post-merger Ashurst It’s been over eight months since Charlie…
