Ashurst on board with diversity targets of 40% female partner promotions and 25% partner ratio Tom Moore Ashurst has become the latest firm to introduce gender diversity targets, committing to promote a greater percentage of female associates to…
Asia: Ashurst bolsters Singapore with W&C hire; DLA appoints Asia corporate head; Fenwick & West opens in Shanghai David Stevenson The Asian market has over the past week seen investment from international law firms including DLA Piper, Fenwick & West…
Associate pay – Ashurst ups salaries for trainees and NQs Jaishree Kalia Ashurst has upped its salaries for London-based trainees and newly-qualified lawyers (NQs) after a two-year freeze on pay. First-year and second-year…
Loss and gain: Ashurst loses City corporate partner as KWM finance partner joins in Sydney Jaishree Kalia Ashurst yesterday (12 May) saw both sides of the lateral hiring coin as it announced the hire in Sydney of King…
Life during law: Helen Burton Jaishree Kalia The first deal I worked on when I qualified at Allen & Overy (A&O) was for David Morley and everything…
Ashurst loses further City corporate partner as Jonathan Earle joins Gibson Dunn Jaishree Kalia Jonathan Earle has become the latest Ashurst corporate partner to quit the top 20 firm, leaving after 16 years to…
First post-merger partnership round for Ashurst sees 15 promoted Jaishree Kalia Ashurst has announced its first partner promotions since its merger with Blake Dawson went live in October last year, with 15…
Hogan Lovells, CC, Simpson Thacher and Ashurst secure roles on Investindustrial’s €2bn sale of Avincis Caroline Hill Hogan Lovells and Clifford Chance (CC) have secured leading corporate roles on European investment group Investindustrial’s €2bn disposal of aerial service provider…
Onwards and upwards for Ashurst’s head of pensions who joins Eversheds 90-lawyer team Francesca Fanshawe Ashurst’s London head of pensions Steven Hull has jumped ship for Eversheds’ highly-rated 90-lawyer team, becoming the latest of a series of…
A&O bolsters corporate practice as PE star follows Lloyd from Ashurst Jaishree Kalia He was singled out as one of Ashurst’s rainmakers of the future but private equity specialist Karan Dinamani has become…
LB100 firms review partnership model as HMRC’s LLP changes loom Sarah Downey The impact of HM Revenue & Customs’ decision to overhaul the way salaried partners are taxed is being felt across the…
LB100 firms review partnership model as HMRC’s LLP changes loom Sarah Downey The impact of HM Revenue & Customs’ decision to overhaul the way salaried partners are taxed is being felt across…
Deals: CC, Taylor Wessing and Ashurst act on infra and real estate deals Legal Business Advisers benefit as investors target industrial assets The shift towards global industrial real estate portfolios as an asset class last…
LLP latest: Speechly points to owed client fees for fall in profits as Ashurst and Hill Dicks also post profit drop Sarah Downey Private-client focused Speechly Bircham has become one of the latest LB100 firm to post its limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts at…
Damned statistics: BLP and Ashurst report higher trainee retention rates from smaller intakes Jaishree Kalia Firms have kick-started the year reporting high trainee retention rates with Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Ashurst retaining the vast…
Comment: Victories, defeats and growing up – Ashurst faces up to life after Charlie Alex Novarese Here’s one anecdote that didn’t make it into this month’s extended focus on Ashurst. Sometime soon after the firm had pulled…
Ashurst delves into Magic Circle for Linklaters DCM partner as Beddow named corporate co-head Jaishree Kalia Ashurst has tapped into the magic circle in a bid to strengthen its finance practice, hiring Linklaters debt capital markets…
Germany: McDermott hires Ashurst Munich partner to head private equity David Stevenson Ashurst has lost a second senior partner in Germany as Nikolaus von Jacobs leaves to head up McDermott Will & Emery’s…
After Charlie’s War – can Ashurst achieve post-merger prosperity under a new leader? Jaishree Kalia A recession-weary Ashurst has finalised a long-planned but high-stakes global merger – only to eject the leader synonymous with its…
Ashurst faces senior departures after key merger goes live Jaishree Kalia It’s not been the ideal launch after the final phase of its high-stakes global merger. Within days of the union…
