America or bust: Ashurst on the hunt for US merger partner Tom Baker Ashurst is understood to be pursuing merger partners in the US as a strategic priority, rekindling its aspirations towards a…
Happy 200th birthday: Ashurst chief Jenkins re-appointed for four-year term Tom Baker In an emphatic endorsement of five years’ sustained revenue growth, Ashurst global chief executive Paul Jenkins has been reinstated for…
Financials 2020/21: Ashurst breaks the £1m PEP barrier again as turnover climbs 10% Tom Baker In another set of buoyant pandemic financial results, Ashurst has breached the £1m-profit-per-equity-partner barrier for the first time since the…
Respected Ashurst dealmaker Karen Davies steps up to succeed Tidswell as chair Nathalie Tidman Ashurst has elected formidable M&A veteran Karen Davies to succeed Ben Tidswell as its global chair, making it the latest…
Legal Business Awards 2020 – Management Partner of the Year Nathalie Tidman We now come to the penultimate award of our 2020 Legal Business Awards season and we are delighted to reveal…
Australia yields two new board members for Ashurst as Davies gets re-elected in London Nathalie Tidman Ashurst has elected two new board members from its corporate partner ranks in Sydney and Melbourne while respected dealmaker Karen Davies…
Revolving Doors: Paul Hastings completes swift one-two to dominate last week’s City recruitment Thomas Alan Paul Hastings was the only notable mover in the City lateral market over the past week, with the US firm securing…
Ashurst launches consulting arm to handle Covid-19 demand with Deloitte partner hire Nathalie Tidman Ashurst has launched a consulting business with the hire of a senior Deloitte partner in Australia to deal with growing…
Ashurst ramps up corporate investment with City tech partner and Milan PE head Nathalie Tidman Ashurst has fired up its corporate hiring drive by adding a second corporate partner in as many days in the…
Ashurst enters US West Coast with four-lawyer Santa Monica projects play Marco Cillario Ashurst has launched a four-lawyer transport and infrastructure-focused base in Santa Monica, its second US office after New York. The firm…
Revolving doors: Ashurst appoints planning co-head as Eversheds bolsters its City commercial practice Muna Abdi In a slower week than usual for City laterals, Ashurst appointed a co-head of its planning team as Eversheds Sutherland…
Dealwatch: Slaughters and Ashurst make headlines on i newspaper sale as DLA and A&O dine out on Bookatable acquisition Muna Abdi In a busy week for UK buyouts, Slaughter and May advised Daily Mail and General Trust on the £49.6m acquisition…
Dealwatch: A&O and Ashurst close £1.2bn UK tunnel project as US-led buyouts take centre stage Muna Abdi Allen & Overy and Ashurst won leading roles on the £1.2bn Silvertown Tunnel project, the only big-ticket UK-led deal this…
Ashurst joins flexible lawyering bandwagon as DWF completes BT Law acquisition Thomas Alan Ashurst has teamed up with US-based law company Elevate and Cognia Law to offer clients flexible lawyering through the firm’s…
Bakers makes eleventh City lateral in last year with Ashurst corporate hire Nathalie Tidman Ashurst’s global head of corporate Jason Radford (pictured) is unfazed by the loss to Baker McKenzie’s prolific City hiring spree…
Global firms lined up to advise as Thomas Cook rescue talks fail Muna Abdi With news this weekend that Thomas Cook is on the brink of collapse and has ceased trading with immediate effect,…
Revolving doors: US & City firms target Simmons & Simmons as Ashurst makes hires Muna Abdi US & City firms saw a steady influx of lateral hires across sectors as Latham & Watkins, Allen & Overy…
Revolving doors: KPMG and Orrick hire City partners as Ashurst and A&O focus on Germany Muna Abdi Lateral hires in London and Germany were the order of last week, with KPMG bolstering its City legal services bench,…
Dealwatch: Kirkland and CMS drink in $3bn pub group takeover as Slaughters and Latham analyse Moody’s disposal Muna Abdi In the customary rush to get deals over the line before the summer lull, the City and US elite have…
Change was necessary: Ashurst joins the war for talent with 9% NQ pay raise Nathalie Tidman City stalwart Ashurst has followed suit with peers in the Square Mile to raise the salary for newly-qualified solicitors (NQs), upping…
