Revolving doors: Eversheds ups City disputes investment as White & Case hires Latham duo in Milan Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland has added to recent investment in its London litigation and dispute management practice with a lateral hire from…
Revolving doors: Baker McKenzie expands £40m City tax practice as Eversheds makes multiple hires Muna Abdi In a muted week for lateral recruitment, Baker McKenzie and Eversheds Sutherland made hires in the City, while Eversheds also grew on…
Revolving doors: Ashurst bolsters project finance as Eversheds expands in the Netherlands Muna Abdi In a week dominated by European hires, Ashurst and Dentons turned to the City with hires in project finance and data privacy,…
Eating our lunch: Eversheds unshackles New Law offering and sets £100m revenue target Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland is spinning off its £40m New Law business in a bid to supercharge its growth to £100m over…
Eversheds records double-digit growth as ‘uncertainty barometer’ rises Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland (International) has built on its 2017 transatlantic merger with a second year of strong revenue and profit growth.…
Deal watch: City teams fly on £4.6bn Rolls-Royce pension deal as Kirkland and Goodwin take multi-billion dollar mandates Nathalie Tidman Big-ticket deals have been fuelling the market in pensions, private equity and fundraising recently with UK top-10 firms and US…
Eversheds eyes larger California presence following long-awaited Chicago opening Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland is opening an office in the ‘very competitive’ Chicago market with the hire of two partners, and has…
Eversheds’ City partner promotions dip in bolstered global round as Fieldfisher makes up most ever Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland’s international business has made 27 partner promotions, up seven on a flat 2018 round, but with just three…
Deal watch: Big cheeses land £975m Dairy Crest deal as Slaughters acts on £1.3bn Provident hostile takeover Nathalie Tidman The UK buyout market had an uncharacteristically frenetic week with City M&A counsel taking the lead on a £1.3bn unsolicited…
In-house: Eversheds brokers Dyson sole adviser deal alongside fresh FSCS appointment Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland has added to its suite of sole adviser relationships with a deal for Dyson’s global privacy mandate. Eversheds has…
LLP accounts: Strong returns for CC leadership with bumper 38% pay rise as Eversheds executives see take home remain static Tom Baker Clifford Chance’s (CC) 13-strong executive leadership team took home £22m in the 2017/18 financial year, according to the firm’s filings…
Legal tech focus: Slaughters’ tech ally Luminance makes impact but battle for City elite wages Hamish McNicol Luminance has shot to prominence unlike any other UK legal tech start-up. But Hamish McNicol finds there is still plenty…
Deal watch: Slaughters and Kirkland drill into giant $12bn offshore plc merger as Travers and Eversheds maximise L&G’s pensions buy-out Nathalie Tidman Slaughter and May and Kirkland & Ellis have led on the $12bn combination of UK Plc offshore drilling companies Ensco and Rowan…
Adviser reviews: Lucozade Ribena Suntory completes first post-merger panel Tom Baker Eversheds Sutherland has won the role of primary UK and Ireland adviser in Lucozade Ribena Suntory’s (LRS) inaugural legal panel…
Deal watch: City high-flyers land jumbo £4.4bn BA pension deal as Blackstone’s buying spree continues Nathalie Tidman City heavyweights Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC) and Eversheds Sutherland have landed key roles on Legal & General’s £4.4bn…
Deal watch: Eversheds Sutherland races to advise Formula 1 team on administration as Cooley acts on $126.8m tech IPO Tom Baker Eversheds Sutherland has landed a major role on the administration of Formula 1 team Force India as Cooley advises a UK IT…
Eversheds wins key Rolls-Royce mandate as Norwegian group lands marine business Marco Cillario Nigel Cooke leads the team advising the UK giant on its £500m sale Engineering giant Rolls-Royce turned to long-term adviser…
Sole-adviser relationships: Commitment issues Hamish McNicol Commitment. Marriage. Honeymoon. Divorce. Conversations about single-supplier legal advisory mandates are rife with relationship-strewn analogies. While no two arrangements are…
Revolving Doors: City laterals pick up with hires at Dentons and Eversheds as international moves maintain momentum Thomas Alan City recruitment picked up after a lull last week as Dentons strengthened its bench in London at the hand of Eversheds…
UK Litigation Outlook sponsored briefing: Three is a crowd! The rise of third-party funding in international arbitration Guest Blog Eversheds Sutherland assesses the key issues of using third-party funding in international arbitration The use of third-party funding (TPF) has…
