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…
‘A clear validation of our strategy’: Eversheds bounces back with double-digit revenue and profit growth Tom Baker In its first full financial year since its transatlantic merger, Eversheds Sutherland (International) has recorded a robust increase in both…
Eversheds Sutherland settles £100m Northern Rock negligence case Hamish McNicol A £100m claim brought against Eversheds Sutherland by Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM) has been settled. NRAM’s claim, which came to…
Flat partner promotions round at Eversheds Sutherland a year after merger Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland’s international business has made 20 partner promotions globally, the same as last year, with more than half outside the…
High street collapse sees Global 100 players line up on Toys R Us and Maplin failures Thomas Alan In a worrying trend for high-street retailers, Toys R Us and Maplin have announced their UK domestic businesses are going…
Eversheds and HFW disclose gender pay gaps for partners but calls mount for an end to cherry-picked stats Hamish McNicol The one-upmanship and tactical disclosures from law firms are gradually revealing more about entrenched gender pay gaps. Next up, Eversheds…
Deal view: Eversheds deal team – so much promise but so much steady Hamish McNicol Newcomers to London quickly learn the rules of the escalator: stand still on the right or keep moving on the…
Deal Watch: Kirkland and Eversheds lead as Toys R Us and Maplin collapse following bleak Xmas for retailers Nathalie Tidman Insolvency professionals have long been predicting a wave of trouble would hit the beleaguered UK high street and it has…
On a roll: Eversheds Sutherland sees December deal flurry carry over Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland corporate head Richard Moulton cannot remember a busier December than in 2017 and believes the January deal market…
