Allen & Overy and Linklaters win key roles on £550m Quorn acquisition Tom Moore Allen & Overy and Linklaters secured advisory roles as the private equity owners of meat-substitute Quorn offloaded it to a Filipino…
Skadden hires new Paris tax head as Linklaters is served with another partner exit Legal Business Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is ramping up its Paris offering, having hired Linklaters tax partner Thomas Perrot to head its…
Rapidly recruiting: Kirkland takes Linklaters’ corporate heavyweight Johnson Legal Business Kirkland & Ellis has hired a fourth partner this year from Magic Circle rival Linklaters, as the head of private…
Frontrunner eliminated as Linklaters cuts managing partner race to three Legal Business Linklaters’ banking chief Gideon Moore, dispute resolution head Michael Bennett and Asia managing partner Marc Harvey have made a final…
Dealwatch: Sullivan & Cromwell’s City office and CC advise on nearly £6bn worth of deals Legal Business Sullivan & Cromwell’s City office has been busy this summer winning roles on two headline deals announced yesterday [8 September],…
Dealwatch: Glencore returns to Linklaters and Clifford Chance for $10bn debt deal Tom Moore Commodities giant Glencore has turned to Magic Circle firms Linklaters and Clifford Chance to implement a raft of plans in…
Linklaters finance partner Irvine heads to Kirkland in latest exit from Hong Kong office Legal Business For the third time this year and dealing a blow to Linklaters‘ Asian objectives, Kirkland & Ellis has recruited from…
Linklaters makes it official: Silk Street confirms six-strong managing partner shortlist Legal Business With the frontrunners having emerged earlier this summer, the partnership board at Linklaters has formalised the six-man shortlist to replace…
Frontrunners emerge at Linklaters in race for managing partner Legal Business Finance & projects head Michael Kent and global banking chief Gideon Moore have emerged as the frontrunners to succeed Simon…
Dealwatch: Linklaters and Ashurst lead on Schneider Electric’s £1.3bn reverse takeover of Aveva Tom Moore A four-partner team from Linklaters advised France’s Schneider Electric on its £1.3bn reverse takeover of UK engineering software company and…
Dealwatch: Herbert Smith Freehills leads on winning bid for £4.2bn Thames super-sewer project Tom Moore Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) have advised the consortium picked to deliver a £4.2bn super-sewer stretching 15 miles under London to…
Linklaters borrows plc playbook to bring in Hague as door-opener-in-chief Legal Business It’s long been a trusted technique for major corporates to ship in public figures for advisory roles to open doors…
Jacobs frontrunner for next Linklaters senior partner Legal Business Slaughters’ senior partner race also underway ‘There’s no-one else,’ mused one ex-Linklaters partner. ‘If Charlie Jacobs isn’t the next senior…
HSF arbitration heavyweight Weiniger QC to depart for Linklaters Legal Business Linklaters has returned to a familiar hunting ground, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), to hire experienced arbitration partner Matthew Weiniger QC.
Linklaters first magic circle firm to post financials with revenues and profits flat Legal Business The first Magic Circle firm to release its financial results, Linklaters posted a 1% rise in revenue to £1.27bn as…
Linklaters’ Davies to step down early as managing partner to join Lloyds Legal Business On the same day that the City giant posted its results for the last financial year, Linklaters‘ managing partner Simon…
Dealwatch: CC and Linklaters take lead on GE’s $2.2bn finance unit sale to Japan’s SMBC Legal Business Magic Circle duo Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have taken lead advisory roles on General Electric’s $2.2bn sale of its…
Dealwatch: A&O and Linklaters sweep roles on €25bn supermarket merger alongside US trio Kathryn McCann The €25bn merger between international food retailers Delhaize Group and Royal Ahold has seen Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters…
CC matches peers in associate salary race – both Slaughters’ £70k NQs and Links’ 3 year PQE pay Legal Business Clifford Chance has revealed its 2015 pay bands for newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers, matching the £70,000 NQ rates of Slaughter and May while also meeting…
Brait a boon for Links as New Look buyout lifts PE market Legal Business Less than a month after advising on the £1.3bn purchase of Virgin Active by billionaire Christo Wiese’s private equity vehicle…
