Partner promotions: Linklaters beats Magic Circle rivals with 21 lawyers made up to partner David Stevenson With the latest promotions round among the City elite so far showing a marked drop in the number of associates…
Alstom thermal power sale gifts Freshfields and Linklaters with $1bn deal Legal Business Magic Circle firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have won lead roles advising on the sale of Alstom’s thermal power division to…
With an external legal spend in excess of $1bn since 2010, BP launches panel review Sarah Downey Energy giant BP, which has paid around $1bn in external legal fees in relation to the Gulf of Mexico oil…
IPO Fever: Just Eat float gifts Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters with £700m listing Sarah Downey With Pets at Home and Poundland having only days ago made their London Stock Exchange debut, Just Eat yesterday (17…
Oil and gas: Slaughters, Linklaters and Hengeler act on €5.1bn sale of RWE Dea Legal Business With large deals in the oil and gas sector still often struggling to get away, RWE’s €5.1bn sale of its upstream…
Clifford Chance leads on VW’s $9.2bn offer for remaining shares in Scania Legal Business Magic Circle giant Clifford Chance (CC) has scored a key advisory role on Volkswagen’s (VW’s) $9.2bn offer for a remaining stake…
Panel review: Addleshaws and Linklaters new appointments as Nationwide completes adviser reshuffle Francesca Fanshawe Addleshaw Goddard and Linklaters will sit alongside incumbent advisers Allen & Overy and Eversheds on Nationwide‘s new legal panel as…
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…
More for most or less for some? Links is latest top firm to sidle towards merit pay David Stevenson Even at the top of the market, the slow march towards performance-driven pay for associates continues with Linklaters this week…
Investigations: RBS appoints panel firm Clifford Chance to conduct independent review Legal Business Investigations have become big business for the City’s thriving litigation teams although the majority of them happen behind closed doors…
Linklaters’ private equity ambitions dealt a blow by departures David Stevenson Linklaters’ now decade-long effort to carve a credible position in the private equity market has been dealt a serious blow…
Comment: 2006 and all that – an oh-so-familiar mess at Linklaters Legal Business The most hackneyed cliché of the pundit is history repeating itself, a claim that rarely holds up upon closer examination.…
Comment: ‘2006 and all that – an oh-so-familiar mess at Linklaters Legal Business The most hackneyed cliché of the pundit is history repeating itself, a claim that rarely holds up upon closer examination.…
More Paris moves as Linklaters announces triple partner hire Legal Business Further movement in the Paris market has seen Linklaters announce a trio of high level hires as Matthieu de Boisséson, Pierre…
Linklaters private equity ambitions dealt a blow by departure of Bagshaw and Youle David Stevenson Linklaters‘ now decade-long effort to carve a credible position in the private equity market has been dealt a serious blow as…
Line up, line up: Twitter, Royal Mail and Foxtons go to market Legal Business After a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) earlier in the year, with Esure, Countrywide and Partnership Assurance among the…
Asia Round-up: Linklaters and Sidley Austin hire in Hong Kong and Singapore while DLA suffers another Singapore exit Legal Business Magic circle lateral hires still happen comparatively infrequently but if they do happen, these days it’s quite often in Asia.…
Revolving doors: Linklaters boosts Asia restructuring practice while SJ Berwin makes key disputes hire Francesca Fanshawe In the second recruit to its Hong Kong office in the last couple of weeks, Linklaters has hired former Allen…
Takeover potential – Linklaters & Simmons lead on Amec’s £700m bid for Kentz David Stevenson Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons‘ longstanding corporate relationships with Amec and Kentz have gifted them with a potentially lucrative takeover bid…
Revolving Doors: Linklaters hires former Herbert Smith Asia head as Clayton Utz and Norton Rose make key hires David Stevenson Herbert Smith Freehills recent internal confidence that its run of post-merger exits had come to an end has been dashed after…
