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Global Elite line up on Nestlé’s $10bn skincare business sale to EQT

Latham & Watkins is acting alongside US counterpart Kirkland & Ellis in advising EQT as the private equity house looks…

Deal watch: City teams fly on £4.6bn Rolls-Royce pension deal as Kirkland and Goodwin take multi-billion dollar mandates

Big-ticket deals have been fuelling the market in pensions, private equity and fundraising recently with UK top-10 firms and US…

Deal watch: Kirkland and Linklaters take care of Nestlé business as UK advisers get busy in Europe

Marco Cillario

International investors have been keeping UK and US counsel busy this week, with Linklaters and Kirkland & Ellis winning roles…

Flexi lawyering on the up as Linklaters launches Peerpoint-style platform and LOD makes Australasian acquisition

Marco Cillario

Linklaters has become the latest firm to venture into the ever busier flexible lawyering market after hiring the former director…

‘Immensely rewarding’: Moore gets second term as Linklaters managing partner

Marco Cillario

Linklaters managing partner Gideon Moore will stay in his role until April 2022 after the partnership re-elected him for a…

Dealwatch: Freshfields joins Slaughters in fight for UK plastics plc as Apax returns to Links Paris team

Marco Cillario

It has been a busy few days for the Magic Circle, as US company Berry Global trumped an offer by…

Linklaters to hit 20% female partnership as women make up a third of 33-strong promotion round

Marco Cillario

For the sixth year in a row Linklaters has increased the size of its promotion round, adding 33 lawyers to…

Magic Circle leads tech foray as Slaughters unveils tech incubator and Linklaters and A&O back Nivaura in $20m funding round

Thomas Alan

Slaughter and May has announced today (27 February) its much-anticipated legal tech incubator, Slaughter and May Collaborate, with the firm primed…

Linklaters ends culture row as wannabe whistleblower agrees to destroy confidential documents

Marco Cillario

Former Linklaters executive committee member Frank Mellish has agreed that he will not disclose information raising concerns over the firm’s…

‘Ongoing struggle’: Linklaters shuts down former director going public with concerns over firm culture

Marco Cillario

Linklaters has been granted an interim injunction against a former director of business development and marketing seeking to raise his…

Deal watch: Busy year-end as Japanese group buys Swiss power grid and Malaysian funds invest in Battersea

Marco Cillario

City deal teams are having a busy run-up to Christmas, with Baker McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Addleshaw Goddard and Linklaters leading…

LLP accounts: Linklaters posts fall in profits as top earner doubles income at Macfarlanes

Marco Cillario

Operating profits at Linklaters dipped 1% to £472.3m, while Macfarlanes’ highest-earning partner brought home almost £4m in 2017/18, the two…

Banking and finance focus: Back to the future

Nathalie Tidman

‘The truth is no-one’s got the faintest idea what finance practices will look like in the future,’ shrugs Tony Bugg,…

‘No blueprint’: Looking back at Lehman’s wind-up

Marco Cillario

Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE)’s 5,500 employees left the London office at 25 Bank Street on Friday 12 September 2008…

Linklaters finishes tech jigsaw with hire of Ashurst’s global IT head

Thomas Alan

Linklaters has bolstered its technology clout with the hire of Ashurst’s well-regarded head of global IT, Bruna Pellicci. Pellicci becomes the…

Linklaters sets sights on future talent as it raises trainee and NQ salaries for second time

Marco Cillario

Linklaters has announced the second increase in its trainee and newly qualified (NQ) salaries this year, with the latter now…

Deal watch: Rich pickings for Links as insurance and education sectors mark busy autumn for City elite

Marco Cillario

It has been a busy few weeks for Linklaters’ transactional team as the firm scooped spots on two multibillion pound…

Deal watch: Magic Circle scoops £300m Funding Circle IPO as Linklaters advises on £2bn wind farm financing

Nathalie Tidman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have scored lead mandates on the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of small business lender Funding…

Linklaters fails to keep pace up with profit growth as revenue breaks £1.5bn

Marco Cillario

Linklaters has posted a mixed bag of financial results as revenue grew by a solid 6% to pass the £1.5bn…

Linklaters and A&O join Magic Circle peers in associate salary race to attract US talent

Nathalie Tidman

Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) have joined Magic Circle peers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance to hike associate salaries in the…