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Macfarlanes LLPs show profit dip to £82.5m as management pay rises

After record profitability last year Macfarlanes has reported a 9% fall in profits to £82.5m, while management pay was up,…

Another defection from Macfarlanes as competition head moves to White & Case

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In a rare move, White & Case has hired Macfarlanes competition and EU head Marc Israel after 15 years at…

‘A great enhancement to our practice’: Quinn lures Macfarlanes’ Berman in latest City hire

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In a rare defection from Macfarlanes, financial services head David Berman is set to join Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

Deal watch: Corporate activity in July and August 2016

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US ELITE LEAD AS VERIZON TAKES YAHOO! FOR $4.8BN Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &…

Macfarlanes gets the gig as firms line up on Verizon’s $2.4bn purchase of Fleetmatics

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Just days after the headline grabbing acquisition of Yahoo!, Goodwin Procter, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, A&L Goodbody and Macfarlanes…

After five years of growth Macfarlanes revenue stalls and PEP falls 17%

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Following one of its most successful years, Macfarlanes has seen revenue remain static at £161m for 2015/16, up less than…

Travers Smith matches Slaughters associate base pay as indies beat Brexit woes to lift salaries

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Despite post-Brexit referendum market turbulence, independent firms Travers Smith and Macfarlanes have both elevated their newly-qualified (NQ) pay levels, with…

Macfarlanes makes up six partners in male-only round

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Macfarlanes has made up six new internal partner promotions across its tax, real estate, corporate and disputes practices, with senior…

‘This is a gritty place’: Macfarlanes’ leaders on the hustle it takes to look effortless

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Victoria Young talks to the singular City player about success and bucking the market ‘Strong culture’, ‘high quality’ and ‘entrepreneurial’…

A&O, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith to contest top prize at the Legal Business Awards

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Allen & Overy, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith are among the firms competing to be named Law Firm of the Year…

Comment: We must run just to stay in place – Macfarlanes’ head asks what it takes to be a partner in 2016

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I confess the analogy is not perfect, but reflecting on the bizarre and often contradictory pressures on partners in law…

Here we must run, just to stay in place – what it takes to be a law firm partner in 2016

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Macfarlanes’ Charles Martin reflects on the paradoxes facing the modern partner I confess the analogy is not perfect, but reflecting…

News in brief – February 2016

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CASES AGAINST LAW FIRMS DOWN Figures collated by RPC suggest the post-financial crisis wave of professional negligence claims against law…

Macfarlanes sticks by management duo, reappointing Martin and Howard until 2020

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In a conspicuously early move demonstrating confidence in its leadership, the partnership at Macfarlanes has re-appointed Charles Martin (pictured) and…

Macfarlanes’ top-earning partner pay leaps by a third, annual LLP accounts show

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The latest LLP filings at Companies House by Macfarlanes have shown the highest-paid member at the firm pocketed £2.04m in…

Macfarlanes combines with Wachtell for new client Visa on €21.2bn European transaction

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Macfarlanes has scored a lead role advising US company Visa on its €21.2bn acquisition of Visa Europe alongside US firm…

Macfarlanes taps Ashurst for another real estate hire

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With Macfarlanes having a made a virtue of broadening its service lines post-recession to contribute to its impressive financial performance…

Deal machines – the resilience of Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and the mid-tier deal team

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The forced obsolescence of Macfarlanes and Travers Smith as City-focused M&A teams has been as long predicted as it has…

Bryan Cave’s London head talks not being ‘all singing and all dancing’ as firm hires Macfarlanes structured finance chief in City push

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After having carried out a strategic review which will see the Global 100 firm look to create three ‘best-in-class’ international…

Second edition: Freshfields, Linklaters and Macfarlanes advise on Pearson’s £469m sale of The Economist

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has reprised its role for Pearson as, just weeks after selling the Financial Times, the publishing group…