Macfarlanes’ top-earning partner pay leaps by a third, annual LLP accounts show Legal Business 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 Legal Business 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 Legal Business 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 Legal Business 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 Legal Business 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 Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has reprised its role for Pearson as, just weeks after selling the Financial Times, the publishing group…
‘Old-fashioned’ values pay off for Macfarlanes as double-digit growth sees PEP pass big four Legal Business Pound for pound one of the most successful UK firms in financial terms over the last five years, Macfarlanes has…
Partner promotions: Ashurst 20-strong round includes 45% females while Macfarlanes reduces round to five Sarah Downey Ashurst has this morning (8 April) announced its 20-strong partner promotion round, which will take effect from 1 May 2015,…
Real estate: Macfarlanes and Clifford Chance take the lead on £370m Legal & General acquisition Legal Business Real estate heavyweights Macfarlanes and Clifford Chance (CC) have landed leading roles on one of the New Year’s first major…
Dealwatch: Mayer Brown, Macfarlanes and Gateley act on City Link administration Kathryn McCann Mayer Brown, Macfarlanes and Gateley are all acting on the administration of parcel delivery company City Link following its collapse…
Dealwatch: Latham & Watkins, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith lead on £200m Gorkana sale Legal Business Latham & Watkins, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith have all landed key roles on the £200m sale of media database Gorkana…
82 join the club – eight new partners in City as Kirkland makes up more than Macfarlanes’ entire partnership Legal Business In one of the largest global partnership promotion rounds, Kirkland & Ellis has made up eight of its London associates…
Taylor Wessing and Macfarlanes advise on £350m RBS credit facility deal Legal Business Anglo-German firm Taylor Wessing and City-firm Macfarlanes have both landed leading roles on a major refinancing deal as the real…
Financial results 2013/14: Macfarlanes breaks through £1m PEP threshold as profit and turnover up over 20% Legal Business Macfarlanes has achieved a high double digit jump in both revenue and profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2013/14…
Life during law: Charles Martin Legal Business In the end Macfarlanes’ response to the recession was very strong. We learned not to be frightened of change and…
Disputes: NRF hires Orrick litigation heavyweight as 20 Essex Street’s Morpuss QC joins Macfarlanes Sarah Downey Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has today (10 April) announced the hire of Orrick Rambaud Martel’s Philippe Hameau as a dispute…
Partner promotions: Macfarlanes defies downward trend by making up nine lawyers Sarah Downey Macfarlanes is the latest of a small number of City firms to announce growth in the number of lawyers made…
Key real estate and construction hires for Macfarlanes, Taylor Wessing and Withers Legal Business Property and construction lawyers are taking advantage of being back in vogue with a number of high profile moves in…
Lateral movement: Martin explains Macfarlanes’ current hiring spree Sarah Downey One of the biggest surprises to come out of Macfarlanes lately is not that it was one of the strongest…
Real estate round up: Macfarlanes, HSF, Slaughter and May and Hengeler Mueller each win key commercial property mandates Legal Business It’s been a week for the traditional corporate bluebloods to shine in real estate-related work, with Macfarlanes, Slaughter and May…
