Slaughters and Links lead on £3bn Carillion/Balfour talks; HSF and A&O advise on BSkyB’s £7.4bn European acquisitions Tom Moore Construction group Carillion has instructed Slaughter and May’s corporate heavy hitter William Underhill and fellow corporate partner Kathy Hughes to…
Partner promotions: Slaughter and May invests further in Hong Kong with out-of-step promotion Legal Business Having already announced a double partner promotion in Hong Kong at the start of the year Slaughter and May today (23…
Dealwatch: HSF and Slaughters UK advisers on AbbVie’s $51bn bid for Shire Tom Moore Herbert Smith Freehills‘ corporate partners James Palmer and Gillian Fairfield have taken the UK lead on US drugmaker AbbVie’s proposed…
Slaughters, A&O and Linklaters announce associate pay increases Legal Business Trainees, NQs and PQEs to receive salary boost. Setting the bar for trainee, newly-qualified (NQ) and associate pay last month…
Life During Law: Nilufer von Bismarck Legal Business There were different challenges during the downturn, you had to look to different markets. Challenges are always there and you…
Zoopla! Freshfields and Slaughter and May line up for £1bn float of the UK’s second biggest property website Legal Business The anticipated £1bn initial public offering (IPO) of the UK’s second largest online property website has seen Magic Circle firms…
Smartphone wars: Slaughters, Cleary and Freshfields lead for Motorola and Apple in EU’s verdict to level playing field Legal Business The latest instalment of the smartphone wars has seen Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton face Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as…
Slaughters first to up pay for trainees and NQs Legal Business Slaughter and May has again become the first major City player to announce changes to its junior fee-earners’ pay levels, with…
Slaughters, Freshfields and Linklaters lead on Glaxo/Novartis multibillion-dollar joint venture Legal Business Magic Circle trio Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have landed lead advisory roles on a multi-billion-dollar joint venture and asset swap…
Deal Watch: Slaughters advises on £3.6bn ICI pension annuity buy-in and £390m Ignis buyout; Travers leads on $3.1bn Nets sale Francesca Fanshawe Standout corporate mandates over the past few days have included a high profile run by Slaughter and May on deals including…
Diageo’s consolidated panel unveiled as Slaughters, Addleshaws and Pinsents win a place Francesca Fanshawe Global drinks brand Diageo has appointed Slaughter and May, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons as its ‘general preferred suppliers’ for the UK…
Partner promotions: Slaughters bucks trend to make up seven London partners David Stevenson While partnership promotions among the City elite have generally been on the wane in recent years, Slaughter and May has…
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…
Magic Circle leadership: Slaughters appoints Ryde and McClean as head of corporate and finance Legal Business In a week that has seen Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer appoint firm lifer Julian Long as London managing partner, Slaughter and May today announced…
RBS share sell-off in Direct Line gifts Allen & Overy with £1bn deal David Stevenson Just under a year earlier than expected by some in the City, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) this week (26…
Slaughters adds US capability in Hong Kong as best friends become rivals Legal Business Moore becomes first lateral hire in firm’s 125-year history It had been well telegraphed but even so news that Slaughter…
DLA Piper, Slaughters and Vodafone shine in 2014 Legal Business Awards Alex Novarese In what has proved the largest Legal Business Awards ever held, DLA Piper, Slaughter and May and Vodafone were last…
Asia Pacific: Slaughters makes first foray into lateral market to launch US securities practice in Hong Kong David Stevenson Magic Circle firm Slaughter and May has taken the unprecedented step of making a lateral hire, recruiting US securities partner…
Dealwatch: HSF, Clifford Chance and Slaughters take the spotlight in Cineworld expansion Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has landed a role advising Barclays, JP Morgan and Investec on Cineworld Group‘s £107m rights issue…
Hefty fines: Cleary, Slaughters and CC advise on banks’ €1.7bn rate-rigging settlement Legal Business A collection of some of Europe’s strongest antitrust practices have been advising some of the world’s largest global banks as…
