Ashurst, Slaughters and White & Case re-elect leaders as rivals ring in the change Anna Cole-Bailey The recent spate of leadership elections has seen Ashurst, Slaughter and May and White & Case all sticking with tradition…
Cash in hand: Slaughter and May to pocket £6m in fees for advice on failed hostile bid Thomas Alan Slaughter and May is set to receive over £6m in fees after advising sub-prime lender Non-Standard Finance (NSF) on its failed…
Disputes perspectives: Sir David Green QC Tom Baker Looking back, I spent 25% of my time at the Serious Fraud Office reacting to a campaign against the SFO…
Prestige meets hustle – Slaughters sends jolt through start-up community with launch of tech incubator Thomas Alan For years Slaughters epitomised City conservativism but, reports Thomas Alan, marquee clients and a clear structure mean its new law…
‘Keep doing it better’: Slaughters senior partner Cooke gets another three years Thomas Alan Highly-respected M&A practitioner Steve Cooke (pictured) has had his term as senior partner at Slaughter and May extended until 2024.…
Collaboration all the rage as Slaughters reveals first incubator cohort and Deloitte and Burges Salmon forge tech partnerships Thomas Alan Slaughter and May has today (29 April) announced its debut cohort of fledgling technology start-ups to enter its legal tech…
Slaughters becomes latest to reveal underwhelming gender and ethnicity pay gap Thomas Alan Slaughter and May has published its first partner-level pay gap report, revealing that male partners earn on average 8.9% more than…
Slaughter and May chooses Hong Kong once more for rare partner hire Thomas Alan Traditionally phobic to partner hires, Slaughter and May has recruited in Hong Kong again almost a year after its previous…
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…
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…
Deal watch: Big cheeses land £975m Dairy Crest deal as Slaughters acts on £1.3bn Provident hostile takeover Nathalie Tidman The UK buyout market had an uncharacteristically frenetic week with City M&A counsel taking the lead on a £1.3bn unsolicited…
Deal watch: Healthy pickings for Travers and DLA on Unilever’s £150m graze buyout as firms navigate Interserve rescue saga Nathalie Tidman Travers Smith and DLA Piper have sated their appetites on The Carlyle Group’s £150m disposal of graze while a raft of advisers…
Luminance valuation hits $100m as Slaughters stumps up in $10m investment round Thomas Alan UK legal tech leader and Slaughter and May ally Luminance has received further backing from existing investors, propelling the start-up to…
Deal watch: City and US firms defy tough M&A market with deal duo as Gateley takes the cake on Patisserie Valerie collapse Nathalie Tidman Slaughter and May, Sullivan & Cromwell, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Ashurst have defied a challenging market to take key…
Slaughters lifts associate salaries alongside performance-related bonuses Thomas Alan Slaughter and May has increased its salary rates for newly qualified (NQ) associates by £3,000, with junior associates also seeing an…
Legal tech focus: Slaughters’ tech ally Luminance makes impact but battle for City elite wages Hamish McNicol Luminance has shot to prominence unlike any other UK legal tech start-up. But Hamish McNicol finds there is still plenty…
Deal watch: Bakers and Slaughters drink in £3.1bn Horlicks acquisition as AJ Bell IPO yields dividends for Pinsents and Addleshaws Nathalie Tidman As the market hunkers down for the festive season, GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) £3.1bn sale to Unilever of Horlicks has warmed the…
Expectations high as Thomson Reuters and Slaughters ramp up legal tech incubator competition Thomas Alan Competition for access to legal tech start-ups is heating up as global multimedia giant Thomson Reuters and City blueblood Slaughter…
Deal watch: Slaughters and Kirkland drill into giant $12bn offshore plc merger as Travers and Eversheds maximise L&G’s pensions buy-out Nathalie Tidman Slaughter and May and Kirkland & Ellis have led on the $12bn combination of UK Plc offshore drilling companies Ensco and Rowan…
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…