Paul Hastings and Weil Gotshal & Manges lead on German bank acquisition Legal Business US firms Paul Hastings and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have won lead roles on the OCEAN Holding acquisition of German…
Another partner exit at Weil’s London office Legal Business Weil Gotshal & Manges’ head of European high yield Gil Strauss has become the most recent prominent partner to leave…
Weil Gotshal heads H1 global private equity table as DLA Piper enters top 20 Legal Business Weil Gotshal & Manges has come out on top of the latest H1 private equity league tables in a top 20…
Revolving Doors: HSF’s Rosen QC returns to the Bar; laterals for Weil Gotshal; Simmons; Rosenblatt and Payne Hicks Legal Business The latest standout lateral moves have seen Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) former advocacy chief Murray Rosen QC return to the Bar,…
Weil’s City banking head Stephen Lucas joins Kirkland Legal Business One of the best-known names in the leverage buyout market, Stephen Lucas, is set to join Kirkland & Ellis from…
‘We’ve got 40 finance lawyers left’ – Weil’s City banking head Stephen Lucas joins Kirkland Legal Business One of the best-known names in the leverage buyout market, Stephen Lucas is set to join Kirkland & Ellis from…
Transatlantic Weil and Milbank teams advise on circa €2bn Flint acquisition; A&O launches Primark in the US Jaishree Kalia Weil, Gotshal & Manges London, German and New York banking teams have advised the lenders on Goldman Sachs and Koch Industries’…
Weil Gotshal hires restructuring heavyweight Wilkinson from Goldman Sachs Legal Business It has long been renowned as the top restructuring shop in the US but Weil, Gotshal & Manges was a…
DLA and Weil lead on Vodafone’s €7.2bn acquisition of Grupo Corporativo Ono Legal Business Vodafone has turned to DLA Piper for its latest major M&A deal: the €7.2bn acquisition of Grupo Corporativo Ono, with…
Outpaced – US firms’ 2013 City revenue increases overshadow global results David Stevenson Aside from a notable shift towards growth, one of the most salient trends to emerge from 2013’s US financial results…
WhatsApp? Weil secures lead role on Facebook’s $16bn acquisition led by 2012 Dewey hire Legal Business The first global law firm to open an office in US technology heartland Silicon Valley, Weil Gotshal & Manges has secured…
Revolving doors – Weil, Latham, Freshfields and Dentons among the firms opening 2014 with senior recruits Francesca Fanshawe Increasing confidence in the transactional market has contributed to a rash of senior partner moves at the start of 2014,…
New year hiring spree continues as Weil Gotshal and Norton Rose recruit from rivals David Stevenson Top-20 Global 100 firms Norton Rose Fulbright and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have made significant and experienced additions to their…
Life During Law: Marco Compagnoni Legal Business I’m a forward-looking type of guy. Looking back on your career is something you do when you’re retiring. At the…
Wall Street in London: Weil Gotshal and Davis Polk lead on $1.6bn takeover of UK’s Edwards Group David Stevenson As British industrial technology firm Edwards Group is today (19 August) bought out for $1.6bn by Swedish engineering group Atlas…
Guest post: You could up-skill them, instead you simply canned them – the secretarial canary in the law firm coal mine Legal Business ‘A really far-sighted law firm would give its secretaries the chance to ‘skill up’ and take on more responsibility, accomplishing…
Comment: Weil Gotshal and the narrative of the New Normal Legal Business Whatever the business case for announcing significant down-sizing, there is no doubt that in the field of modern communications Weil…
Litigation watch: Weil and Quinn Emanuel successful in high profile Barclay brothers Court of Appeal case Caroline Hill A high profile Court of Appeal decision has today (3 July) seen Weil Gotshal & Manges and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart…
Coming on like 2009 – Weil Gotshal becomes the first major NY firm to announce job cuts this year Legal Business So far the wave of redundancies that have rippled through the UK legal profession has not been replicated across the Atlantic…
