Deal watch: trio of big-ticket deals highlight frothy market for US and City elite Nathalie Tidman Barely a City or US firm in London has gone without popping a Champagne cork in recent days as big-ticket…
Brettle bows out as White & Case London head to focus on going toe-to-toe with the Magic Circle Nathalie Tidman Oliver Brettle has stepped down as White & Case’s London executive partner after a decade, with US securities partner Melissa…
Global London comment: Brexit looms but the $20m partner is coming Alex Novarese Striking numbers abound in this year’s Global London table, if you are into that kind of thing. The three pace-setting…
Brexit looms yet City law tilts further towards US leaders Alex Novarese Striking numbers abound in this year’s Global London table, if you are into that kind of thing. The three pace-setting…
Reborn supremacy – inside the unlikely White & Case revolution Nathalie Tidman ‘Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!’ exclaims Oliver Brettle, White & Case’s London executive partner, before getting up…
‘Investments have come home’: City branches stand out in big year for US players Marco Cillario Marco Cillario finds City offices outpacing worldwide growth at many Global London firms 2017 was a boom year for many…
Freshfields trounces rivals as Global 100 firms release gender pay stats Nathalie Tidman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the penultimate Magic Circle firm to publish statistics on the disparity between male and female…
US moves: Freshfields hires DoJ heavyweight while White & Case opens Houston office Tom Baker Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has enhanced its US antitrust bench with the hire of veteran Eric Mahr from the Department of…
US firms continue City growth as White & Case and Cooley see double-digit revenue spike Nathalie Tidman White & Case’s City office posted revenue of $328m for 2017, a 13% increase on last year’s $290m figure, while…
NYLon focus continues as Kirkland and White & Case announce promotion rounds Marco Cillario Elite US firms ramped up their London partner headcounts in October, with Kirkland & Ellis making up a record 97…
Partner promotions: White & Case latest round down almost a third as it continues NYLon focus Marco Cillario White & Case has promoted 31 lawyers to partner, three quarters of them in London and the US, as the…
Life during law: Patrick Sarch, White & Case Madeleine Farman I started at Paisner and then on qualification went off to Norton Rose. I joined Clifford Chance in 2000, which…
As the City elite gets coy on associate salaries, US rivals are winning the battle for young talent Madeleine Farman Madeleine Farman assesses the impact of another round of pay rises on the City market As US firms continue to…
CMS signs up Saudi partners as White & Case brings in heavyweight Swedish duo Marco Cillario They are already two of the most globalised law firms in the business, but CMS and White & Case have…
‘Acted recklessly’: White & Case fined record sum by SDT for conflict of interest breach Georgiana Tudor White & Case has been fined £250,000 in the largest-ever sanction imposed by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) against a firm,…
‘Exciting growth journey’: White & Case advises Polish telecoms company Play on €1bn IPO Madeleine Farman White & Case has again advised Polish telecoms group Play Communications and its shareholders, Novator and Olympia, this time on Play’s…
‘Hugely complicated’: Watson Farley, White & Case, A&O line up on $14bn shipping deal Tom Baker Watson Farley & Williams has advised a group of 27 international and local banks acting as financiers on a $14bn…
Skadden, White & Case, Freshfields, Simpson lead elite firms on Europe’s largest software buyout Legal Business Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and White & Case advised HgCapital as it led a consortium of investors purchasing €4.64bn…
News in brief – June 2017 Legal Business WHITE & CASE’S YOULE EXITS FOR SKADDEN In a major blow for White & Case’s City private equity practice, EMEA…
‘Much busier than expected’: White & Case and Freshfields advise Alfa Financial Software on IPO Madeleine Farman White & Case’s City growth strategy is seeing results with the US firm and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer winning places advising…
