Macfarlanes has scored a lead role advising US company Visa on its €21.2bn acquisition of Visa Europe alongside US firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, while Linklaters also secured a leading role advising the other side.
Fieldfisher boosts tech nous in Manchester with lateral hires
Nearly two years after opening in Manchester, Fieldfisher has swelled its partner headcount with two lateral hires from regional firms.
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Guest post: The secret to surviving in a new role
I speak to a lot of people who have recently moved into new roles. It is a tough period and after three months there is often a striking contrast between their negative emotional response to their new role then, compared to the anticipation and excitement they felt on joining their new company.
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Trading places: HSBC to move 10% of London legal team to Birmingham
HSBC is planning to move about 20 of its London lawyers to Birmingham by 2017 in line with the new ring-fencing reforms, Legal Business has learned.
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Ince & Co hits choppy water in Singapore as Reed Smith appoints leadership duo
As part of its quest to seek a local tie-up Reed Smith has secured the double hire of Ince & Co‘s Singapore managing partner and the head of its local alliance firm, putting Ince’s own Singapore law alliance at risk.
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Eversheds inches closer to US tie-up as Foley & Lardner emerges as front runner
Eversheds is moving closer to its much sought-after US merger, with Foley & Lardner identified as the primary candidate for a deal.
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Hitting the target: Latham & Watkins boosts female partner promotions in latest round
Almost half the lawyers made partner in Latham & Watkins’ latest 25 partner promotion round are female, following global chair Bill Voge’s pledge for diversity.
Clyde & Co ramps up South African offering with Norton Rose, ENS hires
Clyde & Co has continued its seemingly relentless international push of the last 18 months, this time recruiting ten new lawyers including five partners in South Africa, bringing the total number of legal staff across its Johannesburg and Cape Town offices to 30.
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Omani sovereign wealth fund calls in Freshfields to sue Bulgaria
Oman’s largest sovereign wealth fund has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to take Bulgaria to arbitration over its role in the collapse in Balkan bank KTB, while the Bulgarian government has instructed Arnold & Porter to defend the claim ahead of preferred law firm White & Case.
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Freshfields and Latham act on creation of new PE house as Barclays spins-off another venture
Private equity heavyweights Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have acted on the spin-off of Barclays’ natural resources private equity arm through a management buyout.
‘Supporting strategic expansion’: Wilberforce takes barrister duo from 3 Stone Buildings
Wilberforce Chambers continues to expand, adding Fenner Moeran QC and Andrew Child from 3 Stone Buildings, just weeks after bringing three silks and five junior barristers from soon-to-dissolve London commercial and chancery set 11 Stone Buildings (11SB).
Forsters faced with £70m negligence lawsuit over Siberian oil deal
Forsters is defending a £70m professional negligence claim filed by businessman Rupert Galliers-Pratt in which he alleges the firm failed to execute a deal for three oil blocks in Russia.
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Hausfeld to open Berlin office with €30m investment from litigation funder Burford
Third party litigation funder Burford Capital is investing €30m in US competition law boutique Hausfeld so it can open in Germany.
RBS dispute: Mishcon de Reya instructed as Lloyds Bank claimants break away from shareholder group
Several Lloyds Banking Group institutional clients have instructed Mishcon de Reya after breaking away from the shareholder action group involved in a multi-billion pound court battle against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Linklaters makes first US lateral hire in two years with Baker’s New York litigation chief
Linklaters has made a statement of intent in New York by hiring Baker & McKenzie’s Manhattan litigation head Douglas Tween, its first lateral hire in the US in almost two years.
Pro bono, confusion and funding gaps – mixed messages as Gove meets City firms to discuss a law firm levy
Was it a progressive discussion about boosting pro bono and One Nation values, or an opportunistic attempt to tap the commercial legal profession to fill a funding gap? Or both?
That remains unclear to many of the participants in a packed meeting on Monday (26 October) morning at Clifford Chance’s (CC) Canary Wharf offices between justice secretary Michael Gove (pictured) and a group of leading commercial law firms amid plans floated by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to impose some form of levy on City law firms to fund the courts.
Guest post: Why law firms need to be good at what they’re for
I’m currently preparing a webinar on getting and using feedback. It’s not a new subject – either to you or to me. Yet something suddenly struck me; something that is obviously true, but is normally lost in the torrent of data that feedback can produce.
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Tale of two strategies: Cleary Gottlieb passes on London again as White & Case promotes heavily in the City
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made up seven partners across its global network with London missing out for the second year in a row. Of its seven new partners globally, Cleary Gottlieb made up six in the US.
KPMG appoints Boston Consulting’s Barton as GC replacement for Sharp
Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Jeremy Barton has been appointed the new UK general counsel (GC) at KPMG following the departure of longstanding GC Vanessa Sharp in May.
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Middle East moves: Herbert Smith Freehills to reopen in Saudi Arabia
Four months after shutting down its Abu Dhabi office and two years after terminating its association with a Saudi Arabian firm, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is returning to Riyadh.
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