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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On the move this week are partners from Clifford Chance, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Trethowans, who are joining King & Wood Mallesons, Ropes & Gray and Trethowans respectively.
Just over a month since news broke that its high-profile capital markets head Steve Thierbach was leaving, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has appointed King & Spalding’s Tom O’Neill to head its US securities practice.
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The Crown Estate has today (26 October) announced its head of legal Rob Booth, will succeed high-profile director of business operations and general counsel Vivienne King in the role as the business undergoes a restructure.
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Having taken its first step toward offering alternative legal services to clients earlier this year, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has selected a long-term base for its low-cost services hub in Manchester, double the size of its current office.
Clyde & Co has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner’s co-head of arbitration and energy specialist Richard Power as it continues to develop its global arbitration group.
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New Justice secretary Michael Gove is set for a tussle with City lawyers after floating a plan to impose a multi-million pound tax on commercial law firms to pay for the abolition of a controversial criminal court charge on guilty defendants.
Hogan Lovells has won a landmark judgment for its client BTA Bank in one of the largest fraud trials ever to come before the English Courts.
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While UK Prime Minister David Cameron has led a recent attack over judicial review decisions and the cost of the process, a new report has found that restrictions to legal aid have harmed the process, judicial review itself has led to improved services by public bodies and clarified the law in 86% of cases.
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With Macfarlanes having a made a virtue of broadening its service lines post-recession to contribute to its impressive financial performance in the last five years, it has expanded its real estate practice further with the hire of Ashurst real estate partner Gerald Kelly – its fourth real estate lateral from Ashurst in as many years.
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Eversheds and Linklaters have won key roles on TDR Capital’s £1.3bn investment in Euro Garages, one of the UK’s largest privately-owned forecourt operators.
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White & Case‘s most recent limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts filed at Companies House show turnover at its UK and Africa offices increased 12% in the financial year ending December 2014.
Steven Vaughan and Claire Coe have conducted a study of senior commercial lawyers for – but independent of – the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The study concentrated on ‘high impact’ [i.e. high risk in SRA terms] commercial firms working.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has become the latest firm to launch in Africa with a four-partner office opening in Johannesburg.
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While acting Supreme Court Justice Robert Stolz has declared the criminal proceedings against the former executives of now defunct firm Dewey & LeBoeuf a mistrial after three weeks of jury deliberations, the case may now be headed for a retrial.
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Australian listed firm Slater & Gordon will ask shareholders to vote on a pay increase for its four non-executive directors at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month.
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The capital markets team at Magic Circle firm Linklaters has secured four bond issue mandates from Chinese banks as China’s president, Xi Jinping, makes his first state visit to the UK.
The world’s largest legal market survey is now live. Following months of data collection, research, interviewing and analysis, the Client Intelligence team is proud to present the most detailed ever review of the global market for legal services.
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A few years ago the managing partner of a mid-sized London firm said to me ‘The most important role a partner has is to sell the bill to the client.’
He went on to say that most of his firm’s write-offs were due to partners doing good work for a client without the client being convinced that the work should have been done.
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In another busy week for initial public offerings (IPO), Allen & Overy (A&O) and Ashurst have won key roles on the prospective IPO of UK IT infrastructure provider Softcat.
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