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Comment: The national market – brutally competitive but opportunity abounds

At one point in our Regional Insight report – a major collaboration with our colleagues at The Legal 500 included with this issue of Legal Business – one GC based in the North West discusses a recent pitch in which a City law firm came out best on price against regional rivals. Surprising as it may seem, it is reflective of a dynamic that has seen London advisers focus on handling work from UK regions after realising that simply aspiring to be a City leader is a road to nowhere for many firms.

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‘You don’t have them at hello’: Linklaters London corporate chief talks getting the right people in the room and tackling the US

Stuart Bedford became head of corporate at Linklaters‘ London HQ in September after his predecessor, Sarah Wiggins, was promoted to head of client sectors after just three months in the role. One of the strongest voices for private equity within the firm, Bedford talks to Tom Moore about how he hopes to capture US clients in the City.

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‘High risk, poorly supervised and inadequately controlled’: CC’s Simon Davis publishes findings on FCA insurance scandal probe

Following the high-profile inquiry carried out by Clifford Chance litigation partner Simon Davis, the keenly awaited report on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) behaviour in leaking a business plan to The Telegraph has found failures that ‘fell short of the standards expected of those it regulates’.

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A $150m award: Baker Botts loses another Russian case as Quinn Emanuel secures pay-out against gas giants

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan‘s Alex Gerbi and Stephen Jagusch have secured a $150m award for Danish engineering firm Core Carbon, with Baker Botts suffering another defeat on behalf of its Russian client base, this time Rosgaz, after recently being on the receiving end of a $50bn award against Russia for the state’s destruction of Yukos.

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Guest post: An immigration lawyer reviews Paddington and gives him some advice

Law is pretty abstract. Unlike the role of a doctor or a builder, that of a lawyer is difficult to explain to a young mind. When my children eventually ask me about what I do when I ‘work’ (confusingly simultaneously a place I seem to go to and a thing I do at home; either takes me away from them) my plan is to explain that I help strangers from far off places find new homes. Like Paddington Bear.

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Revolving doors: International hires for Allen & Overy, KWM and Morgan Lewis while Gibson Dunn turned to GE

A host of international hires last week saw Allen & Overy (A&O) and Morgan Lewis & Bockius enhance their Frankfurt and Dubai offices respectively while King & Wood Mallesons turned in-house to launch an energy group in Paris and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher hired GE’s executive counsel.

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