Sponsored briefing: Q&A – Vefa Resat Moral Guest Blog How would you describe the current state of the Turkish legal market? In two words, ‘fragile’ and ‘optimistic’. For the…
Sponsored briefing: Q&A – Serdar Paksoy Guest Blog 1. Given Turkey’s recent economic problems, how is this affecting your clients and how can you help mitigate the risks?…
Goodwin and Eversheds make bold corporate plays amid hopes of increasing City transactional firepower Thomas Alan Goodwin Procter and Eversheds Sutherland both made significant corporate hires in November, with the pair recruiting Kirkland & Ellis partner…
Sponsored briefing: Restrictive measures against Turkey by the EU Guest Blog Vona Law Firm’s Gül Özdinç sets out a criticism of the European Council’s new regulation concerning restrictions on Turkey The…
Sponsored briefing: Taking the plunge Chris Crowe The office has made a series of bold lateral hires in the last three years. What is behind this? Suhrud…
Significant hires Legal Business Simmons & Simmons added to its international banking practice with the hire of Kirsty Barnes, formerly Gowling WLG’s head of…
Sponsored briefing: Obligation to register before the Turkish data controllers registry and maintain personal data-processing inventory Guest Blog Yasin Beceni and Susen Aklan of BTS clarify Turkey’s data protection regulations on data controller registry obligations Article 16 of…
From start-up to established: du-ing it the right way Alex Speirs Of the two telecoms operators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), du – officially Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company – is…
Sponsored briefing: Growing interest in asset deals Guest Blog Yegan Liaje of Pekin & Pekin describes a rising interest in asset deals following a period of economic uncertainty in…
Sponsored briefing: Life sciences in Turkey Guest Blog Özge Atılgan Karakulak and Dicle Doğan of Gün + Partners explain how the country’s growing healthcare and pharma industries operate…
GC to C-suite – How one veteran lawyer crossed the floor Alex Speirs For many lawyers, much of the draw to move in-house is the opportunity to play a more direct role in…
The In-House Survey: Blurred lines – the GC as business leader Anna Cole-Bailey Climate change and sustainability dominated news headlines in 2019. Extinction Rebellion protests, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg leading climate strikes around…
Three firms cut as National Grid unveils panel following ‘pay to play’ review and BAE loses longstanding legal chief Anna Cole-Bailey Anna Cole-Bailey rounds up the latest in-house panel reviews and moves In a busy month of in-house activity, National Grid…
Sponsored briefing: Legal tech – Too much of a good thing? Guest Blog Artwork and imagery used by kind permission of Haynes Publishing Group, a leading supplier of content, data and innovative workflow…
Sponsored briefing: Economic crisis and the popularisation of voluntary termination of labour contracts Guest Blog Murat Uyanık of Yavuz & Uyanık discusses Turkish labour law developments Turkey’s progress towards full membership of the EU had…
Deal View: Freshfields silences critics with four-piece Cleary team but can it keep up the pressure on Wall St? Nathalie Tidman ‘Supercharging it’ and ‘pretty wild’ are not superlatives usually cropping up on your average conference call with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.…
The Scots GC debate: Force multipliers Hamish McNicol Hamish McNicol, Legal Business: How do you build your identity and culture as a legal team? And how do you…
Sponsored briefing: A leader in competition law Guest Blog Led by Gönenç Gürkaynak, ELIG Gürkaynak’s competition practice has wide expertise in Turkish antitrust law ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law is an…
Sponsored briefing: Celebrating the successes of the legal sector Guest Blog Ahead of the 2020 Legal Business Awards, James Tsolakis of NatWest reports on the past year’s developments for the profession…
Full disclosure – How to resolve the profession’s #MeToo problem Nathalie Tidman ‘If you’re a partner and in control of someone’s career, that is an unequal relationship. Repeated drunken flings are not…
