Women deal stars: plenty to celebrate so ditch the understatement Alex Novarese In a blow for traditionalists, our latest cover feature eschews profiling a group of hard-working, smart, highly-confident men who are…
After an expansive 2017, Norton Rose Fulbright starts year with Asia pullback Marco Cillario Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) made headlines in 2017 by pulling off mergers in the US and Australia, but 2018 has…
Can Freshfields limit the damage as Kirkland tempts PE heavyweight with $10m transfer? Nathalie Tidman Nathalie Tidman assesses the fallout as M&A veteran quits an unsettled City giant Even for a market grown blithe to…
Slashing to victory – the most dangerous myth Alex Novarese ‘Turnover for vanity, profit for sanity.’ How many times have you heard that phrase or variations of the theme espoused…
An ‘amicable’ discussion sees Weil Gotshal exit Hungary as 20-strong team joins Bird & Bird Marco Cillario Bird & Bird has bolstered its Budapest operations by adding a 20-strong Weil, Gotshal & Manges team, bringing the US…
The month online: our top ten most popular news items through January Legal Business ‘Embarrassed’ Mishcon partner ‘condemns’ Presidents Club conduct as SDT suspends assault solicitor 25 January Magic Circle scrambles as UK…
On a roll: Eversheds Sutherland sees December deal flurry carry over Hamish McNicol Eversheds Sutherland corporate head Richard Moulton cannot remember a busier December than in 2017 and believes the January deal market…
Disputes Eye: Enyo goes to ground – what next for the pioneering disputes shop? Tom Baker It has been the question raised over wine by many seasoned litigators for months now: what’s going on at Enyo…
Deal view: Eversheds deal team – so much promise but so much steady Hamish McNicol Newcomers to London quickly learn the rules of the escalator: stand still on the right or keep moving on the…
Higher learning Catherine Wycherley 1998 seems like a lifetime ago, where e-commerce was a fantasy for ordinary people just discovering the internet. Yet 1998…
Life during law: Tom Cassels, Linklaters Marco Cillario My family moved from London to Essex in the seventies, we bought a big house with a big garden and…
Carillion collapse: Global 100 firms take centre stage as construction giant enters liquidation Marco Cillario Freshfields is acting for the official receiver One of the largest UK insolvencies for years, the collapse of construction giant…
Alphas – the hunt for female deal stars (and why it’s hard to be a City woman) Nathalie Tidman ‘You will have to go out and find the women – they won’t come to you,’ warns Travers Smith partner…
Client profile: Neil Murrin, trainline Tom Baker The train puns were inevitable, but it took longer than expected. Towards the end of my conversation with the general…
Dealwatch: the Magic Circle players kicking off 2018 Legal Business Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters advised as media company Informa entered talks to acquire events organiser UBM. Corporate partners Katherine…
M&A/Corporate Nathalie Tidman Aedamar Comiskey and Jessamy Gallagher, Linklaters Linklaters’ head of corporate Aedamar Comiskey (pictured above) stands as one of the few…
‘Incredibly strong’ – debt counsel gear up for another boom year in leveraged finance Nathalie Tidman Nathalie Tidman finds lawyers bemused by crazy pricing and a wall of debt ‘Short of Trump nuking North Korea, I…
Letter from… Milan: Living in style yet still playing the generation game Marco Cillario ‘All the top people in this country have grey hair,’ notes one Milan playmaker. It is a truth Italians know…
Private equity Nathalie Tidman Claire McDaid, Willkie Farr & Gallagher While it is always difficult to untangle the platform from the individual, Willkie Farr…
The offshore elite in review – rolling with the punches Dominic Carman Global stock markets rose by 22% in 2017, according to the Morgan Stanley Capital International index of bourses. Meanwhile, the…
