Moving online: Selfridges rising in-house star takes lead role at fashion retailer YNAP Legal Business Emma Anthony, senior legal counsel of high-end retailer Selfridges, has taken a role at online retailer Yoox Net-A-Porter Group (YNAP)…
The last word: American dreams Legal Business ‘We will continue to hire lawyers we see as adding something. That continues to be the mantra: hire great lawyers…
‘We won’t stop’: A&O management team on building out in the US and breaking lockstep Madeleine Farman Allen & Overy (A&O)’s management is bullish about the Magic Circle firm’s US expansion plans, having broken lockstep twice in…
News in brief – April 2017 Legal Business 300 JOBS CUT AHEAD OF CMS MERGER Approximately 300 support staff roles are to be cut at CMS Cameron McKenna,…
Norton Rose Fulbright reshuffles Asia management with three appointments Legal Business Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has made a series of new management changes to its Far East offices, with new managing…
All fall down? – The 2017 Risk Survey Legal Business The collapse of KWM, cyber threats and Brexit have all come together to cause unease among City law firms. Our…
More leadership changes at Freshfields as Embley and Herman made M&A co-heads Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has rejigged the leadership of its heavyweight M&A practice, appointing London-based Bruce Embley and New York-based Matthew…
Leadership pay at Clifford Chance up 7% in 2015/16 after falling the year before Matthew Field Clifford Chance‘s (CC) 12-strong executive leadership group saw their combined pay packets increase by 7% to £15m, the firm’s LLP…
Joyce stands for re-election as Addleshaw partners vote through Scottish merger Kathryn McCann Addleshaw Goddard managing partner John Joyce is to stand for re-election for a second term beginning May 2017, it was…
After shocks of 2016, law leaders may need to start thinking Legal Business Well, it is nearly over and few in the profession will mourn the passing of 2016. Not since the banking…
Freshfields PE heavyweight Higgins to stand down as head of GFI group Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer private equity head Adrian Maguire is to become head of the firm’s global financial investors (GFI) sector…
On the bus – Inside the Norton Rose Fulbright masterplan Legal Business NRF chief executive Peter Martyr defied expectations to reinvent Norton Rose as a progressive global player over more than a…
‘The next generation’: Linklaters appoints new corporate group heads as Comiskey takes charge Legal Business Linklaters has reshuffled the leadership of its corporate team, moving a number of key roles down to rising stars following…
Corporate partner takes helm of DLA Piper’s City office Kathryn McCann DLA Piper has appointed corporate partner Tom Heylen as London managing partner, taking over from Lord Tim Clement Jones, who…
Frankfurt’s Cziesla elected by KWM European partnership as first non-London senior partner Legal Business King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has elected Frankfurt partner Michael Cziesla as EUME senior partner, defeating Dubai-based disputes partner Tim…
Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters Legal Business The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering…
Hogan Lovells’ Hamburg head resigns amid spying investigation Legal Business Hogan Lovells‘ Hamburg office managing partner Eckard Schwarz has resigned over claims of illegal surveillance by an employee of former…
Taught leaders – executive training for the ambitious GC James Wood Leadership training has until recently neglected the growing ranks of GCs. To begin our Insight special with Reed Smith, we…
The next step – meet the GCs determined to seize leadership roles Kathryn McCann An ambitious generation of in-house counsel is determined to take on leadership roles, despite corporate pressure to stay in the…
Leadership and the modern GC: a special report Legal Business We teamed up with Reed Smith to ask which skills the GCs of tomorrow will need to lead and what…
