Magic Circle

Alex Novarese

Alex Novarese, Legal Business: Ten years ahead, what will a global elite firm look like? Charlie Jacobs, Linklaters: I don’t…

Alex Novarese

Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…

Alex Novarese

Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…

Nathalie Tidman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have scored lead mandates on the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of small business lender Funding…

Nathalie Tidman

Allen & Overy has become the latest Magic Circle firm to announce pay increases for its trainees and newly qualified…

Nathalie Tidman

‘It was so long ago,’ reflects Malcolm Sweeting, Clifford Chance’s (CC) senior partner, of his promotion to partner in 1990.…

Legal Business

The Partnership Scoreboard – Trends and tribulations As part of our analysis of the modern realities of partnership, Legal Business…

Tom Baker

‘The Dickensian management role of closed doors is a thing of the past.’ Jonathan Kewley, partner and co-head of Clifford…

Marco Cillario

Marco Cillario assesses the latest rounds at London’s big five The overall number of partner promotions at Magic Circle firms…

Alex Novarese

Alex Novarese, Legal Business: How is the market generally? Lee Ranson, Eversheds Sutherland: Most of the managing partners around this…

Marco Cillario

Marco Cillario rounds up the latest stats as the April deadline looms And so it begins. The first gender pay…

Legal Business

Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters advised as media company Informa entered talks to acquire events organiser UBM. Corporate partners Katherine…

Nathalie Tidman

As January draws to a close the deal market continues its robust run, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett leading the advisers…

Marco Cillario

Why would a partner quit an elite London law firm with decades of history, Rolls-Royce support and a superb client…

Marco Cillario

Freshfields and K&E act on Monarch administration Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s restructuring chief Ken Baird and finance partner Catherine Balmond led…

Madeleine Farman

Madeleine Farman assesses the impact of another round of pay rises on the City market As US firms continue to…

Marco Cillario

Magic Circle firms constitute four of the nine advisers appointed to the government’s new finance and complex legal services panel…

Madeleine Farman

Amid a simmering market for junior City lawyers, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has opted to hold the line on associate salaries following a…

Kathryn McCann

Double-digit fee growth for A&O, Links and CC but Freshfields stalls Dramatic swings in foreign currencies against Brexit-battered sterling have…

Legal Business

Casting an eye over the results for the world’s 100 largest law firms, 2016/17 has been the definition of grinding…