Gareth Williams, head of legal at the UK’s largest estate agency Countrywide, takes a no-nonsense approach to the legal function, says Andrew Pugh If you are looking to curry favour with Countrywide legal chief Gareth Williams then be warned – wining and dining will not get you very far. “I don’t like all the trimmings […]
Food company General Mills has restructured its legal team after veteran Europe legal director Roger Gardner announced he will be retiring next summer. Gardner has led the company’s legal operations in Europe since 2001. He took on the role after his previous company Pillsbury was acquired by General Mills. The company has now appointed former assistant general counsel Wilson […]
Dechert has hired DLA Piper partner Igor Panshensky as a partner in its corporate and securities group in Moscow. His arrival is the latest in a series of partner hires in Moscow this year, and follows the arrival of Clifford Chance litigator Ivan Marisin in May. Dechert’s Russia and CIS head Laura Brank said: “Igor’s […]
The so-called bonfire of the quangos has produced acres of press coverage and near-hysterical rhetoric from all sides. Opinion is divided about the reasons for – and the efficacy of – the proposals to scrap more than 190 public bodies and merge many others. Although a key plank of the Government’s public sector reform programme, […]
Clifford Chance has lost its second senior tech partner in London in as many months. The firm’s co-head of data protection and cybersecurity, Simon Persoff, has left for DLA Piper. Persoff joined Clifford Chance in 2020 from DLA where he was a senior consultant. After training at Baker McKenzie, Persoff worked in-house and as an […]
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A&O Shearman has introduced an AI assessment into its graduate recruitment process to identify trainee solicitors with a strong technological awareness. Candidates will be asked questions to encourage them to think outside of the box, including how they would go about writing accurate prompts for the AI to support their work. Measuring a candidate’s approach […]
A&L Goodbody is to focus its West Coast business development efforts on its San Francisco rep office, leading it to close its outpost in Silicon Valley. The firm is in the process of winding down its office in the tech heartland of Palo Alto and will relinquish the office when its lease expires in the […]
A team of 13 have switched to King & Spalding from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, after it emerged that four partners would be leading the team move back in June. At the start of the summer, Cadwalader fund finance partners Samantha Hutchinson, Nathan Parker and Mathan Navaratnam, as well as ESG partner Sukhvir Basran, lined […]
This report contains: an overview of the UK corporate market in 2023 and the positive shift in mood among lawyers at top corporate practices ranking of the top 50 City firms based on UK corporate revenue, highlighting those achieving significant growth insight into firms’ strategic plans for its UK corporate group over the next five years
This report contains: A history of the dominance of the magic circle sets an analysis of the two challengers to the magic circle a breakdown of the sets’ activity at the commercial court over the years
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Cash piles rose during the pandemic, but the latest year-end shows a turnaround. Across the UK 200, debt levels are increasing, and those precious cash reserves are being eroded by a tide of rising costs. This evidence suggests the trend is most prominent among firms that occupy the mid-tier; these firms are spending big as […]
Who says UK firms are getting left behind in the global legal market? Whoever it is should take a look at the top end of this year’s UK 200, which later this month highlights that for the first time ever, all four magic circle firms have a turnover of more than £2bn (though it’s worth […]
In the battle for European funds dominance, we regret to inform you that Dublin and Luxembourg could soon be at loggerheads. Both cities have made funds a key part of their economies, welcoming foreign investment with tax-friendly policies eager to attract capital. Given this environment, European firms are missing a trick when it comes to […]
We hope it wasn’t Simone Biles that elevated Ropes & Gray’s longstanding interest in Paris into something resembling a decision this summer. But it’s certainly suspicious that after years of procrastination, Ropes’s thoughts have turned to France. You wouldn’t have predicted this a couple of months – and a hundred news cycles – ago, when the political […]
Both Taylor Wessing and Bird & Bird set €1bn (£858m) revenue targets in the summer. For Taylor Wessing, this means finding an additional £377m in revenue by its 2028 target date, while 2Birds needs £313m to hit its 2029/30 target. These firms are scaling up from a defensive position – they are contending with smaller […]
Clifford Chance has lost its second senior tech partner in London in as many months. The firm’s co-head of data protection and cybersecurity, Simon Persoff, has left for DLA Piper. Persoff joined Clifford Chance in 2020 from DLA where he was a senior consultant. After training at Baker McKenzie, Persoff worked in-house and as an […]
Partnerless is The Lawyer’s email specifically for associates. Sign up here or in MY ACCOUNT for weekly career intelligence and market chatter.
A&O Shearman has introduced an AI assessment into its graduate recruitment process to identify trainee solicitors with a strong technological awareness. Candidates will be asked questions to encourage them to think outside of the box, including how they would go about writing accurate prompts for the AI to support their work. Measuring a candidate’s approach […]
A&L Goodbody is to focus its West Coast business development efforts on its San Francisco rep office, leading it to close its outpost in Silicon Valley. The firm is in the process of winding down its office in the tech heartland of Palo Alto and will relinquish the office when its lease expires in the […]
A team of 13 have switched to King & Spalding from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, after it emerged that four partners would be leading the team move back in June. At the start of the summer, Cadwalader fund finance partners Samantha Hutchinson, Nathan Parker and Mathan Navaratnam, as well as ESG partner Sukhvir Basran, lined […]