Clifford Chance has approved a long-term UK remote working policy, as it prepares to give its lawyers access to the upper floors of its Canary Wharf tower. Everyone at the firm will be expected to be in the office for a minimum of 50 per cent of their hours, with the remaining percentage being devoted […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
In late 2019, Linklaters’ global head of banking Davide Mencacci left his base in Hong Kong to visit the London headquarters of the firm. It was a standard trip for a practice leader; catching up with fellow partners, updating management and shaking hands with clients. All seemed normal, but there was something brewing. Just a […]
Associates in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis are seeing expectations around their target hours spike considerably, The Lawyer has learned, as a result of rising workloads. Sources said junior lawyers at the US firm have seen their targets skyrocket. Over the past few months, they have risen from the bonus threshold of 2,000 […]
Clifford Chance has approved a long-term UK remote working policy, as it prepares to give its lawyers access to the upper floors of its Canary Wharf tower. Everyone at the firm will be expected to be in the office for a minimum of 50 per cent of their hours, with the remaining percentage being devoted […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
In late 2019, Linklaters’ global head of banking Davide Mencacci left his base in Hong Kong to visit the London headquarters of the firm. It was a standard trip for a practice leader; catching up with fellow partners, updating management and shaking hands with clients. All seemed normal, but there was something brewing. Just a […]
Associates in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis are seeing expectations around their target hours spike considerably, The Lawyer has learned, as a result of rising workloads. Sources said junior lawyers at the US firm have seen their targets skyrocket. Over the past few months, they have risen from the bonus threshold of 2,000 […]
A former employee of Starling Bank has brought claims of whistleblowing and discrimination against the group, with its general counsel also named as a respondent in the case. Gulnaz Raja, who was deputy secretary to Starling’s board from 2019 to 2020, is taking on the business in the Employment Tribunal a year after leaving. Court […]
And just like that, the Olympics are coming to an end. A bit of a comedown for many, but not for the sports lawyers of Northridge Law. Within the space of two Olympic cycles, the sports boutique has cemented itself as, just possibly, the most heavyweight sports team in the country, hop, skipping and jumping […]
An old-school Lincoln’s Inn firm with royal connections. A media-savvy employment specialist. And a full-service regional outfit with a non-lawyer CEO. The similarities aren’t immediately apparent but Farrer & Co, Lewis Silkin and Birketts all passed £100m in revenue in 2023/24, leaving rivals trailing in their wake. That’s what’s so impressive about these three firms. […]
In recent years, Leeds has become a hotbed for new players in the legal arena. And so the burning question old-timers have been asking is: what are their ambitions and how’s that going to affect us? Well, Gowling WLG appears content with its real estate team from Womble Bond Dickinson and has no major expansion […]
The Lawyer’s UK200 has relatively few truly specialist firms. There are a handful of big litigation, personal injury and insurance beasts, like Stewarts, Digby Brown and Keoghs. Sackers focuses on pensions; Stowe and Vardags on family, but the bottom end of the annual ranking of the UK’s largest firms is dominated by regional independents doing […]
Chances are, when asked to name a private equity law firm in the City your first thought would turn to Kirkland, Latham or Simpson Thacher. Hands up who said Sidley? Thought as much. But here’s a data nugget for you. Over the past decade, Sidley’s global private equity-related fee income is thought to have risen […]
Two former directors of retailer BHS have been found liable for over £110m in a judgment handed down yesterday (19 August) by Mr Justice Leech at the High Court. This comes as part of one of the largest insolvency litigation set pieces that went to trial through the end of last year and the beginning […]
Linklaters has made its first lateral hire in Sweden for two years, recruiting a new head of its banking and finance practice from White & Case. Magnus Wennerhorn joins the magic circle firm having previously been co-head of White & Case’s debt finance practice in the Swedish capital. Wennerhorn spent almost two decades at his […]
The cash boom that many firms enjoyed during the Covid-19 pandemic has been replaced with a surge in borrowing as costs rise and firms ready themselves for equity partner tax reforms. Early analysis of 2023/24 reveals that at least 20 per cent of the UK200 firms (43 of 200) increased their borrowings last year, while […]
The CEO of Danish big five firm Bech-Bruun is set to leave the firm later this year, marking the latest in a number of exits the firm has seen in 2024. Christian Ejvin Andersen formally resigned from the firm this month and will see out a six-month notice period. He joined Bech-Bruun in 2014 from […]
A Clifford Chance partner is one of those feared missing after a British yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Clifford Chance partner Chris Morvillo is among the passengers missing along with former DWF chairman Jonathan Bloomer. The superyacht Bayesian was hit by a powerful storm in the early hours of the morning of Monday […]