Birketts joins Countryside’s property panel as company launches IPO
Birketts has been appointed to Countryside Properties’ legal panel, as the housebuilder looks set to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in the next few weeks.
Birketts has been appointed to Countryside Properties’ legal panel, as the housebuilder looks set to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in the next few weeks.
Jones Day has expanded its footprint in Australia further with a third office in Brisbane and the hire of Australian firm McCullough Robertson’s chairman Brett Heading. Jones Day’s new Brisbane office will be led by John Cooper, formerly an Allens partner in Sydney who joined the US firm in 2013. He was most recently the […]
Gateley’s Leeds office is showing no signs of stopping its expansion in the city. It has recently become the base for the regional Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany and hired a new Consultant. Mark Green, the Honorary Consul for Germany in the North of England, will be working for the firm on a consulting basis. […]
Macfarlanes has re-appointed senior partner Charles Martin and managing partner Julian Howard to continue in their roles until 2020. Martin and Howard’s terms are due to expire in May 2017 and have been extended for another three years. The firm did not carry out formal voting, but instead held consultations with partners in November and […]
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has unveiled a number of perks for aspiring solicitors in its inaugural internship programme, including half of their pay upfront and money for work attire. Paul Weiss has launched its bi-annual two-week work experience scheme, which will be based in its Soho office commencing next year. A total of […]
In a blow to Noughties trophy office design, Slaughter and May is to remove its iconic water feature from its London HQ reception. The Lawyer first reported last year that the fate of Slaughters’ water feature hung in the balance amid refurbishment works set to take place across the building. This followed its decision to […]
Last week, A&O Shearman set out post-merger plans to close its legacy Allen & Overy base in Johannesburg, reduce its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year, and sell its consultancy business Consulting by A&O Shearman. So, is this a sign of things already going wrong, or is this all […]
As Hogan Lovells prepares to close three of its global offices, figures obtained by The Lawyer show that profits generated by the affected Warsaw base halved in 2023. Earlier this month, the firm announced it would close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw. The firm’s Warsaw office is the larger of the three, home to […]
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Search vacanciesThe Brits are back. We don’t mean the annual popular music jamboree at which microphones are dropped, singers’ bums are bared and popstars challenge each other to punch-ups. We mean UK-headquartered firms and their financial fortunes. For years, the contrast with their oppos from across the Atlantic, most of which have been beavering away driving […]
Newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers have seen salary levels soar over the last decade. In 2014, a fresh-faced Clifford Chance lawyer could earn £67,500; that figure reached £150,000 this summer. It is US firms that have inflated the pot with constant base raises that align London and New York operations. But the ripples spread outwards. When Quinn […]
Eversheds partners aren’t really in the business of throwing curveballs. This week, partners in the International LLP – that’s everything outside the US – cemented Keith Froud as Lee Ranson’s chief executive successor in an uncontested election. We’d have stopped taking bets on this one years ago, you could see it coming a mile off. […]
The Higher Education sector is in big trouble. As we reported last month, universities are struggling to fill places on their undergraduate courses – not least for law degrees. Many are in financial distress. Tuition fees for home students have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 and are falling well behind what is profitable, but […]
Associate retention is one of the biggest bugbears for law firm leaders, as competitive salaries and the promise of greater opportunities lure rising stars away. Added to this, a firm’s biggest cost is its people, but that didn’t stop Freshfields last year pledging to up its trainee intake from 90 to 100 from 2025. Should […]
Media, technology and IP firm Wiggin has poached a six-strong sports team from Walker Morris. Led by partner David Hinchliffe, the team works primarily on football matters, having acted for clients including Crystal Palace and Leeds United across contentious and non-contentious mandates. Hinchliffe, who joined Walker Morris 28 years ago, was head of sport at […]
Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are leading on Legal & General’s sale of its UK housebuilder, Cala Homes. Slaughters is leading for longstanding client L&G as it sells Cala to to Ferguson Bidco, a joint venture between Sixth Street Partners and Patron Capital. Slaughters corporate partner Victoria MacDuff is at the helm of the […]
Cahill Gordon & Reindel has added a new partner to its ranks in London, following a number of exits from its finance practice over the year. Cahill has hired Andrew Kelly as a partner, a former Clifford Chance member. He joins its banking and capital markets practice, working on high yield matters, acquisition financings, recapitalisations […]
Greenberg Traurig is leading for Harland & Wolff, the company famous for building the Titanic, as it looks set to appoint administrators. Harland & Wolff posted a notice of intention to appoint an administrator yesterday. Greenberg’s team is led by corporate partner Shashank Krishna, co-vice chair of the restructuring group John Houghton and corporate partner […]
In a bid to expand its intellectual property practice, Addleshaw Goddard is adding five lawyers to its ranks from a specialist City firm. Stobbs’ head of litigation Geoff Steward is joining Addleshaws, along with four lawyers. Steward has worked at Stobbs for nearly six years, and played a key role in developing the firm’s IP […]
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