Ashurst has revealed a new international strategy after an independent review by consultants Bain & Co revealed it should focus on growing key areas such as finance and infrastructure. The review was launched last year, soon after Ashurst’s tie-up with Australian firm Blake Dawson. Chairman Ben Tidswell said its main aim for 2015 had been to […]
If you’re interested in privacy, you may well have been watching ‘Hunted’ on Channel 4, the reality TV show in which ordinary people attempt to evade capture by a team of surveillance experts. It’s a genuinely interesting exercise and certainly gets you thinking about tactics for hiding out when ‘The Man’ comes to get you […]
Are you munching on a KitKat and enjoying a short break while you read this? Is it a distinctive four-finger three-dimensional shape branded with the famous KitKat brand? That KitKat is at the centre of major legal battle that has been rumbling between Nestlé and Cadbury for several years. On Wednesday (16 September), the European […]
The client has spoken. Earlier this year we surveyed 200 corporates about their preferences in terms of legal advisers. It was part of our annual Business Leadership Report that examines not the ‘what’ in legal services, but the ‘how’: how firms deliver all the advice that clients need.
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Of the UK Top 50 firms, just 16 have no overseas offices, and of the remaining 34, more than half (19) were bigger outside the UK last year. Internationalisation is a hallmark of a Top 50 firm, but for many it is the UK that keeps the investment pipelines pumped. For firms with international offices, […]
The upcoming UK200 has welcomed its sixth employee ownership trust (EOT) member. Altrincham’s Myerson Solicitors joins Yorkshire’s Ison Harrison and the West Midlands’ Talbots Law in embracing employee ownership, having converted from a limited liability partnership (LLP) to a 100 per cent employee-owned company last week. The EOT model allows all employees to take a […]
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 […]
Having introduced a firmwide bonus for the first time two years ago, Shoosmiths is now contemplating whether to develop an individual reward scheme for its lawyers. The firmwide bonus, set up in August 2022, recognises all firm employees (excluding partners). It set out to pay staff between 5 to 7 per cent of their basic salary […]
NatWest’s former chief executive officer is stepping into a new role at Mishcon de Reya, well over a year after leaving her post at the bank. Alison Rose joins Mishcon as an adviser following a 23-year long career at NatWest, where she started as managing director for leveraged finance before rising through the ranks in […]
33 Chancery Lane is undergoing a mass operational overhaul and rebrand, hiring its first chief executive, three new barristers and moving premises. The 19-barrister set, led by Kennedy Talbot KC, has hired Outer Temple’s practice director Sam Carter as chief executive and director of clerking to help guide the chambers through its new chapter. Carter […]