One of the key findings in this year’s The Lawyer Asia Pacific 150 was that while international firms have been reassessing their positionsin the Asia Pacific region, local firms have been going for growth. One firm that is looking to buck that trend is Squire Patton Boggs. The firm, which was formed by the June […]
Scottish-headquartered firm Maclay Murray & Spens saw turnover hit £43.3m in the 2013/14 financial year, a rise of 7 per cent on the previous year. This represents something of a turnaround for the firm, which suffered a 13 per cent drop in turnover in 2012/13 from £46.9m to £40.9m. That said, turnover at the firm […]
British Telecommuncations’ (BT) in-house team has triumphed against King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB) and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in a Supreme Court battle over BT’s call charges to mobile operators. The Supreme Court today upheld BT’s ability to charge mobile operators different amounts for putting through calls to its fixed-line “08” numbers. President […]
It’s official. For the fifth consecutive year Clifford Chance is the biggest grower in the UK magic circle. But it’s good news all around for the firm’s peers. Today Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters also announced increased revenue. At Freshfields turnover is up 1 per cent to £1.232bn, while Linklaters increased revenues by 5.9 per […]
Morrison & Foerster and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are leading for longstanding client Visa in its acquisition of Cambridge-headquartered fraud-fighting outfit, Featurespace. MoFo is leading for Visa on the corporate side of the deal, while Skadden is advising on antitrust matters. Wilson Sonsini is acting as lead counsel for the target, Featurespace. The team […]
Litigation boutique Candey has today been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) of anti-money laundering (AML) failures regarding a £24m deal for a Northumberland country estate in 2015. Managing partner Ashkhan Candey said in a statement that it was “regrettable” that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) “did not engage with us on the substantive […]
Slaughter and May, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day head to court today (27 September) in a case brought by Standard Chartered against its own investors, in the first case arising from the termination of Libor. The legal battle, led by One Essex Court’s Kenneth MacLean KC, will play out at the London’s […]
The former Solicitor General in England and Wales, Michael Tomlinson KC has returned to his former career at the Bar at his old set 3 Paper Buildings (3PB). Tomlinson was one of 13 barristers to lose his seat in the July General Election, with his Liberal Democrat opponent in Mid Dorset and North Poole wiping […]
Sanctioned Russian billionaire Andrey Guriev has prevailed in the $1bn showdown between him and his former friend Alexander Gorbachev, addressing the decade-long battle between the pair over ownership of the global chemicals company PhosAgro. The dispute saw Essex Court’s Paul Stanley KC and David Scorey KC, instructed by CMS, go head-to-head with Brick Court’s Helen […]
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Freshfields’ new branding, revealed this week by The Lawyer, has attracted plenty of attention for the deletion of its German heritage. But it’s also provoked deep scepticism. Lawyers who can barely use clip art are saying they could do better themselves, which is about as good an idea as getting graphic designers to draft an […]
Of the Top 10 fastest growing firms in The Lawyer’s Global Litigation 50 2024 (GL50), seven have headquarters in the UK. Given that there are only 10 UK firms in the GL50, which ranks the world’s 50 largest litigation practices, that’s not bad. Add to that, the fastest growing firm in the list, disputes giant […]
Major firms are redefining what it means to be a full equity partner
The 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 […]
Morrison & Foerster and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are leading for longstanding client Visa in its acquisition of Cambridge-headquartered fraud-fighting outfit, Featurespace. MoFo is leading for Visa on the corporate side of the deal, while Skadden is advising on antitrust matters. Wilson Sonsini is acting as lead counsel for the target, Featurespace. The team […]
Litigation boutique Candey has today been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) of anti-money laundering (AML) failures regarding a £24m deal for a Northumberland country estate in 2015. Managing partner Ashkhan Candey said in a statement that it was “regrettable” that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) “did not engage with us on the substantive […]
Slaughter and May, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day head to court today (27 September) in a case brought by Standard Chartered against its own investors, in the first case arising from the termination of Libor. The legal battle, led by One Essex Court’s Kenneth MacLean KC, will play out at the London’s […]
The former Solicitor General in England and Wales, Michael Tomlinson KC has returned to his former career at the Bar at his old set 3 Paper Buildings (3PB). Tomlinson was one of 13 barristers to lose his seat in the July General Election, with his Liberal Democrat opponent in Mid Dorset and North Poole wiping […]
Sanctioned Russian billionaire Andrey Guriev has prevailed in the $1bn showdown between him and his former friend Alexander Gorbachev, addressing the decade-long battle between the pair over ownership of the global chemicals company PhosAgro. The dispute saw Essex Court’s Paul Stanley KC and David Scorey KC, instructed by CMS, go head-to-head with Brick Court’s Helen […]