Linklaters, its Asia alliance partner Allens and US firm Squire Sanders have all advised on a deal that will see nationwide fixed and mobile telephone networks developed across Myanmar. Linklaters and Allens jointly acted for a consortium made up of Japanese telecoms operator KDDI Corporation and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation in a deal that will […]
Revenues have hit a five-year high at Kennedys climbing up 10 per cent at the latest year end from £117m to £128.5m. The firm has defied the effects of the 2008 economic collapse pushing up turnover by 45.7 per cent since 2009/10 when it stood at £88.2m. Net profit has increase by £5.3m over the […]
QualitySolicitors’ owner Palamon Capital Partners has acquired an undisclosed majority shareholding in Simplify Legal Group. Recently-established Simplify operates a business-to-business model and comprises conveyancing firms Move With Us and DC Law, and the probate specialist Chorus Law. The move is the latest extension of pan-European investor Palamon’s reach into the legal market. The private equity […]
Baker & McKenzie is advising on the sale of the City’s landmark Gherkin building months after handling its collapse into receivership earlier in the year. Baker & McKenzie’s global co-head of financial restructuring and insolvency Ian Jack and partner Louise Webb led the deal advising Deloitte, the receivers, as well as the agent for the […]
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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 […]