South East firm DMH Stallard has confirmed its second merger of 2015, announcing it will tie up with London firm Ross & Craig in a move that will bring London revenue above £10m. The merger follows the tie-up at the start of the year with Guildford firm AWB Partnership, which was DMH Stallard’s third merger in […]
Want to get into Vodafone general counsel Rosemary Martin’s good books? Then steer clear of hourly rates, she tells The Lawyer this week. “I’m allergic to hourly rates, I hate them,” she says. “I think they’re the root of a lot of what is wrong with the legal profession, so I’m a big fan of […]
Latham & Watkins has lost its third Munich partner in four months as corporate specialist Kilian Helmreich moves to German boutique Gütt Olk Feldhaus. Helmreich’s move follows the departures of Munich founding partner Jörg Kirchner to Kirkland & Ellis in July and Weil Gotshal & Manges’ hire of private equity partner Volkmar Bruckner in June. […]
Volkswagen has instructed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to defend a raft of civil claims that will be brought in the UK and France in relation to the car giant’s global emissions scandal. Lawyers from Freshfields’ London office are expected to work closely with a team from Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, which is understood to be representing the car […]
Manolete Partners have named Collyer Bristow Partner Jeff Roberts as their Top Insolvency Lawyer.
CEO Steven Cooklin said: “When things go wrong – as they do in every company – Jeff Roberts is the man that I call. Whether it’s Friday night, Sunday morning or first thing on Monday, Jeff sits up with me until the early hours and watches my back when the pressure is really on, which is why we recognised him as our top solicitor during our first 100 cases.”
Eversheds Sutherland has anointed its next co-CEOs for the international and US sides of the business, as Lee Ranson and Mark Wasserman prepare to step down. Eversheds Sutherland partners have decided that managing partner Keith Froud will take the reins from Ranson, while Austin-based global energy co-head Lino Mendiola will replace Wasserman in the US. […]
Kennedys has appointed its first chief knowledge officer, who has moved across to the UK insurance firm from US powerhouse Paul Hastings. Having previously developed Paul Hastings knowledge management strategy at a global level, Catherine Goodman will now be in charge of heading Kennedys knowledge strategy. Goodman was director of innovation and knowledge management at […]
A solicitor has been fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) after appearing on an antisemitic TV show that “took the form of a wide-ranging attack” upon Mishcon de Reya. Mohammed Akunjee, who has over 30,000 followers on X, has been fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs after appearing in a TV […]
The long-awaited showdown between the Premier League and Manchester City has kicked off at an arbitration centre in London. Lord Pannick KC of Blackstone Chambers was the first barrister to appear, representing Manchester City, accompanied by Blackstone Chambers senior clerk Gary Oliver. Serle Court’s Philip Marshall KC and James Mather, also acting for City, arrived […]
A managing director and deputy general counsel at HSBC has left the bank after over 10 years to join Citigroup UK. The new Citi recruit is Philip Jockelson, who was head of corporate and structuring legal for almost five years at HSBC. Prior to that he was interim company secretary for 10 months, and associate […]
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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 […]
Over the last decade, the UK’s Top 50 firms have trialled a variety of tactics to satisfy an incessant demand for revenue growth. Consolidation has been a feature of the decade, with ‘critical mass’ becoming a key term used by managing partners as they push forward their growth agendas. Internationalisation too is a hallmark of […]
A&O Shearman is looking to cut 10 per cent of its global partnership, but it’s doing so in a year in which its London recruitment team has been at its busiest. The firm has hired eight lateral partners in the City so far this year and last week’s announcement of “planned business changes” does little […]
Before financials season got fully underway, The Lawyer took a look at the firms most likely to hit the milestones of £2bn, £1bn and £500m. There were not many, highlighting the challenge for firms to grow bigger and profitably. Of the seven likelies, just two definitely managed it – Linklaters and Bird & Bird – […]
Latham & Watkins has lost another member of its Continental European transactional team, with a leveraged finance partner joining A&O Shearman in Paris. Michel Houdayer has made the move to A&O Shearman today (16 September). He was a Latham lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 and spent almost a decade in the partnership having […]
After 18 months of secrecy, speculation and extraordinary legal fees, the Premier League’s case against Manchester City over more than 100 alleged rule breaches is set to begin today. City, England’s most successful football club over the past decade, has denied any wrongdoing. There is an air of the Boris Berezovsky v Roman Abramovich trial […]
Forty-four of the UK’s top 100 law firms posted double-digit revenue growth in 2023/24, the highest number since before the great financial crisis. In 2007/08, 61 of the top 100 grew by double digits; that figure dropped to 15 the following year and nine the year after as the economy collapsed. Last year, nearly all […]
Russia’s largest transport operator, FESCO, had its chance today to block the $13.8bn dispute brought by jailed Russian businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov from going to trial in England, as the case entered its fourth day in a courtroom comprising over 50 lawyers. Magomedov, represented by litigation boutique Seladore Legal, argues that an elaborate conspiracy saw his […]
Planning permission to build a new coal mine in Cumbria has been quashed following today’s High Court ruling that the approval was unlawful. Leigh Day secured the win on behalf of Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC). The pair made the claim regarding a December 2022 decision to grant […]