Norton Rose Fulbright has made up 39 new partners globally in its smallest promotions round since its 2013 US merger. Just two partners were made up in London, with the bulk of promotions going to lawyers in the US. The promotions are across seven practice groups with the majority in banking and finance (13 partners) […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired Allen & Overy’s (A&O) head of non-contentious financial services regulation Bob Penn.
Eversheds has made up 26 lawyers to its international partnership with female lawyers representing 42 per cent of this years round. Of the 26 lawyers made up across all of Eversheds’ offices 11 are female lawyers. This proportion increases in the firm’s UK offices where eight out of the 17 lawyers made up are women, […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) launched a new plan of action on Thursday (28 April) that gave an enticing hint at its plans for expansion in the US.
Cancer Research UK is consulting on plans to restructure its legal team for the first time in six years. The changes could affect each of the three arms of the charity’s 15-strong legal team, The Lawyer understands. A number of lawyers in Cancer Research’s fundraising legal team are expected to be elevated to senior legal counsel as a result of […]
Scottish firm Harper Macleod has reported a 16 per cent rise in turnover for the 2015/16 financial year, with the figure increasing from £22.1m to £25.7m. This is the first full-year results since Harper Macleod took over private client practice Bird Semple and represents a return to form for the firm, which essentially had flat […]
Two lawyers are among Retail Acquisitions directors facing questions from Government over their role in the collapse of BHS.
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has made up nine lawyers to its partnership in a round heavily focused on the firm’s shipping and aviation practices. Shipping received the largest number of new partners with three of its lawyers being made up while HFW’s aviation practice saw two made up. The remaining partners sit with the firm’s commodities, […]
Insurance specialist RPC has promoted three lawyers to its partnership in its 2016 promotions round, boosting its corporate, intellectual property (IP) and construction teams. RPC traditionally promotes low numbers to its partnership. Last year the firm saw four lawyers made up to partner while in 2013 the partnership increased by three. The three new partners are corporate […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has launched a new strategy for the future of the firm following a “socialist” six-month consultation with partners and business services staff. The strategy is named “beyond 2020” and sees the firm “move away from the post-merger integration period” and into “implementation”, said co-chief executive Mark Rigotti. Rigotti and co-head Sonya […]
The Lawyer’s two-day Global Collaboration Summit focused on how firms are working to expand cross-border relationships, gathering managing partners from firms in Asia, Europe, the US and the UK to talk about challenges and best practice concerning collaboration, as well as thought leadership. The conference featured Allen & Overy’s (A&O) global markets board chair Cathy […]