Shoosmiths has plans to double its headcount in Manchester as the firm prepares to move into its new office in Spinningfields. Currently, Shoosmiths has 177 members of staff in Manchester but plans to grow the team to 300 within the next three years. The firm’s Manchester head Vaqas Farooq told The Lawyer that the growth […]
DWF is set to acquire boutique insurance firm Fox Hartley to boost its insurance offering in Bristol. Fox Hartley has 16 members of staff including three partners and focuses on providing advice around specialist litigation and dispute resolution to major insurer and manufacturing clients. The acquisition is part of DWF’s strategy to grow its focus […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has shortlisted a number of buildings in London for its potential new headquarters, The Lawyer has learned. The firm has been looking to downsize in the City since relocating its entire legal services and back office departments to Manchester last year. Now it has emerged management has come up with a preferred […]
By the end of October 2016, Baker & McKenzie will have a new global chairperson – but with four quite different candidates having thrown their hat in the ring, sources are divided on what the election means for the firm.
OneSavings Bank (OSB) has hired Martin Purvis as its interim general counsel after the resignation of Zoe Bucknell last month.
Personal injury specialist Slater & Gordon has posted a loss of £6.93m for the 2014/15 financial year according to its UK LLP accounts, 75 per cent higher than its previous £3.95m loss. Although, the firm made a loss during the last financial year after a number of acquisitions turnover increased by 37 per cent, from […]
Macfarlanes has promoted six lawyers to its partnership in London, making up no women for the first time in three years. Litigation duo James Popperwell and Gideon Sanitt have both been promoted, with Popperwell joining the firm in 2013 from Debevoise & Plimpton. Senior counsel Sanitt meanwhile joined Macfarlanes in 2012 after a five-year career […]
Four Baker & McKenzie partners have thrown their hats in the ring to replace global chair Eduardo Leite, The Lawyer can reveal. London managing partner Paul Rawlinson, EMEA chair Gary Senior, Latin America chair Claudia Prado and former Paris managing partner Eric Lasry have all put themselves up for election to takeover from Leite as chairperson of the firm […]
Clyde & Co has set its sights on a merger or acquisition in Miami, The Lawyer understands. Such a move would form part of Clydes’ long-held plans to strengthen its presence in the US. The firm is understood to be talking to a number of firms in Miami and could be hoping to announce a deal as early as June. […]
UK 200 firm Napthens has scrapped lockstep remuneration for partners. Partners at the Preston-headquartered firm, which has six offices across the North West, voted to change to a performance-related structure last year. “We found it archaic and difficult to reward overperformers and manage underperformers,” the firm’s CEO John Whittingslow told The Lawyer. “We also found it was […]
Irish firm William Fry has kickstarted a remote working pilot, testing out agile working one day a week among 10 of its lawyers. The pilot will be underway for six months with the firm keen to roll out remote working on a wider basis later this year. Managing partner Bryan Bourke told The Lawyer the […]