For ITV 2015 was a profitable year. The UK’s biggest commercial terrestrial broadcaster achieved total revenue of £3.3bn, up from £2.9bn the previous year. Strong advertising, increased M&A activity and the continuing growth of its online, pay and interactive services has helped the broadcaster’s revenue climb 14 per cent in 12 months.
At last year’s The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards the firm that walked off with the Grand Prix Business Leadership Team of the Year prize was CMS, thanks largely to its move to tech-driven, open-plan offices in Cannon Place. CMS’s move was the culmination of a three-year programme of change that included its transformative merger with […]
Imagine you have a corporate client with a fraud or corruption issue. The client conducts its business responsibly. It has a code of ethics its leadership believes in. It wants to put its house in order and manage the associated risk. What do you advise? You won’t be surprised to read what my recommendation would […]
The 2015 shortlisted firms for The Lawyer Business Leadership’s innovation in knowledge management (KM) category discuss the struggle to implement KM and how to engage an entire firm to achieve success.
Reed Smith arbitration partner Simon Sloane has joined Fieldfisher’s dispute resolution practice in London. Sloane has been Singapore-based since 2006, having joined Reed Smith in 2013 after a 17-year career at Holman Fenwick Willan. He focuses on the energy, construction and insurance industries.
Our top briefings echo the main IT concerns: namely the rise of legal technology and concern over cyber crime.
The collapse of insurance giant Parabis is the biggest commercial failure the UK legal market has seen since Manchester-based Cobbetts entered into administration in 2013.
There’s a lot to digest in this week’s cover story. In short, the collapse of Parabis is a cautionary tale for management in any business, not just those in the admittedly tightly squeezed insurance sector. But, naturally, there are also insurance sector-specific issues here. For one thing insurance companies, and the legal services suppliers they […]
Slaughter and May is advising Tata Steel on the sale of its steel facilities in Scotland, and the potential sale of its other UK businesses. The firm is a longstanding adviser to the Indian-headquartered company. Corporate partner Gary Eaborn is leading Slaughters’ work, supported by real estate partner John Nevin, environment senior counsel Samantha Brady, […]
Investment group Old Mutual’s head of legal and company secretary Martin Murray is retiring at the end of May and will be replaced by his deputy Colin Campbell.
In a varied week for news, the top story on TheLawyer.com last week was our new look at UK 200 metrics to determine which firms are the best-managed. The weighted metrics – looking at elements such as profit growth – put Slaughter and May at the top of the list based on a one-year time […]
Sidley Austin is paying a team of seven associates joining from Kirkland & Ellis a signing-on fee of up to £100,000 each, The Lawyer can reveal. It is understood that the associates will receive the sum to match what they would have been paid at Kirkland for 2016. The haul of corporate associates brings the […]