Addleshaw Goddard has elected head of corporate finance Charles Penney as its new senior partner. Penney beat head of international Andrew Carpenter to the role in a contested election. He will replace Monica Burch, who is stepping down after serving two three-year terms in the role, on 1 May. Burch is set to take a […]
A series of detailed analysis pieces looking at the major developments in the legal market dominated our top 10 stories list this week. Top of the list was a focus on Kirkland & Ellis’s London strategy, which has seen it hire a raft of big-hitting partners in recent years. But with the firm recently experiencing […]
Networking is always the main theme of MIPIM and Day Three, although the last, is no different.
Withers has been replaced by Hausfeld on a major Libor manipulation and swaps mis-selling claim being brought against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Property tycoon claimant Stuart Wall launched the high-profile lawsuit against RBS in August 2014, originally instructing Withers commercial litigator Andrew Wass. This week Wall switched law firms to Hausfeld’s London boss […]
Microsoft general counsel and corporate vice president Horacio Gutierrez is set to join music streaming company Spotify as its new general counsel after just five months as top lawyer at his company.
It seems incredible but only it’s only a day a half since I arrived and it already feels like I’ve been here for a week. The heavy rain has put a dampener on proceedings and no-one wants to sit in the beach restaurants, the waves seeping under the flimsy awnings and the crack of the plastic in the wind drowning out conversation.
I did my last long cycle ride in 1977. Got lost. Cycled 50 miles by accident. Never got on a bike again. So I feel a bit guilty drinking rosé to welcome the tanned, grimy heroes of Legal & General’s Cycle to MIPIM as they arrive at Savills’ Croisette cafe.
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Olswang will move to full open plan in its London headquarters and offer agile working for all staff by March 2017, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm is in the process of refitting its 90 High Holborn offices “to better utilise its office space”, a spokesperson told The Lawyer. The refurbishment will include “moving to […]
Pearson has named Charles Russell Speechlys and DWF as its principal advisers on employment work.
DLA Piper is launching a flexible resourcing capability in Australia through its partnership with LOD (Lawyers on Demand). The move follows the announcement of a collaboration between the two in November last year and the more recent merger between LOD and Australian flexible legal service provider AdventBalance. As in the UK, LOD and AdventBalance will […]