Shearman & Sterling’s London office has posted a 2.7 per cent increase in revenue from $144.6m to $148.6m for the 2015 financial year. Globally Shearman also posted an increase in turnover of 2 per cent from $845m in 2014 to $860.3m last year, but this is understood to have missed the level of turnover it […]
DLA Piper has appointed Madrid-based corporate partner Juan Picon to replace Nigel Knowles as its new senior partner and global co-chairman. Picon is currently DLA’s joint managing director for Europe and the Middle East, a role he has held since 2014. He is also co-chair of its Latin American practice alongside Bob Gruendel. Picon has […]
Ashurst has long been in the market for a US merger and rumours are beginning to circulate that the firm has restarted its search for a partner.
Amazon has cut a number of its advisers in the UK and Europe several months after a review of its roster last year, The Lawyer understands.
Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the UK arm of US firm Greenberg Traurig, is set to become the first international law firm tenant of the Shard next month. The firm’s five-year lease on its offices at 200 Gray’s Inn Road end in April. It has taken a 10-year lease for space on the eighth floor of […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
K&L Gates’ London revenue dipped by 1 per cent over 2015, while the firm’s global turnover went down by nearly 8 per cent. The US firm’s London office generated revenue of £44.4m last year, as opposed to £44.96m in 2014. Administrative partner Tony Griffiths said London had performed well over 2015, with the firm “almost matching our […]
Kirkland & Ellis has doubled the notice period for equity partners worldwide to 120 days, with its most recent exits in London narrowly missing the change in conditions. The firm’s notice period used to be 60 days for equity partners but this has now increased to 120. Meanwhile Kirkland has also introduced a 30-day notice […]
Slaughter and May corporate finance partner Roland Turnill has been named as the firm’s head of M&A, replacing Steve Cooke who will become senior partner in May. Turnill joined Slaughters in 1996, becoming a partner in 2004. His recent work has included advising on Vodafone’s joint venture in Holland with Liberty Global and Royal Dutch Shell’s £47bn takeover […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher client the Republic of Djibouti has been ordered to pay £9.3m in costs after its case against its citizen, Abdourahman Boreh, was dismissed. The ruling, handed down on Wednesday (2 March), marks a major win for Byrne & Partners, representing Boreh, against Gibson Dunn in a case that has lasted four years, involved […]
Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the UK arm of US firm Greenberg Traurig, has posted a UK revenue increase of 10 per cent to £15.7m ($24m) for the 2015 calendar year. The increase follows a dip in turnover between 2013 and 2014, with revenue declining 2 per cent from £14.5m to £14.2mm according to GTM’s LLP […]
With a week to go to The Lawyer European Awards 2016, seven top general counsel have been shortlisted for the inaugural global in-house lawyer of the year category.