Ashurst has won the top role advising Wm Morrison Supermarkets on its ongoing discussions with Ocado over its online delivery services. Ashurst fielded a team including partners Bruce Hanton and Dominic Ross. Meanwhile Ocado used in-house counsel, including head of special projects Jonathan Wiseman. Wiseman was the lead associate at Slaughter and May when the […]
Latham & Watkins EU competition partner Omar Shah has joined Morgan Lewis as part of the firm’s expansion of its antitrust and competition practice in London.
Former News UK legal head Emma Moloney has resurfaced at global TV content business Endemol Shine Group, where she is taking on the new role of general counsel.
Pinsent Masons has appointed former secretary of state for international development Douglas Alexander as a strategic adviser to the firm. Alexander served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s cabinets and was an MP until the 2015 general election. In Government he also held the positions of secretary of state for transport, secretary of state for Scotland […]
Paul Hastings’ average profit per equity partner (PEP) has hit the $2.5m (£1.8m) mark in its year-end results for 2015. The firm reported a 6 per cent increase in PEP to $2.51m, rising from $2.36m the previous year. In addition, global revenue at Paul Hastings continued to grow, jumping 5.6 per cent from $1bn to […]
“A much higher percentage of our associates actually make partner than at our competitors.” So goes the boast on Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s website. But what are the actual odds of making partner as an associate in the firm’s London office?
The British Medical Association (BMA) has instructed Cardiff firm Capital Law on plans to seek a judicial review of Government changes to junior doctor contracts.
Kirkland & Ellis has seen its seventh partner departure in three days as high-yield partner Andy Hagan moves to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Slater & Gordon has revealed a loss of A$958.3m (£493m) during the first six months of the 2015/16 financial year. The loss was primarily attributed to a A$876.5m impairment of intangible assets caused by a write-down of goodwill. This was largely attributed to Slater & Gordon’s acquisition of insurance outsourcer Quindell’s professional services arm. Slater & […]
Tony Besse is a business coach and director of the graduate job preparation business Interview Advantage. He was previously a lawyer at Freshfields for 33 years, including 22 as a partner. What’s your background? I’m probably one of the last of a breed – I stayed with one firm the whole of my career. I was at Freshfields […]
RHTLaw Taylor Wessing, the Singapore member of the Taylor Wessing group, plans to list its affiliated group of business services companies in Singapore by year end. The entity to be listed on the Singapore Exchange’s Catalist board is RHT Holdings, which was set up to provide corporate clients a range of non-law professional services, complementary […]
Linklaters is lagging behind accountancy firm Deloitte in its attempt to attract talent to London by offering preferential rental terms at new housing developments. Get Living London (GLL) has launched an initiative that allows employees at both firms to live rent free for the first two weeks of their tenancy if they move into an […]