ASB targets in-house team transformation with FA lawyer hire
South East firm ASB Law has appointed the former legal director at the Football Association (FA) Alistair Maclean to its management consultancy arm, ASB Consult.
Birketts joins Countryside’s property panel as company launches IPO
Birketts has been appointed to Countryside Properties’ legal panel, as the housebuilder looks set to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in the next few weeks.
Goodwin Procter reveals double digit revenue growth to $865m
Goodwin Procter’s 2015 year-end revenue rose by 10.2 per cent in 2015 from $785.5m to $865m (£599m), the firm has announced. Revenue per lawyer increased by 5.3 per cent from $1m to $1.1m, while average profit per partner jumped 14 per cent to nearly $2m from $1.7m. The firm enjoyed double-digit turnover growth this year, […]
McCann FitzGerald joins Irish rivals with New York base
McCann FitzGerald has become the latest Irish firm to set up a representative office in the US, establishing a base in New York led by corporate partner Gary McSharry. McSharry joined the firm in June last year from Arthur Cox, having been the resident partner in that firm’s New York office between 2011 and 2014. […]
DLA Piper overhauls remuneration structure in profit drive
DLA Piper has radically changed its partner remuneration structure, introducing a points system based on performance in an attempt to drive profitability. Under the new structure partners will move through payment bands based on their performance throughout the year. Partners can move up and down the bands but at a slower rate than the previous […]
Orrick unveils 15-strong Houston launch team
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced the hire of 13 partners and two senior lawyers from firms including DLA Piper and McDermott Will & Emery, to kickstart its new Houston operation. The team covers a variety of practice areas and includes McDermott’s global energy head Blake Winburne, who joins Orrick as co-leader of its global […]
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Thomas Cook promotes from within as GC Stoehr packs bags
Thomas Cook’s general counsel and chief corporate officer Craig Stoehr has quit the company, with UK and Ireland legal head Alice Marsden named as his successor. Stoehr joined the travel company from Eastgate Capital Group in 2012 and was appointed as chief corporate officer in December 2014. As part of the executive board Stoehr was […]
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Stephenson Harwood takes seven-lawyer Eversheds team in Hong Kong
Stephenson Harwood has hired a seven-lawyer trade finance team from Eversheds in Hong Kong, led by partners King Tak Fung and Ivan Ng.
McDermott names new London head as Nineham retires
McDermott Will & Emery London head Hugh Nineham will retire at the end of March, making way for newly-appointed Andrew Vergunst. Vergunst will take over from Nineham at the start of April, with the latter retiring from the firm after eight years. Nineham joined McDermott as its European and London corporate head in 2008 from […]
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BT and Burford deal: The £150m profit write-down ‘elephant in the room’
A number of law firms are circling potential claims brewing over slow broadband speeds that could affect millions of UK consumers.
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What’s stopping you achieving your goals?
With February upon us, how are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? Are you on track or did you make an excuse for not being able to achieve them? Whether in our careers or personal life we are all in control of our own destiny. The decisions we make every second of the day […]
Amec Foster Wheeler appoints Northern Europe and CIS legal head
Amec Foster Wheeler has appointed Julie Davin as its new legal head for Northern Europe and the CIS.