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Towergate hires Stephenson Harwood Gouriet as new GC
Stephenson Harwood corporate partner Geoff Gouriet is leaving the firm to become Towergate’s new general counsel.
White & Case appoints Linklaters Hong Kong partner as Asia corporate head
Linklaters Hong Kong partner Christopher Kelly will join White & Case to head up the US firm’s corporate practice in Asia.
CMS appoints Duncan Weston as global development head
CMS has announced outgoing UK managing partner Duncan Weston will be stepping into a new role as executive partner for global development. Weston has worked as the managing partner of CMS’s UK operations, CMS Cameron McKenna, for the last eight years. It was announced this morning (1 February) that Weston is stepping down from the […]
Charles Russell Speechlys’ net debt doubles in post-merger integration
Charles Russell Speechlys’ net debt more than doubled to £6.6m over 2014/15, LLP accounts have revealed. The firm had a net debt of £6.6m at the end of its first full financial year as a merged firm, rising from £3m at the end of 2013/14. The increase came as Charles Russell Speechlys spent £4.8m on […]
CMS appoints Stephen Millar as UK boss
CMS Cameron McKenna has appointed Stephen Millar as its next UK managing partner as Duncan Weston prepares to step down in May. Millar is a corporate partner specialising in the oil and gas sector and has led teams working on North Sea deals across several of CMS’s offices, including London and Aberdeen. After originally joining […]
Jones Day opens third Australian office in Brisbane
Jones Day has expanded its footprint in Australia further with a third office in Brisbane and the hire of Australian firm McCullough Robertson’s chairman Brett Heading. Jones Day’s new Brisbane office will be led by John Cooper, formerly an Allens partner in Sydney who joined the US firm in 2013. He was most recently the […]
Capital Law launches £50m litigation fund in law firm first
Cardiff headquartered Capital Law has become the first commercial law firm to launch its own litigation fund, raising £50m from investors to provide cash backing to a raft of future claims. The move comes on the back of a significant win for the firm on the Roadchef workers litigation, which completed last year after 17 […]
South East Asia Elite report: UK firms win big in ASEAN market
The Lawyer has today released the second edition of the South East Asia Elite report, which reveals firms with flexible business arrangements are the fastest growing in this promising but extremely competitive market. The report investigates the largest 30 of the some 150 international firms with a presence in the region. As many of the Association of Southeast Asian […]
In-house interview: Claire Debney, RB
RB’s general counsel Claire Debney says in-house lawyers are leaders of the business. She’s putting her money where her mouth is and has launched a mini MBA programme for the team
In-house interview: Michael Marecki, Aston Martin
When Aston Martin changed hands from Ford to an investment consortium in 2007, the top-end car manufacturer had to rebuild an in-house legal team from scratch. The efficient allocation of legal resources is critical to the 102-year-old carmaker as it enters a new era in its history and prepares to innovate and boost profitability.
Italy: economic upturn spells opportunity
The Italian economy has taken longer to recover than its western European counterparts but a recent upturn spells opportunities for independent firms
Moves: 1 February 2016
Bracewell & Giuliani name partner Rudolph Giuliani is to join Greenberg Traurig as global chair of its cyber- security and crisis management practice. He will also be senior adviser to executive chairman Richard Rosenbaum, and be joined at the firm by Bracewell partner Marc Mukasey. Giuliani founded the firm’s New York office in 2005 and was New York City mayor from 1994 to 2001.