Bracewell & Giuliani name partner Rudolph Giuliani has exited the firm as of today (19 January) to join Greenberg Traurig as global chair of its cybersecurity and crisis management practice.
Mayer Brown’s joint head of restructuring Ashley Katz is preparing to move to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson to launch a restructuring practice in the City.
King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) chief operating officer (COO) for Europe and Middle East, Rachel Reid, has exited the firm to join Taylor Wessing. The news comes just days after the shock resignation of managing partner William Boss, who will step down a year early in May. It is understood Reid officially resigned in late […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired construction head and arbitration specialist Hamish Lal from fellow US firm Jones Day.
In November, Sir Brian Leveson approved the deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) between the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and ICBC Standard Bank. While some believe this will be the first of many, the second expected DPA, which the SFO anticipated by the end of last year, failed to materialise. But I was left with one question: […]
It’s not often that I meet someone who can out-talk me but Asma Khan is that woman. Out for dinner with a former litigator now baker extraordinaire, our destination was the gloriously-named Soho pub The Sun and Thirteen Cantons, where the aforesaid Asma is hosting a pop-up restaurant, as a sort of showcase precursor to […]
The property world is a small one. So much so that the legal chief of skyscraper owner Almacantar sometimes hires firms he has encountered on the other side of deals
Soup giant Baxters is both a family company and an international concern – a dichotomy its legal director wrestles with every day
Ireland’s real estate market has made a spectacular comeback. Our panel members give their predictions for this sector and explain how their firms are adapting to the change
2016 looks like being a good year for litigation boutiques after they picked up many major British industry mandates. Meanwhile, the High Court prepares for some of its highest-value cases in a decade
Litigation finance is maturing, yet the majority of lawyers and in-house teams remain unaware of its versatility
Will Government tinkering blunt the UK’s competitive edge in legal services?