US firm Butler Snow has launched into Asia with an office in Singapore. Its Singapore office is headed by private client and wealth management partner Kurt Rademacher, who has relocated from the firm’s headquarters in Mississippi to the city-state for the expansion. The office will focus on delivering US tax and estate planning advice to […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has emerged as the most-popular adviser to FTSE 100 companies on High Court and Court of Appeal (CoA) cases, data gathered for The Lawyer Market Intelligence tool has shown. The firm was instructed on 11 cases brought by FTSE 100 companies with reported judgments between January 2012 and July last year, […]
The 2007 global recession had a phenomenal impact on the UK’s real estate sector as financing for properties became much harder to find and fewer sales were completed. With the well of work drying up many UK firms shrunk their real estate teams but US firms such as Goodwin Procter and Paul Hastings took the […]
Bird & Bird’s borrowings rose by 22 per cent last year after the firm carried out a refinancing, increasing its total bank facilities to €59m (£44m) at the end of 2014/15 from €48.4m the previous year. The increase in borrowings, set against a slightly lower increase in cash, meant that Bird & Bird’s net debt […]
Reed Smith has promoted 24 lawyers to partner across the world, including six in London. Intellectual property counsel Kate Brimsted has been promoted in the City, along with corporate senior associate Andrew Clark and pensions solicitor William Sutton. Tom Webley has also been made up in the firm’s banking and financial services litigation team in […]
Winckworth Sherwood has hired three partners from Fasken Martineau following the announcement that the Canadian firm was cutting roles in its London office.
Ashfords has been appointed as the sole legal advisor to Wandsworth Borough Council and the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in a deal valued at £5.9m.
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within firms and offices in the Asia Pacific region.
A total of 107 new QCs have been appointed in this year’s silk appointments round, including 25 women. The number of appointments is at a five-year high, after four years of 100 or fewer new silks. However the proportion of women appointed has dropped compared to last year, when the same number of new female […]
Arden Partners believes that as many as 75 per cent of the current UK 200 firms may disappear over the next five years as the “highly fragmented” market consolidates. The claim is made in a new report by stockbroker Arden which focuses on investment-related issues and opportunities in the UK legal market. It claims that […]
Barratt Developments has rejigged its legal team after the retirement of general counsel Tom Keevil, appointing his deputy Nick Mullen as head of legal.
Mona Arshi is a prize-winning poet and former human rights lawyer. She recently won the Forward prize for best first collection. You began your training contract at JR Jones in the same week that Doreen and Neville Lawrence instructed the firm on the murder of their son Stephen. How did that time influence the rest […]