Latham & Watkins is the latest US firm to announce its 2015 partner promotions, with four partners being made up in London out of 25 across the world. Corporate associates Robbie McLaren and Farah O’Brien are being promoted from the start of next year, with McLaren joining from McGrigors in 2007 and O’Brien starting out […]
Hausfeld will become the latest US firm to open in Germany following a €30m (£21.6m) investment from litigation funder Burford Capital. Burford will put up the multi-million pound pot to fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. [continued] In other German news, Clifford Chance has moved to […]
No5 Chamber barrister Christopher Hotten QC prosecuted in the trial of the “agonising” murder of a 14-month-old baby. Marek Holub, 27, admitted to the murder of Santino Balaz, who died on New Years Day in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. Holub was given a life sentence at Leicester Crown Court and was told he will serve at […]
No5 Chambers supported this year’s MALA event as headline sponsors and took eight tables at the annual ball. This year’s 10th annual ball took place on Friday 16 October 2015 at Athena, Leicester The annual flagship event attracts more than 500 lawyers, judges and others professionals every year. No5 Chambers barrister Manjit Gill QC was keynote speaker […]
Slater & Gordon has appointed a new group general counsel after shifting its previous legal chief, Kirsten Morrison, to the UK to support UK and Europe managing director Ken Fowlie. Moana Weir, previously general counsel at Australian recruitment agency Seek, will become Slater & Gordon’s group general counsel on 1 January 2016. She has worked in-house […]
Hausfeld will become the latest US firm to open in Germany following a €30m (£21.6m) investment from litigation funder Burford Capital. Burford will put up the multimillion-pound pot to fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. Hausfeld is expected to take a number of competition partners and […]
Offshore firm Appleby has closed down its London office as part of a “rationalisation of resources” in the City, it has emerged. The firm shut down in London in late summer amid a firmwide review of logistics to prepare Appleby for the management buyout (MBO) of its fiduciary business to Bridgepoint in July. Partners Stephen […]
KPMG has hired Boston Consulting Group (BCG) general counsel Jeremy Barton to replace retired legal head Vanessa Sharp as the accountancy firm’s new GC. London-based Barton has been BCG’s GC since 2008, having joined the business consulting company from Ernst & Young where he was global GC. Since then, he has been responsible for all legal […]
The research for The Lawyer’s annual Global Litigation Top 50 report is now underway. Look out for the survey, which went out today. If you haven’t received it – and think you should have done – let us know. Last year’s report focused on the boom in global investigations. This year we’re asking the appropriately […]
The Lawyer has begun a weekly blog on developments in the real estate sector. Covering the deals, the people and the strategies of the leading law firms, it’s becoming a must-read for property lawyers around the country. Send your deals information to jonathon.manning@thelawyer.com Wragges’ Richard Bate talks mergers and international growth A closer look at the […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and McDermott Will & Emery have promoted 37 lawyers between them to partnership across the world, but with no new partners in the City. McDermott Will & Emery has appointed 30 new partners across many of its practice areas. A total of 27, or 90 per cent, of the promotions […]
Atkin Chambers has hired 7 Bedford Row (7BR) chief executive Fay Gillott as its CEO. Gillott will take up the post on 2 November after six years at 7BR. She has not yet been replaced at 7BR. The hire comes one month after the set revamped its graduate recruitment process, exiting the Pupillage Gateway system […]