Gateley’s IPO on AIM in May surprised many. It didn’t fit the received idea of the sort of firm that would go public: it isn’t consumer focused, it doesn’t have an elephantine volume operation that creates easily forecasted revenue streams and it hasn’t even been the most acquisitive firm in the UK 200.
This week’s top briefings writers from TheLawyer.com demonstrate their highly individual takes on the world of real estate lawyering, with subject-matter ranging from a knotty problem with an invasive weed to the boxing match of the decade.
The offshore cases so far this year.
From several multibillion-dollar insurance and reinsurance deals to a Shoreditch project involving an original Shakespeare theatre, offshore firms had a strong and interesting start to 2015.
When Gateley became the UK’s first law firm to float it gained a lot of publicity. What is important now is how it makes the most of its plc opportunity.
When the economy crashed seven years ago, so did people’s trust in business, to the detriment of society and UK plc. It’s time to start earning it back.
Walkers is set to launch in Bermuda, hot on the heels of Canada’s Bennett Jones – a major development for an island whose main players all started life there. What is the allure?
Every day is exam day for Ofqual’s director of legal Natalie Prosser, who has had to deal with regulatory infrastructure, litigation over grade boundaries, and building her own team.
When the Lehman Brothers pensions litigation came to an end in 2014, Weil Gotshal & Manges’ Joanne Etherton was free to focus her attention elsewhere. She heads up the small but busy pensions team in London, having joined from Clifford Chance back in 2000.
With the recent tube strike causing havoc across the capital many will be interested to know that government has progressed its commitment to changing when a strike can be held. At the moment industrial action can be carried out if voted for by a majority of those taking part in the ballot. This can be […]
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Gateley has announced a pre-close trading update in respect of its wholly owned subsidiary, Gateley plc (formerly the business of Gateley LLP), for the year ended 30 April 2015. The board has announced that the business continued to perform well in the second half of the financial year. Revenues in the second half continued to […]