Baker & McKenzie and FenXun Partners recently announced that they have become the first international and PRC law firms to enter into a Joint Operation in the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Zone. Through the Joint Operation, clients of both firms are able to enjoy integrated advice on international and PRC laws in a number of […]
It was a week of litigation, moves and shake-ups across the legal market last week and that was reflected in the variety of stories to make the top 10 on TheLawyer.com. As UK passengers braced for more potential turmoil on the railways, it emerged that Eversheds had instructed a team of top silks to drop […]
Last year, almost half (45 per cent) of Linklaters’ £1.25bn revenue was generated out of its Silk Street offices in London. It’s a relatively high percentage for a managing partner who can perhaps best sum up his almost eight years at the helm in one word: globalisation. In his two terms as managing partner Simon […]
The Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) has replaced its former president Jeffrey Webb with an associate from Maples and Calder. Webb, who was also a FIFA vice-president and president of the Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean Football Association (CONCACAF), was arrested along with a number of other FIFA officials in Switzerland last week. […]
Boutique technology firm Kemp Little has announced a revenue increase of 32 per cent for the 2014/15 financial year, from £8m to £10.56m. The results are a return to form for the firm, which saw turnover fall consistently for two years after reaching £8.9m in the 2011/12 financial year (18 February 2013). The firm has […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is poised to break its lockstep to bring on board Kirkland & Ellis high-yield star Ward McKimm in London, using the flexibility it added last year to lure top US hires. The Lawyer understands a condition of bringing McKimm on board would be to tweak the firm’s lockstep to offer him superpoints […]
Addleshaw Goddard is set to launch a new consultancy arm aimed at providing analytical services to in-house legal teams and general counsel. The new arm will be named AG Consulting and is linked to the firm’s client development centre (CDC). The CDC has been providing consultancy work around strategy, organisational change and people development to […]
Ashurst, Mason Hayes & Curran and Pinsent Masons have all won top roles on the planned London IPO of Irish homebuilder Cairn Homes, as it intends to raise proceeds of around €350m to €400m. Pinsent Masons advised the company with a team led by partner Andrew Black. He was joined by international development partner Gareth […]
“Taxi for business services stars, taxi for business services stars…”. From 15 June the sunny streets of central London will be graced by a vision of loveliness in the dramatically festooned form of Business Leadership taxis. And here’s a heads up. You really, really want to look out for these taxis. Not only will they […]
Conyers advised RenaissanceRe Holdings on the underwritten public offering by its subsidiary, RenaissanceRe Finance, of $300m senior notes, 3.700 per cent due 2025 and guaranteed by RenaissanceRe Holdings. RenaissanceRe Holdings intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay the $300 million term loan that was put in place to finance a portion […]
Philip Rule, a member of No5 Chambers Public Law Group, is taking part in an upcoming seminar held by the Public Law Project. The seminar, titled ‘Private Law for Public Law Practitioners’, will be held on 24 June at The Conference Centre, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London. Rule will be chairing the afternoon session of the […]
Baker & McKenzie has appointed Mark Ford as global chief knowledge officer. Ford is a qualified solicitor who joins the firm after more than 20 years at Clifford Chance, where he led the global knowledge management team. Ford’s achievements at Clifford Chance include establishing and leading the firm’s Knowledge Centre in Delhi, which comprises an […]