Covent Garden-based Fladgate has begun the 2014/15 financial reporting season by posting a provisional 14 per cent rise in turnover, with total revenue hitting a record £37m. The firm has also reported a provisional 17 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP), from £540,000 to £630,000. Last year Fladgate reported a 16 […]
The barristers’ regulator, the Bar Standards Board (BSB), has revealed the names of the 15 new businesses that have been authorised as entities. The body began accepting applications for barristers to become entities in January. The new BSB-regulated businesses allow for the creation of “advocacy-focused” partnerships between barristers and solicitors. Entities are “companies or partnerships […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Slaughter and May have taken the lead roles on Santander Asset Management’s multi-billion euro merger with Pioneer Investments. Cleary Gottlieb partners Simon Jay and Gabriele Antonazzo are acting for Santander Asset Management, Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic, along with associates Magnus Jones and Lauren Briggs. Meanwhile, Pioneer Investments (owned […]
Former Lend Lease EMEA general counsel Patrick Gloyens has joined Michelmores as a real estate partner. Gloyens, who had been responsible for all Europe, Middle East and Africa legal affairs at construction giant Lend Lease, stepped down last year after six years in the role (23 July 2014). He was replaced by senior counsel Mark […]
Travers Thorp Alberga (TTA) has strengthened its corporate and funds team with the hire of former Herbert Smith partner and FourWinds Capital Management general counsel Louise Freestone. Freestone was a partner at legacy Herbert Smith until 2008, when she joined investment management company FourWinds as general counsel. She left the company last year. FourWinds’ group […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner has announced its intention to double the number of staff at its Manchester office. The office, which opened in August last year, is aiming to increase the number of employees working there from 50 to 100 by the end of the financial year. The launch of BLP’s Manchester hub was part of […]
Chambers has published latest edition of Chambers Europe guide. Wierzbowski Eversheds, as well as its individual practitioners, has once again been recommended in numerous fields of law. The firm has been recognised in the following areas of law: Construction (Band 1) Intellectual Property (Band 2) Public Procurement (Band 2) Dispute Resolution (Band 3) Employment (Band […]
Baker & McKenzie has appointed Karen Brown as global chief diversity & inclusion officer. She joins from Monsanto Company, where she has had the same title. In her new strategic leadership role she will develop and execute holistic and integrated diversity & inclusion (D&I) strategies to help Baker & McKenzie achieve its short and long-term D&I […]
Dentons has promoted 10 lawyers to partner in the UK, Middle East and Africa (UKMEA), up from six last year. The appointments cover four of Dentons’ offices in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Oman and bring the total number of partners in the UKMEA region to 162. Of the 10 lawyers promoted, six are based […]
Michael Duck QC and Michelle Heeley of No5 Chambers Crime Group have prosecuted a gang involved in dealing class A drugs in Telford, which has led to jail sentences totalling more than 55 years. The gang involved several members of one family and was responsible for a conspiracy police believe has sold more than £200,000 worth of drugs. Using undercover officers, […]
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson’s London head of international disputes Nick Cherryman has joined King & Spalding as a partner. Cherryman officially left the firm last week (21 April). Partner Justin Michaelson has been promoted to head of the practice. Michaelson featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 in 2014 (13 January 2014). He joined […]
As part of International Women’s Day Global Investigations Review named Mini vandePol, Baker & McKenzie’s global head of compliance among its 100 female lawyers to watch in its ‘Women in Investigations’ list. The industry ranking recognises established women in various disciplines across the field of global investigations, such as lawyers, barristers, in-house counsel and forensic […]