A third partner from Linklaters’ projects team has left the firm in less than two weeks, after King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) re-hired heavyweight energy partner James Douglass to join its projects energy and resources team. Douglass had previously joined Linklaters from KWM in 1998, and was a partner in Linklaters’ global projects group based […]
Midlands firms Shakespeares and SGH Martineau have announced they are in merger talks with the aim of creating a new top-50 firm with revenues of over £75m and 150 partners. The firms began talking a few weeks ago after Andy Raynor took over from Paul Wilson as Shakespeares CEO (22 January 2015). A spokesperson for […]
Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has added K&L Gates partner David Johnson to its Hong Kong office, two years after he joined the US firm from Allen & Overy. Capital markets and corporate lawyer Johnson, who joined K&L Gates in March 2013 (8 March 2013), will head NRF’s US securities practice in Asia. With a particular […]
DAC Beachcroft (DACB) Claims Limited chief executive Bill Paton is set to exit the firm at the end of March to join insurer RSA as UK and Western Europe claims director on 1 May. Paton joined DACB in 2012 from one of the firm’s biggest clients Zurich Financial Services, where he was European claims director […]
Clifford Chance has lost its third corporate partner from Germany in a month with the news that former German corporate head Arndt Stengel is leaving for Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy’s Frankfurt office. Stengel’s departure follows that of Oliver Felsenstein and Burc Hesse, who left Clifford Chance for Latham & Watkins at the start of […]
Belgian food retailer Delhaize has promoted deputy general counsel Philippe Dechamps to the role of global general counsel and corporate secretary, following the departure of Maura Abeln Smith last year. Dechamps was previously general counsel for Europe and Asia at Delhaize. He joined the company in 2008 from Abbott Laboratories, where he was director of […]
On the occasion of Cherie Blair visiting Belgrade Karanović & Nikolić, in partnership with Omnia Strategy, are organising a seminar called ‘Dealing with Disputes – leading international and local dispute resolution experts guide you through the process’ , on 13 March. Keynote speakers will include Blair, a leading disputes lawyer with more than 35 years’ international experience, and […]
Are you reading this while snugly ensconced in your warehouse-sized corner office? Does that make you a dinosaur? Yep, probably. In the past few years the price-driven, property-related mantra in law firms has been “save money”. Yes, offices should be light, airy, ergonomic and packed with bromeliads but, ultimately, firm leaders care most about intensifying […]
Legal order that “guarantees good” must be properly funded, says Boris Johnson. Legal order that “guarantees good” must be properly funded, says Boris Johnson. Last week’s Global Law Summit (GLS) was billed as an event to showcase the best of the UK’s legal profession and, in three packed days, it largely lived up to the […]
The law may traditionally be blind, but today’s firms should carefully consider their ethical stance when choosing which companies to act for. Much has been made of the role of global enterprise to impact and influence the progress of the world economy. When 1,100 people were killed in Bangladesh in a garment factory collapse in […]
Despite a growing momentum in favour of alternative and ‘agile’ working models, many firms are still struggling to find a way to fit their working practices around reducing their property costs. It is three years since The Lawyer started collecting real estate data from law firms as part of the research for the annual UK […]
UK competition lawyers have a new regulator and new rules to follow when handling mergers. Is it ‘business as usual’ as the old OFT and CC promised? April 2014 marked the beginning of a new era for the UK’s competition lawyers. Partly due to the Government’s drastic programme of spending cuts, the UK scrapped its […]