Why would anybody want to be a law firm managing partner? Most people would run screaming from a role that involves trying to reach a consensus from a group of lawyers. “You have to be mad to want to do this,” jokes Kennedys’ managing partner Guy Stobart, in this week’s analysis. But if there’s one […]
In an eventful week for the legal market, Eversheds turned its sights on the US and Morgan Lewis hired most of Bingham McCutchen – but our top story highlighted what managing partners dislike about their jobs. Last week’s top story, a trail for our longer analysis of what managing partners find challenging about their jobs, […]
We’re going to the Punchbowl, I tell J, it’s that pub in Mayfair, you know, the one that used to be owned by Guy Ritchie, when he was Madonna’s husband. For all I know, it might still be a Ritchie venture but even if it is, we can be eternally grateful that we won’t be […]
Osborne Clarke has advised KPMG on a 10-year strategic alliance to share predictive analytics and technology with technology company McLaren Group, which was represented by its own in-house counsel. Commercial partner Nick Johnson and commercial associate director Anna Williams led the Osborne Clarke team. McLaren Group general counsel Timothy Murnane led the company’s legal work. […]
David Ryan is more or less an institution at Pinsent Masons. During his 15 year tenure as the firm’s managing partner, he has led its transformation from a 134-partner regional practice into a 380-partner global outfit. But, having spent all that time in management without facing a contested election, the managing partner is finally relinquishing […]
An overwhelming majority of lawyers believe the profession is dominated by white, middle-class men and that developing a career in law as a mother is difficult. According to the Innovation in Law survey, carried out by IPSOS Mori and commissioned by Hodge Jones & Allen, 74 per cent of the 500 lawyers surveyed felt that […]
The lot of the law firm leader is not always a happy one. This week’s cover feature unpicks that statement a little. We quizzed dozens of past and present managing and senior partners on what it is that makes the role so tough. Who would have thought that one of the recurring themes would be […]
Boris Martor, partner and Africa law expert at Eversheds, has commented on news that three African economic blocs will merge into a new 27-nation free-trade zone. Martor said: ‘African nations have been continuously developing economic integration strategies and it is key they continue to develop synergies to sustain foreign direct investment from outside Africa and also […]
Eversheds partner Mark Fletcher has commented on the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s (EAT’s) decision that UK law is not compatible with EU law on the protection of workers during such large-scale redundancies, following the Woolworths and Ethel Austin insolvencies. Specifically, the EAT held that workers being made redundant in the smaller shops should have been collectively consulted, despite […]
DLA Piper has represented Groupon in its acquisition of Swarm Solutions, a San Francisco-based venture-backed technology company that provides an analytics and customer engagement platform for brick-and-mortar retail businesses. Founded in 2012 by Rudd Davis and Ryan Denehy, Swarm utilises Bluetooth, infrared and Wi-Fi technology to track user behaviour and deliver targeted promotions on smartphones. […]
British American Tobacco’s (BAT) group legal director and general counsel Neil Withington has quit the group, as it announces a wider leadership reshuffle. Withington has headed up the group’s legal function and had a seat on its management board since 2000, after joining BAT Industries in 1993 as a senior M&A lawyer. His last day […]
Eversheds has acted as international counsel to Chemtura on the sale of its agrochemicals business Chemtura AgroSolutions to Platform Specialty Products Corporation, a global speciality chemicals company. The sale consists of $950m (£606m) in cash and two million shares of Platform’s common stock. Eversheds’ London office acted as the international counsel on the deal, which […]