The Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has dismissed claims against Farrer & Co reputation management head Julian Pike, who was accused of telling News International (now News UK) to “put surveillance on to” two lawyers representing phone hacking victims.
Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won the lead mandates on Tesco’s £3.7bn merger with Booker Group.
Allen & Overy (A&O) paid its management board 7 per cent more over 2015/16, with the group receiving £13.6m.
Slaughter and May has bagged a role alongside four US and Swiss firms on Johnson & Johnson’s $30bn acquisition of Actelion.
Clifford Chance ran up costs of around £1.2m providing RBS with off-the-record advice on a landmark Libor claim brought by Property Alliance Group (PAG) in the High Court. 21 Dec: Dentons client RBS wins landmark Libor trial
Private equity house TPG has hired General Electric (GE) litigation and government investigations head Bradford Berenson as its legal chief.
Clifford Chance has been instructed by Battersea Power Station Development Company on its £1bn phase two and three redevelopment in London.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US securities litigation head Marshall Fishman has exited the firm for Goodwin Procter in New York.
Bird & Bird spent more than £14m – 18 per cent of its net profit – on its new London headquarters in the last financial year, its LLP filings have revealed.
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Linklaters managing partner Gideon Moore has launched a series of sit-downs with partners, associates and staff to crowdsource new strategic objectives for the firm ahead of its April partner conference.
Mishcon de Reya partner James Libson says acting on the Gina Miller case provided “the recipe for a litigator’s dream”. But despite the landmark win in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, the case has provoked vicious controversy and has led Libson to question the shortcomings of the legal profession.