After months of talks, there seems to have been a small positive development in the merger talks between Bingham McCutchen and Morgan Lewis & Bockius – the former’s partners are understood to have voted in favour of the tie-up. However no official word has yet come out of either firm, despite a week having passed […]
It has emerged that Linklaters’ US co-managing partner Jeff Norton stepped down from his post nine months early, leaving Conrad Tenaglia as sole US managing partner. New York-based Norton and Tenaglia succeeded Larry Byrne and Nick Rees in the managing partner role in 2011, after both completed a four-year term (16 May 2011). Norton was […]
Addleshaw Goddard has distanced itself from the long-running litigation between Kazakhstan’s JSC BTA Bank and its former chair Mukhtar Ablyazov, saying it came off the record in October. The firm’s decision to step away from the case coincides with a hiatus in proceedings while it is established who will fund the disclosure exercise ordered in […]
RPC has increased revenue by 16 per cent from £38.7m to £46m in the half-year period from 1 May to 31 October 2014. RPC reported a 2.4 per cent rise in turnover from £82.1m to £84.1m, alongside a 3 per cent drop in profit from £26.8m to £26m, at the end of the latest financial […]
There are cookbooks on a table, as we enter the restaurant. One of them is by Alice Waters – The Art of Simple Food – and I have this cookbook at home. I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It is a seminal work and Alice Waters is a legendary chef. Her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California, […]
DLA Piper has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) in its inaugural citation list. The new citation substantially raises the expected level of performance by organisations in Australia, with 76 organisations awarded the 2014 citation, down from 125 recipients when the predecessor citation, the […]
Our upcoming special report on Russia, which will appear on 24 November, will focus on the impact of the sanctions imposed against and by the country in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis. That impact, coupled with the importance of Asia as an investment market, is prompting law firms to look to new markets for […]
CVC Capital Partners general counsel Richard Perris is swapping roles to head the legal department at sister company CVC Credit Partners. Legal director Lauren Livingston is understood to be replacing Perris at CVC Capital Partners. Perris has been general counsel for CVC Capital Partners for seven years, and has worked for the company since 2005. […]
Addleshaw Goddard’s insurance litigation head Richard Leedham is the latest partner to resign in a year characterised by high-profile exits from the firm. The move was announced to Addleshaw Goddard partners earlier today (13 November). Mark Pring will take over as the firm’s head of insurance litigation. Leedham is joining Mishcon de Reya. Leedham was […]
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) mammoth investigation into traders’ attempts to fix the foreign exchange (forex) market came to a head yesterday. The banks have been clashing with regulators in a big way this week and they’ve been keeping the magic circle on their toes too. Clifford Chance was once again drafted in by longstanding […]
Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Linklaters are among the firms advising the banks hit with £2.6bn in fines from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and US regulators for a mass attempt to rig the foreign exchange (forex) market. HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Swiss bank UBS and US banks […]
Simmons & Simmons has picked up Edwards Wildman Palmer insurance partner Martin Lister in Hong Kong. Lister had been at Edwards Wildman for nine years and specialises in international insurance, regulatory and corporate matters in Asia. His departure comes ahead of Edwards Wildman’s anticipated tie-up with Locke Lord in a $675m merger deal confirmed by […]