Dentons UKMEA posted a 7.7 per cent increase in turnover to £169m in 2015/16, up from £157m the year before, while the member with highest entitlement to profits rose to £1.3m.
Addleshaw Goddard’s LLP filings show its highest paid partner took home £1.1m in 2015/16, up 14 per cent from £963,000 in the previous year.
DWF has acquired insurance management business ‘Triton out of administration, bringing 215 extra staff into its UK operation.
Devereux Chambers’ Jolyon Maugham QC is launching a pro-bono initiative called the ‘Good Law Project’, which aims to hold the government to account through legal challenges, The Lawyer can reveal.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft managing partner Patrick Quinn has insisted his firm is not shaping itself for a merger, but did not rule out a future deal amid continued shedding of the firm’s partners and shrinking of its office network.
CMS’s German arm, CMS Hasche Sigle, has signed a deal with technology provider Kira to apply its software to transactional advice.
The joint administrators of King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) have accused partners who left in the final months of the firm of “accelerating the ultimate demise” of the business.
The Supreme Court has this morning by a majority of eight to three dismissed the Secretary of State’s appeal over whether Article 50 can be lawfully triggered without a vote by Parliament.
Law Rocks, the legal market battle of the bands which has raised more than $2m since launching in 2009, has officially become a registered charity with the pro bono help of Howard Kennedy.
With the Chinese New Year fast approaching, it is once again the time for Chinese firms to take stock of the last year and look ahead. Perhaps the single most significant event concerning top Chinese firms, and which has widespread global implications, is the dramatic fall of King & Wood Mallesons’ UK, Europe, and Middle […]
Weightmans and Ward Hadaway are in the early stages of merger discussions to create a northern-headquartered firm with turnover of around £130m.
Clifford Chance, DLA Piper and Slaughter and May are among a group of firms to reap more than £6m in legal fees from the sale of Punch Taverns last year.