Green Investment Bank GC Euan McVicar has to sort the windmills from the waste-to-energy initiatives while staying within European state aid rules A bank? A commercial body? Government-sponsored energy fund? It’s not easy to put the Green Investment Bank (GIB) into any single box. But for general counsel Euan McVicar, that’s all part of the […]
Too focused on the top line; a haphazard international strategy; no strategic direction. How will the firm answer its critics?
It wasn’t easy. When The Lawyer set out to research the top independent law firms operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) we were confronted with a whole series of problems. Phone numbers didn’t work; emails bounced back; websites didn’t exist. It didn’t deter us. Today we unveil our first-ever Doing Business in […]
Hyperion general counsel Will Bloomer provides a whistle-stop tour of the consolidating insurance market and explains why he doesn’t believe in panels. Hyperion Insurance Group is on the brink of a £400m merger with RKH Group. It will be Hyperion’s 17th acquisition since general counsel and chief risk officer Will Bloomer joined in 2012. The […]
It’s time for GCs to forget the heroic ‘I do everything myself’ culture and concentrate instead on driving their business, and that means outsourcing A significant privilege of what I can no longer call my new job at Lawyers On Demand (LOD), is the number of GCs and other in-house counsel I get to meet, […]
Reed Smith has recruited DLA Piper partner and former tax head Simon Gough to its partnership. He joins the firm’s tax, benefits and wealth planning group. Move of the week Reed Smith has recruited DLA Piper partner and former tax head Simon Gough to its partnership. He joins the firm’s tax, benefits and wealth planning […]
Your partners hate you, your clients are deserting you and all that awaits you at the end of your term is the scorched earth, wintry emptiness of the former law firm leaders’ jobs market. Welcome to the world of the managing partner. In The Lawyer we’ve rarely gone in for offering much in the way […]
HMRC’s Gill Aitken spent her early career suing the Government but, envious of its cases, she switched sides and now brandishes an 80 per cent success rate HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) general counsel Gill Aitken is an expert number-cruncher. Her team of 180 lawyers wins an average of 80 per cent of its cases […]
The Middle Eastern market is lucrative, but for international firms business nuances are tricky. To guide you through, The Lawyer has researched the region and the legal players to collaborate with. Here’s a taster of our findings According to the World Bank, six of the 20 countries with the largest gross domestic product per capita […]
Lonely, a career cul-de-sac, the figurative punch bag, master and yet servant – just some of the ways the managing partner role can be hell. Still interested in doing it? Read on…
Move of the Week Eversheds has appointed Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) real estate tax partner Cathryn Vanderspar as London tax head. Vanderspar was at BLP for more than 16 years and has been involved in the development of new fund structures. UK London The Legal Services Board has appointed Richard Moriarty as its chief executive. […]
Direct Line Group’s Humphrey Tomlinson has steered the insurance giant down a successful road to an IPO, and an ABS win It has been a hectic few years for Direct Line Group general counsel Humphrey Tomlinson, who handled Direct Line Group’s IPO in 2012. “Closing the IPO was great,” he says. “It gave me a […]