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Bob Bob Ricard, Soho

I see we’ve failed at the first hurdle then, said the managing director, who sidled up to the table as we finished our main course, using the very words I’d used on Twitter just a short while earlier. Gone are the days when I’d have done that English thing and said no, really, everything is […]

food

Bob Bob Ricard, Soho

I see we’ve failed at the first hurdle then, said the managing director, who sidled up to the table as we finished our main course, using the very words I’d used on Twitter just a short while earlier. Gone are the days when I’d have done that English thing and said no, really, everything is […]

Mike Turner
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The triangulation of tech

Singapore is making its mark on the global tech industry A theory is beginning to develop that the global technology sector is now triangulating between three regional hubs. At the top of the triangle sits Silicon Valley in the US, the mother ship of the technology industry, while London has been the second point for […]

Mike Turner
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The triangulation of tech

Singapore is making its mark on the global tech industry A theory is beginning to develop that the global technology sector is now triangulating between three regional hubs. At the top of the triangle sits Silicon Valley in the US, the mother ship of the technology industry, while London has been the second point for […]

India

Essex Court brings in senior advocate Banerji as set targets India

Essex Court Chambers is taking on Gourab Banerji as an overseas associate in a sign of the bar’s increasing focus on the Indian market. Banerji was called to the bar in 1990 and was designated a senior advocate, the Indian equivalent of Queen’s Counsel in 2003. Until May he was an additional solicitor general of […]

Richard Foley
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Pinsent Masons’ Foley: What I’ll do in my first 100 days

For incoming Pinsent Masons senior partner Richard Foley there is a clear distinction between the role he will assume on 1 October and the one that whoever replaces managing partner David Ryan by next year will fulfil. As senior partner, he says, he will focus on the ‘what’ while the managing partner will focus on […]

Richard Foley
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Pinsent Masons’ Foley: What I’ll do in my first 100 days

For incoming Pinsent Masons senior partner Richard Foley there is a clear distinction between the role he will assume on 1 October and the one that whoever replaces managing partner David Ryan by next year will fulfil. As senior partner, he says, he will focus on the ‘what’ while the managing partner will focus on […]

Beer drinkers
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Shepherd & Wedderburn, TLT lead on Heineken race as Eversheds, Pinsents out

Shepherd & Wedderburn and TLT are understood to have replaced Eversheds and Pinsent Masons as the two firms in the running to become Heineken’s first sole adviser. With just weeks to go before the global beer brand is expected to make a decision on which firm will take on its everyday work Eversheds and Pinsents are […]

Beer drinkers
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Shepherd & Wedderburn, TLT lead on Heineken race as Eversheds, Pinsents out

Shepherd & Wedderburn and TLT are understood to have replaced Eversheds and Pinsent Masons as the two firms in the running to become Heineken’s first sole adviser. With just weeks to go before the global beer brand is expected to make a decision on which firm will take on its everyday work Eversheds and Pinsents are […]

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Ashurst’s US banking chief Ridealgh quits for Weil in New York

Ashurst finance partner Damian Ridealgh, who led the firm’s banking practice in the US, has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York. Ridealgh spent three years at Ashurst, having joined from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. His hire marked the firm’s second lateral partner hire in the US following Ashurst’s launch there in […]

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Ashurst’s US banking chief Ridealgh quits for Weil in New York

Ashurst finance partner Damian Ridealgh, who led the firm’s banking practice in the US, has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York. Ridealgh spent three years at Ashurst, having joined from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. His hire marked the firm’s second lateral partner hire in the US following Ashurst’s launch there in […]

Matt Byrne

Why you need to be more agile

Next month The Lawyer Management conference and awards rolls into town. Over the next few weeks in the run-up to the conference we’ll be looking at some of the operational themes it will be covering, we well as the awards categories in more detail. On 22 October law firm leaders of all shapes and sizes […]