DLA Piper has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Australian Insurance Industry Awards hosted by the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) in Sydney. DLA Piper consultant Michael Gill also took home the ANZIIF Lifetime Achievement Award. Now in its 11th year, the ANZIIF Awards reported a record […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda law advice in connection with an initial offering of ordinary shares linked to the Angola portfolio segregated account of Africa International Capital, which were admitted to the Official List of the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX). Kieran Loughran and Veronica Strande of Conyers’ London office advised on the matter, […]
A decade-long lawsuit against General Motors, involving faulty components, whistleblowers and an investigation by US prosecutors, has reignited with an investigation into the company’s in-house legal team. The company’s lawyers, who are now under investigation for possibly concealing key evidence about GM vehicles, are the latest department to find themselves in the thick of a […]
Listed alternative business structure (ABS) Quindell has generated £180m of revenue from legal services at the half-year according to its interim statement to the London Stock Exchange. The firm reported earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) from legal services of £101m. Quindell’s legal income now accounts for 50.4 per cent of its total […]
Unilever has been shopping for an inaugural legal panel and Olswang and Baker & McKenzie are among the winners. After launching the review back in March the FTSE 100 consumer goods company handed formal spots to some of its most trusted advisers as well as 12 others out of the 25 firms pitching for roles. […]
The last week’s biggest stories have seen plenty of litigation and news of firm restructures – have a look and share your views. The doings of the magic circle always hold fascination for the legal market, and many are watching closely as Clifford Chance’s new managing partner Matthew Layton, backed up by his replacement as […]
Newly-weds Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham want to get even closer. Following the successful conclusion of their merger talks, they’re now after an office where they can really get to know each other. Just don’t bother offering them a Canary Wharf office. Charles Russell and Speechly Bircham kickstart search for new City HQ Charles Russell […]
Baker & McKenzie, Mayer Brown, Olswang and Slaughter and May have all won spots on Unilever’s inaugural panel. The hard-fought tender process ended last month with 16 out of 25 competing firms winning roles on four separate panels. The review was led by operations legal director Saswata Mukherjee and will be repeated in 2016 (27 March 2014). […]
“It’s been a good year at the office,” says Mills & Reeve managing partner Guy Hinchley. He’s talking off the back of a set of financial results that will be pleasing for the firm: revenue for 2013/14 was up by more than 12 per cent, to £79.5m. Some of that is down to Mills & Reeve’s […]
BLM will be nudging the £100m turnover mark at the financial year-end, according to a “conservative” estimate by managing partner Mike Brown. Turnover at BLM rose 5 per cent from £84.7m to £89m last year, excluding income from the firm’s Ireland office and subsidiary the Connexion Partnership (CXP), a specialist personal injury and property claimant […]
Slaughter and May and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co have taken key roles among a large group of UK and Irish firms advising on Legal & General’s (L&G) sale of eight properties from its Hyperion portfolio to separate purchasers. Slaughter and May played a key role acting for the vendor, having advised L&G on the […]
Nicky Richmond is taken back to her childhood at Fischer’s in Marylebone. I am in a quandary over the Austrian theme. Austria, for all its culture is not a place where I feel entirely at home – birthplace of Hitler, rise of modern anti-Semitism and all that – and it put me in mind of […]