DLA Piper has announced that the firm has received Gold Standard Certification from the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) for the third consecutive year. WILEF’s Gold Standard Certification is the only initiative directed toward certifying, and broadly celebrating and publicising, eligible law firms that have integrated women into the highest leadership positions in the firm. To […]
Andrew Henderson, partner and regulation expert at Eversheds, has commented on news that the European Union’s (EU’s) markets, banking and insurance watchdogs could be funded from a direct levy on the sector. He said: ‘This proposal is not unexpected. Recent EU measures such as MiFID 2 and PRIIPS have enhanced the authorisation and supervision powers […]
DLA Piper announced that Amy Jensen Cunniffe has joined the firm’s government affairs and healthcare public policy and regulatory practices as a senior policy adviser in the Washington DC office. Cunniffe is the latest senior policy adviser to join the firm, following former US transportation secretary Ray LaHood and former CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton, a […]
DLA Piper has advised Parnell Pharmaceuticals Holdings (PARN) in its initial public offering on NASDAQ. PARN, an Australian-based veterinary pharmaceutical company with US operations located in Kansas City, Kansas, focuses on developing, manufacturing and commercialising innovative animal health solutions. The company currently markets five products for companion animals and production animals in 14 countries and augments […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman’s Bermuda office advised Markit on its 10-times oversubscribed $1.3bn (£763m) initial public offering and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Conyers also advised on the Bermuda aspects of inserting Markit, a Bermuda company, as the group’s top holding company in place of a UK company. Markit is a global diversified provider of […]
In-house teams are increasingly demanding that their panel firms collaborate more on projects. This week has already seen significant moves by RBS and Barclays, which are now requiring law firms to partner with each other. This is the future. RBS drafts in Richard Susskind as firms put on standby for panel cull Barclays: work together […]
It has been a surprisingly quiet fortnight in Europe when it comes to recruitment, with only a handful of appointments to report in today’s moves round-up. Maybe that’s because everyone’s been busy working on deals. The corporate market is showing distinct signs of picking up with some seriously meaty deals going on involving European jurisdictions. […]
The 20th anniversary of The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, took London’s Grosvenor House Hotel by storm last night, with those attending being rewarded with the promise of a kiss by the evening’s host, Joanna Lumley. Trailblazing firm RPC was the ultimate victor, taking home the Law Firm of the Year gong in recognition […]
Baker & McKenzie has made up 65 lawyers and other professionals across 32 offices to its partnership, with almost a third of the new partners working in its tax practice. The promotions round is slightly down on last year, when the firm made up 71 partners (1 July 2013), but the four partners made up […]
Get your glad rags on and prepare to celebrate. The biggest night in the legal calendar is here: It’s The Lawyer Awards 2014, now in its twentieth year. Find out more about our finalists. Excellence breeds diversity in 20 years of The Lawyer Awards Change: the great balancing act Corporate crunch time: who will triumph […]
Bird & Bird has posted a revenue rise of 4 per cent from £249m to £259m but has indicated that net profit will be down on the £47.5m reported at the 2012/13 year end. It comes after an expansive year at the firm, which has seen it push for growth in the Asia Pacific region. […]
What do you get when you put some of the UK’s finest in-house lawyers into one room? No, not a raging hangover (for those of you suffering from last night’s The Lawyer Awards). The Lawyer found the answer during its recent roundtable discussion with those on the shortlist of last night’s In-house Lawyer of the […]