Update 15 Feb: Freshfields has finally confirmed that it has taken a lease on 100 Bishopsgate. The firm will occupy 255,000 sq ft (floors 20 to 32) of the 37-storey tower on a 20-year lease. At an average cost of £65 per sq ft for office space in the area, Freshfields is expected to pay £16.5m per annum for its new City headquarters.
King & Wood Mallesons Dubai partner Hamish Walton has joined Dechert, leaving just five partners in KWM’s local office.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer M&A partner Ben Spiers is exiting the firm for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London.
Singapore’s continued rise as a key global dispute resolution hub is well documented in this year’s research. A large number of the Global Litigation 50 firms have highlighted Singapore as one of the most popular international arbitration seats among their clients outside of the traditional seats such as London, Paris and New York in the survey.
What are the demographics of in-house legal teams? Up until now there has never been any detailed investigation into the question. So we decided to conduct some research as part of The Lawyer FTSE 100 2016 market report, based on data from The Lawyer Market Intelligence.
There are a lot of assumptions made about the demographics of the in-house profession. So we decided to do some research that nobody had done before. We looked at all English-qualified lawyers in the top 30 companies of the FTSE100 and investigated their seniority and gender. What emerges from the The Lawyer FTSE 100 […]
CMS Cameron McKenna head of banking and finance Rita Lowe is advising King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) on its proposed China rescue deal, The Lawyer understands.
Olswang corporate finance partner Azlinda Ariffin-Boromand is joining Withers, becoming the latest to leave the firm ahead of its tripartite merger.
Travers Smith and White & Case have won key roles on Bridgepoint’s £835m sale of Oasis Dental Care to BUPA.
The Court of Appeal has criticised an email, believed to have been sent by DAC Beachcroft on behalf of a client, for including threats that amount to blackmail.
Clifford Chance could be hit with another bill in the long-running $1.5bn Excalibur Ventures case following a Court of Appeal ruling on indemnity costs, handed down this morning (18 November).
Australian law firms believe they will significantly benefit from Britain leaving the EU, a survey has found.