INDEX Gide Loyrette Nouel Noerr Uría Menéndez Gleiss Lutz Rödl & Partner This is an executive summary. To access the full report with profiles of the top 50 firms and detailed analysis of historical trends, click here . 6. Gide Loyrette Nouel Managing partner: Stéphane Puel Staff: 1,047 Fee-earners: 648 Qualified lawyers: 539 […]
INDEX Garrigues Fidal Loyens & Loeff Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Hengeler Mueller This is an executive summary. To access the full report with profiles of the top 50 firms and detailed analysis of historical trends, click here. 1. Garrigues Managing partner: Fernando Vives Staff: 2,134 Fee-earners: 1,594 Qualified lawyers: 1,417 Partners: 289 Equity partners: 261 Female […]
The financial year has ended, the bills are in, and results time is upon us. Fladgate was first out of the blocks with a good story to tell: its revenues were up 16 per cent and PEP up by a third. Other well-organised early reporters are Weightmans, where turnover is up by 6 per cent, […]
The news that Kaplan Law School is to shut down its Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) sent shockwaves through much of the legal education market last week. Kaplan’s revelation that it could not make the bar course pay should make the Bar Standards Board (BSB) sit up and take note. To the cynical outsider, charging tens of students […]
Simmons boss says his firm’s out-of-Town offering is in a different league Which is the odd one out? Allen & Overy’s Belfast office, Berwin Leighton Paisner’s Manchester base or Simmons & Simmons’ Bristol arm? Simmons managing partner Jeremy Hoyland is adamant it is the latter. The firm launched in Bristol in 2012 in the midst […]
Move of the week McGuire Woods has hired Simon Neilson-Clark as a restructuring and insolvency partner. He was previously a partner at DLA Piper and has 25 years’ experience representing borrowers, lenders and insolvency practitioners in distressed situations involving international structures. UK London Kingsley Napley has hired Zoë Sive as a private client […]
When Britvic ‘borrowed’ Clare Thomas as GC during its bid for AG Barr, she didn’t envisage it would be permanent, but the mix of responsibilities, from product development to company strategy, was too tempting to throw away When former Addleshaw Goddard M&A partner Clare Thomas stepped into the breach as interim general counsel at Britvic […]
It wasn’t so long ago that Britain’s swashbuckling captains of enterprise and industry could cut a swathe through foreign parts – chucking a bung of a few quid here, a crate-load of fags there and even the odd job-lot of silk stockings when required. All by way of oiling the wheels of local bureaucracies and […]
HistoryWe were very fortunate that when we moved into our new building in 2007, space was put aside for a music room, and shortly after the move, Norton Rose Fulbright started to provide subsidised music lessons. A choir had always gathered for the Christmas Carol Service, but in early 2010 the carol service choir were […]
Eversheds hosted the recent Dublin Chamber of Commerce Leadership Series at its offices at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin. Mike Maloney, chief executive officer of Payzone Group, spoke at the Leaders series breakfast.
According to recent media reports, retailers have been selling meat that satisfies halal requirements but is not clearly described as ‘halal’. According to Eversheds, this prompts the question: would failure by food businesses to inform consumers that they are eating halal meat constitute an offence under UK law? Gillian Harkess, food labelling expert at Eversheds, said that the […]
DLA Piper has appointed Tim Wright as a partner in its corporate group. He will join the firm from King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin. Wright was made partner at Clifford Chance in 2001 and joined what was SJ Berwin in 2004. Specialising in a variety of private company transactions including sales, purchases, equity arrangements and joint […]