Fawaz Elmalki, a director in Conyers Dill & Pearman’s Dubai office, has been named to the MENA Fund Manager Service Provider Power 30 list for the third consecutive year. The list, which provides a breakdown of the most influential service providers in the region’s funds industry, was released in the May 2014 edition of MENA […]
A new month, a new chapter in Barclays’ mammoth battle against former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners. Three partners represented by Candey and Signature Litigation have today agreed to join their cases against Barclays over loans they say they were misled into taking out. If the order is given the rubber stamp by Mr Justice Popplewell, […]
Barclays’ managing director and general counsel for the Americas, Michael Crowl, has quit the bank to take up a similar post with Swiss institution UBS. As of 1 July, Crowl will become general counsel for the Americas and for the bank’s wealth management unit. He will also become a member of UBS’s legal executive committee. […]
We’ve had some form of choir at Sidley Austin LLP for as long as anyone in the office can remember, although its outings have been strictly limited to the annual Christmas carolling until now. It’s also been a few years since we’ve had a choir made up only of people from Sidley, as we have […]
Three former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners have joined their cases against Barclays in an attempt to prove that the bank and defunct firm induced them to take on individual debts to keep Dewey afloat. The three defendants, represented by Candey and Signature Litigation, today agreed an order on paper with Barclays, represented by TLT, to […]
Ernst & Young (EY) has big ambitions to double its Asian legal capacity within the next 12 months. The big four accountancy firm blazed a new trail into Asia’s legal market in February when it admitted seven-partner Shanghai firm Chen & Co into its global network (20 February 2014). While rivals Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) […]
A raft of US firms, including Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Sullivan & Cromwell, have stepped up to advise on the $14.2bn acquisition of Merck’s consumer care business by Bayer. Merck’s winning bid trumped a number of rival bidders, allowing the German-based pharmaceuticals giant to acquire a range of household consumer products including […]
It’s the fifth year we have published the European 100 – the only report of its kind which ranks the top 100 independent firms on the continent by revenue. For any firm seeking to benchmark themselves against their competitors, identify Europe’s major players or looking to expand their business in the region, The Lawyer European […]
Just a week after the end of the 2013/14 financial year, results are beginning to roll in from UK firms – and those results are pretty good. First up was Fladgate, which posted record results of £32.6m – up 16 per cent – last week. The firm has also reported a provisional increase in average […]
Weightmans has continued its growth trajectory with a 6 per cent increase in turnover, from £82m to £87m for the 2013/14 financial year. The increase follows a similar 6 per cent rise between 2011/12 and 2012/13 (15 May 2013). The firm said net profit had risen by 2 per cent, to £24.1m, with net debt […]
Charles Russell’s turnover increased by 7 per cent in 2013/14 from £68.9m to £73.4m, marking a new record for the firm. The results follow the previous year’s relatively static financial results, which saw revenue shuffle from £68.1m up to £68.9m. Net profit increased between 2011/12 and 2012/13 by 8.4 per cent from £12.6m to £13.7m, […]
Lloyds Banking Group’s general counsel of retail and wealth Stuart Morgan is expected to become the first general counsel of thread and zips manufacturer Coats. Morgan, the lawyer driving forward Lloyds’ Project Canberra project – the bank’s decision to outsource its retail and asset finance litigation teams to a panel firm, handed in his notice […]