Legal market water-cooler chat about Chinese investment into Germany, one of those growth areas that everyone appears to be talking about, got a big boost after the merger between Asian powerhouse King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and SJ Berwin. But just as German lawyers were getting used to the idea of a major Asian firm […]
Singaporean firm Rajah & Tann’s managing partner Lee Eng Beng says staying local and being flexible is the way forward in the increasingly competitive South-East Asia region. “Things have been moving quite quickly over the last 12 months,” says Singaporean firm Rajah & Tann’s managing partner Lee Eng Beng. This is a perfectly fitting summary […]
Singaporean firm Rajah & Tann’s managing partner Lee Eng Beng says staying local and being flexible is the way forward in the increasingly competitive South-East Asia region. “Things have been moving quite quickly over the last 12 months,” says Singaporean firm Rajah & Tann’s managing partner Lee Eng Beng. This is a perfectly fitting summary […]
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin is to shut down its Berlin operations, as two of its three partners exit to launch their own boutique. Corporate venture capital partners Frank Vogel and Jan Dirk Heerma are set to leave the firm to set up their own venture capital transactional boutique. The outpost’s only other partner, […]
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin is to shut down its Berlin operations, as two of its three partners exit to launch their own boutique. Corporate venture capital partners Frank Vogel and Jan Dirk Heerma are set to leave the firm to set up their own venture capital transactional boutique. The outpost’s only other partner, […]
“That’s 70 pairs of bespoke Christian Louboutins at £4,000 each. That makes £280,000, and that’s not counting the Diors. I’ve lots of those, but they’re only £600 each.” I’m at our cocktail party at the Carlton, and am learning just how wealthy the Chinese upper middle class are. I am talking to a lady who […]
“That’s 70 pairs of bespoke Christian Louboutins at £4,000 each. That makes £280,000, and that’s not counting the Diors. I’ve lots of those, but they’re only £600 each.” I’m at our cocktail party at the Carlton, and am learning just how wealthy the Chinese upper middle class are. I am talking to a lady who […]
Law Society chief executive Des Hudson is to stand down this summer, the solicitors’ representative body announced today. The announcement follows mounting pressure from criminal law solicitors for Hudson to resign over what they view as the society’s ineffective defence of legal aid rates in the face of government cuts (14 March 2014). A Chancery […]
Law Society chief executive Des Hudson is to stand down this summer, the solicitors’ representative body announced today. The announcement follows mounting pressure from criminal law solicitors for Hudson to resign over what they view as the society’s ineffective defence of legal aid rates in the face of government cuts (14 March 2014). A Chancery […]
Every week online The Lawyer runs an interview with a managing partner. The interviews now regularly make our top ten most-read stories. Find out all about the men and women in key leadership roles in private practice Gunnercooke founder: ‘At Addleshaws and DLA I made a lot of money but it wasn’t pleasant’ The Lawyer’s […]
Every week online The Lawyer runs an interview with a managing partner. The interviews now regularly make our top ten most-read stories. Find out all about the men and women in key leadership roles in private practice Gunnercooke founder: ‘At Addleshaws and DLA I made a lot of money but it wasn’t pleasant’ The Lawyer’s […]
The Central London Employment Tribunal has upheld a former ABN Amro lawyer’s unfair dismissal claim against the bank but thrown out her 41 allegations of racial discrimination. Angela Cobbina, formerly a senior lawyer at the UK branch of the Dutch bank, blamed her employer for her miscarriage last year and said she was hounded out […]