Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham (LG) have confirmed the line up of the new post-merger management board, with just two spots taken up by Lawrence Graham partners. Wragge & Co and LG finally decided to merge after partners voted for the move in December, creating a £170m firm under the brand Wragge Lawrence Graham […]
Change at the top can be tricky for any outfit, let alone in a management team that has already seen off one challenge from the ranks. Addleshaw Goddard’s managing partner Paul Devitt is still more than a year away from the end of his second term, yet growing unrest means a contested election is now […]
Australian-listed Slater & Gordon has confirmed the completion of its merger with Manchester-based Pannone with an announcement on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) this morning. The announcement reads: “Slater & Gordon confirms the completion of the acquisition of the consumer law business of UK law firm Pannone Solicitors LLP (Pannone).The transaction was announced to the market on 28 […]
With none of the three committee members based in Asia, will DLA Piper’s new US-led Asia management structure help the firm to achieve its ambition to be bigger and stronger in the region? In a surprising move, DLA Piper revamped its Asia management structure at the end of last year, replacing the managing director role, […]
The head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s London arbitration group Constantine Partasides is leaving the firm to launch an arbitration boutique with former partner Jan Paulsson. Paris partner Georgios Petrochilos is also leaving the magic circle firm to work with Paulsson and Partasides. It is thought that at least three partners from other firms are also […]
Shearman & Sterling has hired partner George Borovas in Tokyo from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman to launch its global nuclear power practice. Borovas was previously Pillsbury’s head of International nuclear projects group. He relocated from Washington DC to London in 2010 and moved to Tokyo in 2013. At Shearman & Sterling, he will work with […]
Smokers reckon they are a fairly persecuted lot – just about the only place they can puff away these days is in the garden shed, but even then only if the family dog doesn’t wander in. Cigarettes have long been banned from the workplace (remember those smoking rooms with wallpaper that bore a striking resemblance […]
The Lawyer has augmented its comment and analysis online with daily columns on market developments. Over the last week or so we have examined Cooley, A&O’s US ambitions, Mandela’s lawyer and the new boss of DLA Piper. Keep logging on for more of the inside track Here comes Cooley, what’s not to like? A&O US […]
The Excalibur fiasco has exposed the failings in third-party funding. Can the Association of Litigation Funders strike through the shambles? The first rule of third-party litigation funding is you don’t talk about third-party litigation funding. Once billed as a boon for access to justice, it has morphed into an under-reported and deregulated high-stakes game occasionally landing claimants […]
Addleshaw Goddard partners are bracing themselves for a contested election, with two names surfacing as challengers to incumbent managing partner Paul Devitt more than a year before his tenure ends. Addleshaw Goddard’s former head of real estate Adrian Collins and the firm’s current head of business support and restructuring John Joyce are understood to be […]
CMS and Dundas & Wilson are understood to be in talks with their shared clients over which partners will stay on their rosters after the two firms merge on 1 May 2014. Clydesdale Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds and the National Grid are negotiating with the firms over what shape the merged […]
Chinese giant Dacheng has kicked-started an election process for a new leadership team under a new governance and management structure. Beijing-headquartered Dacheng, which is home to nearly 3,000 lawyers across 41 offices, is in the process of electing members for its top management line-up, which is made up of a 17-member partnership council, a five-member […]