Managing partner Lee Ranson has been elected as the firm’s new chief executive and will replace incumbent Bryan Hughes next year. 8 Aug: Keith Froud tipped to be Eversheds’ next managing partner
Kirkland & Ellis has promoted six lawyers in London as part of a global promotions round.
Dechert has launched its second office in Saudi Arabia, opening its doors in Riyadh.
Nokia vice president and head of litigation Richard Vary is set to join the company’s longstanding relationship firm Bird & Bird as a partner in its international IP, tech and communications practice in London.
Shearman private equity head Mark Soundy is leaving alongside one other Europe partner just days after the firm overhauled its partnership. 28 Sept: Shearman lures back Brussels head and introduces fixed-share partners
Private equity business Baring Asia has outsourced the majority of its transactional function to Weil Gotshal & Manges following the US firm hiring its general counsel in August.
Managed IT services provider GCI has been on a bit of a journey since launching 15 years ago. The most significant recent milestone came in June this year when it acquired the asset base of cloud and unified communications (UC) solutions provider Outsourcery.
The merger between Ashurst and Australian firm Blake Dawson has been mixed in its success. Does the firm need to be more brutal?
Corporate crime is not a new phenomenon, but over the past five years the commercial legal market has sat up and taken notice. Whereas once full-service commercial firms distanced themselves from their criminal counterparts, in recent years they have been rushing to bring in lawyers with a criminal background and increasingly partnering with business crime […]
The Lawyer’s latest European 100 report revealed that three of Austria’s top law firms held onto their titles as some of the biggest on the continent. The country’s largest firms are Wolf Theiss, Schönherr, and Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati (CHSH). Combined, these firms brought in a total of €184m (£158m) last year.
At The Lawyer’s managing partner dinner the other night the topic turned to Ashurst. “What happened there?” asked one of the assembled. “How did they let themselves go so much?” You hear this a lot around the market. The prevailing tone isn’t gloating, far from it: it’s incredulity mixed with sympathy. But there are nevertheless hard conclusions to be drawn from Ashurst’s story.
In spite of the fact that the legal industry is not known to be an early adopter of technology, there seems to have been a recent shift towards the profession embracing the array of technological advances that many other industries have long exploited.