After scrapping last year’s partner promotions, Stewarts has conducted its largest-ever round by adding eight new members. The boutique has bolstered different areas across its litigation offering by promoting lawyers in commercial litigation, trusts and probate, divorce and family, personal injury and clinical negligence. Those making the step up are Pia Mithani, Zachary Sananes, Emma […]
Name: Phaik Khaw Organisation: iwoca Role: General Counsel Trained at: Minter Ellison, Australia Year qualified: 2004 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Being trapped in a data room with piles of paper taking notes as we were not allowed to take photocopies of documents. Luckily […]
Allen & Overy has made up 30 partners in its latest round of promotions, including 10 in London. The promotions represent 16 offices across the firm’s global network, with the City taking a third of the spots. Last year 10 City partners were also promoted in London, while 4 made the cut in 2018. The […]
A total of 13 lawyers are joining the partnership at Simmons & Simmons in the firm’s latest round of promotions, with five getting the nod in London. While this is more than double last year‘s batch of six, the round is just short of the 15 that were promoted in 2019 – eight of which […]
After scrapping last year’s partner promotions, Stewarts has conducted its largest-ever round by adding eight new members. The boutique has bolstered different areas across its litigation offering by promoting lawyers in commercial litigation, trusts and probate, divorce and family, personal injury and clinical negligence. Those making the step up are Pia Mithani, Zachary Sananes, Emma […]
Name: Phaik Khaw Organisation: iwoca Role: General Counsel Trained at: Minter Ellison, Australia Year qualified: 2004 Read her Hot 100 profile What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Being trapped in a data room with piles of paper taking notes as we were not allowed to take photocopies of documents. Luckily […]
Allen & Overy has made up 30 partners in its latest round of promotions, including 10 in London. The promotions represent 16 offices across the firm’s global network, with the City taking a third of the spots. Last year 10 City partners were also promoted in London, while 4 made the cut in 2018. The […]
A total of 13 lawyers are joining the partnership at Simmons & Simmons in the firm’s latest round of promotions, with five getting the nod in London. While this is more than double last year‘s batch of six, the round is just short of the 15 that were promoted in 2019 – eight of which […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a reduced number of promotions in London as opposed to last year, with six making the cut. The firm has promoted 22 new partners, effective from May 2021. It marks a similar number to last year’s promotions, when the firm made up 21 lawyers. Most of the promotions are centred […]
If you want a cacophonous, vicious, spectacularly partisan constituency competition, then Siena would have been the place to be this week. You’ll have seen it in Quantum of Solace: the palio – a three-lap horse race in which 10 of the city’s 17 wards, each with their own insignia, compete for glory and bragging rights. […]
Tomorrow, the country speaks. Let the chips fall where they may. Whatever your party affiliation, you have lawyers to vote for in this election – in fact, we’ve found no fewer than 193 of them standing. In a quartet of seats (Birmingham Ladywood, Finchley & Golders Green, Newark and Tottenham) voters even have a choice […]
In the last 12 months, the top 100 law firms in the UK have spent literally millions on lateral hires, bringing in a total of 12,177 new partners. Such hope. So many dreams. How many of them will actually work out? If you’re assessing return on investment then the usual response is to look at […]
Last week was a whirlwind for climate change awareness. London hosted its annual Climate Change Week, the Grantham Research Institute unveiled a startling report on the surge in climate litigation, and BHP, the world’s largest mining giant, lost a High Court case, allowing 33,000 Mariana dam disaster victims to proceed with their claims. Meanwhile, the […]
To be in the global law market requires a strong City presence, of that there can be no doubt. The Lawyer’s US 50 report underscores just how vital London is; the multimillion-pound investments being made by US titans shows that growing in the City is not only advantageous, but essential. And yet. You might be surprised […]
Having already hired Allen & Overy’s Philip Bowden, Proskauer Rose is growing its leveraged finance team even more with new recruits from the newly-merged firm and Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Leveraged finance partner Megan Lawrence is due to join Bowden at Proskauer. She was promoted to partner at A&O in 2022 having been at the […]
Having expanded its European presence over 2023/24, Fieldfisher has reported a strong year of financial growth with revenue up 10 per cent. The 10 per cent growth relates to an 11-month period to 31 March, after the firm decided to bring its year-end date forward ahead of HMRC basis period reform changes. The firm has […]
Scottish Independent Anderson Strathern is planning to move its financial year-end from its current 31 August to 31 March, a shift that will result in a seven-month fiscal period for 2024/25. The move is the firm’s response to HMRC’s basis period reforms and is aimed at reducing the admin burden on business services staff and […]
HFW has posted double-digit growth firmwide in profit and revenue for a second year running, as the firm hit £251m turnover for the financial year ending 31 March. This figure is up 11 per cent from last year, while net profit has gone up 16.5 per cent, hitting £75.4m. London revenue makes up around two-fifths […]
The head of Clifford Chance’s office in Newcastle has left the firm after six years in charge. Lucy Nixon left the firm last week. She joined in 2018 when Clifford Chance acquired Carillion Advice Services, the paralegal and managed legal services arm of the contractor. Nixon joined Carillion in October 2007 as an operations manager, […]