Another partner from Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London office is set to join Paul Hastings, following on from the move of Reena Gogna in June. Brian Maher is making the move from Weil Gotshal to Paul Hastings. He has been a partner at Weil Gotshal since 2014 when he was promoted at the firm. He […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has secured another partner hire from Kirkland & Ellis to build out its City funds practice further. Jeremy Leggate joins from Kirkland as a partner and will co-head the firm’s European investment funds team. He spent just over nine years at the firm, originally joining as an associate before […]
Eversheds Sutherland has introduced a new arbitration and complex commercial disputes practice at its Warsaw office with the hire of three lawyers from local firm Kochański & Partners. The practice is expected to support both local and international clients in proceedings before arbitration institutions and Poland’s common courts. It will work as part of Eversheds’ […]
Dentons has elected a successor to global boss Elliott Portnoy, hiring its next leader from Big Four giant EY. A former global vice chair of EY, Kate Barton joins Dentons as its next global CEO. She will replace Portnoy, who stands down in November after 11 years. Dentons kickstarted the CEO search last December, stressing […]
Eversheds Sutherland believes it can grow partner numbers across its four Benelux offices to more than 40 in the next five years as part of a concerted push to become an major player in the region. The partner headcount growth would represent an increase of almost two-thirds (60 per cent) by 2029 from its current […]
Three firms are at the helm of a new joint venture deal between Barratt Developments, Lloyds and the UK Government to accelerate the delivery of housebuilding across the UK. The arrangement will see the three businesses collaborate as part of the Made Partnership, which intends to act as the master developer for multiple large scale, […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has recruited an in-houser from pension investor PSP Investment, in a move that aims to strengthen its London finance group. Nicola Noël joins the US firm as a partner, having been a senior legal director at PSP. She works on leveraged finance matters, advising private credit funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension […]
Myerson has become the third firm in the UK200 to transition to an employee ownership trust (EOT), in a move that bucks the trend of consolidation and private equity takeovers in the mid-tier. The Manchester-based firm – which focuses on disputes, corporate, real estate and private client work – completed the restructuring process at the […]
Flint Bishop has acquired Walker Morris’s 34-strong volume banking and finance recoveries division to launch in Leeds. As part of the transfer, director Justin Coley will continue in the role of head of recoveries, while Rebecca Calland and Ellen McLean have been promoted to the position of partner. Other key figures joining from Walker Morris […]
This report contains: an overview of the UK corporate market in 2023 and the positive shift in mood among lawyers at top corporate practices ranking of the top 50 City firms based on UK corporate revenue, highlighting those achieving significant growth insight into firms’ strategic plans for its UK corporate group over the next five years
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Before financials season got fully underway, The Lawyer took a look at the firms most likely to hit the milestones of £2bn, £1bn and £500m. There were not many, highlighting the challenge for firms to grow bigger and profitably. Of the seven likelies, just two definitely managed it – Linklaters and Bird & Bird – […]
For years, particularly since 2016 and the vote for Brexit, much has been written about the odds of London’s decline as a world financial hub. Most of it has focused on deal and investment activity. But there’s another metric, one that amply underlines the sheer pulling power of the City and suggests that far from […]
“I’ve seen the future, and it’s porn, sharks and Nazis.” Twitter hadn’t even been founded at the time, but the above quote from the niche 2005 sitcom Bromwell High turned out to be unintendedly prophetic when considering the journey of one of the planet’s largest social media companies. Once ‘the world’s town square’, Twitter, latterly […]
One of Europe’s most enduring rumours is about Simpson Thacher & Bartlett opening in Luxembourg. It is one of the jurisdiction’s key referrers of work for the local Luxembourg players, meaning there is an amount of paranoia among them about what would happen if Simpson Thacher decided to open its own office there. The idea […]
Which is the best personal injury firm in the country? Irwin Mitchell, perhaps? Maybe Leigh Day, or Slater & Gordon? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The answer in fact is Cheshire six-lawyer outfit Gavin Edmondson Solicitors, which according to the website reviewsolicitors.co.uk scores better than almost 2,500 PI firms across the country for its quality. What about […]
The Stewarts-repped London International Exhibition (ExCel) Centre has successfully seen off an appeal by insurers over its Covid-19 business interruption claim. The case, which was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2023 and Top 10 Appeals of 2024, concerned whether pandemic lockdowns entitled the Centre to claim £16m under the disease occurring “at […]
A&O Shearman has set out its post-merger integration plans, which includes closing one of its global offices and reducing its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year. The firm said today that its partnership would reduce within the year following a strategic review of its business post-A&O’s tie-up with Shearman. […]
Dentons and Reed Smith have taken the leading roles on eSky Group’s purchase of travel business Thomas Cook. Dentons private equity partner Nicholas Plant, along with Michał Wasiak, a partner in the firm’s Warsaw office, were at the helm of the team for Polish purchaser eSky. They were supported by corporate associate Alex Macdonald, IP […]
Football law has typically been the domain of sports specialists. However, in recent years, there has been a growing number of large, elite firms and chambers entering the football market. Clifford Chance and Freshfields act for Manchester City, and Slaughter and May and Linklaters represent the Premier League. Latham and Watkins worked on the Chelsea […]
A former Ashurst employee has agreed to the outcome of an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), after he was found to have stolen two laptops and sold them. Irfan Malik, an IT service desk analyst, was accused of removing “two laptops from the firm’s IT storeroom without its knowledge or consent”. The SRA […]