Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
Seven Top 50 firms have put more than 100 people on furlough over the course of the scheme.
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a claim on behalf of AutoStore against online grocery giant Ocado, alleging that it unlawfully sold its technology. AutoStore is suing Ocado in parallel claims in the UK and US over the alleged breach, filing papers at the High Court in London and the International Trade Commission in the US. […]
A four-partner corporate and M&A team led by Latham & Watkins’ German managing partner Harald Selzner has joined German firm Noerr in Dusseldorf. The partners leaving the US firm for Noerr also include Martin Neuhaus, Natalie Daghles and Rainer Wilke. All four partners are considered heavyweights for major corporate transactions and takeovers. Selzner, Neuhaus and […]
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Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are leading on Legal & General’s sale of its UK housebuilder, Cala Homes. Slaughters is leading for longstanding client L&G as it sells Cala to to Ferguson Bidco, a joint venture between Sixth Street Partners and Patron Capital. Slaughters corporate partner Victoria MacDuff is at the helm of the […]
Greenberg Traurig is leading for Harland & Wolff, the company famous for building the Titanic, as it looks set to appoint administrators. Harland & Wolff posted a notice of intention to appoint an administrator yesterday. Greenberg’s team is led by corporate partner Shashank Krishna, co-vice chair of the restructuring group John Houghton and corporate partner […]
33 Chancery Lane is undergoing a mass operational overhaul and rebrand, hiring its first chief executive, three new barristers and moving premises. The 19-barrister set, led by Kennedy Talbot KC, has hired Outer Temple’s practice director Sam Carter as chief executive and director of clerking to help guide the chambers through its new chapter. Carter […]
Kennedys has appointed its first chief knowledge officer, who has moved across to the UK insurance firm from US powerhouse Paul Hastings. Having previously developed Paul Hastings knowledge management strategy at a global level, Catherine Goodman will now be in charge of heading Kennedys knowledge strategy. Goodman was director of innovation and knowledge management at […]
A solicitor has been fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) after appearing on an antisemitic TV show that “took the form of a wide-ranging attack” upon Mishcon de Reya. Mohammed Akunjee, who has over 30,000 followers on X, has been fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs after appearing in a TV […]
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
This report contains: A history of the dominance of the magic circle sets an analysis of the two challengers to the magic circle a breakdown of the sets’ activity at the commercial court over the years
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Search vacanciesThe Higher Education sector is in big trouble. As we reported last month, universities are struggling to fill places on their undergraduate courses – not least for law degrees. Many are in financial distress. Tuition fees for home students have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 and are falling well behind what is profitable, but […]
Associate retention is one of the biggest bugbears for law firm leaders, as competitive salaries and the promise of greater opportunities lure rising stars away. Added to this, a firm’s biggest cost is its people, but that didn’t stop Freshfields last year pledging to up its trainee intake from 90 to 100 from 2025. Should […]
Of the UK Top 50 firms, just 16 have no overseas offices, and of the remaining 34, more than half (19) were bigger outside the UK last year. Internationalisation is a hallmark of a Top 50 firm, but for many it is the UK that keeps the investment pipelines pumped. For firms with international offices, […]
The upcoming UK200 has welcomed its sixth employee ownership trust (EOT) member. Altrincham’s Myerson Solicitors joins Yorkshire’s Ison Harrison and the West Midlands’ Talbots Law in embracing employee ownership, having converted from a limited liability partnership (LLP) to a 100 per cent employee-owned company last week. The EOT model allows all employees to take a […]
Over the last decade, the UK’s Top 50 firms have trialled a variety of tactics to satisfy an incessant demand for revenue growth. Consolidation has been a feature of the decade, with ‘critical mass’ becoming a key term used by managing partners as they push forward their growth agendas. Internationalisation too is a hallmark of […]
The long-awaited showdown between the Premier League and Manchester City has kicked off at an arbitration centre in London. Lord Pannick KC of Blackstone Chambers was the first barrister to appear, representing Manchester City, accompanied by Blackstone Chambers senior clerk Gary Oliver. Serle Court’s Philip Marshall KC and James Mather, also acting for City, arrived […]
A managing director and deputy general counsel at HSBC has left the bank after over 10 years to join Citigroup UK. The new Citi recruit is Philip Jockelson, who was head of corporate and structuring legal for almost five years at HSBC. Prior to that he was interim company secretary for 10 months, and associate […]
Latham & Watkins has lost another member of its Continental European transactional team, with a leveraged finance partner joining A&O Shearman in Paris. Michel Houdayer has made the move to A&O Shearman today (16 September). He was a Latham lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 and spent almost a decade in the partnership having […]
After 18 months of secrecy, speculation and extraordinary legal fees, the Premier League’s case against Manchester City over more than 100 alleged rule breaches is set to begin today. City, England’s most successful football club over the past decade, has denied any wrongdoing. There is an air of the Boris Berezovsky v Roman Abramovich trial […]
Forty-four of the UK’s top 100 law firms posted double-digit revenue growth in 2023/24, the highest number since before the great financial crisis. In 2007/08, 61 of the top 100 grew by double digits; that figure dropped to 15 the following year and nine the year after as the economy collapsed. Last year, nearly all […]
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