Pinsents, CC and HSF among big winners as new Legal 500 UK rankings are revealed

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Almost 1,200 law firms have secured spots in the new Legal 500 UK rankings, which have been revealed after months of research into the legal markets up and down the country. The rankings, which are based on extensive analysis of the legal markets across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have been put together based …

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Pinsents, CC and HSF among big winners as new Legal 500 UK rankings are revealed

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Pinsents, CC and HSF among big winners as new Legal 500 UK rankings are revealed

Almost 1,200 law firms have secured spots in the new Legal 500 UK rankings, which have been revealed today after months of research into the legal markets up and down the country. The rankings, which are based on extensive analysis of the legal markets across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, have been put together based …

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Elite: The rise of the in-house lawyer in private capital

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Elite: The rise of the in-house lawyer in private capital

‘The industry has changed massively. When we started, we were working with single product mid-cap PE shops, and these have now developed into mega solo funds, handling tens of billions of dollars. We’re now working with listed clients and multi-product funds that not only have a PE business, but a credit and an infrastructure business,’ …

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The Private Equity Elite: the top general counsel in PE

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The Private Equity Elite: the top general counsel in PE

What does it take to run the legal team in one of the most profitable deal shops in the world? After months of discussions with private equity and leveraged finance partners at the leading law firms in London as well as a host of in-house lawyers, Legal Business has come up with the definitive list …

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‘A PE firm is one of the most interesting places for an in-house lawyer’ – Cinven GC Babett Carrier

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‘A PE firm is one of the most interesting places for an in-house lawyer’ – Cinven GC Babett Carrier

Babett Carrier – General counsel, Cinven Shearman & Sterling, 1996-2012 Arma Partners, 2013-14 Cinven, 2015-present I come from a family of lawyers. My father was a lawyer, my uncle was a judge, so there was maybe some bias. What I like about the law is that it is very analytical and it rewards logic. You …

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‘You have a measurable impact on the success of the business’ – Lone Star legal chief Mark Coker

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‘You have a measurable impact on the success of the business’ – Lone Star legal chief Mark Coker

Mark Coker – Chief legal officer, Lone Star Year of qualification: 1990 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 1998-2008 Vinson & Elkins, 2008-15 Hudson Advisors, 2016-17 Lone Star Europe Acquisitions, 2018-present Why did you want to become a private equity lawyer? My career in private practice largely pre-dated the concept of being a private equity lawyer. My background …

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‘Private capital is a super creative industry’ – KKR Europe GC Susanna Berger

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‘Private capital is a super creative industry’ – KKR Europe GC Susanna Berger

Susanna Berger – Managing director, general counsel for Europe, KKR & Co Year of qualification: 2002 University of Chicago Law School, 1997-98 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, 2000-06 Avenue Capital Management, 2006-08 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 2008 KKR & Co, 2009-present I joined KKR 15 years ago. At that point the team consisted of about 40 …

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‘I liken myself to an octopus with many tentacles in different places’ – Apollo’s Seda Yalçinkaya

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‘I liken myself to an octopus with many tentacles in different places’ – Apollo’s Seda Yalçinkaya

Seda Yalçinkaya – Partner and GC – International, Apollo Global Management Year of qualification: 2009 Columbia Law School, 1995-98 Cravath, Swaine & Moore, 1998-2005 Citi, 2005-11 Silver Lake, 2011-19 Apollo Global Management, 2019-present I started my career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. It was a deliberate choice – I had thought I’d …

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‘My time on non-legal is the same as my time on legal’ – Bridgepoint GC Rachel Thompson

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‘My time on non-legal is the same as my time on legal’ – Bridgepoint GC Rachel Thompson

Rachel Thompson – Partner and group general counsel, Bridgepoint Year of qualification: 2007 Clifford Chance, 2005-09 Bridgepoint, 2010-present It was never really a conscious decision to go in-house; I came on secondment from Clifford Chance two years after qualification, when Bridgepoint had just hired [former Travers Smith private equity head] Charlie Barter as its first …

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