It’s been an active start to the week for restructuring lateral moves in the City, as Sidley co-heads Mark Knight and Jifree Cader have joined Davis Polk, and Adam Plainer, co-chair of Dechert’s global restructuring group, has moved to DLA Piper.
‘There’s a bunch of defensive mechanisms firms are using to shore up their stars – they could be lost to Paul Weiss or some other big firm if they don’t do something,’ says one US partner of the fierce war for talent at the very top of the legal market.
McDermott Will & Emery has followed Davis Polk’s lead, raising its London trainee pay to match the highest market rates.
In my second year studying law at university, I fell in love twice. Not only did I meet my future husband, but I also did a vacation scheme at pre-merger Lovells and realised I had also found my career soulmate. Last year was quite special, as I celebrated my 30th anniversary at Hogan Lovells and …
McDermott Will & Emery has announced today (28 October) that Jason Zemmel (pictured) has joined the firm’s transactions group as a partner.
Baker McKenzie won Finance Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards for representing project manager Oceans Finance Company in structuring and implementing the government of Ecuador’s $1.6bn debt-for-nature swap and providing $300m for the Galápagos Islands – the largest marine conservation debt conversion to date. LB spoke with partners Matthew Cox and James Tanner (pictured, …
For years, while rivals like Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden and Latham & Watkins disrupted the London legal market, Paul Weiss had bucked the global trend, practising only US law from small offices outside of its domestic heartlands. Its much-lauded English law launch last year marked a dramatic u-turn, with the firm following up with a …
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Sidley Austin has bolstered its London office by hiring high-yield partners Scott Colwell and Patrick Kwak from Latham & Watkins.
More than 20 of Latham & Watkins’ equity partners have made it into the elite firm’s ‘super points’ band, which is intended to better reward star performers by allowing them to earn nearly double the profit share of those at the top of the firm’s core lockstep. Legal Business has learned that 22 Latham partners …
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Leading the latest moves, Paul Weiss hired Kirkland financial regulatory partner Prem Mohan as head of European financial services regulation in London.
