Legal Business 100 overview: Your story
This year’s Legal Business 100 coincides with the most inauspicious of anniversaries after a year with the most inauspicious of…
Pinsents secures £1.3bn Carillion HS2 mandate
Pinsent Masons picked up the key advisory mandate as embattled British construction company Carillion was handed a lifeline this summer…
Clients back New Law model as LOD posts post-merger revenue surge
Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s (BLP) freelance spin-off Lawyers on Demand(LOD) has posted 15% turnover growth in its first full-year results since it merged…
Pinsents picks up key mandate on Carillion’s £1.3bn HS2 contracts
Pinsent Masons has picked up the key advisory mandate as embattled British construction company Carillion was handed a lifeline last month…
‘Careful and diligent’: Reed Smith re-appoints global managing partner Thomas in uncontested election
Reed Smith has re-elected its global managing partner Alexander ‘Sandy’ Thomas for another three-year term following an uncontested election. The partnership…
Global cartel fines drop substantially in first half of 2017 but market collusion and sanctions remain ‘cyclical’
Global cartel fines have decreased significantly in the first half of 2017 with worldwide fines totalling $1.2bn, on track to…
Latham swoops on Quinn Emanuel for high-profile financial regulatory hire Berman
Latham & Watkins has appointed head of financial services and regulatory David Berman from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London office, returning…
KWM Germany plans to double Chinese-German deals capability by mid-2018 in focus shift
Asia-headquartered firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has made a strategic commitment to its German practice with the hire of two new partners in…
China buys: Mayer Brown and BLP land key roles on £1.3bn Walkie Talkie sale in record property deal
Mayer Brown, Berwin Leighton Paisner(BLP) and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang all advised on the £1.3bn purchase by Hong Kong investors LKK Health…
Slaughter and May leads as Freshfields and Paul Weiss take key roles on £900m Michael Kors buyout of Jimmy Choo
Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom are all advising on Michael Kors’ £900m…
Revolving doors: Hogan Lovells and Gibson Dunn expand on continent, McGuireWoods appoint to London, Winston to Dubai
Firms have strengthened their global practices, as Hogan Lovells appointed a key Paris partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher recruited in Munich, McGuireWoods…
Linklaters strengthens German private equity arm with former Clifford Chance heavyweight
Former Clifford Chance(CC) Germany private equity (PE) head, Christopher Kellett, who retired from the firm’s partnership in April, is understood to be joining…
‘Firing on all cylinders’: Freshfields appoints Paul Weiss lawyer to head US IP team
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringerhas appointed Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisonlawyer Menachem Kaplan (pictured) as its first partner to head up the…
Charles Russell unveils 8% PEP rise amid modest revenue growth in year of consolidation
Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) has revealed 3% revenue growth for the 2016/17 financial year, alongside an 8% jump in profit per…
20% hike at Vinson pushes associate starting pay to £120k as US leaders heat up City talent market
Vinson & Elkins(V&E) has increased its London associate and trainee solicitor salary levels, boosting newly qualified salaries 20% to £120,000 and first-year…
‘GCs are becoming much more discerning’: CPS special crime head Vamos to join Peters & Peters
Disputes and business crime boutique Peters & Peters has today (19 July) announced that the former head of special crime at the…
‘Work in an agile way’: Ince & Co revenues rebound with 16% growth after three-year decline
Ince & Co’s revenue has grown 16% to £88.5m this year, signalling recovery from a three-year decline, in what Ince’s…
‘Acted recklessly’: White & Case fined record sum by SDT for conflict of interest breach
White & Case has been fined £250,000 in the largest-ever sanction imposed by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) against a firm,…
Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott to head up 39 Essex Chambers later this year
Long-serving Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott (pictured) is to join 39 Essex Chambers as its new chief executive officer, later…
Lawyers On Demand set to break into the Middle East with Dubai launch
Lawyers On Demand (LOD), Berwin Leighton Paisner’s(BLP) freelance lawyers spin-off, is due to launch in the Middle East with a new…