Stephenson Harwood has received formal approval to work with Singapore firm Virtus Law from the local Attorney General’s Chambers. Under the Formal Law Alliance (FLA), the firms will work more closely together to undertake work requiring both English and Singapore law expertise.
Two senior litigators from Allen & Overy (A&O) face the possibility of an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following allegations of misconduct during a high profile fraud case.
German independent Noerr has posted a record turnover of €190.8m for 2013. The Munich-headquartered firm’s revenue grew by 12.3% from €170m in 2012, although turnover in its Central and Eastern European offices fell by around 3% to €26.3m, the firm said today (26 March).
Only shortly in the wake of the announcement that Hogan Lovells is to launch a low-cost nearshoring venture in Birmingham, Trowers & Hamlins has said it is to build up its existing Birmingham base with the relocation of three public sector City lawyers.
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has brought in a former chief executive of Cheshire and Kent County Councils, Sir Michael Pitt to succeed David Edmonds CBE as chairman when his second term expires on 30 April 2014.
While talks of the giant south-east combination between Blake Lapthorn, Boyes Turner and Morgan Cole to create a £100m firm fell through late last year with Boyes Turner withdrawing, Blake Lapthorn and Morgan Cole have announced the two will merge on 1 July to form Blake Morgan, a 120-partner firm with a joint revenue of £72m.
With the impact of the latest cuts to legal aid yet to bite, the number of practising solicitors in the UK in 2014 was revised down by 3,189 between January and February 2014, according to the latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
He may have only replaced Mark Harding late last year but Barclays‘ recently appointed group general counsel Bob Hoyt has been awarded more than £700,000 in shares just four months into the role.
With Stephenson Harwood’s chief executive Sharon White this month reappointed for a further three-year term, the high profile transactional lawyer has relinquished her dual role as head of corporate to Andrew Edge, who concedes that ‘it is a good time to take over’, with the department’s revenues up by 17% in the first half of the …
Disputes partner Christian Borris is leaving Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer‘s Cologne office at the end of April to set up a local arbitration boutique. His former two associates, Rudolph Hennecke who left the firm a month ago, and Sebastian Kneisel who relocated from its Cologne office to Frankfurt last year, will be joining Borris as partners …
