Real estate, transport and infrastructure
Significant hires
In its most significant hire since David Higgins’ move to Kirkland & Ellis in 2017, the US leader tapped Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer again by acquiring another of its private equity veterans, Adrian Maguire. The move for Kirkland further strengthens the firm’s ambitions to bulk up its European M&A practice, while for Freshfields the departure raises …
The Last Word: Opportunity knocks
The deal market tailed off at the end of 2018 after a generally resilient year. Here we ask the City’s leading corporate players for their prognosis on 2019 Powder dry ‘2018 started with a bang, but overall it was a tale of two halves. With competition for assets pushing valuations to eye-watering levels, investor fatigue …
Dealwatch: Pre-Christmas run of real estate and power deals for US and City players
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is advising entertainment and communications company ARRIS on its proposed $7.4bn acquisition by CommScope Holding Company. The HSF team is led by corporate partners Gavin Davies, Alex Kay and Caroline Rae. Pinsent Masons is acting for CommScope on the acquisition with corporate partners Rob Hutchings and Roberta Markovina leading. Alston & …
The Last Word: The clients’ view
Interviewed for our in-house lawyer survey, some leading general counsel give their views on ethics, law firm engagement and technology Great expectations ‘There’s no question that stakeholders and the population at large have higher expectations of ethical conduct by companies and that this is only going to increase. Some of that will manifest itself as …
Law tech special: Let there be light
LB’s autumn law tech special assesses the tools and the talent at the City’s largest law firms
Moves that matter
White & Case’s aggressive sweep on the City lateral market continued in October with the hire of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) infrastructure partner Simon Caridia. Caridia advises on both greenfield and brownfield transactions, and spent nearly a decade at Linklaters before joining HSF in 2015. It constitutes White & Case’s 13th lateral this year alone.
Legal 500 Data: The data behind the story
DWF Legal 500 rankings, 2017 DWF announced in June it was considering what would become the largest UK law firm initial public offering (IPO) yet. For further coverage of this, see ‘No free lunch’.
The Last Word: The hard path to enlightenment
As part of our autumn tech special, we asked partners, innovation heads and CIOs to give a pragmatic take on the state of law firm tech Just do it ‘In the next year or two, people will stop talking about AI and just use it. AI will just be embedded in the way firms work …
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Law firm tech: Tech trumps
Allen & Overy Most senior IT/tech professional: Andrew Brammer, IT and shared services director, reporting to managing partner Andrew Ballheimer Other senior tech personnel: Kevin Oliver, head of advanced delivery; Jonathan Brayne, partner and chair of Fuse; Richard Punt, chief executive of Peerpoint; Marc-Henri Chamay, chief executive of aosphere Size of tech team: 264 Main …