SLATER & GORDON SPENDS £637M ON QUINDELL’S PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DIVISION Australian law firm Slater & Gordon signed a £637m deal, plus a sum contingent on client settlements, for Quindell’s professional services division. The firm expects the purchase to boost its share of the £2.5bn UK personal injury market from 5% to 12%.
CC, LINKLATERS AND LATHAM & WATKINS WIN KEY ROLES ON PIRELLI TAKEOVER Advised by Clifford Chance (CC), China National Chemical Corporation bought tyre-maker Pirelli in a $7.7bn deal. The Chinese company acquired a 26.2% stake from Camfin, which was advised by Chiomenti, while Lombardi Molinari Segni handled financing aspects and Linklaters advised fellow investor Long …
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I fell into a career that suits me. I’ve done interesting things that kept me motivated and worked with intelligent, motivated people. I’ve never had a patch I didn’t enjoy. I was the second person from my South Wales school to go to Oxford or Cambridge. All of the law firms at the time were recruiting …
With the publication of our annual Global London report, leading figures at foreign firms in the City assess their performance and how the market is shaping up. Fair weather ‘In doing offshore, you become quite a good barometer. My sense is that people feel a lot more confident than two years ago – it’s still …
Gentium Law’s Matthew Parish discusses a quiet revolution. Switzerland is distinctive as a centre of international arbitration. It packs a punch well above its size. Although statistics about arbitration are by their nature confidential, anecdotal evidence indicates the diminutive country of a mere 7.5 million people is host to several hundreds of arbitrations per year. …
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Bär & Karrer’s Till Spillmann and Luca Jagmetti discuss its practical consequences. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruled in a recent decision that up-stream and cross-stream loans granted by Swiss companies must be entered into on arm’s-length terms. If not at arm’s length, the decision seems to suggest that such loans constitute de facto distributions …
Law firms have work to do to keep up with market shifts in the post-Lehman world. Here, leading legal industry figures chart the progress so far at a debate organised by Graham Gill. In December, recruitment consultants Graham Gill hosted the latest in its series of breakfast round tables, which bring together a roster of …
Menu It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’. Law firms beware RPC: The pace of change is frightening The A-Teams – In Pursuit of Excellence Energy Financial Services Insurance Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Retail and Consumer Products Technology, Media and Telecoms Transport, Infrastructure and Real Estate Rising Stars 2015 View from the market Stand-out teams
Menu It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’. Law firms beware RPC: The pace of change is frightening The A-Teams – In Pursuit of Excellence Energy Financial Services Insurance Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Retail and Consumer Products Technology, Media and Telecoms Transport, Infrastructure and Real Estate Rising Stars 2015 View from the market Stand-out teams
