Menu Global 100 Overview – Superman Returns Global 100 2014 – Main Table Global 100 Market Comment – Word from the World Global 100 Choice of Law – Clash of the Titans Global 100 2014 – Core Stats Global 100 Regional View – Emerging Powers Global 100 Arbitration Focus – Battle for the City Methodology
RPC is in talks with a potential breakaway group of Edwards Wildman Palmer City partners – made up of corporate partners Niall McAlister, Eero Rautalahti, Stuart Blythe, and insurance and reinsurance partner David Kendall – alongside California-headquartered Cooley and top-60 Global 100 US firm Foley & Lardner. The formerly five-strong splinter group is down to …
From cooling in Asia markets to a resurgence in Europe; from increased deal work to an uptick in banking litigation – Global 100 law firm leaders share their views A year in two halves ‘It’s been a year of two parts for quite a lot of our practices, with challenging economic conditions in the first …
Continue reading “Global 100 Market Comment – Word from the World”
Methodology and end notes The firms that appear in the 2014 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by revenue.
Roche UK managing counsel Funke Abimbola (pictured) has embraced diversity in both her widely varied in-house activity and in her equally challenging voluntary work. Recognised as a leading healthcare and life sciences lawyer, she received the 2012 Association of Women Solicitors’ in-house award and most recently saw her team shortlisted for the 2013 in-house team …
Continue reading “Careers counsel for aspiring lawyers: Roche’s Funke Abimbola”
The GC Power List Summer Reception was held on the evening of 11 June, with RPC as lead sponsor. The event comprised a relaxed debate chaired by veteran City columnist Anthony Hilton followed by an evening of food and drink at the renowned private members’ club at The Ivy. The debate included senior lawyers sharing …
Pinsent Masons senior partner Chris Mullen will next month face construction head challenger Richard Foley in the first contested elections at the top 20 firm since David Ryan was voted in as managing partner in 1998.
Big six energy giant SSE has set up an inaugural seven-strong law firm panel following an ‘extensive selection process’. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Addleshaw Goddard, CMS, Osborne Clarke, Gillespie Macandrew, Thorntons and Kennedys have been appointed to advise across various legal disciplines, including but not limited to construction, property, finance, litigation and corporate.
