Leading Wall Street firms have begun announcing their 2016 year-end associate bonuses with Cravath, Swaine & Moore leading the way again on rewards with other Manhattan firms following suit.
Rising restructuring star Yen Sum will exit Linklaters‘ banking practice to join US firm Sidley Austin after eight years with the Magic Circle firm.
The UK is to ratify the Europe-wide Unified Patent Court (UPC) agreement and set up a court in London despite fears Brexit would halt negotiations.
National firm DWF has secured a merger in Northern Ireland with Belfast firm C&H Jefferson as the 20-partner firm prepares to join on 1 December.
After a management shake-up at its IT consultancy arm, Bird & Bird has shelved its intellectual property and trademarks spin-off, just two years after launch and after almost 50% the partnership put capital into the business.
The Home Affairs Select Committee has pressed the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to make finding a new lead counsel its ‘priority’.
Dechert has picked up work from key White & Case client Mid Europa Partners, as new partners Ross Allardice and John Markland took roles on the private equity house’s €533m acquisition of supermarket Profi Rom Food.
In Scotland’s biggest corporate deal this year, Pinsent Masons, Travers Smith and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom all won roles acting on the sale of Skyscanner for £1.4bn.
After a slow spell for the initial public offering (IPO) market, Norton Rose Fulbright and Stephenson Harwood have picked up mandates on Civitas Social Housing’s float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Nabarro has increased its Middle East fee income to around AED 7m (£1.65m) for 2015/16 in the firm’s loss-making Dubai office.
