Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech platform launched by Dentons last year, has invested in two legal startups, alongside venture funding company Seedcamp.
High-profile City arbitrator Juliet Blanch is set to leave Weil, Gotshal & Manges, while UK hires this week have come for Ince & Co and DAC Beachcroft, and Taylor Wessing strengthened its European tax offering with a double hire.
Hogan Lovells has become the third international law firm to enter the Shanghai Free Trade Zone through an association with local firm Fidelity Law.
Winston & Strawn has hired Middle East M&A heavyweight Campbell Steedman from White & Case to head up the firm’s practice in the region.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised the BBC ahead of an investigation into the employment status and tax avoidance claims against 100 current and former employees.
Julia Chain (pictured) talks to Matthew Field on her in-house career, setting up RPC’s general counsel (GC) consulting practice and dealing with Richard Branson.
Pinsent Masons and Linklaters are advising on Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ sale of UK and Ireland business Activas Generics for £603m as the Israeli firm seeks to divest assets following last year’s takeover of Allergan.
Dentons has officially launched its free to use Nextlaw Global Referral Network signing up 283 member firms and around 18,600 lawyers. A total of 13 UK firms have signed up, with the major UK firms being Scottish firms Shepherd and Wedderburn and MacRoberts.
Longstanding leader Crossley set to retire at year end Frontrunners have emerged in the contest to become the new Europe and Middle East managing partner at Squire Patton Boggs, after longstanding leader Peter Crossley confirmed his retirement in September. Two senior partners have been touted internally and externally as favourites for the role: London managing partner Robert …
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Matthew Field reports on the latest from Global 100 players in legal tech Long regarded as the most conservative of City law’s elite players, Slaughter and May has entered the artificial intelligence (AI) game with new intelligent M&A software Luminance.
