Legal Business catches up with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom disputes veteran Rory McAlpine (pictured) to discuss the Hong Kong legal market and the cases he has advised on throughout his career.
Olswang has seen a 11% drop in its turnover for the financial year 2015/16 with revenues tumbling by £14.2m to £112.5m, while firm’s profits per equity partner (PEP) remained steady at £490,000.
Allen & Overy (A&O) has made its fifth major lateral hire this month, taking on Simmons & Simmons head of IP Marc Döring in a boost to its patent litigation offering.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed real estate finance partner Simon Johnson as its new global head of finance following a ‘recalibration’ of its finance team.
Following his appointment as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer‘s first regional managing partner for the ‘rest of continental Europe’ – for offices excluding Germany, Austria and central and eastern Europe – Paris-based corporate partner Alan Mason (pictured) speaks with Madeleine Farman about his plans to shape the role.
A handful of US elite firms including Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz have taken roles in the much speculated sale of Yahoo! to Verizon.
CMS Cameron McKenna and Olswang could combine to create a £880m firm as it’s understood the LB100 firms have entered into merger talks.
Reed Smith has entered into a formal alliance with Singaporean firm Resource Law giving the firm the capability to practice Singapore law for the first time.
Ashurst has seen yet another partner exit with Reed Smith hiring restructuring partner Diane Roberts into its London office.
More than half of GCs face budget cuts and almost a quarter have cut their in-house team internal headcount, a new survey has found.
