Linklaters has pushed through with its long awaited plans to spin off part of its Shanghai office in order to practice local law under new Shanghai Free-Trade Zone (FTZ) rules.
White & Case has continued to strengthen its capital markets capability bringing on London based Ropes & Gray partner Chris McGarry.
Allen & Overy (A&O) has made up 10 partners in London with banking, international capital markets and corporate each seeing three promotions in the City in an increased global round of 24.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) joint-head of bribery and corruption Ben Morgan to its corporate crime and global investigations practice.
Details behind one of the largest penalties awarded against a law firm by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) have been released after Clyde & Co received a fine of £50,000, while three partners also were also fined £10,000 for breaching accounting and money laundering rules.
In a rare lateral move for the US firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is to appoint Simpson Thacher & Bartlett corporate partner Alvaro Membrillera.
While other Legal Business 100 firms such as Slaughter and May and Simmons & Simmons are giving free legal advice to win over fintech clients, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer associates have been given the opportunity to pitch and win client relationships as part of a growing bid to win new clients in this area.
While other Legal Business 100 firms such as Slaughter and May and Simmons & Simmons are giving free legal advice to win over fintech clients, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer associates have been given the opportunity to pitch and win client relationships as part of a growing bid to win new clients in this area. Around 25 …
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Allen & Overy (A&O)’s management is bullish about the Magic Circle firm’s US expansion plans, having broken lockstep twice in 12 months to bring in two finance teams from major US firms. In February it emerged A&O used its bonus pool to hire a three-partner Paul Hastings team. The US firm’s leveraged finance head Bill …
Magic Circle firm acts alongside Slaughters and Maclays With the asset management market tipped for further consolidation, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer scored a role alongside Slaughter and May and Maclay Murray & Spens on Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management’s £11bn merger in March.
