Gender diversity: Allen & Overy faring better than rivals as it reveals 20% pay gap
Allen & Overy has become the latest magic circle firm to reveal the sizeable gulf between male and female employee…
Deal Watch: Kirkland and Eversheds lead as Toys R Us and Maplin collapse following bleak Xmas for retailers
Insolvency professionals have long been predicting a wave of trouble would hit the beleaguered UK high street and it has…
Freshfields and Davis Polk win roles as Comcast eyes Sky with ‘superior’ £22bn bid
Broadcasting giant Comcast has instructed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Davis Polk & Wardwell as it looks to trounce an existing…
Deal watch: US leaders nail key roles alongside Magic Circle on Amex, Standard Life and Fidessa plays
City heavyweights Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have been met by Wall Street rivals Cleary Gottlieb Steen &…
Women deal stars perspectives – Amy Mahon, Clifford Chance
‘Star culture dictates that 50-year-old men are seen as the real deal. To be a good deal-doer it’s not only…
LLP latest: Ashurst management pay drops 18% amid turnover recovery
Ashurst’s management took home £8m in 2016/17, 18% less than the previous year, according to the firm’s recently published LLP…
‘Incredibly strong’ – debt counsel gear up for another boom year in leveraged finance
Nathalie Tidman finds lawyers bemused by crazy pricing and a wall of debt ‘Short of Trump nuking North Korea, I…
Can Freshfields limit the damage as Kirkland tempts PE heavyweight with $10m transfer?
Nathalie Tidman assesses the fallout as M&A veteran quits an unsettled City giant Even for a market grown blithe to…
Alphas – the hunt for female deal stars (and why it’s hard to be a City woman)
‘You will have to go out and find the women – they won’t come to you,’ warns Travers Smith partner…
M&A/Corporate
Aedamar Comiskey and Jessamy Gallagher, Linklaters Linklaters’ head of corporate Aedamar Comiskey (pictured above) stands as one of the few…
Private equity
Claire McDaid, Willkie Farr & Gallagher While it is always difficult to untangle the platform from the individual, Willkie Farr…
Finance
Yen Sum, Sidley Austin Operating in some of the most fluid areas of finance, restructuring and funds specialist Yen Sum…
Mid-tier
Penelope Warne, CMS The gracious style of CMS UK senior partner Penelope Warne (pictured above) belies a practitioner with rock solid…
US firms continue City growth as White & Case and Cooley see double-digit revenue spike
White & Case’s City office posted revenue of $328m for 2017, a 13% increase on last year’s $290m figure, while…
Transatlantic crossing – BLP and Bryan Cave to complete merger vote in February
The partnerships of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and US law firm Bryan Cave are to vote on their transatlantic tie-up, with…
Gibson Dunn finance veteran Gillespie departs for investment business as GC
City finance veteran Stephen Gillespie has left Gibson Dunn & Crutcher after three years to join international investment business Letterone…
Deal Watch: Simpson, CC and NRF line up as business data firms generates big ticket double
As January draws to a close the deal market continues its robust run, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett leading the advisers…
LLP accounts: Freshfields management team takes home £19.1m amid overall profit uptick
The management team at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer took home £19.1m for the 2016/17 financial year, according to latest LLP accounts filed…
Irresistible forces – Within weeks of $10m Freshfields hire, Kirkland targets Cravath for M&A playmaker
Kirkland & Ellis continues to make waves on both sides of the Atlantic as the Chicago-bred juggernaut this week announced the…
Milbank continues City hiring spree with Shearman high yield guru Gkoutzinis as Vinson nabs Jones Day finance partner
High-yield specialist Apostolos Gkoutzinis is to join Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy from US rival Shearman & Sterling, a move…