Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has promoted just two City lawyers to partner in a 39-strong promotions round that focused heavily on its US offering while CMS Cameron McKenna saw 12 make it to partner.
Fountain Court Chambers has bolstered its bench of finance silks after attracting banking heavyweight Richard Lissack QC (pictured) from Outer Temple Chambers. Set to join the elite commercial and chancery set on Tuesday (3 May), Lissack is one of London’s most established finance silks. Called to the Bar in 1978 and taking silk in 1994, …
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With promotions season in full swing, Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) and City law firm RPC are the latest to announce their numbers, with HFW electing nine new partners to ‘drive international expansion’.
As the UK bank reporting season gets into full swing, a new study says the era of fines, compensation and other legal expenses on the banking industry could be drawing to a close.
Irwin Mitchell has increased diversity within its partnership in this year’s promotion round, with six females making the cut out of 13 total appointments.
Despite warnings of poor morale at the judiciary coupled with flailing levels of recruitment, the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) has rejected a higher pay rise for more senior judges, saying any differential would be ‘divisive’ and de-motivate other judges.
Latham & Watkins and Weil, Gotshal & Manges landed leading roles on the sale of a majority stake in Germany’s largest sports betting operator Tipico Group to CVC Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Merlin Entertainments, owner of attractions including Alton Towers, Legoland and Madame Tussauds, has appointed a new general counsel as the listed company admits liability over a rollercoaster crash which left 16 injured.
I’m of an age where I form part of a group of lawyers who elected to pursue careers in-house from the outside. I had failed to complete a chemical engineering course so I had a very clear purpose in studying law: I wanted to work in-house. I identified a couple of industries I thought should …
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Ranked as seasoned players on the most lucrative cases, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have landed key instructions on a $1.38bn bilateral treaty arbitration taken against Venezuela by Canadian miner Crystallex International at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
