Having appointed DLA Piper as principal legal adviser this month (January) in a bid to cut down on external spend, Heineken UK’s head of legal Graeme Colquhoun (pictured) and DLA Piper IP/IT partner John McKinlay talk to Sarah Downey to discuss the perks of having a one-stop-shop and its possible extension.
Clifford Chance (CC) managing partner Matthew Layton has laid out the firm’s international strategy, aiming at becoming the ‘global law firm of choice for the world’s leading businesses’; a vision that includes introducing fresh key performance indicators, making new leadership appointments, and increasing US and Asia revenues to approximately 20% and 25% respectively over five …
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has today (19 January) announced it has closed its high profile investigation into the $11bn sale of British software firm Autonomy to US computer giant Hewlett-Packard in 2011 due to lack of evidence, a move that brings some closure for Autonomy founder and Clifford Chance client Mike Lynch.
In keeping with its continued expansion in Asia, Hogan Lovells has today (16 January) announced the hire of Gide Loyrette Nouel‘s Vietnam head, Samantha Campbell, to its Southeast Asia practice where she will lead the firm’s offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Reducing legal spend is an arduous task for many in-house counsel that face increasing pressure to manage cost efficiency. But, in a demonstration of the increasing cost pressures facing firms, such a feat has been substantially achieved by the UK arm of telecoms giant Telefonica which has reduced its external legal spend by 66% since …
Hogan Lovells’ former co-head of international arbitration, Simon Nesbitt, is set to depart the firm and join the Bar, a move which coincides with the firm’s decision to streamline the dual management structure of the practice and continue with a single head.
The appointment of 93 new Queen’s Counsel (QC) has been announced this morning (14 January), with the number of females awarded silk increasing by 39%. The Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel, however, has expressed concern that the number of female applicants ‘remains stubbornly low’.
Hogan Lovells has begun piloting a new leadership programme for experienced partners with Oxford Said Business School, an initiative which the transatlantic firm says will enable partners to build a unified approach to leading the firm and ‘become roles models and distributors of a strong, shared culture.’
After much speculation and a lengthy review, the UK arm of global beer and cider producer Heineken has announced the appointment of DLA Piper as its principal legal adviser for a major proportion of work, a move which the company has made in a bid to cut down on external legal spend.
Constituting the first technology IPO of the year, Travers Smith and Herbert Smith Freehills have both landed key roles advising Britain’s largest online rail booking company thetrainline.com as it prepares to float on the London Stock Exchange later this year.
