What goes up: Linklaters to vote next month on new partner pay model
Moore pulls together proposals for flexible model as lockstep set to evolve With Magic Circle rivals Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus…
‘Good financial prudence’: Dentons’ European arm makes cash call
Partners asked for between €6m and €7m to cut debt. The European arm of Dentons has made a capital call…
Everything must go – the London arbitration price war
There is a price war raging in the London arbitration market that has led law firm leaders to question their…
The LB100: The top 25 – In a spin
Previously outpaced by US rivals and the UK mid-tier, some optimism has been restored by the global elite in London.…
Linklaters PE team scores first-time instruction from BC Partners
Linklaters landed its first mandate from private equity (PE) house BC Partners at the end of July, with PE partners…
Dentons European partners to stump up €7m for capital injection
The European arm of Dentons has made a capital call to raise an additional €6m to €7m in a move…
Akin Gump and Proskauer pick apart Dentons’ City private equity team
Two leaders in Dentons‘ private equity practice in the City have quit the firm, with Igor Krivoshekov departing for Akin…
Reassuringly expensive: Freshfields and Linklaters take biggest gulp from $260m legal fees on AB InBev deal
City lawyers have taken a handsome share of the $1.94bn in advisory fees generated by Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) $108bn…
Baker & McKenzie lifer Chadwick to take City reins as Rawlinson steps up to chair
With Paul Rawlinson vacating the London managing partner post at Baker & McKenzie in October after winning the race to…
In-house energy switch: senior BG Group lawyer Thomas Smith moves to Centrica
With BG Group having been taken over by Shell for £35bn in February, BG’s deputy general counsel Thomas Smith has…
Upping the ante: Latham appoints former A&O leadership contender Kensell
Latham & Watkins‘ unrelenting assault on the City market has seen the US firm land one of London’s most high-profile…
Whiteford becomes the latest to quit KWM after sealing move to Covington
Competition litigator Elaine Whiteford has become the second London partner to quit King & Wood Mallesons‘ European practice for Covington &…
Slaughters, Freshfields and MoFo chip in on £24.3bn ARM takeover
Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Morrison & Foerster have scored roles on Japanese telecoms…
Latham ignores Brexit fears and continues City investment charge with Ashurst’s Baskerville
Just two weeks after taking Ashurst’s global co-head of financial regulation, Latham & Watkins has returned to the struggling City…
The profession takes stock as Brexit vote sends UK crashing out of EU… and into years of uncertainty
Tom Moore and Matthew Field size up the immediate impact of the vote on City lawyers It was the result…
Global 100: Branded – Inside the troubled takeover of SJ Berwin
Since merging with King & Wood Mallesons, legacy SJ Berwin has lurched from one disaster to the next. Can the…
The Brexit effect: BLP becomes the first City firm to freeze pay post EU referendum
City firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has become the first law firm to freeze pay for UK staff following the…
In reverse: BLP the latest UK firm to report falling revenue as turnover drops 2% to £254m
After something of a revival in 2014/15, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) went into reverse last year as revenue dropped 2%…
Another one bites the dust: KWM’s former European head of finance leaves for Cadwalader
The partner exits at King & Wood Mallesons‘ (KWM) City office keep coming, with former Europe head of finance, Jeremy…
Financials 2015/16: Revenue reaches record high at pensions boutique Sacker & Partners
Turnover at UK boutique Sacker & Partners rose 13% to £26.8m last year as big corporates sought to restructure their…