The most upwardly mobile member of the international elite has handed its leadership to a ‘global hawk’. Can anything halt the rise of Latham & Watkins? At the end of a lengthy call mulling the prospects of Latham & Watkins amid a once-in-a-generation change of leadership, one Allen & Overy partner summarises: ‘They’re still doing …
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Further New York growth and Washington DC offering on the cards Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is accelerating its US development plans, launching consultations to explore a US merger and office openings outside of New York. The performance of HSF’s New York office has exceeded early expectations after landing a number of large white-collar investigations and …
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Firm prepares for association in Egypt with energy focus US law firm Shearman & Sterling is preparing to open an office in Egypt, marking the firm’s first foray into Africa with plans for an international arbitration and projects practice. Shearman, which has a five-partner office in Abu Dhabi handling project finance and arbitration work, and …
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The five solicitors to take Queen’s Counsel in the latest round of appointments had one thing in common: they were all arbitration specialists. While the number of solicitors taking silk remains low, the latest round, announced in January, saw the highest percentage of applicants from law firms, with 4% of the 223 applications coming from …
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With no single UK law firm having made a significant impact on the US market, it was no surprise that the Magic Circle surrendered more ground to their US peers in the annual M&A league tables for 2014, given the deal splurge US corporates have been on. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Allen & Overy (A&O) …
Dublin-headquartered Shire, took to the January sales with the $1.5bn it received in a break-fee from US pharma giant AbbVie following the collapse of their proposed $55bn tie-up late last year, securing the acquisition of biotech firm NPS Pharma. The company returned to Slaughter and May, which drafted the AbbVie break-fee due to the political …
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Lisa Mayhew, Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP’s) head of employment, pensions and incentives, has beaten the firm’s corporate chief David Collins to become the firm’s next managing partner.
Filling in a major hole in King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) Asian network, the firm is set to open an office in Singapore, Asia’s largest trading centre for both foreign exchange and commodities.
The influx of Western law firms in South Korea continued today (2 February) after local authorities rubber stamped Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s launch in Seoul.
Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith Freehills and US firm Reed Smith have helped to quash the nervousness among trainee lawyers across the City, with each keeping over 90% of their recently qualified trainee intakes.
