Market report: Iberia – Out of the storm
Dominant in their home markets, law firms from Spain and Portugal have weathered the tempest by heading for far-flung locations…
Thames Water invites tenders for £48m provision with new regulatory and disputes panel
Thames Water has opened to tender its legal services provision worth £48m in total, inviting pitches from up to 10 firms for…
Fieldfisher grows finance practice with hire of K&L Gates’ Moller
Fieldfisher has appointed Stephen Moller as a partner from K&L Gates, further bolstering the firm’s finance team after its April…
‘Fundamentally different’: MasterCard and Visa to face new £300m UK retailers’ interchange fee claims
Humphries Kerstetter has launched a series of new £300m competition damages claims against MasterCard and Visa, on behalf of a…
CAT rules Law Society abused its dominant position in conveyancing training market
The Law Society of England and Wales abused its dominant position in the market for the provision of quality certifications…
‘Hugely complicated’: Watson Farley, White & Case, A&O line up on $14bn shipping deal
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised a group of 29 international and local banks who were acting as financiers…
Capsticks wins out as SRA ditches panels for sole adviser mandate
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has named Capsticks as its sole provider for disciplinary and litigation work, opting to abandon…
US employment firm Littler goes big with London takeover
US employment powerhouse Littler Mendelson has announced it is launching in the UK, through a merger with London-based boutique GQ…
Major LIA mandate for Enyo ends as SocGen settlement reached
The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) represented by Enyo Law, has settled its longstanding dispute against Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) client…
Knights posts 64% revenue growth to move into the LB100
Alternative Business Structure (ABS) Knights has recorded 64% growth in turnover in the last year to achieve £33.5m in revenue.
CMS network promotes 48 to partner, with Nabarro and Olswang making up two each
Ahead of the triple merger on 1 May, the CMS global network including Nabarro and Olswang have announced their partner…
Q&A: Signature Litigation’s Graham Huntley on potential mergers and the need for litigators to behave
In the middle of a monumental class action against RBS representing around 25,000 claimants, Signature Litigation founding partner Graham Huntley…
Law Society lines up Clifford Chance’s Davis to take over as president
Clifford Chance commercial litigation partner Simon Davis has been elected as the Law Society’s deputy vice president.
National firms lead pack as Capita completes legal panel review
Professional services company Capita has finalised its commercial legal panel, with a raft of firms making it onto a 21-strong…
Partner promotions: Drastically reduced round for Addleshaws as Burges Salmon makes up trio
Addleshaw Goddard and Burges Salmon have announced their latest partner promotions, with Addleshaws seeing a sharp drop in the number…
‘Implications across the board’: Supreme Court clarifies professional negligence rules in landmark BPE Solicitors case
City partners have reacted positively to a Supreme Court ruling which found a firm was not responsible for the entire…
‘It could still fall apart’: Freshfields client Tesco takes DPA after two year SFO investigation
Tesco has agreed to pay the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) £129m in fines relating to a 2014 profit misstatement, avoiding…
‘What we really needed’: Enyo Law launches tax and insolvency practices with Deloitte and Olswang hires
Litigation specialist Enyo Law has announced the creation of tax and insolvency practices, following the hires of Fiona Walkinshaw and…
Called off: Stewarts Law deal to acquire Enyo scrapped
A deal for Stewarts Law to merge with boutique Enyo Law to create an £80m disputes specialist has been called…
Hunting El Dorado – Iberian firms keep their eyes on prizes at home and abroad
A year ago, Spanish leader Garrigues unveiled its fifth office in Latin America, adding Chilean firm Avendaño Merino to its…