Hogan Lovells has opted against moving its London headquarters, preferring to stay in its long-term home of Atlantic House instead. However, the firm is persisting in its search for new space for its offices at 21 Holborn Viaduct and Meridian House.
In a busy week for London appointments, Haynes and Boone, Simmons & Simmons and Jenner & Block have all made hires.
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has elected shipping finance partner Nigel Thomas as the firm’s new chairman, taking over from long-serving partner Frank Dunne.
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has renewed its panel of legal advisers, with Bevan Brittan, Dentons and Jones Day among those being axed.
Macfarlanes, Reed Smith and Travers Smith have all advised on Xafinity’s £190.3m flotation, in what is the largest premium main market IPO of 2017 to date.
Fortunes at the Bar remain sharply split between haves and have-nots, with new research projecting just over 2,000 barristers now earning less than £30,000 annually, while at the other end of the spectrum, 2,562 are on course to earn over £240,000 during the current financial year.
US restructuring and energy leader Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld piled $50m on to its top line in 2016 to take revenues to just under $1bn, despite a slide in City income.
Homebase has hired its first legal head, as Clyde & Co, Dentons and Pinsent Masons all make international appointments.
The High Court has ruled that Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) will now have its multimillion-pound bills from Dechert assessed after the mining company had claimed it had been overcharged.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is suing eight partners who quit to join White & Case, filing a lawsuit at the Supreme Court of New South Wales last week.
