Sailing for Boston – Freshfields’ managing partner quits to join US buyout house
One of the most respected law firm leaders in the City has called it a day ahead of time with…
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Close to the wire: Freshfields and Herbert Smith settle £142m London Underground negligence claim
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills have reached an eleventh hour settlement of the £142m professional negligence claim brought…
Barclays £5.8bn rights issue sees Clifford Chance, Sullivan & Cromwell and Freshfields in the lead
Barclays has begun the biggest capital raising by a UK bank since 2009 under which Clifford Chance (CC), Sullivan & Cromwell and Freshfields…
First limb of Lloyds privatisation sees Slaughters and Freshfields win lead roles
Five years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won the leading roles on…
Line up, line up: Twitter, Royal Mail and Foxtons go to market
After a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) earlier in the year, with Esure, Countrywide and Partnership Assurance among the…
LB100 – The top 25: The age of turbulence
It’s been a bumpy ride for many of the UK’s largest firms, fighting battered profits with consolidation and increased global…
Life during law: Mark Rawlinson
I was in the first ever gender-mixed year at my college in 1976. I got on very well with one…
Private equity: CVC gifts Clifford Chance and Cleary Gottlieb with two major European mandates
Followers of the tussle between UK and US private equity practices for European mandates were this week rewarded with an…
Deal Watch: Dentons & King & Spalding act on HR Owen hostile takeover bid as Freshfields and Skadden secure Asian M&A roles
While the traditional August lull in corporate work may have seen Asia relax, the giant is far from asleep and…
Freshfields and Linklaters take the lead on Schneider Electric’s £3.3bn Invensys bid
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed the leading roles on a takeover bid by France’s Schneider Electric for UK…
India calling: Freshfields and Linklaters make key India hires as Amarchand opens up its partnership
The periodic excitement over the liberalisation of the Indian legal market may currently be reduced to background chatter but the…
Clifford Chance underperforms Magic Circle with 9% drop in PEP
Clifford Chance (CC) has underperformed its Magic Circle rivals in its 2012/13 results as the firm today announced a 2.5% decline…
Reporting season floodgates open as four major City firms reveal 2012/13 revenues
Reporting season has opened in earnest in the City as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer today (5 July) reveals it has bucked…
Financial results round-up: Freshfields tops UK elite firms
Magic Circle firm shines with 7% revenue spike in flat market Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has led the Magic Circle for…
Corporate: Alibaba and Kabel Deutschland deals land roles for Freshfields, Linklaters and Hengeler Mueller
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have landed two major corporate mandates advising Alibaba on what Reuters describes as ‘the most…
Magic Circle unveils new pay levels
Four of the five Magic Circle firms have now revealed their decisions on newly qualified (NQ) and trainee salaries, with…
Cinven gifts Freshfields with IPO while HSF defends Severn Trent
A handful of major corporate mandates were unveiled last month as private equity house Cinven kicked off its £1.4bn proposed…
Corporate stirrings: Cinven gifts Freshfields with IPO while HSF defends Severn Trent
A handful of major corporate mandates were unveiled this week as private equity house Cinven kicked off its £1.4bn proposed…
Comment: Things I would have said about the future of law if I hadn’t forgotten my notes
I was recently asked to speak on a panel debate for Georgetown Law at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s City office to…
It’s your profession – accept it, change it but be honest
There are plenty of editors who live on the conference circuit but I’ve never been one of them. Still, I…