The Global 100 debate – Will stars or institutions define the law’s elite?
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: Ten years ahead, what will a global elite firm look like? Charlie Jacobs, Linklaters: I don’t…
Magic Circle
A decade since Lehman the profession still mired in the New Normal
Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…
Comment: A decade since Lehman the profession still mired in the New Normal
Within days of this issue hitting desks, it will be ten years since Lehman Brothers’ collapse marked what swiftly became…
Deal watch: Magic Circle scoops £300m Funding Circle IPO as Linklaters advises on £2bn wind farm financing
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have scored lead mandates on the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of small business lender Funding…
‘Strong pipeline’: pay bump for A&O trainees and associates amid 80% retention rate
Allen & Overy has become the latest Magic Circle firm to announce pay increases for its trainees and newly qualified…
All restless souls – City firms braced as partnership goes Millennial
‘It was so long ago,’ reflects Malcolm Sweeting, Clifford Chance’s (CC) senior partner, of his promotion to partner in 1990.…
Crunching the data – Trends and tribulations
The Partnership Scoreboard – Trends and tribulations As part of our analysis of the modern realities of partnership, Legal Business…
Partnership Perspectives
‘The Dickensian management role of closed doors is a thing of the past.’ Jonathan Kewley, partner and co-head of Clifford…
Magic Circle partner promotions: numbers fall but gender diversity improves
Marco Cillario assesses the latest rounds at London’s big five The overall number of partner promotions at Magic Circle firms…
An ill wind… The LB100 leadership debate
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: How is the market generally? Lee Ranson, Eversheds Sutherland: Most of the managing partners around this…
‘It’s a promotion problem’: what the gender pay gap figures tell us so far
Marco Cillario rounds up the latest stats as the April deadline looms And so it begins. The first gender pay…
Dealwatch: the Magic Circle players kicking off 2018
Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters advised as media company Informa entered talks to acquire events organiser UBM. Corporate partners Katherine…
Deal Watch: Simpson, CC and NRF line up as business data firms generates big ticket double
As January draws to a close the deal market continues its robust run, with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett leading the advisers…
The Departed
Why would a partner quit an elite London law firm with decades of history, Rolls-Royce support and a superb client…
Autumn dealwatch: Euro mega deals keep Magic Circle busy
Freshfields and K&E act on Monarch administration Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s restructuring chief Ken Baird and finance partner Catherine Balmond led…
As the City elite gets coy on associate salaries, US rivals are winning the battle for young talent
Madeleine Farman assesses the impact of another round of pay rises on the City market As US firms continue to…
‘Knowhow and track record’: Magic Circle dominates new panel as seven firms dropped in government legal services revamp
Magic Circle firms constitute four of the nine advisers appointed to the government’s new finance and complex legal services panel…
Freshfields freezes associate pay bands after 2016 largesse but battle for top juniors to intensify
Amid a simmering market for junior City lawyers, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has opted to hold the line on associate salaries following a…
The Global 100: The European question – Have years of cuts left the Magic Circle exposed as Brexit looms?
London’s top firms have been quietly retrenching for years in mainland Europe. As Brexit looms, where has that left…
City’s big four rides churning forex markets as A&O leads the Magic Circle on results
Double-digit fee growth for A&O, Links and CC but Freshfields stalls Dramatic swings in foreign currencies against Brexit-battered sterling have…