In-house counsel have revealed the firms they most like to work with. Top of their list? Firms that have listened to their needs and come back with refined or remodelled service delivery models. Here’s their wishlist.
The client has spoken. Earlier this year we surveyed 200 corporates about their preferences in terms of legal advisers. It was part of our annual Business Leadership Report that examines not the ‘what’ in legal services, but the ‘how’: how firms deliver all the advice that clients need.
When Ross Allardice featured in 2008’s Hot 100, he was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis. Seven years on and he is one of four partners in White & Case’s London office who are helping to build up the firm’s private equity practice.
The Financial List should present an opportunity for London to build on its reputation as a pre-eminent global centre for the resolution of large financial disputes.
Move of the week Olswang ’s former head of corporate Fabrizio Carpanini is joining Dorsey & Whitney as a partner in London. Carpanini will lead Dorsey’s European private equity practice, working closely with the firm’s North American and Asian-based private equity group. He joined Olswang in 2000 and was formerly a partner at Berwin Leighton […]
As an enabler of agile working and a cost-cutting tool, electronic document management has been a success, but many lawyers are still cautious.
This week our top briefings writers are taken from the banking sector, and their posts include trends for mid-market corporate finance, how economists can help with litigation awards, what to do if a dividend is unlawful, and advice for borrowers when their loan is sold.
The role of the ‘legal community’ is evolving at Lloyds Banking Group, but group GC Kate Cheetham is at home in the ever-changing world of banking.
The Irish legal sector is diversifying outside of its UK and US trade links and is now looking towards Asia and Europe to increase international work.
The threat of cyber crime and big law firms’ increasingly global ambitions will shape PII in the next five years.
There’s more than genial tax rates luring technology companies to Ireland.
During a career that’s included an unusually hard-working hiatus in post-handover Hong Kong, the FCA’s Sean Martin has remained keenly aware of the importance of sensible spending.