Rachel Moloney

Rachel is deputy editor (City) of The Lawyer and primarily covers corporate and the City

Linklaters associates get innovative

If you’re a senior litigation lawyer in the City, you may have seen a job ad last year for an innovation role at Linklaters. Since 2018, the magic circle firm has embarked on a programme to connect each of its three key divisions – corporate, finance, and litigation, arbitration and investigations – to its innovation […]

Shearman’s EMEA head to leave firm

Ward McKimm, Shearman & Sterling’s European and Middle East regional managing partner, is leaving the firm less than two months before its Allen & Overy tie-up goes live. A statement from Shearman and McKimm read: “Shearman & Sterling and Ward McKimm jointly confirm that, after a nearly-30 year career as a leading high-yield and leveraged […]

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Clifford Chance PE partner exits for Paul Weiss

Paul Weiss is continuing its London office expansion, hiring another private equity partner from Clifford Chance. Oliver Marcuse is set to join the US firm, just months after former magic circle colleague Chris Sullivan made the same move. Marcuse was promoted to the firm’s partnership in 2022, having spent his career at Clifford Chance. Secondments […]

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Slaughters and Travers among firms advising on Vodafone’s €8bn Italian sale

Slaughter and May has represented long-time client Vodafone on the telecommunications giant’s latest sale of its Italian business to Swisscom. The Slaughters team was steered by corporate partners Victoria MacDuff and James Cook, along with associates Serena Hopkins, Anika Sethy and Iain Meiklejohn. The firm also fielded a sizeable team of tax, commercial and employment […]

Linklaters litigator departs for Pallas

A Linklaters litigator is leaving the firm for Pallas Partners, in a major lateral hire for the disputes boutique that launched two years ago. Susana Cao Miranda is joining Pallas as a partner. Prior to joining the magic circle firm in 2017, Cao Miranda was a managing director at Goldman Sachs in London, where she […]

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Cooley’s London turnover rebounds to $100m

As US firms pile in to report their 2023 financials, Cooley has announced its London office turnover rose to over $100m last year. The firm increased its City revenue by 8 per cent to $103.1m, having fallen to $95.2m the prior year. This isn’t the first time the firm has generated over $100m in London. […]

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These three US firms transformed over 2023

As The Lawyer prepares to analyse the annual performance of US firms in the UK market, we can reflect on a transformative year. At the start of 2023, Milbank secured its deal with Dickson Minto’s London office, while Shearman and Allen & Overy weren’t even a thing. Paul Weiss also had no English law capability. […]

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Dentons fights off regulator over anti-money laundering allegations

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has dismissed a case brought by the regulator against Dentons over how well the firm carried out its anti-money laundering (AML) measures. Heard over the past week, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) accused the firm of AML failures and claimed it was “nowhere near compliance”. While dismissing the case and […]

Magic circle in the US: Hire or merge

Freshfields got very excited this week hiring two private equity partners from Latham & Watkins. The first in the firm’s New York office to advise solely on M&A transactions for PE clients, Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner are the latest corporate additions for Freshfields in the Big Apple. The firm has been on a relative […]

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Freshfields doubles down on PE with Latham hires

Two Latham & Watkins partners are joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s New York office, tasked with building out the magic circle firm’s transactional private equity offering. Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner are the two partners making the move from Latham to Freshfields. While Freshfields has been working on private equity deals for its European and US […]

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A&O Shearman: New leaders announced

Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling have elected new leadership for the firm, ahead of the merger’s completion in May. A&O’s Khalid Garousha, who has been serving as managing partner since Gareth Price’s exit last summer, has been voted in as senior partner. He was formerly its regional head of the Middle East and […]

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Paul Hastings partner exits for Hg Capital

Hg Capital has hired its new general counsel from Paul Hastings, ahead of the departure of longstanding legal chief Andrew Jessop. Samantha McGonigle is to take on the top legal job at Hg, having joined Paul Hastings less than a year ago. A member of its private equity group, McGonigle started her career at Lovells, […]