Linklaters and Slaughter and May are leading on BHP’s mega-offer for rival mining company Anglo American. It emerged this morning that Australian giant BHP had put forward an unsolicited proposal to Anglo American If the deal went ahead, it would be valued at around £31bn. Linklaters is on call for Anglo American as it discusses […]
A duo from Travers Smith is leaving for Goodwin Procter, as exits from the UK firm’s corporate team continue. Partners Ian Keefe and George Weavil are joining Goodwin’s private equity team. Their arrivals follow the exit of a team from Goodwin to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, led by partner Christian Iwasko. Both Weavil […]
Corporate teams at Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are relying on larger – and younger – teams of associates to power up their revenues. According to data collected by The Lawyer’s Practice Analysis service, firms housing a larger number of junior lawyers help to grow revenues quicker compared to firms with a more senior […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
Linklaters has lost two partners today, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison being the latest to swipe an M&A hire from the magic circle firm. Matthew Hearn has joined Paul Weiss in London as a partner in the corporate department. Hearn has spent just over 10 years with Linklaters, which is where he completed […]
Kirkland & Ellis has banded together its high-profile recruits from Paul Weiss and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in its recent transaction for KPS Capital Partners. Leading for the private equity group’s majority stake purchase of sports surfaces business Sport Group, the US firm’s London team was made up of partners and associates from Kirkland’s hiring […]
Listed firm Knights has become the latest firm to make lawyers redundant across the country, The Lawyer can reveal. It is understood that both partner and associate roles have been cut across the firm’s restructuring and insolvency, corporate, and real estate teams. The redundancies have taken place across the firm’s offices in the UK, with […]
Not every lawyer aspires to make partner anymore, but for Mills & Reeve senior associate Oliver King, it is “absolutely” his intention. But, like with any promotion, he must first build and plead his business case, which he believes is rooted in Leeds’ thriving tech sector. “The tech sector in Leeds has been huge for […]
Charles Russell Speechlys has hit the ground running on partner hires in the first quarter of 2024. The recruitment of corporate partners Alexis Karim and Giles Dennison in January from DWF and Eversheds respectively, immediately followed by Edwin Coe finance partner James Walton and firm alum Richard Ellis, have been just a glimpse of the firm’s […]
Slaughter and May and Simmons & Simmons are respectively on to represent Authentic Brands Group and Ted Baker’s holding company No Ordinary Designer Label as the fashion retailer files its intention to appoint administrators. Hundreds of high street jobs were put at risk after Tuesday’s announcement that Ted Baker would be in want of a […]
Unilever’s longstanding advisers at Linklaters have secured the lead role on the consumer goods conglomerate’s split with its ice cream business. The Linklaters team was made up of repeat advisers to the client, including corporate partners Charles Turner and Michael Fanner, Netherlands’ national managing partner Guido Portier and tax partner Lynne Walkington. Capital markets partner […]
The former head of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson’s London office – Graham White – has taken on a new role in the City after retiring in 2017. White joins McDermott Will & Emery in London as a senior partner. He had formerly run Fried Frank’s London office between 2014 and 2017. McDermott’s London […]