The Lawyer
16 January 2012
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Arabian plights
16 January 2012
While the Arab Spring has left some deals up in the air, infrastructure work looks set to be the main area of growth in North Africa
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Barclays
16 January 2012
Barclays might have one of the biggest bank panels in the world, but that doesn’t prevent it from having close relationships with select firms.
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Breaking China: not as easy at it looks
16 January 2012
Is the China goldrush really what it seems? It’s taken as a given that any global firm worth its salt has to be there, but talk to any UK managing partner and they’ll tell you that making profit in China is damn hard going.
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Case of the week: Banking & Finance
16 January 2012
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Change manager
16 January 2012
Michel Nussbaumer, chief counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is turning his attention towards nations affected by the Arab Spring
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DWF-Cobbetts: fit for purpose?
16 January 2012
While both firms will benefit from a tie-up, top 30 hopeful DWF will be in the driving seat
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Field Fisher Waterhouse
16 January 2012
Charlie Keeling, chief operating officer
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Fladgate
16 January 2012
Property and corporate still rule at Fladgate - but where’s the gender transparency?
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Funds and games
16 January 2012
Regulation from the EU is just one of several concerns for the funds industry, according to in-house and private practice lawyers
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Gaelic alarm
16 January 2012
The Irish Legal Services Regulation Bill has caused ructions over the future of the profession
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Great haul of China
16 January 2012
A massive domestic push and some international toe-dipping has seen China’s Dacheng grow into a firm of 2,600 lawyers. Now it has global ambitions
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Job watch - Energy: should you relocate?
16 January 2012
Working in the UK and further afield both offer many advantages for lawyers trying to break into the energy sector.
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Judgment call: 16th January 2012
16 January 2012
Starlight Shipping Co v Allianz Marine & Aviation Versicherungs AG & Ors; and Brit UW Ltd v Starlight; and Brit UW & Ors vImperial (2011) EWHC 3381. Commercial Court Queen’s Bench Division. Burton J.
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Moroccan roll
16 January 2012
The arrival of international players into Casablanca has made a confident Moroccan legal community sit up and take note
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Move on up: Fladgate
16 January 2012
West End firm Fladgate is best known for its property and corporate practices, so it is no surprise that the focus of both its partnership promotions and lateral hires over the past few years has been these two areas.
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Moves
16 January 2012
?Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has turned to US rival Weil Gotshal & Manges for a London restructuring hire, scooping partner Dominic McCahill. McCahill, who advises on insolvencies and restructurings, joins London practice head Chris Mallon in Skadden’s corporate restructuring team as the practice’s second City partner.
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ON THE MOVE
16 January 2012
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has turned to US rival Weil Gotshal & Manges for a London restructuring hire, scooping partner Dominic McCahill.
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Private practice
16 January 2012
Take-privates by US-listed Chinese companies are now a good earner for US firms. By Yun Kriegler
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Regulating the final frontier
16 January 2012
New arbitration rules have been drawn up for space law disputes
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Self-fulfilling economies
16 January 2012
We need to stop talking ourselves into catastrophe
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Sugar-coated bills
16 January 2012
Revealed: the fee structures underpinning the Quinn Emanuel litigation machine
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The panel connection
16 January 2012
Rodney Dukes, head of finance, Taylor Wessing
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Tort in the web
16 January 2012
ECJ adapts established tort law for internet cases
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Tulkinghorn: Florida keys
16 January 2012
Law firm mergers always produce the odd bit of unexpected intrigue, but the dilemma facing SJ Berwin partner and former managing partner candidate Perry Yam during the firm’s 2010 merger talks with Proskauer Rose is surely one of the most absorbing ever.
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Work-life Quiz: Mark Weston
16 January 2012
What’s your favourite film? The Shawshank Redemption or Back to the Future II.
