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Demand for partner laterals in London is at an all-time high. A recent report by Edwards Gibson reveals a staggering 101 partner moves in the first two months of 2024 alone. This marks a 7 per cent surge from last year’s figures and a 9 per cent increase over the five and 10-year averages. Despite […]
It was one year ago that the news broke about the sudden liberalisation of the Indian legal market. Excitement was cautious and few expected anything drastic, but it was a crucial first step in the market opening up. It’s been on plenty of firms’ minds since, as was illustrated by Osborne Clarke’s hire of Charles […]
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. […]
The Dutch legal market is uber conservative; it has witnessed little by way of disruption to force the kind of sweeping changes seen here in London. Amsterdam is not the city where firms can rack up mega fees; big-ticket M&A work is not done there as often as it is here. That said, if you’ve […]
With the financial year-end fast approaching, partners are under pressure to get clients to settle their bills. Cashflow is a top concern with costs rising, just shaving a few days from the lock-up total can boost the cash pot. Some firms manage this spectacularly well. Analysis on the March City Signal channel of The Lawyer […]
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 […]
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 […]
European giant Kinstellar has gained a foothold in the Southeast Asian legal after securing a joint-venture deal with Vietnamese firm Asia Counsel. Asia Counsel boasts a headcount of just 21 lawyers, including four partners. Its focus has been on assisting foreign multinationals and Vietnamese corporations with expansion, M&A and financial matters. Acting independently for the […]
The High Court has rejected Dr Craig Wright’s claim that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin. The Australian computer scientist has long contended that he is the pseudonymous individual who invented Bitcoin and wrote the Bitcoin White Paper, the foundational text of the Bitcoin system. Issuing a brief oral decision on the same […]
Law firms leaders love saying they don’t want growth for growth’s sake, but the truth is, without any growth at all they soon find themselves floundering. So as the financial year draws to a close, litigation editor Christian Smith and deputy editor Rich Simmons are joined by head of insight Matt Byrne, Horizon editor Katy […]
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