Career clinic: My team excludes me from social gatherings. What am I doing wrong?
Managing partners and in-house lawyers answer this month’s career dilemma.
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Managing partners and in-house lawyers answer this month’s career dilemma.
Burges Salmon is preparing for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit, with plans to resort to an Irish partnership structure if Britain cannot agree terms with the EU.
While many lawyers are out of the City on half-term, others in the industry have been securing US deals, mulling leadership bids and bringing High Court disputes to an end.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been called in by Canadian firm Stikemann Elliott to co-lead on Dairy Crest’s sale to a transatlantic buyer. The magic circle firm has been providing UK legal advice to Canadian company Saputo, which produces milk and dairy products. Freshfields corporate partner Stephen Hewes has taken the lead alongside colleague Peter Hall, […]
RPC secured a key victory against Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer yesterday in a key judgment reinforcing the primary duties of care that an investment bank is required to pay its customers. In a High Court judgment, Fountain Court door tenant Andrew Burrows QC ruled that JP Morgan did not have sufficient grounds to apply to strike […]
Four more partners have left Squire Patton Boggs’ London office, in the wake of former managing partner Robert Weekes’ move to Crowell & Moring earlier this month. UK litigation head Laurence Winston and restructuring partners Paul Muscutt and Cathryn Williams are to part ways with the firm, while Robin Baillie in the infrastructure practice is […]
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United Kingdom
02-2019
DEAL: Ares Management Limited provided refinancing to Daisy Group (Daisy) to support the founder of the business, Matthew Riley, in an MBO from existing minority investor Toscafund.
In 2019 The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate Top 50 report will break new ground. For the first time, the 50 firms highlighted in the report will be ranked by the total revenue they derive from the full range of work they handle that is related to the real estate sector. ENQUIRE TODAY This shift away […]
The FTSE 100 report, in association with Elevate, is the definitive guide to in-house teams at the FTSE 100 and the law firms serving them; enquire here. The report, based on 1-on-1 interviews with FTSE 100 General Counsel, focuses on: In-house legal teams’ attitudes towards reducing their legal cost. The role external legal providers can […]
Equip your business development team with the most complete tool in the UK’s litigation industry; enquire here. The new Litigation Tracker app from The Lawyer In January 2019 The Lawyer launched the new Litigation Tracker online, a digitisation of its litigation news and analysis service. It includes judgments from 15 English courts since 2015 with data points […]
Once again, The Lawyer’s Hot 100, in association with AlixPartners and LexisNexis, gathers together the standout lawyers in the UK over the past year.
Several major court cases this year deal with the fallout from Britain’s EU departure, and barristers from Brick Court are playing a prominent role.
On New Year’s Eve, Ince partners received a rather unexpected email from the firm’s interim chairman.
It was now subject to a pre-pack administration; a process that is ever part of its suitor Gordon Dadds’ playbook.
These are The Lawyer‘s Top 20 cases to look out for in 2019.
While Deloitte has been praised for its open approach on how it dealt with inappropriate behaviour, the biggest City law firms are trying to close down the discussion.
In 2019 The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate Top 50 report will break new ground. For the first time, the 50 firms highlighted in the report will be ranked by the total revenue they derive from the full range of work they handle that is related to the real estate sector.
Despite a complex negotiation process, PSA projects come with many benefits and can bring financial stability and security for those willing to invest long-term
By Grace Waterhouse So called ‘gentlemen’s agreements’ are notorious in the art world, with dealers arranging sales of artwork on nothing more than a handshake, but the 2018 de Pury case should serve as a reminder of the importance of getting contracts down on paper. The case centred on Gauguin’s painting Nafea faa ipoipo (meaning ‘When […]
By Jo Ratcliffe, Ruth Bamforth, Craig Looker The Government made clear, in its March 2018 Pensions White Paper, it is committed to ensuring the Pensions Regulator (Regulator) has the right powers to be able to protect effectively defined benefit pension schemes. On 11 February 2019 the Government published its response to its June 2018 consultation on strengthening the […]
By Kate Hodson, David Nelson The Cayman Islands is one of the most utilised international finance centres (IFC) in the Asian finance industry. The largest and most populous continent, Asia covers a diverse cultural landscape, with highly differing economies, laws and regulations and it is against this backdrop that the use of Cayman structures has been established […]
It may be that the divorce rate for heterosexual couples in England and Wales has hit a 45-year low, but if your marriage becomes a statistic, how can you protect your wealth? A prenuptial agreement, signed before the marriage, can set in place what will happen to your income and assets before the arguments begin.Prenups […]
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