A host of new lawyers have entered Parliament as a result of the Conservative Party’s decisive victory last night. In Stroud, Conservative Siobhan Baillie gained the marginal seat from Labour. Baillie, a non-practising family solicitor, worked her way up from legal secretary to qualify. Peter Gibson gained another marginal seat for the Tories: Darlington. Gibson […]
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Addleshaw Goddard worked with Deloitte as Supercuts and Regis hair salons this week struck a salvage deal to save over 1,000 jobs. The firm’s restructuring team played the lead advisory role for Deloitte as administrator to the businesses, with partner Paul Fleming and legal director Anna Hodgson leading on the deal. Shoosmiths had been advising […]
PwC Legal is looking to invest in the development of a financial services practice following a review carried out this year, The Lawyer has learned. Over a three-month period, the accountancy firm, which is led in the UK by employment head Ed Stacey, engaged an external consulting business to assess its legal offering and identify […]
Eversheds Sutherland has pulled off its second UK lateral hire this month, recruiting its first-ever litigation partner in Edinburgh. Alastair Frood is the partner joining the team in the Scottish capital as of January 2020, as he leaves Shepherd & Wedderburn after a 12-year stint heading up its banking and financial litigation practice. Prior to […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Mayer Brown have taken the lead roles, advising Nestlé on the sale of its US ice cream business for $4bn. Weil advised Froneri, an ice-cream-focused joint venture created in 2016 with the Paris-based private equity firm PAI Partners, with London corporate partner Jonathan Wood and Boston-based partner Matthew Goulding at […]
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Two former Slaughter and May solicitors go head to head in Middlesbrough; Clydes’ former COO and an ex-Latham lawyer stand for the Brexit Party; a Macfarlanes alum aims to win for the Lib Dems; and all the other lawyers hoping for your vote.
The world and everything in it is going through a period of unprecedented change, which means it has never been more difficult to devise a five-year strategy. For firms nearing the end of their 2020 vision, how did they fare?
A recent talent exodus, an all-but-invisible London office and a management team based in Ohio adds up to Squire Patton Boggs facing a mountain to climb to claim a place at the top table
For decades, Hong Kong has been at the centre of Western law firms’ strategies, with its long history as one of the world’s key financial centres. However, times have changed since the first firms set foot in the region.
The Big Four are making a renewed effort to impact the legal market, with big-money innovation as their weapon – but traditional providers may not be as vulnerable as they think if they stick to their strengths.
By Deborah Sheldon Each month we summarise the latest news and developments in retail mortgage lending and regulation. This month in summary: News Shake up in provision of free cash access at Post Office has created calls for wider regulation FCA receives 4.29m complaints for Q1&2 2019 Lending Grenfell style cladding results in thousands becoming […]
By James Campbell How can clients and their advisers ensure that family businesses can survive and prosper in the region? Family owned businesses are the engine room of the GCC economies. According to the PwC Business Survey 2016, they provide 60 percent of GDP and employ over 80 percent of the workforce. Many have grown […]
By Roberto Aburto, Cindy Kou Roberto: Welcome to Diversonomics. The podcast about diversity and inclusion from Gowling WLG. I’m your co-host Roberto Aburto, practicing in the Ottawa office. Cindy: And I’m your co-host, Cindy Kou, practicing in the Toronto Office. Today we have a guest who works at UN Women. She is a junior consultant […]
By Richard G. Evans Given the ever-increasing use of arbitration in a myriad of commercial disputes, the all-important question arises as to the ease with which an arbitration award may be enforced. This may be of particular concern if the target assets are located (or believed to be located) offshore. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) […]
