Just days after a UK team of partners resigned from to form a boutique, another group of eight partners are set to leave Clyde & Co and set up their own venture in the US. The partners are to leave Clydes’ San Francisco office to set up a legal boutique called Atheria Law. Joan D’Ambrosio, […]
Addleshaw Goddard, Norton Rose Fulbright and Baker McKenzie have acted on the £600m financing of Battersea Power Station’s third phase of development. The capital received will be used to fund the ongoing development of the 42-acre regeneration site in Nine Elms. It involves the construction of London’s newest high street known as Electric Boulevard, as […]
Most of the UK’s largest law firms believe that the current financial year will be significantly more difficult in terms of trading than 2018/19, The Lawyer can reveal. As part of the research for this year’s UK 200 report, firms were asked the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with the statement: Trading conditions […]
White & Case banking partner Lee Cullinane is to leave White & Case after eight years for another US firm in the City. Cullinane has departed for US firm McGuireWoods, alongside senior associate Marc Naidoo, who joined White & Case in Johannesburg in 2014 and will join as a partner in London. Cullinane will lead […]
Reed Smith is to allow two trainees to complete an ‘innovation seat’. The new seats are each associated with a particular practice group, which identified projects in advance for the trainee to work on. There may also be other cross-departmental projects which both trainees will work on. The selected trainees had expressed an interest in […]
Latham & Watkins has hired Simmons & Simmons’ head of equity capital markets as the US firm continues to recruit senior players to its London office. Chris Horton has been at Simmons for just over 11 years. He was at Lovells, from 2003 to 2007, and Linklaters prior to that. The partner also spent two […]
The Global Litigation 50 2019 ranks the largest litigation practices in the world by revenue and highlights the key trends within the disputes market for the past year. Understand the world’s top firms’ approach to data-driven disputes. Gain insights into the latest growth area – data abuse – and the impact it is having. Explore […]
Have we reached the high-water mark of globalisation? We’re all living through a period of intense global uncertainty with trade wars, political nativism and the rise of populism, economic stagnation and a worldwide shift in the centres of power. Does this mean that the world’s largest law firms are slamming the brakes on global expansion? […]
Your roadmap to Asia-Pac growth: Enquire here Investigate the risk both international and independent firms are facing in APAC’s main jurisdictions. Understand who’s growing and why in the region. Benchmark your firm’s progress against your peers. Win and defend your firm’s market share. This year’s Asia-Pacific 100 will focus on growth and how the leading […]
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.
This summer has seen another round of big pay rises for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors: here’s the wider context.
There are five reasons why Mishcon is likely to opt for an IPO, and while it would certainly shift the firm away from its reliance on partner capital and bank debt, none of those reasons is actually about the availability of cash.
Is the system conspiring against female barristers? We weigh up the evidence, using data on cases at both the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Court of Appeal
Litigation funders live and breathe disputes, but this was not the sort of dispute Burford Capital was used to. On August 8, Burford’s share price plunged 66 per cent after a ferocious attack from San Francisco-based hedge fund Muddy Waters, whose founder Carson Black questioned the accuracy of the funders accounting practices. Black described the […]
How have firms in the second half of The Lawyer UK Top 100 fared since the recession hit many of them so hard a decade ago? The Lawyer data shows the winners and losers in the mid-tier
EARLY BIRD: The 2019 edition of The Lawyer UK 200: The Top report is due to be released this month, and an early bird offer is now available.
Essential reading for every firm operating in this space and those making moves into this market, the UK 200 includes essential statistics, detailed insight, focused analysis and valuable foresight to help firms strengthen their foothold into 2020 and beyond.
By Susan H Abramovitch, Sean Gill So, you’re a successful artist who recently moved to a new record label, only to turn around and find out that the masters for your first six albums, the last 10 years of your career, have been sold to someone you have no interest being in business with. What […]
By James Foster, Samiksha Gosain Introduction While third-party funding has been established for close to a decade in the UK, the funding of international arbitration has become commonplace only more recently. From our own experience at Augusta, we have seen a 100% increase in funding of international arbitration cases over the last two years. Where […]
By James Fox, James Gaudin, Stephanie Dinning Much has been written regarding the changes to UK capital gains tax (CGT) which came into force on 6 April 2019 and which imposed non-UK residents capital gains tax (NRCGT) on UK commercial real estate for the first time since the tax was introduced in the 1960s. During […]
By Alan Munro A Sheriff has answered this question in the affirmative and given reasoning which will be helpful for trustees (under a trust deed) in considering whether to raise sequestration proceedings against the debtor. Background The Sheriff Court at Airdrie was asked in April 2019 to comment on the ability of a trustee under […]
