Cooley has laid out plans to move into new office space at TwentyTwo Bishopsgate next summer, confirming a decision made at the end of last year. Around Q3 of next year – between July and September – its 200 employees will occupy a 75,000-square-foot space spread across three floors. The move means the firm will […]
UK-headquartered firms have been piling in to release their 2018/19 financial results. Which firms have reported so far?
A former partner of DLA Piper has been appointed as the new head of Latham & Watkins’ Madrid office, following the passing of Juan Picón last month. Ignacio Gómez-Sancha, who joined Latham as a corporate partner in the Spanish capital’s office in early 2018, will take on the managing role effective immediately. Prior to that, […]
As an incubator for legal tech and research, DWF Ventures has creativity at its core and with Jonathan Patterson as its leader, looks set to be a true sector disruptor
The Warsaw office of Weil Gotshal & Manges is set to drop the US firm’s brand later this year following a strategic review of its operations in the CEE region, The Lawyer understands. It is understood that the contracts of lawyers in the Warsaw office have been reviewed and that in about six months’ time […]
Debevoise & Plimpton has secured a billion-pound award for a mining company in an arbitration against the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Tethyan Copper Company (TCC), a joint venture between Antofagasta and Barrick Gold Corporation, filed claims against Pakistan for its denial of a mining lease […]
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 […]
Indispensable insight for your firm ENQUIRE TODAY 1. Discover and examine the growth of independent European firms on the continent. 2. Investigate where the opportunities lie; which local firms to compete with, to partner with and to acquire. 3. Reveal the growth of international firms in European legal markets. The Lawyer’s European 100 is the […]
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
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
The largest merger in the Italian legal market in over 30 years started out in the tiniest possible way. A casual conversation between Giuseppe Lombardi, founder of litigation boutique Lombardi e Associati, and Sergio Erede, one of the three lawyers who twenty years ago founded corporate powerhouse BonelliErede alongside Aurelio Pappalardo and the late Franco […]
Which firms have NEDs on their boards? And who are the most junior UK-qualified partners on leadership teams? The Lawyer’s first boardroom audit displays key trends in gender diversity, seats of power and the role of business services professionals.
David Pollitt is transforming DACB thanks to his style of cheery communication coupled with strict financial discipline.
These are The Lawyer‘s Top 20 cases to look out for in 2019.
The Lawyer first-ever technology-focused market report aims not only to recognise the fact that the UK’s largest law firms are investing an increasing amount of time and money in a wide range of technology applications, systems and solutions, but also highlight which are using these to materially improve the way they operate.
By Angela Gregson, Helen Saunders Canon, the Japan-based imaging and optical products manufacturer, has been fined €28million for partially implementing its acquisition in Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (TMSC) before notification to and approval by the European Commission breaching EU merger control rules. Background The EU merger control system contains two clear procedural obligations intended to […]
By Roland Böhi, Manuel Vogler Background to the revised tax reform Swiss corporate tax reforms I and II In the first iteration of its corporate tax overhaul (CTR I), Switzerland introduced various measures to improve its reputation as an attractive jurisdiction for corporate tax. Included in the CTR I were measures such as a comprehensive […]
By Pedro Cassiano Santos, Beatriz Francisco da Cost Portugal managed to end 2018 with a budget deficit of 0.6%, substantially less than the 7.2% and 3% recorded in 2014 and 2016, respectively, having accomplished a smooth and steady economic recovery following the more demanding years of the international bail-out between 2011 and 2014, during which […]
By Elaine Gray, Leonie Corfield, Alexandra Gill On 25 May 2019 the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s new data protection regime became fully operational. Following the end of the transitional arrangements which were established in May 2018 under the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 (“Law”), Leonie Corfield and Alexandra Gill explore what this means for […]
By Andrew Nugent Smith, Ashley Pigott, Jane Bates The legal costs incurred in pursuing or defending a commercial claim can be substantial. Although the general rule in commercial disputes is that the loser pays the legal costs of the winning party, or at least a proportion of them, an award of costs is always at […]
Economic substance, fund governance and ESG were the three key topics discussed by the technical panel at the HKVCA Asia Venture Capital Forum 2019 moderated by Ogier partner Kate Hodson yesterday. The panel gave their views and experience on the three key topical issues of substance, governance and ESG investing for the PE &VC funds […]
