Clifford Chance is spearheading a strategy that will see its Continental European offices brought into a single profit and loss account, The Lawyer can reveal. The project, internally known as ‘One Europe’, has been developed by the firm’s senior leadership in a bid to treat its offices across the UK and Continental Europe as a single team, […]
Mishcon’s IPO might be a success but its partners would have been better off doing it earlier.
A corporate partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Hong Kong office has moved to one of the firm’s clients Grab as group general counsel. Christopher Betts has relocated to Singapore to take up the new in-house role. He joined the Singapore-headquartered “super app” in the same month when Grab formalised its plan to […]
Keystone Law‘s chief executive officer James Knight is cashing out on £9.45m worth of shares after increased demand in the listed firm from institutional investors. A market announcement on Tuesday revealed that a total of 1,500,000 ordinary shares have been sold by Knight at a price of £6.30 each, which reduces his stake in the […]
Linklaters’ senior partner election race has concluded, with Aedamar Comiskey beating two other contenders to the role. The firm’s head of corporate will replace incumbent Charlie Jacobs, who earlier this year confirmed he would leave Linklaters at the end of his term. Jacobs has since announced he is joining JP Morgan as head of the UK […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has refreshed the leadership of its London office, with two new co-partners in charge. Ali Nikpay and Penny Madden QC succeed James Cox and Jeff Trinklein as co-heads of London. Litigator and a member of The Lawyer Hot 100 2019, Nikpay has been at Gibson Dunn since 2013, having joined as […]
3Kites’ tips for procuring a contract management and legal ops software.
The cornerstone of a successful operating strategy by Deloitte Legal’s Jack Diggle.
Seven in-house lawyers express their gratitude to external advisers for helping them through the pandemic, while giving pointers on how to move forward.
The latest developments in the aftermath of the collapse of the breakaway league from the legal point of view. Contact alex.taylor@thelawyer.com with related news or analysis.
Last month’s China sanctions against a number of individuals and entities, including Essex Court Chambers, sparked a weekend of discussions for City litigators.
Last month, Cooley unveiled its first revenue dip since it opened in the City in 2015. Behind that lies a major tussle over firm strategy – and in particular, its relationship with one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
Credit Suisse’s removal of several senior executives, including its top risk and compliance officer, as a result of reported $4.7bn losses incurred by trades with Archegos Capital Management raises serious questions as to whether banks have learned sufficient lessons from the global financial crisis.
Technology isn’t just implemented and ‘successful’ – you should demand that it delivers transparency through data to truly understand how it is impacting the business.
While it would have been easy for sustainability to take a back seat in the rush to repair economies damaged by COVID-19, the pandemic has strengthened the resolve of governments and corporations to ‘build back better’.
In an article in the Times the argument is made that the true value and potential of intellectual property rights to the UK economy is being stifled by IP laws that are not fit for purpose, and that lawyers are in some way both ignorant of the economic value of patents to business owners and guilty of undermining entrepreneuralism. This is not a picture I recognise.
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Ahead of the inaugural Smarter Working Week in association with Shoosmiths event, Shoosmiths chief executive Simon Boss spoke with The Lawyer about the concept of smarter working and how that has evolved over the past year. “Many people may think smarter working is just about efficiency or productivity” and while it includes that, it’s actually […]
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Shoosmiths’ Caroline White-Robinson on finding the confidence to say “this isn’t going well” and that no, this is not “the worst thing that could have happened”.