Flexible legal resources provider Axiom has filed for an IPO after several years of deliberation, in a bid to obtain extra investment for further expansion. The provider has submitted a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, but the filing did not disclose a range for the pricing of shares or […]
Furthering its reach on the West Coast, Taylor Wessing has entered into a non-exclusive joint relationship with California’s Wilson Sonsini.
The trial of oligarch Oleg Mkrtchan will go ahead as planned, despite attempts by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to adjourn the case while Mkrtchan remains under arrest in Russia. Mr Justice Andrew Baker dismissed Quinn’s application to delay the seven-week hearing until 2020. The US firm is acting for businessman Vitaliy Haiduk who claims he is […]
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is to move from its City home in Dashwood House to 100 Bishopsgate when the building is completed. The firm’s London head Greg Petrick has set out a gauntlet for growth, with the US firm taking enough space for 120 lawyers in the new building. The London headcount is currently at […]
Bakers claims its app is unique in the legal market and the effort goes on to add bespoke functions for clients
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has expanded the reach of its in-house startup accelerator to about 20 countries, expecting to engage 150 startups worldwide by the end of the year. The programme, dubbed CMS EquIP, provides startups and businesses at various stages of development access to potential investors and discounted legal support from the firm’s fee-earners. […]
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 […]
Enquire now The latest edition of The Lawyer’s UK 200: The Independents report, published in October, is the only analysis of the second hundred largest firms ranked by revenue in the UK market. This dynamic group is now worth more than £1.5bn, a new record, and despite the threat of economic uncertainty The Lawyer’s exclusive […]
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.
The report, based on 1-on-1 interviews with FTSE 100 General Counsel, focuses on:
The report is a must-read for FTSE 250 in-house teams and any firm that works, or hopes to work, with this group of companies. It is part of a suite of data-rich reports that The Lawyer produces.
HMRC wants to make it easier for getting VAT returns right first time, minimising costly mistakes, but latest Trends Report shows firms not ready. Just 55% of law firms in the UK say they will be ready for Making Tax Digital which comes into force from 1st April, according to Advanced’s latest Trends Survey Report. […]
By Dan Kennedy From 1 March 2019, the period allowed in England and Northern Ireland for filing a Stamp Duty Land Tax return and paying the tax reduces from 30 days to 14 days. There is now only one month to go until the window to file a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) return – and […]
The EU Matrimonial and Partnership Property Regulations, adopted through enhanced cooperation, have become legally binding for 18 EU Member States directly, i.e. without national transposition legislation, to provide married couples and registered partners with legal certainty as to property law due to their marriage or partnership in crossborder cases. The different national conflict-of-law rules regarding […]
By Michael Trahar By avoiding email conversations, savvy employees have made fraud cases less obvious to detect, giving forensic accountants the opportunity to prove their worth. It has become increasingly difficult to find the smoking gun document in an email review that cracks a fraud investigation open. Gone are the days when the client’s local management […]
By Jeanette Burgess Latest from the FCA, including new findings on high-cost short-term credit market; other sector news. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) On 24 January 2019, the FCA published new findings on the high-cost short-term credit market, drawing on consumer credit firms’ regulatory returns data and the FCA’s Financial Lives Survey 2017. See our recent briefing for details. Also see the press […]
