A costs award has been awarded against Addleshaw Goddard in an ongoing professional negligence dispute with a former client in Scotland. A judge ruled last week that Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) should be awarded £86,240, just weeks after The Lawyer reported that Addleshaws had failed to challenge the jurisdiction of the claim. The firm is […]
Addleshaw Goddard and White & Case have advised on the second retail deal of today, in which fashion retailer Boohoo announced the acquisition of Karen Millen’s online branch and its parent brand Coast for £18.2m. Karen Millen instructed corporate partner Emma Parr and restructuring partner Ian Wallace from White & Case to handle the deal. […]
Addleshaw Goddard has failed in its attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of a professional negligence claim brought against the firm by a family-owned business. The firm is facing a claim from Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S), which entered insolvency in 2012. The firm attempted to have the claim moved to the Scottish courts, in a […]
Addleshaw Goddard has acted for BT on its £100m agreement with Cellnex for 220 high towers throughout the UK. Edinburgh-based real estate partner Miles Ede led the team for BT alongside partners Bruce Kilpatrick, Paul Bentham and Phil McGough. Spanish infrastructure operator Cellnex, which instructed its in-house legal team, has acquired the marketing and operation rights […]
A costs award has been awarded against Addleshaw Goddard in an ongoing professional negligence dispute with a former client in Scotland. A judge ruled last week that Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) should be awarded £86,240, just weeks after The Lawyer reported that Addleshaws had failed to challenge the jurisdiction of the claim. The firm is […]
Addleshaw Goddard and White & Case have advised on the second retail deal of today, in which fashion retailer Boohoo announced the acquisition of Karen Millen’s online branch and its parent brand Coast for £18.2m. Karen Millen instructed corporate partner Emma Parr and restructuring partner Ian Wallace from White & Case to handle the deal. […]
Addleshaw Goddard has failed in its attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of a professional negligence claim brought against the firm by a family-owned business. The firm is facing a claim from Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S), which entered insolvency in 2012. The firm attempted to have the claim moved to the Scottish courts, in a […]
Addleshaw Goddard has acted for BT on its £100m agreement with Cellnex for 220 high towers throughout the UK. Edinburgh-based real estate partner Miles Ede led the team for BT alongside partners Bruce Kilpatrick, Paul Bentham and Phil McGough. Spanish infrastructure operator Cellnex, which instructed its in-house legal team, has acquired the marketing and operation rights […]
A group of trainees and associates brimming with innovative tech ideas is being given the opportunity to take the reins, collaborate with partners and revolutionise how firms work
It’s a 90-minute train journey to London and two hours from Bristol. At £29 per sq ft, grade A office rents are a third of the average £90 per sq ft City firms pay. And it has an abundance of lawyers. Slowly but steadily, Southampton is slipping into the mid-tier consciousness as a city in […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
1 May is a big day for many in the legal industry, not just the thousands of people at Allen & Overy and Shearman who have now combined officially. Scores of lawyers become partners today after a wave of promotions, meaning that also – in the great circle of life – plenty of veterans are […]
The significance of the unstoppable growth of US-headquartered firms in London isn’t solely about jaw-dropping scale, although the size of headcount and revenue at some of these big City beasts is truly head-turning. Notably, several US firms have doubled down on their investment in London of late, and not just Paul Weiss. While the New […]
It has been over four years since the UK first went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s four years since the world went crazy and stocked up on toilet roll, since staff had to bundle up their laptops and work on makeshift garden furniture desks, and since most of the nation actually looked […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has upped its newly qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries to compete with the US market. NQ salaries have increased from £125,000 to £150,000. There have also been changes to trainee compensation. First-year trainees will see an increase of £6,000 as salaries rise from £50,000 to £56,000. Second-year trainee salaries will increase from £55,000 […]
Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) is continuing its innovation strategy rollout with the introduction of a new programme for its trainee solicitors. Following the launch of its ‘advanced client solutions’ (ACS) team in early April, the firm has now brought in Russell Up, a scheme designed to have each trainee deliver four innovation projects throughout their two-year training […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited from Paul Hastings’s finance team, expanding its partnership ranks in the City to nine. The small City outfit has hired Luke McDougall from Paul Hastings. McDougall focuses on UK and cross-border acquisition finance and restructuring, acting for senior lenders, junior lenders and borrower groups on a variety of capital […]
Having returned to the legal market after seven years in retirement, Graham White has been named as senior partner of McDermott Will & Emery’s London office, along with a new managing partner. Private equity lawyer White, who joined McDermott this year after leaving Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in 2017, has taken on the […]
A week after losing a private equity duo, Travers Smith is set for another partner exit – this time from its infrastructure finance team to Sidley Austin. Partner Ben Thompson has exited the firm and is joining Sidley Austin. Thompson joined the firm in September 2021 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was a […]
