The recreational drugs trade is rarely thought of as a sector for M&A lawyers to capitalise on, but in Canada that is exactly what is happening. The Canadian government has just introduced laws that will legalise marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes, creating opportunities for lawyers to act on M&A deals for companies looking to […]
Goodwin is launching its European life sciences practice in London office with the hire of a team of four, from Dechert, The Lawyer can reveal. London-based corporate partners Graeme Defries and Andrew Harrow are best known for deals in the technology and life sciences sectors. Defries advises clients from a range of industry sectors on […]
Critics insist Bird & Bird is a dictatorship, with CEO David Kerr ensconced at the top. It could make discussing succession a bit tricky
Real estate clients surveyed show how important tech is when picking advisers or thinking about future collaborations.
As the deadline for gender pay gap reporting draws to a close, the question is whether it will help the legal profession to progress towards achieving widely-shared objectives or whether it is just another regulatory burden with which solicitors must cope.
Kirkland & Ellis’ London office revenue grew by almost 50 per cent in 2017 to a new record of $300m, The Lawyer understands. The rise makes it the second-largest US law firm in London on current data behind White & Case. The rise in 2017 follows a much smaller increase the year before, when Kirkland’s […]
Hyundai’s legal team turned a problem with greydealers into a brand and financial win-win for its customers and the business. Here’s how In early 2016, members of the sales department at car manufacturer Hyundai began to notice something odd: the official registration data from various countries, in particular France, showed a significant increase in the […]
Dentons has the largest real estate team in the world, new data from The Lawyer has revealed, but the firm faces stiff competition in the global rankings thanks to accelerating consolidation. The global firm, which just last week merged with another seven firms across Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia, has 375 partners who […]
A new breed of legal professional could revolutionise the business Both tech and legal specialists, they are fee-generating and on track for partner status
Later this month The Lawyer will publish its analysis of the global real estate legal market, which will assess the impact of technology on the world’s largest international real estate legal practices and their clients. The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate 50 2018 report, which focuses specifically on property tech, will include the results of a survey of […]
Former Slaughter and May partner Miranda Leung retired in November 2016 after 26 years at the firm, 16 of them as a partner. Still only 50, these days her life is very different from what it was while at Slaughters.
Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have twice as many partners aged 61 or over as Linklaters and three times as many as Allen & Overy, new data from The Lawyer reveals. The same two firms also have significantly more partners in the 56-60 age bracket than their closest rivals. At Clifford Chance 11 per […]