Ashurst vice chairman Mary Padbury is to stand down from her role after four years in the post.
Mayer Brown has hired a partner from Ashurst to launch its first office in Japan.
Locke Lord global chair Jerry Clements has stepped down after over a decade at the helm of the US firm. Clements, who was appointed in 2006 and led the firm through the cross-Atlantic Edwards Wildman merger in 2015, announced plans to step down last year. She will become the chair emeritus of the firm and […]
LegalWorks Nordic and Axiom announced today that they have entered into a strategic collaboration to service customers in the Nordic region, bringing Axiom’s best-in-class, technology-enabled legal solutions to leading companies in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Brexit creates the most significant contracting challenge the financial services industry has ever faced, with more than 7.5 million contracts requiring amendments within the next 12 months, according to an Axiom analysis. Axiom launches BrexitBridge – a standardised, flexible solution to update contracts ahead of Brexit – to help companies respond…
By Mark A. Cohen …Technology liberates lawyers to perform essential tasks—engage with clients, exercise professional judgement, provide counsel (not just legal matters but more holistically), engage in client representation before tribunals, and negotiate key commercial transactions. This is no different than physicians…
When Peter Tarsney, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at US senior living provider Enlivant, surveyed his legal services needs, he realised that he needed a different model to support the company’s acquisition strategy. “The way we approach this from a legal services perspective is almost like a service aggregator, where we identify the work that needs […]
When the office of the CEO requested contact data they didn’t have, the Dell and Axiom team developed a creative and scalable contracts intelligence solution without any increased budget Technology company Dell manages millions of commercial sales contracts. For Scott Bialek, director of global contracts, transforming sell-side contract management was an imperative. The company was using a home-grown 20-year-old […]
How a Leading Private Senior Living Service Provider Leverages Variable Resourcing to Grow Its Business By Peter Tarsney Privately held Enlivant is taking on the senior living industry. With $50M in private equity from parent company TPG1 and expertise from TPG Real Estate, the company’s real estate platform, Enlivant’s leadership group is growing the company’s […]
Ashurst vice chairman Mary Padbury is to stand down from her role after four years in the post.
Mayer Brown has hired a partner from Ashurst to launch its first office in Japan.
Locke Lord global chair Jerry Clements has stepped down after over a decade at the helm of the US firm. Clements, who was appointed in 2006 and led the firm through the cross-Atlantic Edwards Wildman merger in 2015, announced plans to step down last year. She will become the chair emeritus of the firm and […]
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Travers Smith and Gowling WLG have advised on Smithson Investment’s IPO debut on the London Stock Exchange, which is set to be the City’s biggest ever flotation by a trust. Travers partner and head of listed funds, Aaron Stocks, led the firm’s team for Smithson and was assisted by senior associate Leigh Stockey. Gowling WLG […]
Dechert’s trade co-chair Miriam Gonzalez is to leave the firm, after it was revealed she would be moving to California with her husband Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, who has been named as Facebook’s head of global policy and communications. Gonzalez is one of Dechert’s most recognisable faces in London, having joined the […]
Becoming a partner in a law firm is a crowning achievement for any lawyer – but, as highlighted in Lawyer issues past, high-flyers are finding new career opportunities after a life in private practice. This week The Lawyer revealed that another one of Slaughter and May’s most revered M&A dealmakers would be bowing out of […]
A proposed merger with Gordon Dadds will be high on the agenda at Ince & Co‘s partner conference in London this weekend, with at least one of the insurance firm’s international offices already understood to have voiced their opposition to the deal. The Lawyer understands that Ince’s Paris office has told senior management it will not […]
Merchant bank Close Brothers has kicked off its search for a new general counsel, as it was announced that Elizabeth Lee would be retiring as the company’s legal head later this year. Lee joined Close as general counsel in September 2009 and was further appointed as a director in August 2012. Prior to Close Brothers, […]
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) contract lawyers arm Peerpoint is the largest revenue generator of any law firm-linked flexible working service, with a UK revenue of £25m this year, it can be revealed. Peerpoint’s rapid growth since launching five years ago is a clear indication of a change in sentiment towards the use of contract lawyers […]
