Wedlake Bell has today issued legal proceedings against the UK Government on behalf of millionaire businessman Simon Dolan, demanding an urgent judicial review into the country’s current lockdown restrictions. Legal action has been launched against Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Gavin Williamson, who is Secretary of State for […]
Uber’s in-house legal team in the US has been affected by the ride-hailing company’s decision to cut 3,000 roles overall this week, as it faces a drop in user demand amid the Covid-19 crisis. The Lawyer understands that about 17 per cent of Uber’s US legal team headcount has been laid off, including attorneys, claims […]
Manchester United has brought in Allen & Overy as it sues the makers of the Football Manager series for infringing its trademark by using the club’s name extensively in the game. The Premier League club, which announced this week that it had made a £3.3m financial loss in the third quarter, has taken legal action […]
Few people had muttered the word ‘furlough’ until just a few months ago. Now it is common parlance and dominates the daily business agenda. Early in April, Pinsent Masons became the first of many firms to confirm its use of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) as part of a range of measures being introduced […]
Commercial and corporate lawyer Ewa Chappell has joined Suntory Beverage and Food GB&I as the soft drink manufacturer’s new general counsel. Chappell joins from the spirits and beers company, Diageo. Over her seven years with the company, she had gone from junior counsel to legal counsel in areas including global procurement and demand, Europe partner […]
Welcome to The Passport: your regular guide to all the most important and meaningful developments in the European legal market. This week, we’ve a Finnish double-header as we look at how Roschier is taking inspiration from its founder to empower a new generation of leaders in law, the deal turning heads in Helsinki, Cuatrecasas’ trans-Atlantic […]
Mishcon de Reya has announced its partner promotions for 2023, with seven lawyers joining the firm’s partnership. The firm has made seven promotions to junior equity partner, while another has been made an equity partner in the firm. In 2021, Mishcon tweaked its structure, which saw a large group of legal directors promoted to the […]
Osborne Clarke is broadening out its chief operating officer function, having appointed investment funds partner Tim Simmonds to the role earlier this year. Simmonds has been a partner at Osborne Clarke since 2011 and was previously at legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner. His appointment as COO followed the election of real estate partner Conrad Davies as […]
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has expanded its pool of external legal advisers, with Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells among its key law firms. Since the start of 2023, the Leeds-based bank has issued contract awards for legal services to Slaughters, Hogan Lovells, Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, Pinsent Masons, Mills & Reeve and DLA Piper. […]
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As the markets uneasily shook into 2023, much attention was given to the role of restructuring lawyers and the need for firms to bolster their teams. However, there’s an area that’s shown little sign of dwindling in a slowdown: competition. There are plenty of US firms with sizeable, or longstanding, competition practices in London, namely […]
Law firms are well-accustomed to a bit of friendly – and sometimes unfriendly – rivalry. How else are they to remain competitive in such a merciless market? The ongoing talent wars means firms must be sharp about talent retention, whether that means upping the cash stakes, hastening the track to partnership or getting vocal about […]
It sounds mad, but this very thing happened twice in Scandinavia late last year
Wage bills are climbing, and it’s not just because of the hefty pay packets of the lawyers. From the executive suite to the postal room, firms are dipping into their cash piles to raise wages for business service professionals (BSPs). How that cash is being dished out, however, reveals the social divisions that characterise the […]
For growth potential, firms are looking to the Midlands
Junior lawyers might think it’s a haven away from the billable hour tyranny, but new research suggests that the in-house legal sector has reached peak crisis mode. The rising complexity of workloads, combined with deepening budget cuts and mis-matched legal resources, means burnout is now a set feature of working life for many senior in-house […]
Revenue fell by 5.5 per cent at Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office last year, from $173m to $163.3m. Average revenue per partner in London was also down, by 16 per cent to $7.4m, while average revenue per lawyer in the City fell by 12.2 per cent to $1.3m. Globally, Debevoise narrowly avoided posting a drop […]
Kirkland & Ellis has hired a partner in its ESG and impact practice group in London from DLA Piper. Rhys Davies previously served as DLA’s international sustainability and ESG lead. He spent 16 years at the firm and was given the nod to partner in 2017, while he was still in Perth, Australia. He relocated […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Homburger are among the firms to have landed roles on the historic tie-up of Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse. The merger comes after the intervention of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, the Swiss National Bank and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, which intervened last week. It […]
Merchant bank Close Brothers is to establish an in-house litigation team. The bank has set up a small litigation group led by head of bank legal, litigation, Jessica Wicker. It is understood that the group has been put together as the team works in a more structured and consistent way in relation to litigation. Wicker […]
Uncertainty looms for lawyers at MJ Hudson as the legal arm will not be included in the sale of the firm to a private investor, The Lawyer can confirm. Tower Gate Capital, a subsidiary of MJ Hudson, has agreed to sell its UK fund management business to a private investor via special purpose acquisition vehicle Khepri. […]
It’s been a hectic week for banking and finance lawyers, as clients swarmed for advice following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Lawyers needed to act quickly and calm their clients after a rise in interest rates pushed SVB to the brink, with banking giant Credit Suisse going on to receive a capital injection […]
