The Lawyer Shopping Channel AND Dog of the Day “Could I be really cheeky and ask for a plug for my side hustle please? Well, it’s not me who runs it, it’s my dog,” writes BNP Paribas solicitor Sara Burney. “He’s called Brutus and he’s the face and voice of The Bark Side, an online […]
Taylor Wessing has steered digital bank Monzo through its second fundraising in a matter of months, totaling a combined £125m, despite losing a key corporate tech team last year. A Taylor Wessing team spearheaded a cash injection of £60m that marks an extension of a previous £65m round held last June. The backers in the […]
The British Film Institute’s (BFI) longstanding general counsel has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following by an investigation into a drink driving offence. In a decision published on Friday, the SRA announced a written rebuke on the basis that Richard Brousson’s conduct was “reckless as to the potential risk of harm to […]
Withers is facing allegations of professional negligence from a series of claimants linked to real estate giant Savills. The High Court scrap concerns Withers’ role advising on deals for luxury property developments in London, court documents seen by The Lawyer can reveal. Clyde & Co has been drafted in to defend the UK firm, while […]
The Lawyer Shopping Channel AND Dog of the Day “Could I be really cheeky and ask for a plug for my side hustle please? Well, it’s not me who runs it, it’s my dog,” writes BNP Paribas solicitor Sara Burney. “He’s called Brutus and he’s the face and voice of The Bark Side, an online […]
Taylor Wessing has steered digital bank Monzo through its second fundraising in a matter of months, totaling a combined £125m, despite losing a key corporate tech team last year. A Taylor Wessing team spearheaded a cash injection of £60m that marks an extension of a previous £65m round held last June. The backers in the […]
The British Film Institute’s (BFI) longstanding general counsel has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following by an investigation into a drink driving offence. In a decision published on Friday, the SRA announced a written rebuke on the basis that Richard Brousson’s conduct was “reckless as to the potential risk of harm to […]
Withers is facing allegations of professional negligence from a series of claimants linked to real estate giant Savills. The High Court scrap concerns Withers’ role advising on deals for luxury property developments in London, court documents seen by The Lawyer can reveal. Clyde & Co has been drafted in to defend the UK firm, while […]
It can take firms years to secure a trophy private equity hire, but demand is outweighing supply across The Lawyer’s UK Corporate 50. According to data collected since 2018, 37 per cent of corporate laterals at the UK’s largest firms were PE specialists. These include Kirkland & Ellis partner Carl Bradshaw who moved to Goodwin, […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
In October 2018, the journalist and critic of the Saudi Arabian regime Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The international reaction was swift. Dozens of major organisations, including HSBC, Ford and JP Morgan Chase, dropped out of the planned “Davos in the Desert” Saudi investment summit. “We are going […]
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 […]
An Osborne Clarke partner is being referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) following a formal complaint made by Clifford Chance’s former UK tax head. In July 2022, ex-Clifford Chance partner Dan Neidle made headlines for a series of posts on the tax arrangements of leading Conservative politicians, including Nadhim Zahawi. He claimed that Zahawi had […]
Simmons & Simmons represented Barclays Bank in an $150m anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunction against Russian state investment bank, VEB. VEB was founded in 1922 as the first international bank of the USSR, and since 2018 it has been chaired by the country’s former deputy prime minister under Putin, Igor Shuvalov. The bank was represented by […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has increased its salary for newly-qualified solicitors (NQs) to £180,000. The US disputes specialist’s other associate salaries will also rise when the move takes effect from June. A 1 PQE associate is set to be paid £195,000, while a 2 PQE associate will be on £220,000. For 6 PQE associates, […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now. Last week, all eyes were on A&O Shearman, a union hailing Big Law and its future. But in this week’s episode, we consider why so many solicitors are pursuing another future: opening their own firm. A survey from Censuswide on behalf of Harbour Litigation Funding […]
