Climate change is an issue of global socio, economic, political, and legal importance to governments, businesses and citizens everywhere. In the last 12 months alone, not only have we been dealing with the humanitarian and economic impact of a global pandemic, we have also seen bushfires devastate large areas, droughts, tropical cyclones, and 2020 was […]
Scottish Water is seeking to update its legal panel, six years after putting together its last roster of law firms. The publically-owned water and waste water company had reappointed DLA Piper and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in 2015, alongside BLM. Scottish firm Anderson Strathern won a spot on the panel for the first time, […]
The general counsel and company secretary of Tilney Group has found a new role, leaving the wealth management business after more than four years. General counsel Rehana Hasan will become head of legal at competitor Brown Shipley. The role was vacant ever since the promotion, last March, of Rachel Macfarlane to group head of legal […]
Eight London lawyers have been promoted in Norton Rose Fulbright’s annual round, matching last year’s tally of City elevations. The bulk of the London promotions are in banking and finance, as well as litigation. In banking, Will Alete, Kirstin Russell and Andrew Williams make the grade, having joined from Bird & Bird, Linklaters and Slaughter […]
Climate change is an issue of global socio, economic, political, and legal importance to governments, businesses and citizens everywhere. In the last 12 months alone, not only have we been dealing with the humanitarian and economic impact of a global pandemic, we have also seen bushfires devastate large areas, droughts, tropical cyclones, and 2020 was […]
Scottish Water is seeking to update its legal panel, six years after putting together its last roster of law firms. The publically-owned water and waste water company had reappointed DLA Piper and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in 2015, alongside BLM. Scottish firm Anderson Strathern won a spot on the panel for the first time, […]
The general counsel and company secretary of Tilney Group has found a new role, leaving the wealth management business after more than four years. General counsel Rehana Hasan will become head of legal at competitor Brown Shipley. The role was vacant ever since the promotion, last March, of Rachel Macfarlane to group head of legal […]
Eight London lawyers have been promoted in Norton Rose Fulbright’s annual round, matching last year’s tally of City elevations. The bulk of the London promotions are in banking and finance, as well as litigation. In banking, Will Alete, Kirstin Russell and Andrew Williams make the grade, having joined from Bird & Bird, Linklaters and Slaughter […]
A Cooley partner has found a new in-house role at investment firm True Altitude, after leaving the London office of the US outfit in 2020. IP partner Charlie Winckworth left Cooley last July after one year. He had joined Cooley at the start of 2019 from Hogan Lovells. Winckworth is now set to become full-time […]
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 […]
