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Former Dechert partner leads six-strong finance team hire at EY
EY Law is bringing in a team of six lawyers to boost its financial services practice, including a former Dechert partner. The legal arm of the accountancy firm has brought in a collective helmed by Monica Gogna, a finance expert who left Dechert last September. The team hire is aimed at building out a financial services […]
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Hogan Lovells pays tribute to corporate partner Richard Diffenthal
Hogan Lovells has announced that City partner Richard Diffenthal has sadly passed away. Diffenthal, who was 40, was a homegrown Hogan Lovells corporate talent, having trained at the firm before making partnership in 2016. His wealth of experience covered the full range of corporate practices, including equity capital markets, joint ventures and corporate advisory work, […]
RPC launches global insurance network with five firms
RPC is expanding its global insurance offering with the launch of a network that includes six firms from different counties. As a means of providing insurer clients access to specialists around the world, Global Access Lawyers is made up of firms from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the USA. In order of countries, the […]
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The Lawyer’s top 200 UK law firms revealed
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
Former Dechert partner leads six-strong finance team hire at EY
EY Law is bringing in a team of six lawyers to boost its financial services practice, including a former Dechert partner. The legal arm of the accountancy firm has brought in a collective helmed by Monica Gogna, a finance expert who left Dechert last September. The team hire is aimed at building out a financial services […]
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Hogan Lovells pays tribute to corporate partner Richard Diffenthal
Hogan Lovells has announced that City partner Richard Diffenthal has sadly passed away. Diffenthal, who was 40, was a homegrown Hogan Lovells corporate talent, having trained at the firm before making partnership in 2016. His wealth of experience covered the full range of corporate practices, including equity capital markets, joint ventures and corporate advisory work, […]
RPC launches global insurance network with five firms
RPC is expanding its global insurance offering with the launch of a network that includes six firms from different counties. As a means of providing insurer clients access to specialists around the world, Global Access Lawyers is made up of firms from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the USA. In order of countries, the […]
A&O takes over from Dechert in torture claim trial
Allen & Overy (A&O) is advising the Government of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), as its former advisers at Dechert prepare to defend themselves from torture allegations made by ex-employees of RAK and its investment authority. The over-arching claim is against Dechert, its former white-collar co-head Neil Gerrard, partner Caroline Black and David Hughes, who moved […]
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Kirkland makes double funds hire
Kirkland has added two associates as partners from Fried Frank Shriver & Jacobson and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in its City funds practice. Charles Cooper-Isow is a private equity associate, having been at Fried Frank since 2016. Qualifying in the same year in England and Wales, Cooper-Isow has six years’ post-qualification experience (PQE). He joins […]
White & Case finance partner exits for Shearman
Shearman & Sterling is boosting its leveraged finance practice with a White & Case hire, its fourth new partner joiner of 2022. Shameer Shah makes the move, having spent almost nine years at White & Case. His main practice focuses on acquisition finance and special situations across private credit, investment banks and other financial institutions. […]
Slater & Gordon splits business in two after strategic review
Slater & Gordon has finalised part of a strategic review of its UK business, with discussions ongoing as to whether certain practices fit into its revised model. As a result of the review, the firm will split its business into two main departments named Essential Legal Services (ELS) and Specialist Legal Services (SLS). ELS will […]
Linklaters puts financial sponsors at core of revamped APAC strategy
Magic circle firm Linklaters is to put financial sponsors at the heart of its Asia-Pacific operation after a strategy refresh led by regional managing partner William Liu. As part of the strategy, Linklaters is aiming to increase revenue by 10 per cent each year as well as making commitments to flesh out what the firm […]
Sky Group hires new GC
Sky Group’s general counsel has left the business, leading to the appointment of a new legal head at the broadcasting company. Niamh Grogan has joined Sky as its new group general counsel after leaving multinational insurance adviser Willis Towers Watson. There, she was its global deputy general counsel and chief operating officer for more than […]
US firms set to cover abortion costs for employees
Firms in the US, with workforces impacted by last week’s Supreme Court decision on abortion rights, are entering discussions with their medical insurers to determine whether they can cover out-of-state travel costs. The US Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v Wade, meaning it will be up to individual states to make decisions on abortions. […]
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