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Slaughter and May has appointed a new general counsel after Sarah de Gay stepped down from her role at the end of 2020. The firm’s former head of compliance Julia Adams has taken on the GC position, where she will advise on the full range of regulatory and other legal issues that affect it as […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
Much like its partnership, Slaughter and May has decided to stay put.
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Slaughter and May has appointed a new general counsel after Sarah de Gay stepped down from her role at the end of 2020. The firm’s former head of compliance Julia Adams has taken on the GC position, where she will advise on the full range of regulatory and other legal issues that affect it as […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
Much like its partnership, Slaughter and May has decided to stay put.
In a re-run similar to Uber’s recent campaign against Transport for London (TfL), rival taxi app Ola Cabs is now pursuing its own legal challenge after instructing Linklaters, The Lawyer can reveal. It was back in October that TfL informed Ola it would not be issuing the ridesharing company with a new licence after its […]
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Dentons has lost a corporate partner duo to Eversheds Sutherland, including its former global chair of its insurance group. Martin Mankabady has made the move from Dentons to Eversheds along with fellow partner Adriana Cotter. Mankabady, who led Dentons’ insurance group, had been at the firm for over six years, having joined from Clyde & […]
Kirkland & Ellis is strengthening the secondaries element of its London investment funds practice with the hire of a partner from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Partner Aleksander Bakic has joined Kirkland after three years at Akin Gump. He was previously at O’Melveny & Myers and advises private equity fund sponsors across multiple alternative […]
Tesco Bank has promoted from within, ahead of the departure of its legal director and company secretary. Michael Mustard is set to leave his role in February this year, with Fiona Burden, the bank’s current head of legal, taking the helm. Mustard has spent more than seven years in the business after joining in 2014. […]
The first pass rates of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) have been revealed. The students who sat the first-ever SQE1 exam in November received their results yesterday, with just over half – 53 per cent – receiving the good news that they had passed. Some 1,090 candidates, including 27 solicitor apprentices, took the exam across […]
