£30m isn’t enough to get you into the Premier League
DMH Stallard has reached critical mass size – but it now has more work to do to secure its future.
Linklaters finance partner exits for Latham
Latham & Watkins has added another partner to its expanding restructuring and finance groups in London, with Bruce Bell joining from Linklaters. Bell was promoted to partner at Linklaters in 2005, having moved across as an associate from Wilde Sapte in 2000. In Latham’s restructuring group, he will be reunited with fellow Linklaters alumni such […]
UK firms are flashing the cash
UK law firms are starting to pay back employees’ salaries as the economy recovers.
PwC appoints new UK head of legal
PwC legal head Ed Stacey is to stand down from his role, handing over the reins to partner Teresa Owusu-Adjei. As UK head of legal, Owusu-Adjei will lead 400 lawyers and other legal professionals. She has been with the accountancy firm since 1995, and a financial services partner since 2008 Stacey was appointed head of […]
BCLP loses restructuring head to Simmons
£30m isn’t enough to get you into the Premier League
DMH Stallard has reached critical mass size – but it now has more work to do to secure its future.
Linklaters finance partner exits for Latham
Latham & Watkins has added another partner to its expanding restructuring and finance groups in London, with Bruce Bell joining from Linklaters. Bell was promoted to partner at Linklaters in 2005, having moved across as an associate from Wilde Sapte in 2000. In Latham’s restructuring group, he will be reunited with fellow Linklaters alumni such […]
UK firms are flashing the cash
UK law firms are starting to pay back employees’ salaries as the economy recovers.
PwC appoints new UK head of legal
PwC legal head Ed Stacey is to stand down from his role, handing over the reins to partner Teresa Owusu-Adjei. As UK head of legal, Owusu-Adjei will lead 400 lawyers and other legal professionals. She has been with the accountancy firm since 1995, and a financial services partner since 2008 Stacey was appointed head of […]
Kirkland alumni club: Willkie secures double-partner hire in London
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 […]
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Former Slaughters partner to carry out Greensill review
Corporate veteran Nigel Boardman has been appointed by the Prime Minister to carry out an independent review into the ongoing Greensill saga. Boardman, who left Slaughter and May’s partnership in 2019, is a non-executive director of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has continued since as a senior consultant at Slaughters, with […]
Latham and Freshfields lead as Darktrace gears up for IPO
Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are acting as cybersecurity start-up Darktrace confirms plans to go public. The Latham team for Darktrace is led by capital markets partner James Inness, with co-chair of the London corporate department Robbie McLaren and partners Josh Kiernan, Shing Yuin Lo and associate Koushik Prasad. Lo, a member of The […]
Freshfields unveils 22-strong promotions round
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a reduced number of promotions in London as opposed to last year, with six making the cut. The firm has promoted 22 new partners, effective from May 2021. It marks a similar number to last year’s promotions, when the firm made up 21 lawyers. Most of the promotions are centred […]
Six make the grade in Mishcon promotions
After last year’s reduced round of just two promotions, Mishcon de Reya has now added six lawyers to its partnership. This includes a total of four new female partners, with the firm bolstering its corporate, family, finance and real estate departments. Head of Mishcon Purpose Alexander Rhodes has also been given the nod, whose role […]
Ince mulls “away days” as firm eases Covid-19 measures
The Ince Group has ended the salary reductions introduced at the height of the pandemic, as it starts to formulate policies around future working arrangements. In April 2020, the firm agreed salary reductions that ranged from 10 to 30 per cent for employed staff and amounted to 30 per cent for members of the plc. […]
Six firms appointed to Transport for Greater Manchester panel
Six firms have won a place on Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) near-£90m professional services framework, after it was delayed due to “exceptional circumstances” last year. Ashurst, Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, Gowling WLG, Squire Patton Boggs and Weightmans have been appointed to Lot 9 (Legal services for major or complex projects) of TfGM’s professional services panel. […]
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