Can culture really be a differentiator in the mid-market?
Interrogating your values is an exercise worth doing. Just ask Trowers & Hamlins.
Ashurst will be next
You need a couple of attempts to crack America. For Allen & Overy, the O’Melveny negotiation was simply the appetiser before the main course. Ashurst, though, has had a few too many sharing plates. Who can forget the rejection of Latham? The talks with Fried Frank that led to the Ashurst managing partner defecting to […]
Less time for dirty laundry
Hybrid working has been a significant success for Big Law, with lawyers now used to being able to switch between meetings and the domestic chores. Yes, the working day might be longer, but it’s been more productive for both home and work life. Sadly, the washing may begin to pile up again, as new research […]
Four things we learnt from the magic circle’s promotions this year
All the magic circle’s partner promotions are in for 2023, so what’s interesting about those made up in London this year? Here are a few points that jump out. The magic circle is even less Oxbridgey than ever Just 30 per cent of the 46 new magic circle partners this year hailed from Cambridge (seven) […]
DACB should take a gamble on Vegas
Dodgy-looking characters losing thousands in the casino, sky-high fountain displays dancing in front of glitzy hotels, and George Clooney with his 11-strong mob breaking into vaults are sights you expect to witness in Las Vegas. And a recent holiday to Sin City did not disappoint – except the Clooney part, unfortunately. What was unexpected was […]
Is this all, Alex Chalk?
Access to justice remains a neglected ideal for this Government
Addleshaws, K&E and Skadden line up on Asda’s £2.3bn petrol station deal
Addleshaw Goddard and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are among the firms that advised on Asda’s £2.3bn buyout of EG Group’s UK and Ireland businesses. The supermarket giant is buying EG’s operations that consist of 350 petrol stations and 1,000 food-to-go locations. The deal is expected to be funded by both debt and equity, […]
A&O Shearman: Five charts that tell us more
As partners at Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling prepare to weigh up the benefits (and challenges) of a merger, here are five charts showing what’s at stake. Drawing level on PEP A perennial problem for UK-headquartered firms looking to merge in the US is finding a partner of a similar profitability. Looking at […]
City talk: A&O’s Access win captures levfin lawyers’ attention
Few deals last year got the market talking as much as Access Group’s private debt refinancing, a bumper transaction involving 16 credit funds. In the past month, it emerged the software group had called in advisers again for a follow-on deal. The Lawyer understands that this time it was Allen & Overy that got the […]
BCLP makes global cuts in business services
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) is cutting roles in its business services teams globally after an internal audit. The firm is making 47 of its business services positions redundant. The majority of the roles are based in the US with 34 people being made redundant across 17 of its offices in the country. A further […]
Bristows to open in Dublin
Bristows is set to open a hub in Dublin this summer to assist its quest to be the first firm through the doors of the new Unified Patent Court (UPC), opening 1 June 2023. The UPC will be a new patent court common to 17 European Union (EU) member states with exclusive jurisdiction over European […]
Jobs
Top Jobs
