Goodwin hires from CMS for fledgling Luxembourg office
US firm Goodwin has added CMS’s head of tax in Luxembourg to grow its new office in the European financial hub.
Second win for Warne as CMS wraps leadership elections
Penelope Warne has secured a new term as the senior partner of CMS’s UK LLP, extending her reign until 2024.
CMS’s corporate lawyers set to benefit from salary uplift
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang bumped up the salaries of its corporate lawyers this month, it has emerged, a day after it was confirmed the firm would be losing its UK private equity head to Goodwin Procter. The pay packets for London lawyers in the corporate team are understood to have been reviewed by the […]
CMS’s private equity head exits for Goodwin
Goodwin Procter’s private equity group in London have secured the hire of CMS’s practice head James Grimwood. Grimwood has been a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna since 2007 and played a pivotal role in the setting up of the firm’s Mayfair office. Appearing in The Lawyer Hot 100 for 2016, Grimwood saw an opportunity to grow […]
CMS reorganises in Luxembourg with Dentons team hire
Central and Eastern Europe: supporting a new phase of growth
Availability of financing, the rush to digitalisation and growth of renewables all ensure that the region will keep on growing in 2020
Goodwin hires from CMS for fledgling Luxembourg office
US firm Goodwin has added CMS’s head of tax in Luxembourg to grow its new office in the European financial hub.
Second win for Warne as CMS wraps leadership elections
Penelope Warne has secured a new term as the senior partner of CMS’s UK LLP, extending her reign until 2024.
CMS’s corporate lawyers set to benefit from salary uplift
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang bumped up the salaries of its corporate lawyers this month, it has emerged, a day after it was confirmed the firm would be losing its UK private equity head to Goodwin Procter. The pay packets for London lawyers in the corporate team are understood to have been reviewed by the […]
CMS’s private equity head exits for Goodwin
Goodwin Procter’s private equity group in London have secured the hire of CMS’s practice head James Grimwood. Grimwood has been a partner at CMS Cameron McKenna since 2007 and played a pivotal role in the setting up of the firm’s Mayfair office. Appearing in The Lawyer Hot 100 for 2016, Grimwood saw an opportunity to grow […]
MoFo kicks off US reporting season with 25 per cent City uplift
Morrison & Foerster’s (MoFo) London office grew its revenue by 25 per cent for the second year running, with its turnover for the City increasing from £30.9m to £38.6m. The performance follows a repositioning of the firm in the City achieved through a series of profitable mandates and tactical lateral hires. It also mirrors the […]
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Proskauer City turnover soars after growth of 18 per cent
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Freshfields client defends choice to instruct firm amid cum-ex scandal
German listed Infineon has defended its choice to instruct Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, after one of its shareholders challenged the decision’s ethical standards due to the magic circle firm’s involvement in the cum-ex scandal. The shareholder, named Jakob Ziemes of J. Ziemes Mineralölhandel GmbH, raised the concerns to Infineon Technologies AG’s upcoming general meeting in a […]
City trio take lead on Jupiter’s £390m funds acquisition
Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and Clifford Chance have won mandates on the consolidation of two UK asset managers, Jupiter Fund Management and Merian Global Investors. Clifford Chance acted for the buyer Jupiter, which acquired Merian for some £390m, creating a retail funds manager with just over £60bn of assets under management. Corporate partner David Pudge led […]
SRA mystified as LPC pass rates go haywire
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has found huge discrepancies in Legal Practice Course (LPC) pass rates across the country in its annual quality assurance report. In the 2017/18 academic year, pass rates ranged from as high as 100 per cent to as low as 29 per cent depending on where students study. The overall pass […]
Freshfields recruits White & Case trio in Brussels
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has brought in a three-lawyer team in Brussels to strengthen its disputes practice. White & Case partner Nathalie Colin makes the move to the magic circle firm’s Belgian office after four years with her previous firm. She will join Freshfields together with principal associates Alexandre Hublet and Nino De Lathauwer. Colin specialises […]