Four joined, now two remain. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher stated boldly its UK corporate intentions in 2014 with the hire of an Ashurst corporate quartet, but just half of the group remain as partners. What next?
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table with considerable revenue growth.
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
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 […]
Four joined, now two remain. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher stated boldly its UK corporate intentions in 2014 with the hire of an Ashurst corporate quartet, but just half of the group remain as partners. What next?
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table with considerable revenue growth.
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
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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Greenberg Traurig has reeled back tax partner Clive Jones, just a year and a half after he left for DLA Piper. Jones returns to Greenberg after first joining in 2016, as part of the diaspora from King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) UK collapse. He opted to move to Greenberg as part of a six partner team, […]
Kennedys has launched a separate technology venture to sell digital products, as it eyes big profits in alternative streams of income. The new company, called Kennedys IQ, focuses exclusively on product development and aims to help clients deal with internal legal matters and insurance claims without the need to involve external lawyers. It will trade […]
In a bid to make further inroads into the UK’s burgeoning media litigation market, Stewarts Law has hired from the in-house team of consumer group Which? Emily Cox, the former head of media law at the group, follows in the footsteps of Ryan Dunleavy, who previously joined DMG Media back in January 2019, with the […]
Latham & Watkins has snared another partner from the magic circle, bringing on board a corporate rising star from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. London-based Sam Newhouse has departed Freshfields after spending his entire legal career at the magic circle firm. Having joined in 2003 as a trainee and later becoming an associate, he was made up […]
Ex-Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Ryan Beckwith is to appeal the £35,000 fine handed down by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal last year. In his SDT hearing last year, Beckwith was found to have initiated and/or engaged in sexual activity with Person A in circumstances in which he was in a position of seniority and/or authority. The […]
Ashurst has planted its flag on the West Coast of the US, launching a second office in the country in Los Angeles. The new office will open in Santa Monica and will focus predominantly on projects and project finance work in the transport and social infrastructure sectors. It will be headed by partner Anna Hermelin, […]
