Addleshaw Goddard has kickstarted a new three-year strategy for its Middle Eastern arm, aiming to have 70 staff across the region as well as breaking into Saudi Arabia. Led by its head of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Andrew Greaves, the firm will now look to build out of its three existing offices having launched in […]
Mayer Brown financial services client UBS has seen its final appeal fail in the Supreme Court, bringing to an end a long-running dispute with German water company Kommunale Wasserwerke Leipzig (KWL).
Addleshaw Goddard has made its second senior international hire in a week as the firm has named Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw PIttman Middle East and Dubai head Ahmad Anani to head up its operation in Qatar.
Addleshaw Goddard’s domestic push in 2018 has continued with a nine-strong promotion round, featuring just two new partners in its overseas offices.
Addleshaw Goddard was formed from the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co and Theordore Goddard in 2003. The former was Northern and ambitious, with plenty of heft in Manchester and Leeds, especially for corporate, finance and property work. By contrast, Theodore Goddard was a mid-size London firm with a pleasant atmosphere, some interesting media and […]
Addleshaw Goddard has advised JD Sports on the acquisition of US athletic retailer Finish Line, in a deal valued at nearly £400m ($558m).
As the firm continues its infrastructure push in the UK, Addleshaw Goddard has made a six-partner hire from Irwin Mitchell in Manchester, including regional real estate head Anita Weightman.
Addleshaw Goddard has pledged to increase its top of equity to £1m by 2019, after its highest paid partner received £936,000 last year, according to LLP accounts. The account filings also show revenue soared to its highest level since 2008 as turnover rose 12 per cent from £167.2m to £186.9m. The firm’s slimmed down global partnership also […]
Too focused on the top line; a haphazard international strategy; no strategic direction. How will the firm answer its critics?
The down-to-earth approach of Addleshaw Goddard’s new managing partner John Joyce may be just what his firm needs. When Joyce took up the reins as managing partner at Addleshaw Goddard the firm appeared to be juddering from one negative story to the next, be that embarrassing internal accounting errors or a sense of a mounting […]