Dechert has promoted two lawyers to the City this year in a round of 11, following a record high year in 2018. Craig Borthwick in financial services and Smridhi Gulati in corporate and securities were the two associates given the nod in London’s Dechert office, effective 1 January 2020. Gulati joined the US firm in […]
The Serious Fraud Office has said Dechert should have to pay more than £3m in damages if the ENRC’s claim against the pair is successful, in what is the latest development in an increasingly bitter dispute. The ENRC has been under investigation from the SFO since 2013, but has made several allegations since about how […]
Jones Day has been drafted in to represent Kazakh mining company ENRC after it was accused of instructing an intelligence company to spy on Dechert partner Neil Gerrard, while also threatening to “go after everyone involved with him”. In the latest twist of an increasingly bitter row between Gerrard and his former client ENRC, new […]
A High Court judge has ruled that Dechert can inspect privileged documents pertaining to the ENRC and SFO’s case, but only in a redacted form.
Dechert has promoted two lawyers to the City this year in a round of 11, following a record high year in 2018. Craig Borthwick in financial services and Smridhi Gulati in corporate and securities were the two associates given the nod in London’s Dechert office, effective 1 January 2020. Gulati joined the US firm in […]
The Serious Fraud Office has said Dechert should have to pay more than £3m in damages if the ENRC’s claim against the pair is successful, in what is the latest development in an increasingly bitter dispute. The ENRC has been under investigation from the SFO since 2013, but has made several allegations since about how […]
Jones Day has been drafted in to represent Kazakh mining company ENRC after it was accused of instructing an intelligence company to spy on Dechert partner Neil Gerrard, while also threatening to “go after everyone involved with him”. In the latest twist of an increasingly bitter row between Gerrard and his former client ENRC, new […]
A High Court judge has ruled that Dechert can inspect privileged documents pertaining to the ENRC and SFO’s case, but only in a redacted form.
Addleshaw Goddard has hired a restructuring partner from Dechert, its first London lateral recruit in months as it bids to boost the practice. Restructuring partner Paul Fleming has left the US firm’s London-based business restructuring and reorganisation practice after almost four years. As part of his practice, Fleming advises clients such as creditors and lenders […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
On Tuesday last week (9 April), the SRA sought to quell a rising tide of discontent around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). In its most recent SQE annual report, SRA chief executive Paul Philip said the public and profession could have “confidence” in this “rigorous assessment”. That confidence was short-lived. Yesterday (15 April), Philip was […]
For one firm, the pan-Nordic dream is dead. For another, it’s just begun. Hannes Snellman’s announcement that its Stockholm and Helsinki offices will be going their separate ways later this year represented the end of a strategic gamble that started 16 years ago. Back then, its leadership bet that opening in Stockholm (2008) and Copenhagen […]
It seems that one of the chief attributes of managing partners is wild optimism. You can’t move for law firm leaders committing their firms to hardcore five-year targets – particularly in the upper mid-tier, where we’re hearing of plans to double or even triple revenues by the end of the decade. We’d like some of […]
What do Southend-on-Sea and Slough have in common? The answer is that they are the largest urban settlements in Britain without a UK200 law firm. The denizens of these benighted places have to make do without so much as a solitary capital markets lawyer to keep the wheels of commerce turning. Can you imagine? Perhaps […]
Dentons has promoted 12 lawyers to partner in the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) this year, including nine partners in London. Of the remaining three promotions, two were made in Glasgow and one was made in Abu Dhabi. Most of the promotions have been made in the projects team, with Claudia Thomas and Graham […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up 23 lawyers to partner globally in its smallest round for three years. Last year, the magic circle promoted 30 to partnership worldwide, with 27 making the grade in 2022. There were 22 elevations in 2021. As a result, the London set is also slightly smaller than in previous years. […]
The Lawyer‘s Christian Smith, Catrin Griffiths, Richard Simmons, Katy Dowell and Charlotte Lear are joined by College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor for this emergency episode of The Lawyer Podcast as they discuss the latest Solicitors Qualification Exam debacle: marking errors that led to 175 students being incorrectly told they had failed. What went […]
Fieldfisher is bolstering its German presence with a sizeable team from local firm SKW Schwartz and a handful of other hires, in an effort to expand its media, technology and IP offerings. The firm has hired eight lawyers from SKW Schwarz including partners Martin Diesbach, Elisabeth Noltenius and Julia Schafdecker, all of whom specialise in […]
Debevoise & Plimpton is hiring from Goodwin Procter as it adds a new partner to its London investment funds team. Shawn D’Aguiar is switching to a new US firm in London eight years after joining Goodwin from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). He was part of a four-partner team move led by then funds head Michael […]
