Latham & Watkins partner Ayesha Waheed has left the firm after over a decade to join Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ London office. Waheed joined Latham in 2008 from Clifford Chance, where she had spent three years as a foreign lawyer in the banking and finance department of its Frankfurt office. She focused on project finance, […]
White & Case has lost its second partner this month, with a member of its asset finance team leaving the US firm to join Winston & Strawn. Alison Weal has been at White & Case since 2007, having been at Watson Farley & Williams prior to that. Made partner in 2014, Weal was a member […]
Energy and services company Centrica is to axe roles from its legal function, as part of the company’s wide-scale job cuts due to challenges in the energy market. The owner of British Gas and FTSE 100 constituent yesterday announced that it plans to cut around 700 management and back office jobs this summer, although the […]
The EV Network (EVN), a specialist in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, has appointed a former Addleshaw Goddard partner as its first general counsel. Simon Courie moves in-house to EVN after a 20-year career in private practice. He was formerly an infrastructure, projects and energy lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard, making partner in 2015. He joined the […]
There are eight firms in the running for this year’s Energy and Infrastructure prize at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers. Here are the deals that merited them a place on the shortlist. Norton Rose Fulbright saw through the financing of innogy SE’s £2bn 860MW Triton Knoll Wind Farm. As one of the world’s […]
Litigation funders live and breathe disputes, but this was not the sort of dispute Burford Capital was used to. On August 8, Burford’s share price plunged 66 per cent after a ferocious attack from San Francisco-based hedge fund Muddy Waters, whose founder Carson Black questioned the accuracy of the funders accounting practices. Black described the […]
Just down the road from CMS and Linklaters,one of the most venerable firms in Lisbon is undergoing a shake-up that has left the local market dazed.
This summer has seen another round of big pay rises for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors: here’s the wider context.
Thomson Reuters’ acquisition of HighQ was the natural next step for a growing start-up and will be seen as the latest test case in legal tech consolidation.
There are five reasons why Mishcon is likely to opt for an IPO, and while it would certainly shift the firm away from its reliance on partner capital and bank debt, none of those reasons is actually about the availability of cash.
The case-funding world is a fiendishly complex one. The Lawyer hears from two industry figures who believe more should be done to educate legal teams about the benefits of this external help
As an incubator for legal tech and research, DWF Ventures has creativity at its core and with Jonathan Patterson as its leader, looks set to be a true sector disruptor
Acting for UK corporates is the biggest challenge for US outfits in the City, but for the meantime, they’re not breaking out of their lucrative PE bubble. This is in spite of firms such as White & Case and Latham & Watkins going out into the market and hiring big-name magic circle stars from public […]
Is the system conspiring against female barristers? We weigh up the evidence, using data on cases at both the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Court of Appeal
