Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has handed the counsel mandate for PCP Capital Partners’ bitterly contested litigation against Barclays to Essex Court Chambers’ Joe Smouha QC. Smouha will now lead Blackstone Chambers’ junior Robert Weekes, instructed by Quinn London co-managing partner Richard East and partner Khaled Khatoun who is leading the case opposite Simmons & Simmons […]
One of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2018 has ended before going to trial as Geldards, Landmark Chambers and Essex Court failed to secure permission for a judicial review into the Brexit referendum. The claimants had hoped to bring a firm challenge but Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Green threw out the claim describing it […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Toby Landau QC is an exemplar of the world-class lawyers the UK exports to the global market. He not only appears for multinational corporations before the UK courts in landmark litigation cases, but also runs an internationally renowned arbitration practice. In 2017 he secured an important arbitration-related decision in the Supreme Court […]
It has been a busy first quarter as several high-profile cases reached judgment. With the Easter recess, giving lawyers and barristers a break, The Lawyer looks at how some of the Top 20 Cases have already panned out. (1) Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Limited, (2) Canary Wharf (BP4) T2 Limited and (3) Canary Wharf Management Limited […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has handed the counsel mandate for PCP Capital Partners’ bitterly contested litigation against Barclays to Essex Court Chambers’ Joe Smouha QC. Smouha will now lead Blackstone Chambers’ junior Robert Weekes, instructed by Quinn London co-managing partner Richard East and partner Khaled Khatoun who is leading the case opposite Simmons & Simmons […]
One of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2018 has ended before going to trial as Geldards, Landmark Chambers and Essex Court failed to secure permission for a judicial review into the Brexit referendum. The claimants had hoped to bring a firm challenge but Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Green threw out the claim describing it […]
Essex Court Chambers’ Toby Landau QC is an exemplar of the world-class lawyers the UK exports to the global market. He not only appears for multinational corporations before the UK courts in landmark litigation cases, but also runs an internationally renowned arbitration practice. In 2017 he secured an important arbitration-related decision in the Supreme Court […]
It has been a busy first quarter as several high-profile cases reached judgment. With the Easter recess, giving lawyers and barristers a break, The Lawyer looks at how some of the Top 20 Cases have already panned out. (1) Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Limited, (2) Canary Wharf (BP4) T2 Limited and (3) Canary Wharf Management Limited […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has been hit with the defection of three insurance partners to Kennedys in a hit to one of its key practice areas. The insurance-focused Kennedys has hired Patrick Foss, Chris Zavos and Jo Ward all of whom were components of Norton Rose Fulbright’s energy team with a specialism in marine disputes and […]
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince have filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition against its former boss. Filed at the end of last week, the petition will seek to force Pragnesh Modhwadia’s bankruptcy, The Lawyer understands, applying to the court for his assets to be taken and sold to pay debts to the administrators. Pinsent Masons […]
Partnership promotions are continuing apace, with three City firms announcing a fresh new set of partners for 2024. Addleshaw Goddard has bumped up 26 lawyers this promotions round, which is the largest number of lawyers to make partner in one go in the firm’s history. The international firm’s partner count now stands at 429. Nine […]
Cooley is set to defend LGBTQ+ social networking and dating app Grindr in a High Court class action launched by Austen Hays, a new collective actions firm owned by Gateley. The claim alleges that Grindr is in breach of UK data protection laws for sharing sensitive data with third parties for commercial purposes without their […]
Norway’s Sands has suffered one of the largest mass defections in its history after six partners left to join Big Five firm Wiersholm in Trondheim. The hires bolster Wiersholm in a range of the firm’s key sectors, including marine law, renewables, technology, real estate and tax. The firm has committed to further growth over the […]
Staff at Baker McKenzie are being encouraged to sit next to co-workers outside their teams, in a bid to stop people from flocking to familiar faces on office days. Bakers’ seating scheme at its new London headquarters 280 Bishopsgate is intended to encourage workers to meet people with whom they would not normally interact. While […]
