Law Against Loneliness: 17 April
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Eight City lawyers make partner in Freshfields’ 21-strong promotions round
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted eight London lawyers to partner, while also revealing its largest-ever cohort of new US members. All but two of the Freshfields promotions in the City are in its transactions group, with two in disputes (Simon Duncombe and Ali Kirby-Harris are both thought to have trained with the firm). In transactions, […]
Law Against Loneliness: 16 April
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Kraft Heinz creates new international GC title
Kraft Heinz has appointed Thomas Loest in a newly-created role as international general counsel after the departure of its former EMEA GC. Loest joined the food manufacturing giant last July as EMEA general counsel to lead a legal team of 25 lawyers and take over from Victoria White who left Kraft Heinz after five years. […]
Ex-Home Office chief calls on Slater & Gordon and Littleton for Priti Patel claim
Law Against Loneliness: 17 April
How about… a lovely horse?
Eight City lawyers make partner in Freshfields’ 21-strong promotions round
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted eight London lawyers to partner, while also revealing its largest-ever cohort of new US members. All but two of the Freshfields promotions in the City are in its transactions group, with two in disputes (Simon Duncombe and Ali Kirby-Harris are both thought to have trained with the firm). In transactions, […]
Law Against Loneliness: 16 April
Keep going.
Kraft Heinz creates new international GC title
Kraft Heinz has appointed Thomas Loest in a newly-created role as international general counsel after the departure of its former EMEA GC. Loest joined the food manufacturing giant last July as EMEA general counsel to lead a legal team of 25 lawyers and take over from Victoria White who left Kraft Heinz after five years. […]
In-house interview: Crabtree & Evelyn GC Katie Power on the benefits of flexibility
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
Hand your power to the secretaries
Employee ownership makes for more successful firms
Ashurst will be next
You need a couple of attempts to crack America. For Allen & Overy, the O’Melveny negotiation was simply the appetiser before the main course. Ashurst, though, has had a few too many sharing plates. Who can forget the rejection of Latham? The talks with Fried Frank that led to the Ashurst managing partner defecting to […]
Less time for dirty laundry
Hybrid working has been a significant success for Big Law, with lawyers now used to being able to switch between meetings and the domestic chores. Yes, the working day might be longer, but it’s been more productive for both home and work life. Sadly, the washing may begin to pile up again, as new research […]
Four things we learnt from the magic circle’s promotions this year
All the magic circle’s partner promotions are in for 2023, so what’s interesting about those made up in London this year? Here are a few points that jump out. The magic circle is even less Oxbridgey than ever Just 30 per cent of the 46 new magic circle partners this year hailed from Cambridge (seven) […]
DACB should take a gamble on Vegas
Dodgy-looking characters losing thousands in the casino, sky-high fountain displays dancing in front of glitzy hotels, and George Clooney with his 11-strong mob breaking into vaults are sights you expect to witness in Las Vegas. And a recent holiday to Sin City did not disappoint – except the Clooney part, unfortunately. What was unexpected was […]
Freshfields increases trainee recruitment back to 2009 levels
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will begin recruiting 100 trainees per year for the first time since 2009, reversing years of decreases. The qualifying cohort of 2022 was only 73 strong, but the firm has been gradually expanding its recruitment levels once more. Last year it was on the hunt for 90 trainees to begin in 2024, […]
CMS corporate partner exits for A&O
Allen & Overy is set to replenish its infrastructure and private equity ranks with the hire of a partner from CMS. Edward Holmes has spent a year and a half at CMS and joined in January 2022 as a partner. He previously spent nearly 12 years at Clifford Chance, where he was a senior associate. His […]
Freshfields and Kirkland guide £4.5bn PE buyout of Dechra
DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Kirkland & Ellis have all advised on the £4.5bn cash buyout of veterinary pharmaceutical company Dechra. EQT and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority subsidiary Luxinva have purchased Dechra in one of the largest private deals of the year to date. Kirkland corporate partners Roger Johnson, Dipak Bhundia and Francesca Harris […]
DAC Beachcroft back-pedals on sale of claims group
DAC Beachcroft is reconsidering the sale of its Claims Solutions Group (CSG) following the news the firm was in talks with a private equity fund. The firm was in negotiations with London-based Limerston Capital in April over buying the CSG following a strategic review. However, a firm spokesperson has now said: “Following a strategic review […]
City talk: The market is waking up and Latham is cashing in
Despite a febrile mood across the equity capital markets sector, Latham & Watkins and Clifford Chance have won one of the largest listing mandates for 2023. We Soda this week announced its intention to apply for admission of its shares to the premium segment of the official list of the FCA and trading on the […]
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