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Charles Russell Speechlys has made up eight lawyers to partner in London in its latest UK promotions round. The eight new partners are Robert Birchall, Sarah Jane Boon, James Bradford, Sangna Chauhan, Richard Coleman, Jamie Kennaugh, Jonathan McDonald, and Charlotte Pender. The new partners are evenly spread across the firm’s corporate, family, tax and commercial practices. Three […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Kirkland & Ellis are among the firms to have advised on a legal costs dispute between creditors of the Lehman Brothers International collapse. The full line-up of law firms includes Ropes & Gray, Morrison & Foerster and Michelmores. Lehman Brothers creditor Wentworth Sons argued that […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is bringing in a second cohort of startups into its tech space Fuse, which launched in London last year. This will bring the number of tech startups in the Fuse space up to eight: five new companies are joining three of the companies from the first cohort in the space in […]
Taylor Wessing has advised Rutland Partners in the sale of Pizza Hut, six years after the private equity group rescued the chain from the brink of collapse.
Slaughter and May has hired investigations lawyer Wynne Mok in Hong Kong, making her the third partner to join the firm from an external position. Mok joins Slaughters from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, where she has been director of enforcement since 2016. Prior to moving in-house, Mok was a partner in Norton […]
Keystone Law has revealed its first set of financial results since its IPO, posting a 24 per cent uplift in revenue to £31.6m for the 2017 financial year. The increase from £25.6m marks yet another year of double-digit growth for the firm, which has seen its turnover nearly triple since 2012/13 when it reported gains […]