Hot 100 alumni: Daniel Friel, King & Spalding
Taxation specialist also leads his firm’s focus on state aid.
Schoenherr advises Goldman Sachs and Highgate Hotels on purchase of K+K Hotels
Schoenherr, alongside Jones Day, advised a consortium led by Goldman Sachs and Highgate Hotels, a leading hospitality investment and management company, in its acquisition, acquisition financing, and debt restructuring of the K+K Hotels Group, which owns and operates a portfolio of 10 boutique hotels located in leading cities across Europe. Closing of the transactions occurred […]
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Project Millennial: following the careers of five young lawyers
Meet the freshly qualified solicitors The Lawyer will be following as they make their way in the legal profession.
Walder Wyss opens offices in Geneva and Lausanne
As of 1 January 2016, our team has been strengthened by a dozen qualified Swiss lawyers who joined Walder Wyss in our new offices in Geneva and Lausanne. We are excited about this move and welcome our new colleagues. Our new partners in Geneva and Lausanne are Philippe Pulfer, Patrick W. Vogel and Nicolas Iynedjian. The team in Geneva […]
Freshfields pay overhaul: lockstep’s swan song?
Last week’s revelation that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was dramatically increasing the number of partners relegated to its “second tier” lockstep structure came as no surprise to those who have for years suggested that the traditional remuneration system was “on the way out” at the magic circle firm.
Hot 100 alumni: Daniel Friel, King & Spalding
Taxation specialist also leads his firm’s focus on state aid.
Schoenherr advises Goldman Sachs and Highgate Hotels on purchase of K+K Hotels
Schoenherr, alongside Jones Day, advised a consortium led by Goldman Sachs and Highgate Hotels, a leading hospitality investment and management company, in its acquisition, acquisition financing, and debt restructuring of the K+K Hotels Group, which owns and operates a portfolio of 10 boutique hotels located in leading cities across Europe. Closing of the transactions occurred […]
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Project Millennial: following the careers of five young lawyers
Meet the freshly qualified solicitors The Lawyer will be following as they make their way in the legal profession.
Walder Wyss opens offices in Geneva and Lausanne
As of 1 January 2016, our team has been strengthened by a dozen qualified Swiss lawyers who joined Walder Wyss in our new offices in Geneva and Lausanne. We are excited about this move and welcome our new colleagues. Our new partners in Geneva and Lausanne are Philippe Pulfer, Patrick W. Vogel and Nicolas Iynedjian. The team in Geneva […]
Barnea & Co represents Espresso Club in George Clooney lookalike case
Barnea & Co is representing Espresso Club in Israel in a litigation with Nespresso. The Nestlé high-end coffee brand is suing its Israeli rival for using an actor with a resemblance to Nespresso ambassador George Clooney in an advert. An advert from Israel’s Espresso Club depicts a Clooney lookalike walking out of a shop carrying what appears […]
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Norton Rose Fulbright debuts ‘legal ops training contract’ for graduates
Norton Rose Fulbright has launched a graduate scheme focusing on legal operations, as law firms continue to rethink the way its services are delivered. The scheme stems out of the firm’s change and innovation program NRF Transform. It will initially offer two roles available from March 2019, followed by four other positions opening next September that […]
Macfarlanes highest-paid profits reach nearly £4m
UK-headquartered firms are beginning to file their LLPs for 2017/18, with Macfarlanes and Linklaters the latest to reveal the financial state of their businesses.
Baker McKenzie designs project to help clients master their data
Baker McKenzie is developing an information governance project to help clients redesign the way they handle data in light of a tighter regulatory framework. The ongoing project, which started last April, is currently led by the firm’s London-based global ediscovery and data advisory managing director Bryant Isbell and Toronto IT partner Theo Ling. The duo […]
4 Pump Court arbitration silk decamps for magic circle set
4 Pump Court silk Alexander Gunning QC has joined magic circle chambers One Essex Court in a key boost to the set’s arbitration group. Gunning was first called to the Bar in 1994, taking silk six years ago with a practice focused heavily on international arbitration, as well as commercial in the energy, insurance, construction […]
Slaughters associates in line for Christmas performance-based bonus and salary boost
Associates at Slaughter and May are in line to pick up Christmas bonuses of up to 14 per cent and will also receive salary raises in the new year. Newly qualified (NQs) will receive an extra 8.25 per cent of their basic salary as a bonus, while 4.5 to 6.5 year PQEs will receive 14 per cent. […]
Former Barclays GC joins EY Riverview Law in first post-acquisition hire
Riverview Law has made its first significant hire since being brought by EY four months ago, appointing a former Barclays general counsel to a new director role. Rob Dinning will be a director of legal function co-sourcing, a new unit within the business that helps global corporations change their operating model to achieve a combination of […]