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The FSCS’s James Darbyshire uses his panel to secure value-for-money solutions for those wronged by financial institutions
A former City partner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has joined financial institution Lazard as a senior adviser. Christopher Mallon, who retired from the firm at the end 2018, joined Skadden in 2007 as European restructuring head from Weil Gotshal & Manges. He was joined five years after by another former Weil restructuring partner, […]
Boies Schiller Flexner has lost 13 disputes partners in the US to Atlanta-founded King & Spalding. The 13-strong team will mainly be joining King & Spalding’s trial and investigations team in Los Angeles, with one, Quyen Ta, joining the firm’s San Francisco office. The partners joining in LA are David Willingham, Albert Giang, Luan Tran, […]
Reed Smith has added to an extensive set of financial management measures designed to face the hurdles brought about by Covid-19, this time addressing partners’ bonuses. Equity partners have agreed to have their bonuses split in two, cashing in half of the amount on the regularly scheduled payment date and the remaining part three months […]
The FSCS’s James Darbyshire uses his panel to secure value-for-money solutions for those wronged by financial institutions
A former City partner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has joined financial institution Lazard as a senior adviser. Christopher Mallon, who retired from the firm at the end 2018, joined Skadden in 2007 as European restructuring head from Weil Gotshal & Manges. He was joined five years after by another former Weil restructuring partner, […]
Boies Schiller Flexner has lost 13 disputes partners in the US to Atlanta-founded King & Spalding. The 13-strong team will mainly be joining King & Spalding’s trial and investigations team in Los Angeles, with one, Quyen Ta, joining the firm’s San Francisco office. The partners joining in LA are David Willingham, Albert Giang, Luan Tran, […]
Reed Smith has added to an extensive set of financial management measures designed to face the hurdles brought about by Covid-19, this time addressing partners’ bonuses. Equity partners have agreed to have their bonuses split in two, cashing in half of the amount on the regularly scheduled payment date and the remaining part three months […]
Amjad Rihan’s excruciating seven-year wait for vindication came to an end last week, as he succeeded in a landmark whistleblowing dispute with the help of a 4 New Square silk. Pitted against the global accountancy giant EY, Rihan’s legal team pulled off a remarkable result as the High Court awarded him $11m after ruling that […]
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Despite rising profits firms are increasingly looking for ways beyond money to attract people
While some of London’s smaller firms are vanishing, there are plenty more where they came from
A post-merger review gave BCLP a set of goals, but the results so far are mixed
As it edges closer to the £100m revenue mark, PwC Legal is looking for growth in the regions
Partnership demographics in Asia are changing, but the pace is glacial
Hogan Lovells is in talks to take on 280,000 square feet in a development opposite its Atlantic House headquarters. The firm is understood to have set its sights on Royal London’s upcoming Holborn Viaduct scheme, which comprises Kimberley House (14-21 Holborn Viaduct), Meridian House and 32 Farringdon Street. Altogether, the scheme covers 387,000 square feet, […]
Another private equity house has taken its first foray into the legal sector with the acquisition of a UK200 firm. Consumer firm Fletchers Solicitors has been acquired by an affiliate of Sun European Partners. The private equity business looks for “defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities” and focuses on the business […]
Bolt is embarking on a wide-scale panel review as it expands into new regions and business verticals. Having put a mini panel in place in May this year, the Tallinn-headquartered ride-hailing app will begin looking to assemble a formal panel in early 2022. Though the current panel is largely UK and Western Europe-focused, the new […]
The Ince Group is purchasing corporate advisory business Arden Partners for a proposed £10m, as the listed firm once the again enters the M&A scene. The acquisition should close in the first quarter of 2021. The acquisition of Arden by Ince will value each Arden share at approximately 31 pence. Upon completion of the transaction, […]
Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Reed Smith are lined up on IKEA’s £378m acquisition of Topshop’s former flagship store on Oxford Street. Ingka Investments, IKEA’s largest owner and operator, has agreed to purchase the sprawling property at 214 Oxford Street. The crowning jewel in Philip Green’s Arcadia empire, Topshop’s 100,000-sq ft-store was vacated in December last year. […]
Slaughter and May partners will be able to invest their own money in tech startups enrolled in the firm’s incubator programme. It is the first time Slaughters gives its partnership opportunities for direct investment in companies involved in its 2019-launched Collaborate accelerator, which next year kicks off its third edition. Collaborate cohort members will be […]
