
FTSE 250 legal teams: the GCs driving the £60bn UK deals market
Responsibilities of lawyers at FTSE 250 firms are expanding while budgets are shrinking
FTSE 100 snapshot: The 10 biggest changes facing in-house teams this year
FTSE 100 legal departments may be changing, with more female representation, but the ever-increasing pressure on external firms is a familiar story
How these FTSE 100 lawyers are triumphing in the face of “do more with less”
Financial pressures, crystal ball gazing and market uncertainty all play their part in making the job of leading a legal department a huge challenge. In this roundtable, lawyers from FTSE 100 companies debate legal operations efficiencies in the face of the challenge to ‘do more with less’. At a morning roundtable in London in association with […]
Relationship capital: The FTSE 250’s favourite law firms
Slaughter and May is the law firm with the closest relationship with the FTSE250, advising 44 constituent companies, research gathered from new relationship management tool The Lawyer Market Intelligence has shown. The FTSE 250 is a barometer of UK performance. While it is less global than the FTSE 100, its reduced emphasis on financial services […]
City trio lead the way as Sainsbury’s confirms £10bn ASDA deal
Linklaters, Slaughter and May and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher have won the top roles on Sainsbury’s shock £10bn merger talks with Asda. Sainsbury’s is being advised by Linklaters partners Iain Fenn and Michael Honan, as well as managing associate Margot Lindsay. Competition aspects of the deal are being led by partner Nicole Kar and Simon […]