The lean years barely lasted. The financial crisis, beginning with the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007 and then Bear Stearns and Lehman the following year, spooked the legal profession.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is to represent PCP Capital Partners in its £1.2bn dispute with Barclays over a controversial $3bn loan it received from Qatar in 2008.
Baker McKenzie head of capital markets Adam Farlow recalls the mood in the City during the most terrible days of the global financial crisis.
With one of the City’s most revered finance practices, Allen & Overy (A&O) was on call for many of its banking clients post-Lehman. Co-head of banking Philip Bowden looks back on how the crisis was a turning point for the firm’s lawyers.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison chairman Brad Karp talks to The Lawyer about what law firm leaders can learn from the crisis. In many respects, the financial crisis feels like a lifetime ago; in others, it feels like just yesterday. The economic upheaval brought about by the crisis created secular change, the repercussions of […]
Slaughter and May head of equity capital markets Nilufer von Bismarck was one of the large group of partners fielded by the firm advising HM Treasury during the global financial crisis.
Since the start of the global financial crisis, inbound UK M&A volumes have surpassed levels posted pre-2007 just once, new data shows.
Former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel shares his insights into the impact of the global financial crisis with The Lawyer.
Gibson Dunn London head of corporate Charlie Geffen talks to The Lawyer about his experience during the global financial crisis and what law firms should learn from the last 10 years as part of our global financial crisis coverage.
A decade since the global financial crisis, UK 200 has underlined the extent to which international expansion via office openings and laterals has driven the financial fortunes of a swathe of mid-tier firms.
Paul Hastings partner David Ereira acted for Lehman Brothers administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers while he was at Linklaters in 2009. Here, he tells the story behind the collapse and what we can learn from it almost a decade later.
Ten years ago this week, Northern Rock collapsed. It was the start of the global financial crisis in the UK – the effects of which are still felt now.