Shearman & Sterling has hired long-serving project finance partner David Clinch from Herbert Smith Freehills to replenish its projects team in Singapore. The appointment is one of a few senior level hires made by Shearman & Sterling in the city state in recent years. Clinch joins the US firm as a partner following a 27-year […]
Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) has brought in a Paul Hastings lawyer to kickstart a City funds practice, while also replenishing its real estate practice with a Gowling WLG team. The practice will focus on real estate funds, private equity funds and pensions funds. Paul Hastings associate Steven Ward is joining as partner, having first arrived […]
Clifford Chance is spearheading a strategy that will see its Continental European offices brought into a single profit and loss account, The Lawyer can reveal. The project, internally known as ‘One Europe’, has been developed by the firm’s senior leadership in a bid to treat its offices across the UK and Continental Europe as a single team, […]
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Shearman & Sterling has hired long-serving project finance partner David Clinch from Herbert Smith Freehills to replenish its projects team in Singapore. The appointment is one of a few senior level hires made by Shearman & Sterling in the city state in recent years. Clinch joins the US firm as a partner following a 27-year […]
Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) has brought in a Paul Hastings lawyer to kickstart a City funds practice, while also replenishing its real estate practice with a Gowling WLG team. The practice will focus on real estate funds, private equity funds and pensions funds. Paul Hastings associate Steven Ward is joining as partner, having first arrived […]
Clifford Chance is spearheading a strategy that will see its Continental European offices brought into a single profit and loss account, The Lawyer can reveal. The project, internally known as ‘One Europe’, has been developed by the firm’s senior leadership in a bid to treat its offices across the UK and Continental Europe as a single team, […]
Kirkland & Ellis has been changing its hiring strategy for corporate partners.
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Simpson Thacher has boosted its London NQ pay as it joins the wave of pay rise announcements from its rivals. According to a source familiar with the firm, classes of 2021/2020 will receive a starting pay of $205,000, with the class of 2013 at $365,000. London lawyers will also receive “proportionate salary increases”. Earlier this […]
Ashurst has become the latest firm to increase the base rate for its UK newly-qualified solicitors. The firm has now made £90,000 its NQ base salary. Last summer, as it confronted the effects of Covid-19, Ashurst froze NQ pay at £84,000. In November last year it was increased to £85,500. In 2019 Ashurst had upped […]
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