White & Case instructed an external investigation led by a QC, The Lawyer understands, after rising tensions in its City office and is now set to launch a programme aimed at improving firm culture. Sources said the firm is to address internal tensions that have arisen in the past year as a result of an […]
Costa Coffee has appointed a new general counsel following the retirement of former GC Russell Fairhurst. Long-serving in-house lawyer Fairhurst had been GC at Costa since 2018, upon its sale from Whitbread to Coca Cola. He had been at Whitbread for 26 years, including serving as legal director and deputy company secretary for nearly 22 […]
RBG Holdings’ £30m acquisition of Memery Crystal could lead to a working separation at the listed company as CEO Nicola Foulston lays out her plans to split contentious and non-contentious work between brands. Foulston told The Lawyer that her long-term idea for the group is for Rosenblatt to take control of disputes and for Memery […]
DWF is looking to practise again in Singapore one year after it closed its local office as a result of the pandemic, as well as expanding into South Africa. The listed business is reopening via an association with local firm Eldan Law, almost one year after it shut its local outpost and retreated from other […]
White & Case instructed an external investigation led by a QC, The Lawyer understands, after rising tensions in its City office and is now set to launch a programme aimed at improving firm culture. Sources said the firm is to address internal tensions that have arisen in the past year as a result of an […]
Costa Coffee has appointed a new general counsel following the retirement of former GC Russell Fairhurst. Long-serving in-house lawyer Fairhurst had been GC at Costa since 2018, upon its sale from Whitbread to Coca Cola. He had been at Whitbread for 26 years, including serving as legal director and deputy company secretary for nearly 22 […]
RBG Holdings’ £30m acquisition of Memery Crystal could lead to a working separation at the listed company as CEO Nicola Foulston lays out her plans to split contentious and non-contentious work between brands. Foulston told The Lawyer that her long-term idea for the group is for Rosenblatt to take control of disputes and for Memery […]
DWF is looking to practise again in Singapore one year after it closed its local office as a result of the pandemic, as well as expanding into South Africa. The listed business is reopening via an association with local firm Eldan Law, almost one year after it shut its local outpost and retreated from other […]
The Kingdom of Denmark, represented by Pinsent Masons, has been granted one strand of its appeal in the mammoth SKAT case, after a High Court strike-out last month. Following the appeal lodged by Pinsents on behalf of the Danish Tax Authority (SKAT), the claimant was successful in challenging the original decision – but only against […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
1 May is a big day for many in the legal industry, not just the thousands of people at Allen & Overy and Shearman who have now combined officially. Scores of lawyers become partners today after a wave of promotions, meaning that also – in the great circle of life – plenty of veterans are […]
The significance of the unstoppable growth of US-headquartered firms in London isn’t solely about jaw-dropping scale, although the size of headcount and revenue at some of these big City beasts is truly head-turning. Notably, several US firms have doubled down on their investment in London of late, and not just Paul Weiss. While the New […]
It has been over four years since the UK first went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s four years since the world went crazy and stocked up on toilet roll, since staff had to bundle up their laptops and work on makeshift garden furniture desks, and since most of the nation actually looked […]
We’re all watching eagerly for the changes coming at Allen & Overy on 1 May as its merger with Shearman & Sterling finally goes live. But Addleshaws has its own significant change that day. Next Wednesday, Andrew Johnston will officially kick off his tenure as managing partner with longstanding incumbent John Joyce stepping aside. Addleshaws […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited from Paul Hastings’s finance team, expanding its partnership ranks in the City to nine. The small City outfit has hired Luke McDougall from Paul Hastings. McDougall focuses on UK and cross-border acquisition finance and restructuring, acting for senior lenders, junior lenders and borrower groups on a variety of capital […]
Having returned to the legal market after seven years in retirement, Graham White has been named as senior partner of McDermott Will & Emery’s London office, along with a new managing partner. Private equity lawyer White, who joined McDermott this year after leaving Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in 2017, has taken on the […]
A week after losing a private equity duo, Travers Smith is set for another partner exit – this time from its infrastructure finance team to Sidley Austin. Partner Ben Thompson has exited the firm and is joining Sidley Austin. Thompson joined the firm in September 2021 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was a […]
Manchester United’s interim CEO and general counsel has left following another shake-up within the club’s executive ranks. Patrick Stewart served as general counsel at the club for over 18 years and stepped into the interim CEO role at the end of last year following the departure of Richard Arnold. Stewart completed his legal training at Burness and qualified in […]
Iberian firm Uría Menéndez will close in New York when its Park Avenue lease expires, after more than three decades in the US. The firm runs with a small staff in New York of just three lawyers, led by office managing partner and corporate lawyer José Félix Zaldivar. Uría Menéndez felt its US strategy would […]
