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Two partners are set to leave Mishcon de Reya for Greenberg Traurig, in a rare loss for the City firm. Partners Masoud Zabeti and Mohammed Khamisa QC have been hired by the London office of Greenberg. Zabeti has been a longtime partner at the UK firm, having led its finance and banking litigation practice for more […]
Kirkland & Ellis, Jones Day, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Gowling WLG have all picked up roles on Blackstone’s acquisition of iQ Student Accommodation for $4.7bn. The deal, which is said to be the UK’s largest-ever private real estate transaction, had been in play since late last year when Blackstone is understood to have first […]
The Hot 100, in association with AlixPartners and Saunderson House, gathers together the profession’s brightest stars of 2020.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is to extend and refurbish its London office space, following a record 2019 in revenues in the City. The US firm has taken on an extra floor in its CityPoint home and has started its refurbishment of all of its space, which will include the redoing of offices and a new […]
A dispute between two airline companies – Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa – takes centre stage this week in a dispute over jet engine contracts.
Two partners are set to leave Mishcon de Reya for Greenberg Traurig, in a rare loss for the City firm. Partners Masoud Zabeti and Mohammed Khamisa QC have been hired by the London office of Greenberg. Zabeti has been a longtime partner at the UK firm, having led its finance and banking litigation practice for more […]
Kirkland & Ellis, Jones Day, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Gowling WLG have all picked up roles on Blackstone’s acquisition of iQ Student Accommodation for $4.7bn. The deal, which is said to be the UK’s largest-ever private real estate transaction, had been in play since late last year when Blackstone is understood to have first […]
The Hot 100, in association with AlixPartners and Saunderson House, gathers together the profession’s brightest stars of 2020.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is to extend and refurbish its London office space, following a record 2019 in revenues in the City. The US firm has taken on an extra floor in its CityPoint home and has started its refurbishment of all of its space, which will include the redoing of offices and a new […]
Slaughter and May and Pinsent Masons are acting on a proposed £500m merger between Countrywide and LSL, which would create the UK’s biggest property group. Corporate partner Richard Smith is leading the Slaughters team acting for Countrywide, alongside associate Harry Hecht. Smith is the firm’s client relationship partner for Countrywide, and has acted for the […]
New Mexico isn’t the place to be looking for referral relationships.
Law firms will need to consider their values if tensions between US and China continue to escalate
One judge is behind a spate of high-profile rulings
The magic circle has been usurped by the US ‘giants’ when it comes to corporate practice
Recent salary hikes have meant that several City firms’ NQ pay is higher than the PEP of some regional firms
Big deals mean big business. But as the Twitter saga shows, there’s also the potential for a dispute.
Clyde & Co’s total revenue climbed 1.6 per cent from £639.6m to £650m over 2021/22, as revealed in its first set of financial results since the BLM merger was finalised earlier this year. Net profit increased 4 per cent from £152.8 to £159m, while profit per equity partner (PEP) dipped 1 per cent from £715,000 […]
Linklaters’ revenue has risen 6.5 per cent to £1.78bn, a better result for the magic circle firm after its modest results last year. The results contrast with those posted for the financial year 2020/21, in which turnover went up by just 2 per cent to £1.67bn. Average profit per equity partner (PEP) continues to rise […]
Evelyn Partners has hired Charlotte Davies of Provident Financial Group as its next GC. Having spent three years as group GC and company secretary at Provident, she replaces Evelyn’s current GC Nicola Mitford-Slade who is retiring from the role. Davies will begin her new position on 1 September 2022. Davies trained at magic circle firm […]
Two former heads of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are involved in bringing a £9.9bn anti-trust class action against four major crypto currency exchanges. An estimated 240,000 UK investors of cryptocurrency Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) are claimed to have suffered £9.9bn in losses after trading platforms Binance, Kraken, ShapeShift and Bittylicious delisted the BSV […]
DAC Beachcroft has begun reducing its real estate across the UK, as it prioritises flexibility over office floorspace, The Lawyer can reveal. The insurance firm recently refurbished and reduced its Birmingham base from three floors to two, while moving its growing Glasgow operation to a smaller site. The firm is mid-process of relocating its Newcastle […]
Dentons has added £31m to its top-line across the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME), bringing its total revenue to £260.4m. The uptick of 14 per cent from £229.1m is a significant improvement on 2020/21, when revenue nudged up by just 1 per cent. Speaking to The Lawyer, Dentons’ CEO for UKIME Paul Jarvis said: “The […]
