Fraud prevention specialist Cifas has hired a new general counsel from listed fraud prevention giant GBG. Natasha Maddock will join Cifas as its new general counsel in September 2023, having previously worked as group head of legal for GBG. Cifas is a fraud prevention service, operating as the UK’s largest cross-sector fraud sharing database. Maddock […]
Glass manufacturer levels conspiracy allegations against former family owners German glass manufacturer Vandaglas – previously AEQUITA – has been on an expansion spree since 2019, acquiring and taking over glass makers in the Netherlands, Austria, the UK, and Switzerland in the last five years alone, cementing itself as a giant in the European industry. However, […]
Mishcon de Reya has swooped for interim talent provider Flex Legal as it continues to build out its alternative services offering. Flex Legal was set up seven years ago by Mary Bonsor and James Moore as an online flexible resourcing business and is thought to have attracted over 6,000 lawyers and paralegals to its platform. […]
Russian aircraft claims grow with new major lessor The Russian aircraft claims, involving over 70 insurance disputes launched by aircraft lessors over planes held in Russia since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2024, and with good reason. These mammoth claims have over £10bn […]
Fraud prevention specialist Cifas has hired a new general counsel from listed fraud prevention giant GBG. Natasha Maddock will join Cifas as its new general counsel in September 2023, having previously worked as group head of legal for GBG. Cifas is a fraud prevention service, operating as the UK’s largest cross-sector fraud sharing database. Maddock […]
Glass manufacturer levels conspiracy allegations against former family owners German glass manufacturer Vandaglas – previously AEQUITA – has been on an expansion spree since 2019, acquiring and taking over glass makers in the Netherlands, Austria, the UK, and Switzerland in the last five years alone, cementing itself as a giant in the European industry. However, […]
Mishcon de Reya has swooped for interim talent provider Flex Legal as it continues to build out its alternative services offering. Flex Legal was set up seven years ago by Mary Bonsor and James Moore as an online flexible resourcing business and is thought to have attracted over 6,000 lawyers and paralegals to its platform. […]
Russian aircraft claims grow with new major lessor The Russian aircraft claims, involving over 70 insurance disputes launched by aircraft lessors over planes held in Russia since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2024, and with good reason. These mammoth claims have over £10bn […]
The rush of UK firms sending their lawyers to qualify at the Irish Bar is well and truly over. In the immediate aftermath of Brexit, Dublin was a safe haven for qualification for lawyers wanting to shore up their European Union (EU) connections. The rationale was simple: it is an English-speaking jurisdiction, its lenient approach […]
In-house lawyers are contending with major resourcing issues that is preventing them from doing their job effectively. This is the conclusion of major new research from alternative legal provider, Axiom, which found the in-house market stacked with challenges. In the wake of the Post Office Horizon Public Inquiry, which has put the reputation of the […]
The scene: A US firm boardroom, somewhere not in New York*. Big Cheese (furiously): ‘We’re not growing fast enough. What have you got?’ Smaller Cheese (panicking): Private equity! That’s the thing! Kirkland! Paul Weiss!’ Big Cheese: ‘Do whatever it takes. And do it now.’ Smaller Cheese: ‘Leave it with me. We’ll hire big in London. […]
Some US firms in London tend to get all the headlines, and as you know who they are, we won’t bother namechecking them again. But there are others, a tad more under the radar, that have had a barnstorming year in 2023 and whose time in the limelight is now. Such as Willkie Farr & […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Litigation boutique Candey has opened an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), marking the firm’s crossover into the offshore legal market. The firm is among a handful of firms that practise both BVI law and English law, with several of its lawyers already able to practise there, including partner Lisa Walmisley and BVI legal […]
Womble Bond Dickinson, which defended the Post Office in the high-profile group litigation brought by the sub-postmasters, is in line to receive £178,000 from its former client as it provides evidence to the Horizon inquiry. According to public documents, Womble Bond Dickinson entered into a contract worth £178,000 with the Post Office for the provision […]
Former White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw is launching the London office of Perkins Coie, along with five of his ex-colleagues. Bagshaw will become managing partner of Perkins Coie in London, a firm whose only offices outside the US are in Taipei and Beijing. The plan is to focus on what Perkins Coie is good […]
In a rare opportunity for the City’s top chief technology officers (CTOs) to sit at a roundtable breakfast and discuss cloud technology. The Lawyer was joined by leading UK Microsoft expert Cloud Direct on 26 March 2024 to host an industry-specific discussion that would address the gaps in knowledge and share challenges with the technological […]
Portugal’s Abreu Advogados fell short of hitting the €50m revenue mark for the first time in its history after revenue surged by almost a fifth in last year. The firm’s top-line grew to €49.7m (£42.8m) from the previous year’s €41.7m. Managing partner Inês Sequeira Mendes praised the firm’s growth, but poured cold water on any […]
