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 […]
DLA Piper has ended a three-year dispute with the liquidators of military biotech startup Enigma, The Lawyer understands. The settlement means that DLA Piper – which sat comfortably at the top of The Lawyer’s UK200 rankings by revenue and headcount – has evaded a £61m claim levelled against it in 2021. Enigma’s liquidators alleged that […]
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, […]
This week for The Lawyer’s Spotlight feature, we want to draw your attention to the world of construction and engineering disputes at Mayer Brown. The firm’s London litigation team, which houses 40 lawyers in construction and engineering, has been busy bringing a landmark cladding claim this year, which was featured as one of The Lawyer’s top […]
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 […]
DLA Piper has ended a three-year dispute with the liquidators of military biotech startup Enigma, The Lawyer understands. The settlement means that DLA Piper – which sat comfortably at the top of The Lawyer’s UK200 rankings by revenue and headcount – has evaded a £61m claim levelled against it in 2021. Enigma’s liquidators alleged that […]
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, […]
This week for The Lawyer’s Spotlight feature, we want to draw your attention to the world of construction and engineering disputes at Mayer Brown. The firm’s London litigation team, which houses 40 lawyers in construction and engineering, has been busy bringing a landmark cladding claim this year, which was featured as one of The Lawyer’s top […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, Quinn Emanuel returns to growth (in a big way), and a couple of in-house litigators come in from the cold. But first, if you want something done, get Alan Bates to do it… Litigation funders get the […]
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 […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
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 […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition we take a look at the third generation of De Brauw’s private equity group and how domestic and regional firms in Ukraine may look to reshape after the war. De Brauw has entered […]
