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Ireland: Brexit’s biggest legal services winner
Since the referendum result a raft of the biggest UK firms have been rushing to get their solicitors on the Irish roll. But what does this mean for Ireland?
Angola and Mozambique: The smart money is on clean energy
Q: What were the major trends in the energy market in Angola and Mozambique in the last year? Francisco Avillez, managing partner, SCAN: The consolidation (or acquisitions) of big investments with big corporations.
Moves: Olswang PE partner joins Taylor Wessing
Olswang private equity partner Duncan McDonald has left the firm for Taylor Wessing in London. McDonald was a partner at the firm for eight years after serving as general counsel at Citigroup Capital UK. His clients include Better Capital, Chamonix Private Equity, NBGI Private Equity, OPTrust Private Markets Group, Sony and Hexagon.
Abcam legal boss: I hired Latham and saved money
Establishing the legal functions of publicly listed life sciences companies is Suzanne Smith’s forte. She was the first an in-houser at LGC, Phoqus and Watson Pharmaceuticals, with her CV more recently grabbing the attention of Abcam CEO Alan Hirzel as he sought to add legal capability to the company. A LinkedIn request was all that was needed.
Irwin Mitchell’s real estate experiment was laudable. The succession planning wasn’t
It has been three weeks since Irwin Mitchell lost a five-partner real estate team and the firm has yet to appoint a new London property head. 19 Aug: Dentons raids Irwin Mitchell real estate team
UK 200: Workspace Trends – ready for the new space age?
‘Wellness’, a clunky-sounding term if ever there was one, is the new buzzword in real estate circles. It has become shorthand for how future-proof your office is.
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Law firms lack office space imagination
Today’s cover feature highlights a major issue that is anything but solely a legal market trend. How big businesses can get the most out of their offices – which, of course, means their people – is a global issue. And the bad news is that most law firms are well off the pace.
Workspace strategy: How you can make your business more efficient
The Lawyer’s first ever UK 200: Workspace Trends 2016 report has found more and more City firms are decreasing their rent bills while boosting efficiency. But how are they doing it?
Nabarro enters race for shrinking Olswang as CMS has second thoughts
The City is buzzing with merger rumours and four names keep coming up again and again.
Why Manchester is workspace trending right now
This year’s UK 200: Workspace Trends 2016 (in association with JLL) report not only contains a wealth of real estate data on more than half the firms in the UK 200. The report also includes profiles of several of the legal world’s most active regional markets, with insights and comment from JLL specialists.