Centro launches £5m transport panel
Centro, an organisation responsible for the delivery of public transport in the West Midlands, has launched a review of its legal framework valued at £5m.
DAC Beachcroft raids DWF for six-partner team
DAC Beachcroft has raided DWF’s Newcastle office, picking up a six-partner insurance team.
Eversheds tops UK legal brand rankings as DLA rises above Pinsents
Eversheds has been ranked as the strongest legal brand in the UK, ahead of DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons. The research, conducted by Acritas, is carried out every year among 2,300 senior buyers of legal services. Eversheds has taken first position for three of the past four years, leading last year’s Acritas rankings of the […]
Brexit will “test the mettle” of lawyers
There’s a lurid fascination that comes with watching the UK’s Brexit debate from the US. At one level, it seems not unlike a marriage in its death throes. You know both husband and wife and feel terribly about it all, but cannot avert your eyes. The only winner? Neil Sedaka. Breaking up, as we’re told, is hard to do.
Centro launches £5m transport panel
Centro, an organisation responsible for the delivery of public transport in the West Midlands, has launched a review of its legal framework valued at £5m.
DAC Beachcroft raids DWF for six-partner team
DAC Beachcroft has raided DWF’s Newcastle office, picking up a six-partner insurance team.
Eversheds tops UK legal brand rankings as DLA rises above Pinsents
Eversheds has been ranked as the strongest legal brand in the UK, ahead of DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons. The research, conducted by Acritas, is carried out every year among 2,300 senior buyers of legal services. Eversheds has taken first position for three of the past four years, leading last year’s Acritas rankings of the […]
Dentons-backed ‘Space Camp’ unveils six new startups
Six European startups have been chosen to join the first round of a SpaceTech startup accelerator backed by Dentons. The nine-week programme called ‘Space Camp’ is being hosted in Dentons’ London HQ and is sponsored by the global firm. The scheme was established by spacetech-focused venture capital fund Seraphim Capital, which claimed that it had […]
Gender pay gap: Freshfields and Slaughters bow to pressure on partner figures as A&O refuses to budge
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have released belatedly their gender pay gap for partners, while Allen & Overy (A&O) has been called out for “refusing to comply” with MPs’ requests for the data. The publication of results follows a long-running inquiry by the UK Government’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee into the […]
Hogan Lovells slashes 54 roles in London as redundancy programme enters final stage
Hogan Lovells has confirmed that 54 people have so far been affected by its London redundancy programme, as the consultation period nears its final stage. The restructuring operation was announced in September 2017, with the firm announcing that 90 roles would be cut or moved to low cost centres. This was made up of 78 […]
City firms gear up to defend Heathrow from new runway challenge
DAC Beachcroft looks set to launch a challenge against the Department for Transport (DfT) after submitting a 21-page document highlighting “serious errors” in the DfT’s plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport. DAC partner and head of planning Christopher Stanwell is representing Heathrow Hub, which proposes an extension to the existing Northern runway […]
A&O lures back partner after two-year Cleary stint
Allen & Overy (A&O) has rehired its former head of non-contentious financial services regulation, two years after he left the magic circle firm for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Bob Penn spent nearly a decade in the A&O partnership and was a member of its financial services regulation team before leaving to join the US firm in September […]
CMS gets £132m cash boost after sale of Olswang and Nabarro offices
CMS Cameron McKenna has released itself from nearly £132m worth of real estate liabilities after selling off surplus office space owned by legacy Olswang and Nabarro, The Lawyer can reveal. When the firm agreed its merger with the two London-headquartered firms, CMS took on extra space in London, as well as Dubai and Singapore. It has now consolidated […]