Steve Walker, who plans to take on more external board appointments, will be replaced by his deputy, Ian McGill, the head of the firm’s telecommunications practice. Managing partner for four years, Walker will take on various management projects for Allens when he leaves in July but will not return to full-time practice.

Hammond Suddards, Addleshaw Booth & Co and Kennedys are the victors in Bradford & Bingley’s bulk work panel cull. The cull, by the UK’s second-largest building society, which is also in the process of converting to a bank, was far more extreme than was expected. Last February, Bradford & Bingley announced plans to cut the […]

Bommert warned other partners he would leave during early consultation over the merger. Boesebeck Droste’s deputy managing partner Oliver Felsenstein says: “His client base was domestically orientated and he did not believe in our international strategy. He wanted to be in a firm which concentrated on the domestic market and Haarmann has clearly declared it […]

Dibb Lupton Alsop’s planned merger with Scottish firm Bird Semple has been put on hold. The firms have been forced to delay the tie-up because Bird Semple’s senior private client equity partners are digging in their heels, claim sources. It is understood that Dibbs has asked Bird Semple to split up its private client department […]