Ex-Milbank partner Costa joins PwC Legal as head of banking
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy’s only female partner in London, Laetitia Costa, has resurfaced at PwC Legal a year after leaving the US firm.
My career story: “I was pregnant at the same time I went up for partnership”
Jannan Crozier is a corporate lawyer at Baker & McKenzie. She was pregnant through the partnership application process, and went on maternity leave one month after being made up in 2015. What’s your background? How did you come to law? Growing up I wanted to be an astrophysicist with NASA. Unfortunately, maths was not my […]
Astana Economic Forum, 25-26 May
On 25-26 May, Astana hosted an annual event in the area of economic and political life of the region – Astana Economic Forum. The AEF-2016 is a Forum of the Silk Road countries aimed to unite representatives of governments and businesses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The main subject of the AEF-2016 was […]
In-house interview: Darren Noseworthy, Pfizer UK
Pfizer is notorious in the legal profession for playing hardball on fees. But as the largest pharmaceutical company in the US with a healthy attitude towards global mega-mergers, it remains one of the industry’s most desired clients
Ex-Milbank partner Costa joins PwC Legal as head of banking
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy’s only female partner in London, Laetitia Costa, has resurfaced at PwC Legal a year after leaving the US firm.
My career story: “I was pregnant at the same time I went up for partnership”
Jannan Crozier is a corporate lawyer at Baker & McKenzie. She was pregnant through the partnership application process, and went on maternity leave one month after being made up in 2015. What’s your background? How did you come to law? Growing up I wanted to be an astrophysicist with NASA. Unfortunately, maths was not my […]
Astana Economic Forum, 25-26 May
On 25-26 May, Astana hosted an annual event in the area of economic and political life of the region – Astana Economic Forum. The AEF-2016 is a Forum of the Silk Road countries aimed to unite representatives of governments and businesses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The main subject of the AEF-2016 was […]
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New Law momentum continues as Axiom gears up for IPO
Flexible legal resources provider Axiom has filed for an IPO after several years of deliberation, in a bid to obtain extra investment for further expansion. The provider has submitted a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, but the filing did not disclose a range for the pricing of shares or […]
CMS’s tech incubator goes global in push for more start-up members
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has expanded the reach of its in-house startup accelerator to about 20 countries, expecting to engage 150 startups worldwide by the end of the year. The programme, dubbed CMS EquIP, provides startups and businesses at various stages of development access to potential investors and discounted legal support from the firm’s fee-earners. […]
Cadwalader to join Freshfields and Paul Hastings in new City HQ
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is to move from its City home in Dashwood House to 100 Bishopsgate when the building is completed. The firm’s London head Greg Petrick has set out a gauntlet for growth, with the US firm taking enough space for 120 lawyers in the new building. The London headcount is currently at […]
DWF grabs mandate on Flybmi’s collapse
Flybmi has become the latest airline to enter into administration, with the company citing Brexit uncertainty as one of the main reasons for its collapse. DWF is acting for the administrators BDO, with a team led by Leeds-based associate partner Matthew Brown. The airline cancelled all flights over the weekend with immediate effect. DWF is understood to […]
Taylor Wessing rules out merger talk as firm seals West Coast alliance
Furthering its reach on the West Coast, Taylor Wessing has entered into a non-exclusive joint relationship with California’s Wilson Sonsini.
Linklaters’ former CMO to destroy documents in swift end to injunction saga
Former Linklaters marketing head Frank Mellish has agreed to destroy documents shared between him and the firm, in relation to matters he said would expose “the ongoing struggle [the firm] has with women in the workplace”.