Don’t call us magic circle: can Freshfields win over Wall Street?
Freshfields is taking on corporate America as part of a wider mission – to become a leading player not in the magic circle but in the ‘international elite’
Litigation
Barnea & Co’s litigation department offers clients extensive experience, skill and expertise in complex litigation that requires creative solutions and a far-reaching legal understanding of the unique needs of each client. Barnea & Co represents its clients in all dispute resolution forums, including before the courts, in arbitration or in mediation proceedings, and in a […]
Banking law
Barnea & Co offers a comprehensive service to lenders, borrowers, advisers and other intermediaries. We represent banks, finance companies, private investment funds and financial institutions both in Israel and abroad. The firm provides a full range of legal services in a variety of matters, including advising clients in complex financing transactions, representing clients in a […]
Linklaters trumps Clifford Chance to advise Carlyle on RAC sale
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer took the key roles on Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC’s acquisition of a stake in RAC. RAC’s current private equity house owner, Carlyle, is set to sell almost half of its shares in the roadside assistance group to the Singaporean fund. The deal will give both parties joint control over […]
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Don’t call us magic circle: can Freshfields win over Wall Street?
Freshfields is taking on corporate America as part of a wider mission – to become a leading player not in the magic circle but in the ‘international elite’
Litigation
Barnea & Co’s litigation department offers clients extensive experience, skill and expertise in complex litigation that requires creative solutions and a far-reaching legal understanding of the unique needs of each client. Barnea & Co represents its clients in all dispute resolution forums, including before the courts, in arbitration or in mediation proceedings, and in a […]
Banking law
Barnea & Co offers a comprehensive service to lenders, borrowers, advisers and other intermediaries. We represent banks, finance companies, private investment funds and financial institutions both in Israel and abroad. The firm provides a full range of legal services in a variety of matters, including advising clients in complex financing transactions, representing clients in a […]
Linklaters trumps Clifford Chance to advise Carlyle on RAC sale
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer took the key roles on Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC’s acquisition of a stake in RAC. RAC’s current private equity house owner, Carlyle, is set to sell almost half of its shares in the roadside assistance group to the Singaporean fund. The deal will give both parties joint control over […]
The China Elite is here
When The Lawyer published the Asia Pac 150, 35 of the region’s top firms were Chinese. But that doesn’t even scratch the surface of the PRC legal market. This week we publish the most detailed research available on Chinese firms: their financial performance, growth and international strategy and the particular challenges that each of them […]
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Goodwin set to hire six-strong associate group after Sidley raid
Goodwin is eyeing up Sidley Austin’s private equity grouping again, with a number of associates set to join a partner team led by Christian Iwasko and Erik Dahl, The Lawyer understands. Goodwin is thought to be hiring up to six associates from Sidley’s private equity team after Goodwin brought in a partner group spearheaded by […]
Fieldfisher eyes litigation funding work with new platform
Fieldfisher is ramping up its foray into the litigation funding market with a new platform to speed up one of the most time-consuming phases of the claim process. The firm has developed a platform that assess new commercial claims to establish whether the litigants are eligibile for funding. The platform, developed on artificial intelligence technology […]
DWF GC moves back into retail with Ocado role
The general counsel and company secretary of DWF is leaving the listed business to take on a similar position within the Ocado Group. Mollie Stoker joins Ocado as deputy GC after the move of in-house lawyer Jonathan Wiseman to the retail arm of the grocer. She is leaving DWF after becoming GC on its listing […]
Four firms added to £8.7m Scottish Enterprise panel
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Addleshaw Goddard are among the four firms that have been added to Scottish Enterprise’s new £8.7m panel. The public body has appointed Scottish firms Brodies and Burness Paull to the panel, as well as CMS and Addleshaws. Shepherd and Wedderburn, which was on the former panel running from 2016 […]
Taylor Wessing takes legal duties for Pfizer in vaccine rollout
Taylor Wessing is advising pharma giant Pfizer on aspects around the rollout of its Covid-19 vaccine across Europe, The Lawyer understands. The firm is understood to be counselling the company on patent issues arising from the unprecedentedly large-scale distribution of the vaccine it developed in conjunction with German biotech company BioNTech. It is understood that […]
DWF unveils six-strong round of partner promos
DWF has made up six new partners, in cities such as Manchester and Bristol, while London has missed out for the second year in a row. While there were no London partner promotions, the office did see director elevations. The promotions mostly concern the firm’s insurance and real estate practices. Of the new partners, professional […]
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