SJ Berwin turns to Gibson Dunn for litigation hire
SJ Berwin has bulked up its litigation practice with the hire of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Rachel Couter.
HSBC, firms and sets team up with A4ID
HSBC’s in-house legal team is to partner with a number of leading law firms and chambers to provide pro bono advice to charities in the developing world through Advocates for International Development (A4ID).
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Hogan’s Warsaw office quits for K&L Gates ahead of Hogan-Lovells merger
K&L Gates is to open an office in Warsaw after scooping the entire office of Hogan & Hartson in the city.
Dawsons rebuilds employment team with BLP hire
Dawsons has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Paul Mander to head its employment practice following the departure of Jo Keddie earlier this year.
SJ Berwin and Slaughters act on Anthony Bolton’s China fund IPO
SJ Berwin and Slaughter and May have landed mandates on the listing of the Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, the new launch from veteran fund manager Anthony Bolton.
SJ Berwin turns to Gibson Dunn for litigation hire
SJ Berwin has bulked up its litigation practice with the hire of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Rachel Couter.
HSBC, firms and sets team up with A4ID
HSBC’s in-house legal team is to partner with a number of leading law firms and chambers to provide pro bono advice to charities in the developing world through Advocates for International Development (A4ID).
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Hogan’s Warsaw office quits for K&L Gates ahead of Hogan-Lovells merger
K&L Gates is to open an office in Warsaw after scooping the entire office of Hogan & Hartson in the city.
Dawsons rebuilds employment team with BLP hire
Dawsons has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Paul Mander to head its employment practice following the departure of Jo Keddie earlier this year.
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Debevoise & Plimpton and Slaughter and May have landed prize roles on Prudential’s proposed $35.5bn (£23.9bn) purchase of American International Group’s (AIG) Asian insurance business. Slaughters is fielding an 11-partner team advising Prudential on both the purchase and a record $20bn rights issue arranged to part fund the transaction. William Underhill is leading the team […]
Barclays summons firms to ‘panel day’ ahead of final decision
Barclays has invited 22 firms to a panel day in July, ahead of the final announcement of its last ever formal panel review.
Exclusive: Axiom weighs up IPO after years of deliberation
Flexible legal resources provider Axiom is considering an initial public offering in a bid to turbocharge the company’s growth, The Lawyer understands. Sources close to the matter claim that the firm’s internal talks are reaching a head after several years of deliberation. An Axiom spokesperson said today: “Axiom does not comment on rumours or market speculation”. […]
Knights boots up for IPO with tech transformation
Knights, which this month announced its intention to become the fifth publicly listed UK law firm, has hired the European IT director at Procter & Gamble to oversee a “technology transformation” as part of the listing. Richard King will join Knights on 1 July as a non-executive director to lead the business’ tech overhaul. Knights’ […]
DAC set to exit “miserable dungeon” with move to Cannon Street
DAC Beachcroft‘s search for its new London office is coming to an end as the firm is understood to have put in an offer for floors of the Walbrook Building near Bank station, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm kicked off its search for a new office last September, instructing commercial estate agents Knight Frank to find […]
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 […]