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Pinsent Masons’ revenue snuck up by just under two per cent during the last year, rising from £495.5m to £503.3m. This coincided with a significant uplift in the firm’s average profit per equity partner, which shot up 16 per cent from £546,000 to £636,000. Managing partner John Cleland told The Lawyer that the results were […]
Womble Bond Dickinson has elected Paul Stewart as its new UK managing partner. Stewart will take over current head Jonathan Blair, who has held the role since 2008. Blair chose not to re-stand for election and will be staying with the firm after his term finishes on 31 January 2022. The two will work together […]
How a legal team took on the might of the Post Office to put right one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen
DWF’s Imogen Makin, Financial Services Regulatory Director on the post-Covid FS regulatory world, and training junior lawyers.
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Pinsent Masons’ revenue snuck up by just under two per cent during the last year, rising from £495.5m to £503.3m. This coincided with a significant uplift in the firm’s average profit per equity partner, which shot up 16 per cent from £546,000 to £636,000. Managing partner John Cleland told The Lawyer that the results were […]
Womble Bond Dickinson has elected Paul Stewart as its new UK managing partner. Stewart will take over current head Jonathan Blair, who has held the role since 2008. Blair chose not to re-stand for election and will be staying with the firm after his term finishes on 31 January 2022. The two will work together […]
How a legal team took on the might of the Post Office to put right one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen
DWF’s Imogen Makin, Financial Services Regulatory Director on the post-Covid FS regulatory world, and training junior lawyers.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer‘s global head of public international law has left the firm to join Essex Court Chambers. Ben Juratowitch QC is making the move to the Bar after 13 years at the magic circle firm, nine of which were spent as a partner. Based in Freshfields’ Paris office, Juratowitch was called to the Bar […]
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Kirkland has added two associates as partners from Fried Frank Shriver & Jacobson and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in its City funds practice. Charles Cooper-Isow is a private equity associate, having been at Fried Frank since 2016. Qualifying in the same year in England and Wales, Cooper-Isow has six years’ post-qualification experience (PQE). He joins […]
Shearman & Sterling is boosting its leveraged finance practice with a White & Case hire, its fourth new partner joiner of 2022. Shameer Shah makes the move, having spent almost nine years at White & Case. His main practice focuses on acquisition finance and special situations across private credit, investment banks and other financial institutions. […]
Slater & Gordon has finalised part of a strategic review of its UK business, with discussions ongoing as to whether certain practices fit into its revised model. As a result of the review, the firm will split its business into two main departments named Essential Legal Services (ELS) and Specialist Legal Services (SLS). ELS will […]
Magic circle firm Linklaters is to put financial sponsors at the heart of its Asia-Pacific operation after a strategy refresh led by regional managing partner William Liu. As part of the strategy, Linklaters is aiming to increase revenue by 10 per cent each year as well as making commitments to flesh out what the firm […]
Sky Group’s general counsel has left the business, leading to the appointment of a new legal head at the broadcasting company. Niamh Grogan has joined Sky as its new group general counsel after leaving multinational insurance adviser Willis Towers Watson. There, she was its global deputy general counsel and chief operating officer for more than […]
