BLM names new London office head after Clydes exit
BLM has named the new head of its London office three days after it was announced the firm had lost Jennette Newman to Clyde & Co.
BonelliErede opens its first Middle East office
Italian firm BonelliErede is opening its first office in the Middle East, launching an offering in Dubai.
Former London managing partner Andrea Carta Mantiglia will be the executive chairman of the new office, while corporate lawyers Marco De Leo and John Shehata will be on-site local partners.
RPC hires two-partner team from beleaguered Sedgwick
RPC has hired a two partner team from troubled US firm Sedgwick, bolstering its insurance practice in London.
These hires come after the Sedgwick confirmed last week that it is to cease trading early next year in a move that affected over 80 partners, including six in London.
Burness Paull set for top-level management changes in 2018
Burness Paull’s longstanding chairman Philip Rodney and managing partner Ian Wattie are set to step down next year, The Lawyer understands.
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BLM names new London office head after Clydes exit
BLM has named the new head of its London office three days after it was announced the firm had lost Jennette Newman to Clyde & Co.
BonelliErede opens its first Middle East office
Italian firm BonelliErede is opening its first office in the Middle East, launching an offering in Dubai.
Former London managing partner Andrea Carta Mantiglia will be the executive chairman of the new office, while corporate lawyers Marco De Leo and John Shehata will be on-site local partners.
RPC hires two-partner team from beleaguered Sedgwick
RPC has hired a two partner team from troubled US firm Sedgwick, bolstering its insurance practice in London.
These hires come after the Sedgwick confirmed last week that it is to cease trading early next year in a move that affected over 80 partners, including six in London.
Burness Paull set for top-level management changes in 2018
Burness Paull’s longstanding chairman Philip Rodney and managing partner Ian Wattie are set to step down next year, The Lawyer understands.
HSF continues alternative legal services push with new Australia office
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has ended months of speculation over a pending office opening by announcing it will open a second legal services hub in Sydney next year.
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DWF reels in former Lucozade GC ahead of next year’s IPO
DWF has made its most high-profile hire since the news of the firm’s intended IPO broke earlier this year, bringing in a new general counsel to lead its transition into a public company. Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) business development head Mollie Stoker will join DWF as its new group general counsel in January, after spending four years […]
Clifford Chance lures in venture capitalists and academics for new tech venture
Clifford Chance has launched a new innovation lab in Singapore to explore legal technology solutions with the input of startups, companies and academics. As part of the firm’s innovation and best delivery hub for Asia Pacific, the project called Create +65 aims to develop and test new technology by gathering players at various ends of the […]
US promotions: Jones Day stays focused on US, as Cadwalader prioritises London
Jones Day has made up 46 new partners globally in its latest promotions round, while London accounts for the majority of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s new joiners. The majority of Jones Day’s new partners – 34 out of 46 – were made up in the US, with a smattering of partners making the grade in the […]
Fried Frank and Dechert strike decisive blow in Sberbank case
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Dechert have fought off an appeal from White & Case upholding an earlier High Court decision in favour of Russian lender Sberbank. The appeal made by the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) was unanimously dismissed by Lord Justices Lewison, Henderson and Baker, with White & Case now expected […]
Clifford Chance confirms role in Africa deal with anti-corruption pledge
Clifford Chance has pledged to engage other elite law firms in a bid to counter corruption, after the firm came under pressure for acting on a deal involving the son of Equatorial Guinea’s long-serving president. The firm confirmed it played a role in the sale of a private jet to Teodoro Obiang in 2006, with the magic […]
Centrica names new GC as longstanding chief retires
Centrica’s deputy general counsel Justine Campbell has been named as the company’s new legal head following the retirement of its longstanding chief Grant Dawson. Campbell joined Centrica in 2013 as general counsel of its British Gas business, before rising through the ranks to the role of Centrica’s general counsel for UK and Ireland and then […]