Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is on call for Marriott International as it seeks to acquire seven properties owned by Elegant Hotels in Barbados. Hotels giant Marriott is set to take over Elegant, which has been valued at just over £100m. Gibson Dunn London partner Nigel Stacey has been advised Marriott, along with associate Samirah Haujee, […]
Ahead of its move to new City headquarters, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has committed nearly five times more on new lease arrangements compared to last year. According to its LLP acounts, BCLP has set aside over £86m in operating lease committments, reflecting for the first time the costs associated with its London office move. […]
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
How interim injunctive relief can assist both individuals and businesses when locked in a dispute with their energy provider. 1. Energy suppliers may obtain a warrant from the Magistrates Court to enter a property and disconnect the gas supply. Such an application is made pursuant to Section 2 (1) of the Rights of Entry (Gas and […]
McDermott Will & Emery was in a High Court costs hearing last week, in what the judge said was the “most hopeless application for relief” she’d ever seen.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is on call for Marriott International as it seeks to acquire seven properties owned by Elegant Hotels in Barbados. Hotels giant Marriott is set to take over Elegant, which has been valued at just over £100m. Gibson Dunn London partner Nigel Stacey has been advised Marriott, along with associate Samirah Haujee, […]
Ahead of its move to new City headquarters, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has committed nearly five times more on new lease arrangements compared to last year. According to its LLP acounts, BCLP has set aside over £86m in operating lease committments, reflecting for the first time the costs associated with its London office move. […]
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
How interim injunctive relief can assist both individuals and businesses when locked in a dispute with their energy provider. 1. Energy suppliers may obtain a warrant from the Magistrates Court to enter a property and disconnect the gas supply. Such an application is made pursuant to Section 2 (1) of the Rights of Entry (Gas and […]
Shearman & Sterling is in the process of changing the way it assess its staff, as an increasing number of firms steer away from the traditional annual performance review and towards real-time feedback. The US firm is overhauling its performance management systems and rolling out a new career development approach for staff globally. The new […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
In October 2018, the journalist and critic of the Saudi Arabian regime Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The international reaction was swift. Dozens of major organisations, including HSBC, Ford and JP Morgan Chase, dropped out of the planned “Davos in the Desert” Saudi investment summit. “We are going […]
It’s a 90-minute train journey to London and two hours from Bristol. At £29 per sq ft, grade A office rents are a third of the average £90 per sq ft City firms pay. And it has an abundance of lawyers. Slowly but steadily, Southampton is slipping into the mid-tier consciousness as a city in […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
1 May is a big day for many in the legal industry, not just the thousands of people at Allen & Overy and Shearman who have now combined officially. Scores of lawyers become partners today after a wave of promotions, meaning that also – in the great circle of life – plenty of veterans are […]
A senior member of Travers Smith’s corporate group has left for Linklaters, after a string of departures from both firms. Richard Spedding has left the firm for Linklaters after 25 years at Travers, making partner in 2003. Working in M&A and equity capital markets, Spedding was also an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for five […]
NatWest’s general counsel – and Linklaters’ former managing partner – Gideon Moore has left the bank after two years, making way for a new chief. Moore has been replaced by NatWest’s litigation general counsel Will Luker. He has worked at the bank since 2003, became litigation general counsel in 2010 and subsequently managed and integrated […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has drafted in the former M&A head of Shearman & Sterling’s Italian associate firm to rebuild its transactional capacity in the country. Fabio Fauceglia joins the firm from Studio Legale Associato Shearman & Sterling, bringing with him a team of six lawyers, comprising of counsel Leonardo Pinta and five associates. Fauceglia […]
Clifford Chance has hired a structured finance partner from A&O Shearman after the two firms’ merger last week. Daniel Shurman joins Clifford Chance in London from legacy Allen & Overy, becoming a partner in its derivatives and structured products practice. Emma Matebalavu, global head of financial markets, commented: “Daniel’s appointment is a testament to our commitment to […]
Trainees at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May are among the least likely to use LinkedIn, according to data provided to The Lawyer. Research conducted by TBD Marketing has ranked leading law firms according to how often its trainees use their LinkedIn profiles to write posts ranging from quick career milestones updates to long […]
