Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
The magic circle firms and Slaughter and May are telling their staff to work from home over the next few weeks, as a measure to fend off the spread of coronavirus. A&O said in a statement that it is “strongly encouraging all partners and staff in its London office to take advantage of its existing […]
CMS Cameron Mckenna Nabarro Olswang and Proskauer Rose have landed the lead roles on the take-private of Moss Bros. The UK menswear retailer, represented by CMS, was sold for £22.6m to a consortium called Brigadier Acquisition Company, controlled in part by Menoshi Shina, a US-based investor which acquired Crew Clothing in 2017. The consortium was […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
The magic circle firms and Slaughter and May are telling their staff to work from home over the next few weeks, as a measure to fend off the spread of coronavirus. A&O said in a statement that it is “strongly encouraging all partners and staff in its London office to take advantage of its existing […]
CMS Cameron Mckenna Nabarro Olswang and Proskauer Rose have landed the lead roles on the take-private of Moss Bros. The UK menswear retailer, represented by CMS, was sold for £22.6m to a consortium called Brigadier Acquisition Company, controlled in part by Menoshi Shina, a US-based investor which acquired Crew Clothing in 2017. The consortium was […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
Update (23 March): Henderson has instead deferred, not cancelled, the current round of pupillage interviews until the summer and autumn, following discussions with the Bar Council. Henderson Chambers has become the first set to bow out of this year’s pupillage recruitment round. Chambers are in the midst of recruiting pupils for its 2021-22 cohort, as […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
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 […]
An Osborne Clarke partner is being referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) following a formal complaint made by Clifford Chance’s former UK tax head. In July 2022, ex-Clifford Chance partner Dan Neidle made headlines for a series of posts on the tax arrangements of leading Conservative politicians, including Nadhim Zahawi. He claimed that Zahawi had […]
Simmons & Simmons represented Barclays Bank in an $150m anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunction against Russian state investment bank, VEB. VEB was founded in 1922 as the first international bank of the USSR, and since 2018 it has been chaired by the country’s former deputy prime minister under Putin, Igor Shuvalov. The bank was represented by […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has increased its salary for newly-qualified solicitors (NQs) to £180,000. The US disputes specialist’s other associate salaries will also rise when the move takes effect from June. A 1 PQE associate is set to be paid £195,000, while a 2 PQE associate will be on £220,000. For 6 PQE associates, […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now. Last week, all eyes were on A&O Shearman, a union hailing Big Law and its future. But in this week’s episode, we consider why so many solicitors are pursuing another future: opening their own firm. A survey from Censuswide on behalf of Harbour Litigation Funding […]
