Goodwin appoints real estate finance duo to lead London
Goodwin has appointed two new London co-chairs to replace longstanding City boss David Evans.
Hong Kong departure: has Davis Polk grown too large, too quickly?
Davis Polk & Wardwell has emerged as the latest US firm to tweak its Hong Kong capital markets offerings. The firm may have the largest team in Hong Kong among its key US rivals, but has the firm gone too big to sustain its top-notch profitability?
Olswang former CEO Burdon to exit due to client conflicts
Olswang’s former interim CEO Michael Burdon has opted against joining his firm’s tripartite merger with CMS, instead joining Simmons & Simmons to bolster its decimated IP litigation practice in London.
Mipim Day 1: Barely time for the DLA boat
By Lars Reubekeul, partner, DLA Piper This is an exciting year at MIPIM. The high liquidity in the real estate investment market can be felt everywhere. One can almost see the goose bumps when people are whispering in the corners, in the restaurants or on the boats saying, “I know someone who might intend to […]
Moves: Morton Fraser hires City partner Caldwell from Taylor Wessing
Morton Fraser has appointed Ross Caldwell as a partner in its Edinburgh banking and asset finance team.
Goodwin appoints real estate finance duo to lead London
Goodwin has appointed two new London co-chairs to replace longstanding City boss David Evans.
Hong Kong departure: has Davis Polk grown too large, too quickly?
Davis Polk & Wardwell has emerged as the latest US firm to tweak its Hong Kong capital markets offerings. The firm may have the largest team in Hong Kong among its key US rivals, but has the firm gone too big to sustain its top-notch profitability?
Olswang former CEO Burdon to exit due to client conflicts
Olswang’s former interim CEO Michael Burdon has opted against joining his firm’s tripartite merger with CMS, instead joining Simmons & Simmons to bolster its decimated IP litigation practice in London.
Mipim Day 1: Barely time for the DLA boat
By Lars Reubekeul, partner, DLA Piper This is an exciting year at MIPIM. The high liquidity in the real estate investment market can be felt everywhere. One can almost see the goose bumps when people are whispering in the corners, in the restaurants or on the boats saying, “I know someone who might intend to […]
Goodwin stumps up for KWM team integration trip to New York
Goodwin flew the team of KWM lawyers that joined the US firm earlier this year to New York last week, as part of a wider plan aimed at rapid and effective integration.
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Akin Gump bets big on transatlantic offering with four-partner hire
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has snared a four-partner financial restructuring and global debt team from Morgan Lewis, in a move that reunites them with their former Bingham McCutchen colleagues. The hires include two heads of practice, with Morgan Lewis’ City transactional finance head Thomas O’Connor joining Akin Gump in London. Partner trio Renée Dailey, Christopher Lawrence […]
Slaughters extends fintech incubator with £300k already handed out
Slaughter and May has expanded the scope of its legal incubation scheme for start-ups, with plans to provide legal services to a more diverse range of technology businesses. The firm has opened its third round of applications for the Fast Forward programme, which had initially been set up to support fintech start-ups. The firm now […]
Law firms called out for leaving websites open to hackers
While the majority of law firms today have practices dedicated to cyber security, not all of them have websites that are secure, according to new findings published today. The findings, released by Trustify, claims that over 10 per cent of the top 200 law firms in the UK do not have secure websites, including four […]
A&O wins top mandate for Vue Cinemas on German acquisition
HSF and A&O are advising on cinema chain Vue’s acquisition of German brand CineStar for nearly £200m.
Osborne Clarke reels in Bird & Bird’s UK tax head
Bird & Bird’s head of UK tax Mathew Oliver has joined Osborne Clarke’s London office; the latest in a string of new recruits to the latter’s City operations. Oliver has been at Bird & Bird since 2005, joining as a partner from Lovells where he was an associate for three years. He was a tax […]
Landmark ruling upheld as DWF loses data breach appeal for Morrisons
DWF has lost its appeal for Morrisons in the High Court today, as it was ruled that the supermarket is legally responsible for an enormous data breach affecting over 100,00 employees. Three senior judges, including the Master of the Rolls, upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017. In what was the UK’s first data protection class […]