The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Updated 22 June 2020 with data on impact of coronavirus pandemic on NQ salaries and appointments. The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became […]
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the UK’s fraud office, ruling today that the Serious Fraud Office cannot force a non-UK company to produce documents as part of an investigation. The High Court had originally ruled in favour of the SFO in a 2018 decision, with the Court of Appeal upholding this decision. […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has bolstered its corporate bench strength in London by hiring a partner from Slaughter and May. Murray Cox is the partner in question, who advises on all aspects of corporate law with a keen focus on public M&A and private equity transactions. He has spent the past 13 years at Slaughters […]
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
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The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Updated 22 June 2020 with data on impact of coronavirus pandemic on NQ salaries and appointments. The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became […]
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the UK’s fraud office, ruling today that the Serious Fraud Office cannot force a non-UK company to produce documents as part of an investigation. The High Court had originally ruled in favour of the SFO in a 2018 decision, with the Court of Appeal upholding this decision. […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has bolstered its corporate bench strength in London by hiring a partner from Slaughter and May. Murray Cox is the partner in question, who advises on all aspects of corporate law with a keen focus on public M&A and private equity transactions. He has spent the past 13 years at Slaughters […]
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
Corporate heavyweights, including Kirkland & Ellis and Linklaters, were at the helm as an investor consortium put in a bid for London-listed Signature Aviation. Signature Aviation was formerly known as BBA Aviation and rebranded in 2019 after CVC bought its aerospace manufacturing unit. As a result, the company moved its focus back to flight support […]
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There have been eight completed main market IPOs in 2021 so far.
The demographics of the legal market are in flux with Covid 19 creating the conditions for a generational shift in working patterns.
With the arrival of the Akin Gump team, A&O’s US bench has doubled at a stroke.
Calls for reform of the CMA will be music to the ears of claimant litigators.
If Latham’s growth rate continues unabated, its future home could end up offering proportionately less space per staff member.
DMH Stallard has reached critical mass size – but it now has more work to do to secure its future.
Goodwin Procter’s London revenue soared by 34 per cent in the last financial year, as its headcount too increased by nearly a third. The US firm’s London outpost saw turnover rise from $74m to $99m. Meanwhile, global revenue at the US firm increased by 11.7 per cent to $1.49bn, while profits per equity partner rose […]
Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters paid just under £10m in corporation tax to the UK Treasury, their most recent LLP accounts reveal, as rate increases formed a key part of this week’s Budget proposals to repair the economy. The figures shine a light on how UK firms are likely to be impacted by […]
Newcastle United (NUFC) has been unsuccessful in its bid to have Blackstone’s Michael Beloff QC dismissed as an arbitrator in the club’s dispute with the Premier League. NUFC, which is owned by Mike Ashley, is currently engaged in arbitration proceedings with the Premier League over the failed takeover of the club. The club brought the […]
Kirkland & Ellis has taken the lead role for the private equity bidders on the £2.3bn buyout of equipment supplier Aggreko. TDR Capital turned to Kirkland yet again after last year seeking the firm’s counsel on its £6.8bn purchase of ASDA. Partners David Holdsworth and Mark Thompson led for TDR and I Squared Capital, with […]
Clifford Chance has concluded an independent review of its partner promotion process, to ensure criteria around diversity and inclusion are being fulfilled. The firm commissioned Chicago-based consultancy Nextions, which specialises in inclusion across leadership roles, to review its path to promotion. The effort started last autumn and wrapped in time for the beginning of the […]
CMS has planted thousands of trees around the world, following its pledge to plant one for every new user of its in-house sustainability app. Last year, The Lawyer reported that the firm had created a mobile app to help lawyers reduce their carbon footprint. It came with the commitment of planting a tree for every […]
