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A corporate partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Hong Kong office has moved to one of the firm’s clients Grab as group general counsel. Christopher Betts has relocated to Singapore to take up the new in-house role. He joined the Singapore-headquartered “super app” in the same month when Grab formalised its plan to […]
Keystone Law‘s chief executive officer James Knight is cashing out on £9.45m worth of shares after increased demand in the listed firm from institutional investors. A market announcement on Tuesday revealed that a total of 1,500,000 ordinary shares have been sold by Knight at a price of £6.30 each, which reduces his stake in the […]
3 Paper Buildings and St Philips Barristers are expanding their family and personal injury groups respectively with new hires, while commercial sets poached big hitters from the City’s magic circle law firms. Here are the seven biggest moves from April: Ria Herbert and Sam Pentony, 3 Paper Buildings Last month, 3 Paper Buildings announced that […]
How legal ops cut 20% off annual external legal spend in the first year.
The booming Chinese IPO market has benefitted the Chinese law firms.
A corporate partner in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s Hong Kong office has moved to one of the firm’s clients Grab as group general counsel. Christopher Betts has relocated to Singapore to take up the new in-house role. He joined the Singapore-headquartered “super app” in the same month when Grab formalised its plan to […]
Keystone Law‘s chief executive officer James Knight is cashing out on £9.45m worth of shares after increased demand in the listed firm from institutional investors. A market announcement on Tuesday revealed that a total of 1,500,000 ordinary shares have been sold by Knight at a price of £6.30 each, which reduces his stake in the […]
3 Paper Buildings and St Philips Barristers are expanding their family and personal injury groups respectively with new hires, while commercial sets poached big hitters from the City’s magic circle law firms. Here are the seven biggest moves from April: Ria Herbert and Sam Pentony, 3 Paper Buildings Last month, 3 Paper Buildings announced that […]
How legal ops cut 20% off annual external legal spend in the first year.
Unilever’s UK and Ireland general counsel has moved across to online grocery delivery startup Getir. Anna Cosgrave joins Getir as head of legal, UK after just eight months at Unilever. She joined in September last year, three months after the FTSE 100 giant announced a major restructuring, ditching its dual Anglo-Dutch legal structure to create a single […]
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Scottish firm Brodies has increased its revenue by just shy of 20 per cent, reaching a new high of £98.5m. As such it is the largest of the independent Scottish firms remaining, with the likes of Burness Paull and Shepherd & Wedderburn yet to report. Many others such as Simpson & Marwick, Maclay Murray & […]
Herbert Smith Freehills is increasing the base rate of its newly-qualified lawyer salaries, having last upped pay for its junior lawyers in December. The firm will be increasing its London NQ base salary to £120,000, plus bonus, effective from today. The firm had increased these salaries back in December to £105,000. Alison Brown, executive partner, […]
Pinsent Masons is launching an office in Luxembourg after the acquisition of one of the country’s local firms. From today Pinsents is taking over Wildgen’s office, adding seven partners to the firm and 16 lawyers in the office. The office will be headed by partner, Michel Bulach. This brings the total number of Pinsents’ Continental […]
Today marks the official launch date of Clyde & Co’s merger with insurance firm and competitor BLM, a move that will transform the legal insurance market. It comes just over three months since partners from both firms voted the mega-deal through in March, after two years of covert discussions. Here are three graphs breaking down […]
Freeths is to supervise the design and implementation of a UK Government compensation scheme aimed at the original Post Office scandal victims. The national firm has been appointed by the Government to act on behalf of over 500 sub-postmasters who brought the landmark civil group action against the Post Office. Until earlier this year, this […]
