Revealed: The Top 20 Cases of 2021
This year, the courts play host to a series of long-running financial and competition cases, while it looks like UK Government lawyers will be extremely busy.
Sidley sees latest London partner exit to Reed Smith
Reed Smith has hired a new finance partner from Sidley Austin, with the latter witnessing a spate of exits from its London outpost over the last few months. The US firm has taken on partner Jason Richardson, who will join its financial industries group. Richardson has spent most of his career at Sidley, which he has […]
Top 50 US law firms in London
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table in 2020.
Senior Deliveroo lawyer to rejoin former firm
Deliveroo senior lawyer Tarun Tawakley is set to return to Lewis Silkin after four years building up the legal function at the food delivery app. Tawakley joins Lewis Silkin as a partner in the employment team where he will continue to work on big ticket litigation (team moves and confidential information litigation, and other high […]
Ocado granted appeal in court battle with ex-Jones Day partner
Revealed: The Top 20 Cases of 2021
This year, the courts play host to a series of long-running financial and competition cases, while it looks like UK Government lawyers will be extremely busy.
Sidley sees latest London partner exit to Reed Smith
Reed Smith has hired a new finance partner from Sidley Austin, with the latter witnessing a spate of exits from its London outpost over the last few months. The US firm has taken on partner Jason Richardson, who will join its financial industries group. Richardson has spent most of his career at Sidley, which he has […]
Top 50 US law firms in London
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table in 2020.
Senior Deliveroo lawyer to rejoin former firm
Deliveroo senior lawyer Tarun Tawakley is set to return to Lewis Silkin after four years building up the legal function at the food delivery app. Tawakley joins Lewis Silkin as a partner in the employment team where he will continue to work on big ticket litigation (team moves and confidential information litigation, and other high […]
Shearman’s loss of eight partners is careless
There are some at the firm who are privately relieved about the dissipation of the Paris office’s obstructionism.
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Deliveroo heralds a bumper crop for ECM lawyers
There have been eight completed main market IPOs in 2021 so far.
Working to live, not living to work: it’s an easy sell
The demographics of the legal market are in flux with Covid 19 creating the conditions for a generational shift in working patterns.
A&O’s accidental LA office
With the arrival of the Akin Gump team, A&O’s US bench has doubled at a stroke.
Hausfeld loves a bit of competition
Calls for reform of the CMA will be music to the ears of claimant litigators.
Latham is taking both more and less space in London
If Latham’s growth rate continues unabated, its future home could end up offering proportionately less space per staff member.
£30m isn’t enough to get you into the Premier League
DMH Stallard has reached critical mass size – but it now has more work to do to secure its future.
Goodwin’s City revenue nears $100m after lateral hiring spree
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 […]
Magic circle trio paid just £10m in UK corporation tax in 2019/20
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 fails to dismiss Blackstone QC from arbitration panel
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 and Slaughters lead on Aggreko’s £2.3bn sale
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 brings in consultancy to vet promotion process
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 plants 8,000 trees after tracking staff’s carbon footprints
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 […]
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