The last two years have been the largest ever for magic circle corporate promotions in the City. In spite of the transactional freeze, these firms clearly believe their lawyers will be snowed under once again. In the City, a total of 17 lawyers were promoted to partner in the M&A or equity capital markets teams […]
Clifford Chance has promoted nine of its London lawyers to partner as part of a 32-strong promotion round across its international offices. The latest promotion round, which takes effect from May, shows a drop from last year’s cohort, where a record 37 lawyers were made up to partner. It is also only 6.6 per cent higher […]
The head of Kingsley Napley’s corporate and commercial practice, James Fulforth, has been named senior partner of the firm ahead of current leader Stephen Parkinson’s retirement. Kingsley Napley has historically been known for its criminal, dispute resolution and family practice areas. This is the first time the firm has appointed a senior partner from the […]
Slaughter and May has appointed two new co-heads of finance amid an internal practice leadership re-shuffle, The Lawyer has learnt. The changes come ahead of current banking head Phillip Snell’s retirement. Snell joined the firm in 1993 and has been a partner at Slaughters since 2002. The Lawyer has learnt that finance partners Matthew Tobin […]
Market position is often determined by visual conventions. Directories, for example, provide tiers where practices are simply ranked vertically on reputations that surge and ebb slowly over time. Perhaps it’s time for a new visual language to suggest different ways of thinking about what success means. Imagine if someone combined in usable and attractive visual […]
The banking sector is continuing to fuel M&A deals, with TLT and Penningtons Manches Cooper the latest firms to win mandates on a UK-based deal. There has been plenty of M&A deals within the financial sector following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and the subsequent rescue of its UK arm by HSBC, as well […]