Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of all the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, we take a look at how tumult at the top of Dentons’ Polish arm has led to the firm opting for co-managing partners for the first time in its history; why […]
Two Latham & Watkins partners are joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s New York office, tasked with building out the magic circle firm’s transactional private equity offering. Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner are the two partners making the move from Latham to Freshfields. While Freshfields has been working on private equity deals for its European and US […]
Dentons has secured a triumph for Marks & Spencer, safeguarding the retailer’s plans for its flagship store on Oxford Street. In a judgment handed down this morning, Mrs Justice Lieven ruled in favour of the supermarket on five of the six grounds it had brought against the Secretary of State (SoS) for Levelling Up, Housing […]
Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co and Clifford Chance have the most environmentally polluting websites among UK law firms, data provided to The Lawyer has found. According to data from Website Carbon and compiled by TBD Marketing, Hogan Lovells is at the bottom of the list with its website generating 1,728.52 kg of CO2 per year. […]
Everton Football Club’s landmark 10-point penalty has been reduced to six following a successful appeal by Pinsent Masons against the Linklaters-advised Premier League. Pinsents instructed One Essex Court’s Laurence Rabinowitz KC for the appeal with the team reducing an an independent commission decision in November to dock Everton 10 points for breaches of the League’s […]
The energy crisis poses an opportunity for law firms to become experts in new areas of project finance – an opportunity HSF has grasped with both hands.
A raft of Europe’s elite law firms are set to increase their lawyer headcount and office space in London as they sense greater opportunity in the capital than ever before. Research undertaken by The Lawyer for an upcoming report on the International Signal channel found that around one-third (11) of European 100 law firms with […]
CMS’s German arm is facing heavy criticism from a cross-section of its associates after new pay structures were announced, freezing salaries at the firm for all but first and second year associates. The associates’ complaints, published in German title Juve, outline deep discontent among the firm’s junior ranks after salary increases were announced for its […]
Garrigues has become the first EU-headquartered firm to pass the €450m milestone after growing its topline by 2.5 per cent in 2023. The firm announced its revenue last year hit a record high of €454.3m, representing a modest increase on the €443.2m it posted in 2022. Most of Garrigues’ revenue was made in its native […]
Kirkland leads in the battle of the smartphones US-based smartphone manufacturer Motorola filed a fresh patents claim against Swedish telecoms company Ericsson last Monday (12 February) as mobile phone disputes continue to dominate the patents space. Motorola is joined as a claimant by its parent company Lenovo, which have sought representation from Kirkland & Ellis. […]
A debarred defendant has offered to fund the ex-CEO of London Capital & Finance (LCF) Michael Thomson in one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2024 as various asset freezing orders have left him struggling to pay his legal costs. The suit is between LCF and eight defendants allegedly involved in a “Ponzi scheme”, […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of all the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, Hogan Lovells has gone big on Italy and we’re interested in what they’ll do next; Ireland’s white-hot lateral market now seems to be cooling after years of intense musical chairs; and […]