US firms on call as New Look seeks rescue deal with creditors
Paul Hastings and Sidley Austin have won lead roles on fashion retailer New Look’s company voluntary arrangement (CVA), which was announced this morning.
Gowling advises SmartestEnergy on Origami Energy deal
Gowling WLG’s Energy and Technology specialists have advised client SmartestEnergy on the adoption of Origami Energy’s flexible energy management technology platform. In a strategic move, SmartestEnergy – the UK’s leading purchaser of independent energy generation and a supplier of 100% certified renewable electricity – has chosen the platform to manage its customers’ distributed energy assets […]
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Tech will transform the global real estate legal market: true or false?
Later this month The Lawyer will publish its analysis of the global real estate legal market, which will assess the impact of technology on the world’s largest international real estate legal practices and their clients. The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate 50 2018 report, which focuses specifically on property tech, will include the results of a survey of […]
What law firms are doing about retirement assistance – and where they’re failing
The idea of offering partner retirement assistance is heartily supported by top law firms. However, the results of our survey reveal that what they actually provide lacks the structure and innovative thinking found at the big accountacy firms. “To what extent do you think that both firms and partners nearing retirement benefit if the former […]
Revealed: Sexual harassment in the UK’s 100 biggest firms
Sexual harassment has taken place in at least 55 of the UK’s top 100 firms in the last year, according to respondents to The Lawyer’s survey of the legal market.
US firms on call as New Look seeks rescue deal with creditors
Paul Hastings and Sidley Austin have won lead roles on fashion retailer New Look’s company voluntary arrangement (CVA), which was announced this morning.
Gowling advises SmartestEnergy on Origami Energy deal
Gowling WLG’s Energy and Technology specialists have advised client SmartestEnergy on the adoption of Origami Energy’s flexible energy management technology platform. In a strategic move, SmartestEnergy – the UK’s leading purchaser of independent energy generation and a supplier of 100% certified renewable electricity – has chosen the platform to manage its customers’ distributed energy assets […]
1
Tech will transform the global real estate legal market: true or false?
Later this month The Lawyer will publish its analysis of the global real estate legal market, which will assess the impact of technology on the world’s largest international real estate legal practices and their clients. The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate 50 2018 report, which focuses specifically on property tech, will include the results of a survey of […]
What law firms are doing about retirement assistance – and where they’re failing
The idea of offering partner retirement assistance is heartily supported by top law firms. However, the results of our survey reveal that what they actually provide lacks the structure and innovative thinking found at the big accountacy firms. “To what extent do you think that both firms and partners nearing retirement benefit if the former […]
Gender pay gap: Leigh Day pays women 19% more in bonuses
Female staff at Leigh Day earn 19.1 per cent more than their male counterparts in bonuses on average but receive 9.1 per cent less in hourly pay.
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City firms pile in as Arcadia declines Mike Ashley’s loan offer
Arcadia has declined a £50m lifeline loan from Frasers Group, as Philip Green’s retail empire – advised by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – continues crunch talks over its future. Freshfields’ restructuring partners Neil Golding and Adam Gallagher have been leading for Arcadia, but are expected to grab the mandate for Deloitte if appointed formally as administrators. […]
Ropes brings in second Kirkland partner this year
Kirkland & Ellis has lost a finance partner to Ropes & Gray, as the latter looks to build out its capabilities for private capital clients. Partner Samuel Norris is set to join the US rival after spending most of his career at Kirkland. As part of his practice, he advises financial sponsors on private equity […]
Fried Frank and Linklaters lead on Carlyle’s £1.8bn consulting exit
Fried Frank and Linklaters have bagged the top roles on Carlyle’s shareholder exit from PA Consulting, as control passes to Jacobs Engineering. Linklaters partners Chris Boycott and Alex Woodward advised private equity house Carlyle on the sale of its 65 per cent shareholding, along with managing associate Lauren Bretton in corporate and associates Frances Hibbert […]
Osborne Clarke fends off Stephenson Harwood in IP partner hire
Osborne Clarke is hiring a Bird & Bird partner, just months after Stephenson Harwood said it was hiring IP specialist Tim Harris. In September, Stephenson Harwood released a statement on the hire of Harris, in which IP partner Alexandra Pygall said: “Adding a lawyer of Tim’s calibre, with heavyweight patent litigation experience, strengthens our existing […]
BLM unveils new funding package with HSBC
BLM has replaced its three-year £20m funding package with a new deal with HSBC. The insurance specialist said that the new facility will support the continued development of its digital first strategy, which it initiated last year. The firm is now paperless, and over the summer began the shift to a more flexible working model […]
Want to become a corporate partner quickly? Here’s how
Kirkland & Ellis is well known for promoting its new corporate talent to partner at around six years post-qualification experience (PQE), but a handful of other firms in The Lawyer‘s UK Corporate 50 are not far behind. According to research conducted on the largest set of promotions over the past five years, Slaughter and May […]
