Sidley continues restructuring push with Linklaters hire
Sidley Austin is continuing its recruitment drive in London – this time hiring Linklaters restructuring partner Yen Sum.
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Pinsents and Skadden win top roles on £1.4bn Skyscanner sale
Pinsent Masons and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have won lead roles on the £1.4bn sale of Skyscanner.
Greenberg Traurig joins Dentons in bids for KWM partners
Greenberg Traurig has joined Dentons in talks to takeover large chunks of King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) EUME business, The Lawyer understands. 28 Nov: KWM litigation head Pollack set to move to Covington
Exclusive: Steptoe London head in £800k row over lime tree
Steptoe & Johnson London managing partner Brendan Patterson has instructed his own firm in a dispute with a neighbour over a lime tree in his garden.
Deutsche Bank picks firms for trainee secondments
Deutsche Bank has selected three of its panel firms to take on trainees who need to complete contentious seats as part of their training contract. Herbert Smith Freehills, Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose Fulbright are the three to have been selected from a panel that contains a number of silver circle, magic circle and […]
A&O and Slaughters secure spots on Pennon Group panel
Listed water services company Pennon Group has finalised its first panel review under its new general counsel, with Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May among those appointed. The other firms with places on the panel are Ashfords, Burges Salmon, Charles Russell Speechly, Squire Patton Boggs, TLT and Winston & Strawn. The selected firms will […]
Brown Rudnick’s City boss leaves for litigation boutique
A partner duo from Brown Rudnick is leaving the firm’s London office for PCB Byrne, The Lawyer can reveal. Neil Micklethwaite, Brown Rudnick’s London managing partner, is to make the move, along with fellow partner Olga Bischof. The pair specialises in complex litigation, regulatory investigations and fraud matters, with a particular focus on disputes relating […]
Stephenson Harwood’s revenue bounces back to £228m
Stephenson Harwood’s turnover increased 11 per cent during the last financial year, as firms across the country prepare to announce their results for 2022/23. The firm posted a revenue figure of £228m, up from its flat £206m the previous financial year. It is the first time the firm has posted positive revenue figures in three […]
Freshfields’ IPO guru leaves for Latham
Latham & Watkins is boosting its equity capital markets practice with the hire of a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner, known for advising on some of the City’s largest IPOs. Mark Austin is leaving the magic circle firm after over two decades to join Latham’s capital markets and public company representation practice. He joined as a […]
US 50 2023: the largest US firms by UK revenue
This report contains: analysis of the financial performance of the largest US firms by UK-generated revenue key metrics highlighting the fragmentation of the market individual firm profiles highlighting financial performance and strategy, hirings and exits, and deals and cases
Corporate: Recruitment Activity
Identify key recruitment trends in the corporate legal market across all sectors from The Lawyer’s proprietary jobs data Get critical data on firms that have hired most corporate lawyers and firms that have lost most corporate lawyers. Also see where a firm’s hires have come from and where a firm’s lawyers have gone to Compare the […]
Life sciences after Covid-19
This report contains: a brief look at the latest trends in life sciences sparked or accelerated by Covid-19 analysis of the main law firms working in the area across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious practices insight into the 100 largest UK life sciences deals since 2020
Jurisdictional focus: Italian domestic firms
This report contains stratification of the market by firmwide headcount at the domestic Italian firms comparison to the international firms that are present there context for how the market has reached this point following the era of mass privatisation in Italy
The Bar Top 30 2023
This report contains: a ranking of the largest chambers by tenant headcount in the last financial year a look at the changes in headcount over the past year, barristers’ year of call, retention rates and gender diversity data from The Lawyer‘s Litigation Tracker offering insight into which chambers feature most in some of the main […]
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Significant salary hikes provoke outrage among the legal elite. “Newly qualified lawyers are paid how much?” is the common response to the latest NQ pay jump. Still, at well over £100,000 a pop for a lawyer straight from university, it’s a fair question. This level of pay at a time when costs are spiralling is […]
Deutsche Bank picks firms for trainee secondments
Deutsche Bank has selected three of its panel firms to take on trainees who need to complete contentious seats as part of their training contract. Herbert Smith Freehills, Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose Fulbright are the three to have been selected from a panel that contains a number of silver circle, magic circle and […]
A&O and Slaughters secure spots on Pennon Group panel
Listed water services company Pennon Group has finalised its first panel review under its new general counsel, with Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May among those appointed. The other firms with places on the panel are Ashfords, Burges Salmon, Charles Russell Speechly, Squire Patton Boggs, TLT and Winston & Strawn. The selected firms will […]
Brown Rudnick’s City boss leaves for litigation boutique
A partner duo from Brown Rudnick is leaving the firm’s London office for PCB Byrne, The Lawyer can reveal. Neil Micklethwaite, Brown Rudnick’s London managing partner, is to make the move, along with fellow partner Olga Bischof. The pair specialises in complex litigation, regulatory investigations and fraud matters, with a particular focus on disputes relating […]
Stephenson Harwood’s revenue bounces back to £228m
Stephenson Harwood’s turnover increased 11 per cent during the last financial year, as firms across the country prepare to announce their results for 2022/23. The firm posted a revenue figure of £228m, up from its flat £206m the previous financial year. It is the first time the firm has posted positive revenue figures in three […]
Freshfields’ IPO guru leaves for Latham
Latham & Watkins is boosting its equity capital markets practice with the hire of a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner, known for advising on some of the City’s largest IPOs. Mark Austin is leaving the magic circle firm after over two decades to join Latham’s capital markets and public company representation practice. He joined as a […]
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