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The new European front: Kirkland hires Linklaters duo to launch in Paris
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
Clifford Chance GC hands over the reins after 18 years in charge
Clifford Chance has appointed a new executive partner and general counsel ahead of the upcoming retirement of longstanding chief Chris Perrin. Banking partner Robin Abraham will succeed Perrin in May 2021, as the latter leaves a position he has held since 2003. He will stay on as a senior level consultant around insurance arrangements. Newly-appointed […]
Barrister of the week: Doughty Street’s Jennifer Robinson
There are pressures that come with any litigation, but for Doughty Street’s Jennifer Robinson (Call: 2016), it has been an extremely challenging few years working on Julian Assange’s extradition case. The US Government has been attempting to extradite Assange to the US, a policy hastened under Donald Trump’s leadership. This week Judge Baraitser ruled the […]
Taylor Wessing raids BCLP with 11-strong team hire
Latham isn’t sniffy about the mid-market – just ask Travers
With Paul Dolman’s hire, Latham is targeting the mid-market PE opportunities.
The new European front: Kirkland hires Linklaters duo to launch in Paris
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
Clifford Chance GC hands over the reins after 18 years in charge
Clifford Chance has appointed a new executive partner and general counsel ahead of the upcoming retirement of longstanding chief Chris Perrin. Banking partner Robin Abraham will succeed Perrin in May 2021, as the latter leaves a position he has held since 2003. He will stay on as a senior level consultant around insurance arrangements. Newly-appointed […]
Barrister of the week: Doughty Street’s Jennifer Robinson
There are pressures that come with any litigation, but for Doughty Street’s Jennifer Robinson (Call: 2016), it has been an extremely challenging few years working on Julian Assange’s extradition case. The US Government has been attempting to extradite Assange to the US, a policy hastened under Donald Trump’s leadership. This week Judge Baraitser ruled the […]
Gibson Dunn refuels in London with HSF hire
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has added a new partner into its real estate finance practice, after a string of exits from the firm’s City transactional groups last year. The US firm is adding Robert Carr as a partner from Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF). The finance specialist, who has spent almost 15 years at HSF, will […]
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Eversheds recruits insurance duo from Dentons
Dentons has lost a corporate partner duo to Eversheds Sutherland, including its former global chair of its insurance group. Martin Mankabady has made the move from Dentons to Eversheds along with fellow partner Adriana Cotter. Mankabady, who led Dentons’ insurance group, had been at the firm for over six years, having joined from Clyde & […]
Kirkland adds funds partner from Akin Gump
Kirkland & Ellis is strengthening the secondaries element of its London investment funds practice with the hire of a partner from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Partner Aleksander Bakic has joined Kirkland after three years at Akin Gump. He was previously at O’Melveny & Myers and advises private equity fund sponsors across multiple alternative […]
Tesco Bank’s legal chief prepares to stand down
Tesco Bank has promoted from within, ahead of the departure of its legal director and company secretary. Michael Mustard is set to leave his role in February this year, with Fiona Burden, the bank’s current head of legal, taking the helm. Mustard has spent more than seven years in the business after joining in 2014. […]
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First super-exam results: Half of students pass but huge diversity gap emerges
The first pass rates of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) have been revealed. The students who sat the first-ever SQE1 exam in November received their results yesterday, with just over half – 53 per cent – receiving the good news that they had passed. Some 1,090 candidates, including 27 solicitor apprentices, took the exam across […]
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