Latham isn’t sniffy about the mid-market – just ask Travers
With Paul Dolman’s hire, Latham is targeting the mid-market PE opportunities.
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With Paul Dolman’s hire, Latham is targeting the mid-market PE opportunities.
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 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 […]
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 […]
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A number of cases involving corporate libel claimants were decided before the Supreme Court’s decision in Lachaux v Independent Print finally settled the meaning of the “serious harm” test.
Legal reforms that took effect from 6 January 2021 have created a central register of directors and other “significant persons” of certain types of Jersey entities and changed the rules around annual returns.
A firm recognised there was a training gap that required CDMs to be upskilled as developers; both in the way they saw themselves as developers but also in their skills as developers.
With Paul Dolman’s hire, Latham is targeting the mid-market PE opportunities.
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 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 […]
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 & 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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Paul Hastings has hired two white-collar and investigations partners from White & Case, as US firms look to expand their City teams. The firm has brought in lawyers Jonathan Pickworth and Joanna Dimmock to the London office. They will join from White & Case, where Pickworth led the white-collar crime practice. Pickworth spent more than […]
Another partner from White & Case’s disputes department is leaving, as Steven Baker exits the firm after three years. Baker joined White & Case in 2018 as part of an expansive lateral hiring strategy in the City. In 2018 Baker left Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft to join White & Case alongside international arbitration partner David […]
Shoosmiths has appointed its head of personal advisory as its first general counsel (GC). Richard Follis takes on the inaugural GC role at the 196-partner firm, where he will enhance focus on managing the increasing compliance burden required to support business activity, as well as take on the quality and risk responsibilities that sit with […]
A team of lawyers and technologists from Ashurst’s NewLaw arm is set to take on teaching duties as part of a module launched by the firm with the University of Stirling in Scotland. The firm is working with the university on a strategic partnership aimed at cultivating talent that will be able to populate the […]
The chief marketing officer and executive board member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is leaving the firm after 12 years. The departure of Lucy Murphy, chief marketing and business development officer at the magic circle firm, was announced internally in an email, sources told The Lawyer. Murphy had been in her role since 2015. Sitting on […]
UK firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has made its first partner hire in Singapore following its 2019 merger, in what is also its first steps towards building an Asian corporate practice. As part of its strategic expansion in Asia, Penningtons has hired corporate partner Nick Dingemans in Singapore from UK rival Watson Farley Williams, where he […]