Smiths Group names City and magic circle firms to first-ever panel
Technology company Smiths Group has launched its inaugural legal panel, appointing a raft of city and magic circle firms, The Lawyer understands.
Controversial Lloyds/HBoS circular got magic circle seal of approval, says former CEO
Three magic circle firms reviewed a shareholder circular that has been criticised for misleading investors about Halifax Bank of Scotland’s (HBoS) finances, according to Lloyd’s former CEO.
The Lawyer’s top 200 UK law firms revealed
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
In ten years’ time there will be no independent Scottish firms
If we are to learn anything from the demise of the Scottish market, it is never to become wholly reliant on the hands that feed you.
Smiths Group names City and magic circle firms to first-ever panel
Technology company Smiths Group has launched its inaugural legal panel, appointing a raft of city and magic circle firms, The Lawyer understands.
Controversial Lloyds/HBoS circular got magic circle seal of approval, says former CEO
Three magic circle firms reviewed a shareholder circular that has been criticised for misleading investors about Halifax Bank of Scotland’s (HBoS) finances, according to Lloyd’s former CEO.
The Lawyer’s top 200 UK law firms revealed
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
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Simpson Thacher promotes one partner in London in US-heavy round
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has promoted one lawyer in London for the third year in a row. The firm made up 15 lawyers worldwide, with the bulk being its US offices in New York, Houston, Palo Alto and Washington, although it also promoted three in its Hong Kong office, all effective on 1 January 2020. […]
Restructuring departures from DLA Piper continue as two more partners exit
DLA Piper has suffered another blow to its embattled restructuring practice, as a two-partner team defects to Boston-headquartered firm Brown Rudnick. Leeds-based corporate restructuing partner Richard Obank and insolvency partner Colin Ashford are set to enter the European global restructuring and finance group of Brown Rudnick. The Lawyer Hot 100 2019 member Obank has been a […]
Norton Rose among three firms dropped from National Grid’s new panel
Three firms have been dropped from National Grid’s latest legal panel after a six-month review process. Norton Rose Fulbright, Irwin Mitchell and BDB Pitmans have lost their places on the FTSE 100-listed company’s legal panel, which has been reduced from 12 firms to 10. Over 60 firms applied for a place. Womble Bond Dickinson is […]
Bar Standards Board raises minimum pupillage award for 2020
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has raised the minimum pupillage award for the second time this year. Between 2011 to 2018 the minimum allowed pupillage award was £12,000. At that point the BSB stepped in to guaranteed the minimum living wage in future for pupils. The most recent minimum came into effect in September and […]
Trio of firms act on £1bn Blackfriars riverside development
Clifford Chance, Clyde & Co and Stephenson Harwood are acting on the development of Bankside Yards, a £1.3bn mixed-use project situated on the south side of the Thames between the Tate Modern and Blackfriars Bridge. Head of UK real estate construction Marianne Toghill is acting for Clifford Chance’s longstanding client Native Land on the construction […]
Data dive: The London IPO market this year and next in five charts
If you’re an equity capital markets lawyer, then it’s not your year. Sure, you’re prepping away for a post-Brexit world (whenever that may be), but right now the fruits of your labours are largely going unnoticed. Things will change. 2019 is shaping up to be a slow year in terms of new listings on the […]