Blackstone Chambers‘ Ian Mill QC recently joined the new-look team of counsel representing the Duchess of Sussex in her legal battle against Associated Newspapers. Joining 5RB‘s Justin Rushbrooke and Jane Phillips, alongside 8 New Square‘s Jessie Bowhill, Ian Mill QC is the latest barrister to be instructed by Schillings, replacing 5RB’s David Sherborne on the […]
Slaughter and May finance partner Oliver Storey has left the firm following an internal investigation. Slaughters confirmed that Storey has retired from the partnership with immediate effect, and that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been notified. Storey began his training with the firm in 2006 was promoted to partner in 2016. Slaughters senior partner […]
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.
DWF has recruited a new head for its Leeds office, bringing in a longtime DLA Piper partner. The listed firm has hired DLA Piper partner Allison Page in an executive role leading the regional outpost from next year. She leaves DLA after more than 15 years, having been head of the finance and projects team […]
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Blackstone Chambers‘ Ian Mill QC recently joined the new-look team of counsel representing the Duchess of Sussex in her legal battle against Associated Newspapers. Joining 5RB‘s Justin Rushbrooke and Jane Phillips, alongside 8 New Square‘s Jessie Bowhill, Ian Mill QC is the latest barrister to be instructed by Schillings, replacing 5RB’s David Sherborne on the […]
Slaughter and May finance partner Oliver Storey has left the firm following an internal investigation. Slaughters confirmed that Storey has retired from the partnership with immediate effect, and that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has been notified. Storey began his training with the firm in 2006 was promoted to partner in 2016. Slaughters senior partner […]
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.
DWF has recruited a new head for its Leeds office, bringing in a longtime DLA Piper partner. The listed firm has hired DLA Piper partner Allison Page in an executive role leading the regional outpost from next year. She leaves DLA after more than 15 years, having been head of the finance and projects team […]
Mayer Brown has promoted two lawyers to partner in London in a round that saw 27 lawyers given the nod globally. Effective from 1 January 2021, the newly-minted City partners are restructuring lawyer Sheena Frazer and international arbitration lawyer Rachael O’Grady. Frazer began her legal training at DLA Piper in 2005. Spending a spell as […]
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McDermott Will & Emery is building up its City restructuring practice with the hire of Proskauer’s European restructuring head. Mark Fennessy joins McDermott as head of restructuring in London with fellow restructuring lawyer Sunay Radia, who joins as a partner. Fennessy spent eight years at Proskauer where he specialised in all areas of contentious and […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s City revenue is now within touching distance of the $150m mark, after double-digit growth in the office. The firm has posted a rise of 19 per cent from $125m to $149m in London. Globally turnover was up 6.5 per cent to $1.209bn from $1.135bn. The biggest global jump was in […]
Allen & Overy wants to increase collaboration between its lawyers and participants of incubator Fuse, while also expecting to run a “hybrid model” of working once a new cohort of start-ups are chosen. The incubator of the magic circle firm is set to start taking applications for its fifth cohort, with both emerging and established […]
Two of Irwin Mitchell’s most highly-regarded employment partners are to launch their own firm, adding to the blossoming number of boutiques in the City. Shazia Khan and Emilie Cole will go it alone as ColeKhan LLP from 2 May 2021. The pair had previously worked together at Bindmans before moving to Irwin Mitchell in 2018, […]
Taylor Wessing has amended its eligibility rules to enable staff to take career breaks and sabbaticals sooner than usual, in response to the third national lockdown. The firm has removed its usual two-year continuous service eligibility for people wishing to take up these unpaid options, as firms continue to think of ways to support staff […]
Goodwin is eyeing up Sidley Austin’s private equity grouping again, with a number of associates set to join a partner team led by Christian Iwasko and Erik Dahl, The Lawyer understands. Goodwin is thought to be hiring up to six associates from Sidley’s private equity team after Goodwin brought in a partner group spearheaded by […]
