British outsourcing giant Serco has rejigged its panel for the first time since reviewing the roster in 2016. The full panel, which covers the UK and Europe, sees the reappointment of Clifford Chance, DWF and Pinsent Masons, while Radiant Law and Clyde & Co have been retained for group corporate procurement matters and specific regulatory […]
The Covid-19 vaccine will be made available for terminally ill people as soon as it is clincally appropriate to do so, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed, after a campaign spearheaded by Pinsent Masons’ head of communications. Fred Banning, aged 38, a popular member of the legal PR community, was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier […]
A High Court judge has ordered RBS to provide fresh disclosure in an £11m dispute against a property company. TLT is acting for the Royal Bank of Scotland in litigation brought by Gary Wyatt, an accountant who runs Grove Park Properties. Wyatt, instructing Cooke Young & Keidan, has sued the bank over a loan, alleging […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London outpost has been strengthened by the addition of two new partners in the firm’s latest round of promotions. With a total of 11 making the step up across the board, effective as of 1 January 2021, the promotion of two in the City now leaves the litigation boutique with […]
Many chambers made significant hires over 2020 to prepare for an influx of claims next year.
British outsourcing giant Serco has rejigged its panel for the first time since reviewing the roster in 2016. The full panel, which covers the UK and Europe, sees the reappointment of Clifford Chance, DWF and Pinsent Masons, while Radiant Law and Clyde & Co have been retained for group corporate procurement matters and specific regulatory […]
The Covid-19 vaccine will be made available for terminally ill people as soon as it is clincally appropriate to do so, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed, after a campaign spearheaded by Pinsent Masons’ head of communications. Fred Banning, aged 38, a popular member of the legal PR community, was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier […]
A High Court judge has ordered RBS to provide fresh disclosure in an £11m dispute against a property company. TLT is acting for the Royal Bank of Scotland in litigation brought by Gary Wyatt, an accountant who runs Grove Park Properties. Wyatt, instructing Cooke Young & Keidan, has sued the bank over a loan, alleging […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London outpost has been strengthened by the addition of two new partners in the firm’s latest round of promotions. With a total of 11 making the step up across the board, effective as of 1 January 2021, the promotion of two in the City now leaves the litigation boutique with […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired another magic circle partner to its London ranks, this time taking on the co-leader of Allen & Overy’s antitrust practice. The US firm has hired partner Antonio Bavasso, who will join after a two-decade-long career at Allen & Overy, where he was co-head of the global antitrust practice as […]
There’s no doubt that firms are using non-UK growth to power their global figures. Of the 35 Top 50 firms for which The Lawyer has historical global revenue data, all but four saw higher growth outside the UK in the five years since 2019. Included in this group is Herbert Smith Freehillls (HSF), where London remains […]
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
The Supreme Court has upheld an anti-suit injunction against a Gazprom subsidiary, potentially halting €440m proceedings in Russia. The Gazprom part-owned special purpose entity, RusChemAlliance (RCA), had brought a damages claim against the bank UniCredit in Russia concerning an aborted contract following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. UniCredit instructed Latham & Watkins in its pursuit of […]
CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. After 10 years at the helm, Warne is spearheading a project that she founded at the World Bank, via her own company, which promotes the rule of law and access to justice, […]
Slaughter and May is to add another senior lawyer to its pensions team in the City, this time from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Charles Magoffin, a partner at Freshfields since 2010, is joining Slaughters as a senior counsel from September. Slaughters has still only ever made one lateral hire in the City, also into its pensions […]
Litigation funders will be keeping a close eye on an upcoming review into third-party funding regulation, proposed caps on returns, as well as litigation costs. The Civil Justice Council is looking to produce a full report by the summer of 2025. The review follows an increased focus on litigation funders and their role in disputes, […]
In its largest promotions round ever, Ashurst has elevated eight London lawyers to partner out of 30 worldwide. The firm has made up eight lawyers in London, as well as seven in Sydney. In total, 17 promotions were made in Ashurst’s Australian offices, meaning just five were made outside of either London or Australia. Loans […]
