Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Kirkland & Ellis are continuing to advise Debenhams and its lenders, in another torrid day for the UK’s High Street retailers. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird is the lead partner advising Debenhams alongside partner Lindsay Hingston, with Craig Montgomery leading on the litigation side. Debenhams is now set […]
McDermott Will & Emery will be hunting for a new London home in 2021 after it exercised the 10-year break clause in its lease at 110 Bishopsgate. The lease expires next March but McDermott is already looking to exit 110 Bishopsgate and is likely to be out before Christmas. It currently operates out of around […]
BLM has replaced its three-year £20m funding package with a new deal with HSBC. The insurance specialist said that the new facility will support the continued development of its digital first strategy, which it initiated last year. The firm is now paperless, and over the summer began the shift to a more flexible working model […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has strengthened its litigation and investigations group in London by hiring a partner from Shearman & Sterling. Susanna Charlwood is the litigator in question, who rejoins A&O after spending the past seven-and-a-half years at the US outfit. She also spent time at Slaughter and May. Commercial litigation is Charlwood’s area of […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Kirkland & Ellis are continuing to advise Debenhams and its lenders, in another torrid day for the UK’s High Street retailers. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird is the lead partner advising Debenhams alongside partner Lindsay Hingston, with Craig Montgomery leading on the litigation side. Debenhams is now set […]
McDermott Will & Emery will be hunting for a new London home in 2021 after it exercised the 10-year break clause in its lease at 110 Bishopsgate. The lease expires next March but McDermott is already looking to exit 110 Bishopsgate and is likely to be out before Christmas. It currently operates out of around […]
BLM has replaced its three-year £20m funding package with a new deal with HSBC. The insurance specialist said that the new facility will support the continued development of its digital first strategy, which it initiated last year. The firm is now paperless, and over the summer began the shift to a more flexible working model […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has strengthened its litigation and investigations group in London by hiring a partner from Shearman & Sterling. Susanna Charlwood is the litigator in question, who rejoins A&O after spending the past seven-and-a-half years at the US outfit. She also spent time at Slaughter and May. Commercial litigation is Charlwood’s area of […]
ASOS’ interim general counsel Anna Suchopar has been confirmed as permanent GC and company secretary. Suchopar was appointed to the top legal role on an interim basis in July last year, following the departure of former GC Andrew Magowan. Having trained at Taylor Wessing, Suchopar joined the online fashion retailer in 2014 from Virgin Group, where […]
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 […]
Linklaters and Slaughter and May are leading on BHP’s mega-offer for rival mining company Anglo American. It emerged this morning that Australian giant BHP had put forward an unsolicited proposal to Anglo American If the deal went ahead, it would be valued at around £31bn. Linklaters is on call for Anglo American as it discusses […]
The ex-general counsel of Haleon has announced that he has joined energy and chemicals business Aramco, which is based in Saudi Arabia. Bjarne Tellman was hired by GSK four years ago to prepare the company for the creation of Haleon, one of the UK’s largest corporate demergers in 20 years. The purpose of the demerger […]
The wait is finally over. In just under a week, the transformational merger between Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling will go live. But while the deal is done, the job is only just beginning. On this episode of The Lawyer Podcast, editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith look at how the […]
A duo from Travers Smith is leaving for Goodwin Procter, as exits from the UK firm’s corporate team continue. Partners Ian Keefe and George Weavil are joining Goodwin’s private equity team. Their arrivals follow the exit of a team from Goodwin to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, led by partner Christian Iwasko. Both Weavil […]
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 […]
