The summer recess may be keeping the courts of action but there are still plenty of legal issues to digest from over the past few weeks. We’ve taken the chance to dissect some of the most interesting cases from the last month, including a solicitor being imprisoned for contempt of court and a shipping inspector emerging victorious in a watershed High Court ruling.
With the courts still on summer recess, The Lawyer takes the chance to scrutinise key judgments that have been handed down over the past few months.
A raft of heavyweight litigators are in the Court of Appeal this week, as Hogan Lovells battle a High Court decision to unfreeze the assets of two Ukrainian oligarchs. Pinsent Masons, Fieldfisher and Enyo have been handed the mandate for the oligarchs, as the firms defend the former owners of PrivatBank, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor […]
Kirkland & Ellis, Sullivan & Cromwell and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer are the firms involved in the latest deal between US pharmaceutical giants, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene and Amgen, valued at $13.4bn. The deal is related to the $90bn merger between the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene, announced in January, and the sale of Celgene’s skin […]
The summer recess may be keeping the courts of action but there are still plenty of legal issues to digest from over the past few weeks. We’ve taken the chance to dissect some of the most interesting cases from the last month, including a solicitor being imprisoned for contempt of court and a shipping inspector emerging victorious in a watershed High Court ruling.
With the courts still on summer recess, The Lawyer takes the chance to scrutinise key judgments that have been handed down over the past few months.
A raft of heavyweight litigators are in the Court of Appeal this week, as Hogan Lovells battle a High Court decision to unfreeze the assets of two Ukrainian oligarchs. Pinsent Masons, Fieldfisher and Enyo have been handed the mandate for the oligarchs, as the firms defend the former owners of PrivatBank, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor […]
Kirkland & Ellis, Sullivan & Cromwell and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer are the firms involved in the latest deal between US pharmaceutical giants, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene and Amgen, valued at $13.4bn. The deal is related to the $90bn merger between the Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene, announced in January, and the sale of Celgene’s skin […]
Burges Salmon has been added to The Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) legal panel, three months after setting up in Edinburgh. The SPFL launched its first ever legal panel in January last year, appointing four new firms – Brabners, Fladgate, gunnercooke and Shepherd & Wedderburn. In late 2017, it dropped Harper Macleod after 20 years […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
On Tuesday last week (9 April), the SRA sought to quell a rising tide of discontent around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). In its most recent SQE annual report, SRA chief executive Paul Philip said the public and profession could have “confidence” in this “rigorous assessment”. That confidence was short-lived. Yesterday (15 April), Philip was […]
For one firm, the pan-Nordic dream is dead. For another, it’s just begun. Hannes Snellman’s announcement that its Stockholm and Helsinki offices will be going their separate ways later this year represented the end of a strategic gamble that started 16 years ago. Back then, its leadership bet that opening in Stockholm (2008) and Copenhagen […]
It seems that one of the chief attributes of managing partners is wild optimism. You can’t move for law firm leaders committing their firms to hardcore five-year targets – particularly in the upper mid-tier, where we’re hearing of plans to double or even triple revenues by the end of the decade. We’d like some of […]
BT has further shrunk its panel for the third review in a row having appointed a total of 11 firms to its roster. The panel will run for three years and includes 10 firms that have been reappointed from 2020. Those continuing their relationship with BT after the latest review are the likes of Allen […]
Dentons has promoted 12 lawyers to partner in the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) this year, including nine partners in London. Of the remaining three promotions, two were made in Glasgow and one was made in Abu Dhabi. Most of the promotions have been made in the projects team, with Claudia Thomas and Graham […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up 23 lawyers to partner globally in its smallest round for three years. Last year, the magic circle promoted 30 to partnership worldwide, with 27 making the grade in 2022. There were 22 elevations in 2021. As a result, the London set is also slightly smaller than in previous years. […]
The Lawyer‘s Christian Smith, Catrin Griffiths, Richard Simmons, Katy Dowell and Charlotte Lear are joined by College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor for this emergency episode of The Lawyer Podcast as they discuss the latest Solicitors Qualification Exam debacle: marking errors that led to 175 students being incorrectly told they had failed. What went […]
Fieldfisher is bolstering its German presence with a sizeable team from local firm SKW Schwartz and a handful of other hires, in an effort to expand its media, technology and IP offerings. The firm has hired eight lawyers from SKW Schwarz including partners Martin Diesbach, Elisabeth Noltenius and Julia Schafdecker, all of whom specialise in […]
