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Women in Law: How to get the critical career-boosting assignments
One area that women I coach can find challenging is ensuring that the opportunities they are given, and matters which are assigned to them are as interesting and developmental as they would like them...
View ArticleHSF Middle East lynchpin exits for Jones Day
Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) Middle East finance head Nadim Khan, who was instrumental in launching the firm’s first office in the region, has joined Jones Day. Khan joined HSF from Norton Rose...
View ArticleAppointments at Collas Crill
Collas Crill has strengthened its Jersey office with three new appointments. Lucy Diggle and Sam Williams have been appointed as senior associates and Lynne Calder has joined as an associate. The post...
View ArticleGlobal M&A deal value drops 50% but Wachtell tops rankings
The value of UK M&A deals dropped by 45 per cent in the first nine months of 2016, new research has found. Despite the decline, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Davis...
View ArticleAshurst lures back banking partner Ward before Paul Hastings move
Ashurst has lured back banking partner Nigel Ward, who announced he would join Paul Hastings earlier this month. Ward was the fourth member of his practice to exit for the US firm. Partners Michael...
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General counsel: Don’t waste a good crisis
GCs are turning a business crisis to their benefit, by making the legal department’s skills and knowledge indispensable, developing junior members’ skills, and networking with internal departments and...
View ArticleChina Elite: The firm that tripled its revenue in two years
Beijing-headquartered Han Kun has emerged as the fastest growing firm in this year’s China Elite report after it tripled its annual turnover between 2013 and 2015. Han Kun also more than doubled its...
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What to do if you’re left without an NQ job on qualification
As September draws to an end so too does the autumn qualification round for final seat trainees. Thankfully, by now most newly qualified solicitors (NQs) will be settling into their new roles, be that...
View ArticleWalder Wyss helps Swiss Life place bond
Swiss Life Ltd has successfully placed a €600m undated subordinated bond, first callable in May 2027. The coupon until the first call date has been fixed at 4.5%. Walder Wyss acts as legal counsel to...
View ArticleSJ Berwin and Mallesons partners to battle it out for KWM EUME managing...
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) London head of tax Gareth Amdor and EUME corporate co-head Tim Bednall will battle it out to be the firm’s new UK, Europe and Middle East managing partner. The partners...
View ArticleKazakhstan PPP seminars
On 20 and 22 September 2016, Public-Private Partnership seminars were organised by GRATA International in Astana and Almaty in co-operation with the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm. The main...
View ArticleMaravela talks employment on air
Maravela Asociații’s Senior Associate Daniel Vinerean talked about the companies’ employment internal regulation in a Radio France International show touching on legal and financial issues recently....
View ArticleSchoenherr advises ERR Rail Rent shareholders on sale to Aves One
Schoenherr has advised the shareholders of Austrian freight wagon holding company ERR Rail Rent Vermietungs on the sale of 100 per cent of their shares in ERR as well as 33.3 per cent of their...
View ArticleHow law firms can make change happen
More than 70 per cent of the large-scale change initiatives implemented by businesses fail, and despite pressure to innovate this statistic has not changed in 25 years. These were the facts presented...
View ArticleMayer Brown claims top gong at Business Leadership Awards
Mayer Brown, Berwin Leighton Paisner and Dentons were among the firms to fight off tough competition and claim accolades at The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Awards, held at the Brewery in London on...
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China Elite: Litigation generating more money for firms than ever before
Litigation is increasingly encroaching on transactional work as a major driver of Chinese law firm growth, research by The Lawyer has found. The analysis comes from this year’s edition of the China...
View ArticleBen Emmerson QC turns to Bindmans on suspension from child sex abuse inquiry
Matrix Chambers’ Ben Emmerson QC has instructed Bindmans following his suspension from the child sex abuse inquiry. In a statement the firm said its client “read on the internet that he has been...
View ArticleHudgell’s youngest qualified medical negligence claims solicitor
Newly qualified Sarah Moor says her passion and love of the legal profession has been key to her becoming the youngest fully qualified solicitor with personal injury and medical negligence specialists...
View ArticleBär & Karrer adds three to Dispute Resolution group
Bär & Karrer has strengthened its dispute resolution practice group in Geneva with new partners Pierre-Yves Gunter, Alexandra Johnson and Aurélie Conrad Hari. The post Bär & Karrer adds three...
View ArticleAlton Towers disaster leads to £5m fine
On 26 September Bernard Thorogood of No5 Chambers presented the prosecution case in the Alton Towers disaster hearing for sentence. The Judge agreed with the prosecution that economic damage arising...
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