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Portugal’s top firms: Why private client work will pick up the slack from M&A
Portuguese firms had a record-breaking year in 2015, posting high revenues boosted by divestments, asset sales, high-stakes litigation and M&A activity. Vieira de AlmeidaBut what does the 2016...
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Bulgaria: Will state funding be enough to win energy freedom?
The energy sector continues to be of great importance to the Bulgarian economy. In the past year several authorities have granted aid and investment to projects in the area, including the construction...
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The experts explain: How to outsource the right way
With a great wave of UK law firms struggling to promote efficiency and reap the benefits in their bottom line, many have opened business services centres to carry out their back-office functions. But...
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My Pride Story: “It’s frustrating when students don’t apply to firms because...
Colm Kinsella is an associate at Slaughter and May. What is your work and LGBT history? I’m an associate in one of the corporate groups at Slaughter and May. I moved to London from Ireland after...
View ArticleUS, UK and Dutch heavyweights lead on Qualcomm’s $47bn acquisition
A number US, UK and Dutch heavyweights have won work on Qualcomm’s $47bn (£38.6bn) acquisition of NXP Semiconductors. Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison advised Qualcomm on the acquisition, with...
View ArticleKWM loses five-lawyer German finance team to Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing has hired a five-lawyer banking team from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) in Frankfurt. The news comes just days after four of KWM’s biggest billers in London resigned from the firm,...
View ArticleResearch: Variety more important than work-life balance to contract lawyers
Variety of work, rather than better work-life balance, is the chief reason lawyers take up freelance roles, according to a new survey. Pinsent Masons’ contract lawyering service Vario surveyed its...
View ArticleDuane Morris opens first office in Taiwan
Duane Morris has opened its first office in Taiwan through its joint venture with Singapore-headquartered Selvam. The US firm announced its joint venture with Selvam & Partners in 2011 and has used...
View ArticleEncompass wins Innovation and Technology Award at 2016 TRI Awards
Encompass Corporation has won the Innovation and Technology Award at the 2016 Turnaround, Restructuring and Insolvency (TRI) Awards in a joint nomination with innovative challenger law firm,...
View ArticleOgier competition chief welcomes merger regime reforms
Proposed reforms to Jersey’s competition laws aimed at focusing the regulator’s powers on mergers and acquisitions that are most likely to affect the local economy have been cautiously welcomed by...
View ArticleHerbert Smith Freehills advocacy head exits for Stewarts Law
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) head of advocacy Ian Gatt QC has quit the firm to become a partner at Stewarts Law. His exit comes around a decade after Gatt launched HSF’s advocacy unit – the first of...
View ArticleSimmons & Simmons seals JLV with Singapore best friend
Simmons & Simmons has established a joint law venture (JLV) with Singaporean boutique JWS, which has been in a “best friends” relationship with the UK firm for over a year. JWS Asia Law Corporation...
View ArticleBär & Karrer advises Auven on Ocular sale to Sun Pharma
Auven Therapeutics, an international private equity company focused on accelerated development of therapeutic drugs, has signed an agreement to sell its Swiss subsidiary Ocular Technologies, to...
View ArticleBär & Karrer acts for Cinven on the sale of SLV
European private equity firm Cinven, has has sold its SLV Group, advised by Cinven. The buyers are private equity funds advised by Ardian, a private equity firm based in Paris. SLV was founded in 1979...
View ArticleGateley advises Brand Events on sale of pet portfolio to TV’s ‘Supervet’
Gateley’s corporate team in Reading has advised events and exhibition business Brand Events on the sale of its pet events portfolio to Fitz All Media. Fitz All Media was founded in 2009 by Noel...
View ArticleShoosmiths advises on merger of leisure businesses Prestige and Homeseeker
Shoosmiths has advised on the merger of Northamptonshire-based Prestige Park & Leisure Homes and Homeseeker Park & Leisure Homes, two of the UK’s leading names in the leisure lodge and park...
View ArticleFieldfisher returns to Mayer Brown for finance hire
Fieldfisher has hired another lawyer from Mayer Brown’s finance team – this time recruiting partner Richard Todd. Todd’s departure follows the same move by Jayne Backett in September. Backett was an...
View ArticleStewarts Law: over 125 institutional funds file against Tesco
Bentham Europe and Stewarts Law have announced that over 125 institutional funds have filed a claim for damages against Tesco for well in excess of £100m over alleged breaches of the Financial Services...
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The biggest problem lawyers face is learned impotence
Discussions around career choices for partners and general counsel will, with depressing regularity, turn to two things: why private practice lawyers find it impossible to get non-exec roles, and why...
View ArticleRecord numbers of London lawyers earned over £1m last year
Deputy Editor Matt Byrne discusses the UK 200 series, and the findings from our five reports. What are the faultlines in the market? What are the pressures? Matt discusses the trend of technology that...
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