White & Case chairman calls on firm to “come together” after Trump victory
White & Case chairman Hugh Verrier has implored the firm’s staff and lawyers to “come together” after the election of Donald Trump as US president. In an all-staff email sent on Friday (11...
View ArticleWalker Morris advises PROACTIS on Millstream acquisition
A multi-disciplinary team of specialist lawyers at Walker Morris has advised PROACTIS, the specialist Spend Control software provider, on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of...
View ArticleExclusive: Addleshaws to acquire Gateley’s Scottish offices
Addleshaw Goddard is poised to acquire all of Gateley’s Scottish offices, The Lawyer can reveal. Partners will vote on the acquisition this week. Gateley, which operates as HBJ Gateley in Scotland, has...
View ArticleKWM China bail-out: Partners have a week to agree to 12-month lock-ins
King & Wood Mallesons’ UK, Europe and Middle East partners have until 21 November to agree to 12-month lock-ins in order to receive financial support from China. EUME bosses Michael Cziesla and Tim...
View ArticleWorld of disruption may herald boom time for litigators
Last week The Lawyer’s editorial team was putting the finishing touches to this year’s Global Litigation 50 report. When the news of Donald Trump’s election victory broke. Most of the conversations we...
View ArticleCan London win the battle of the arbitration centres?
The growth of international arbitration is a seemingly unstoppable force, and London has been among the biggest beneficiaries of its increasing popularity with big business. The International...
View ArticleMacfarlanes competition head exits for White & Case
White & Case has hired Macfarlanes competition head Marc Israel as its hiring spree in London continues. Israel trained at Slaughter and May and joined Macfarlanes in 2001. He made partner three...
View ArticleJonas Hankin QC secures conviction in baby shaking case
No5 Chamber’s Jonas Hankin QC has successfully prosecuted a father from Nottingham for killing his baby son. The father, Easton Robinson, has been convicted of manslaughter for killing two-month old...
View ArticleAwards aplenty for Collas Crill future leaders
The Citywealth Future Leaders Under 40 awards took place on 10 November, with three lawyers from Collas Crill taking home awards. Fiduciary partner Kellyann Ozouf won the gold award for Lawyer of the...
View ArticlePraise and recognition for Ogier team in Caribbean Legal 500 guide
The new Legal 500 directory has recognised 19 of Ogier’s Cayman and BVI team in their latest set of Caribbean rankings. The directory, which uses independent editorial research to assess firms across...
View ArticleNatalie Sherborn wins Reputation Lawyer of the Year at Citywealth Future...
Natalie Sherborn, senior associate and criminal barrister at Schillings, has won Citywealth’s Future Leaders Award for Reputation Lawyer of the Year. One of five lawyers to be shortlisted, the win...
View ArticleFinanceFox successfully completes Series A financing round
Swiss insurtech startup FinanceFox has successfully completed its Series A financing round with Target Global and Horizons Ventures as lead investors. The financing round also included the conversion...
View ArticleMercury acquires CES
Mercury Systems, a NASDAQ listed leading commercial provider of secure processing subsystems, acquires the Swiss mission computing company Creative Electronic Systems (CES). Walder Wyss AG has acted as...
View ArticleSix-strong Cuatrecasas Portugal team defects to PLMJ
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira former co-managing partner Diogo Perestrelo has left the firm with a team of five lawyers to join rival Portuguese firm PLMJ. Perestrelo, who was a partner at Cuatrecasas...
View ArticleNabarro pensions deficit dropped by £20m before merger deal
Nabarro’s pension deficit reduced by more than half, from £31.9m to £12.2m in the last financial year, the firm’s LLP accounts have revealed. Ciaran Carvalho, senior partnerThe firm, which is due to...
View ArticleWomen in Finance Charter – “absence of major employers speaks volumes”
Richard Nicolle, employment partner at Stewarts Law, has spoken to LexisNexis about the new Women in Finance Charter that sees 60 financial services firms commit to having women in at least 30 per cent...
View ArticleMilbank hires A&O US senior partner in real estate push
Allen & Overy (A&O) US senior partner Kevin O’Shea is leaving the firm for Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy along with two real estate partners. O’Shea joined the magic circle firm in 2002...
View ArticleOffshore: Panama papers and a year in the spotlight
2016 was not just about the Panama Papers. Powered by a boom in onshore M&A and capital markets in 2015 offshore firms continued to grow, as our round-up of the year reveals. A year in the...
View ArticleResearch: partnership track now averages ten years
It now takes an average of ten years to make partner, new research has found. Recruiter Origin Legal looked at the 111 partners made up in the London top 20 in 2016, and found that 80 per cent of them...
View ArticleOgier targets fund finance growth
The new Global Head of Ogier’s Banking and Finance practice has targeted growth in its global fund finance business, as the law firm announces a number of senior team changes. Cayman Islands-based...
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