Clydes to downsize London aviation team
Clyde & Co has launched a consultation to cut fee-earner roles in its London aviation practice as part of a restructuring exercise to improve profitability. So far three senior associates have been...
View ArticleWinston & Strawn poaches second White & Case Dubai partner
US firm Winston & Strawn has hired a second partner from rival White & Case in the Middle East. Shibeer Ahmed joins Winston & Strawn as the firm’s head of Islamic finance. He joins the...
View ArticleBevan Brittan opts out of SRA panel as litigation veteran exits for Kingsley...
Bevan Brittan has revealed it will not re-tender for a spot on the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) panel following the departure of former head of commercial litigation Iain Miller to Kingsley...
View ArticleShoosmiths opens in Belfast through local tie-up
Shoosmiths has merged with Belfast firm McManus Kearney, opening its first Northern Ireland office. McManus Kearney specialises in debt and insolvency matters. It was set up in 1987 and is led by its...
View ArticleDAC Beachcroft turnover hits £102m at half-year
DAC Beachcroft has posted revenues up 1.2 per cent to £102m at the half-year mark. Last year DAC saw its turnover break the £100m barrier for the first time. The firm’s turnover increased by 2 per cent...
View ArticleSimon Olswang: My story
This article was contributed by Olswang founder, Simon Olswang Following on from this week’s article, ‘Who sank the good ship Olswang’, The Lawyer’s editor has kindly allowed me some personal...
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Lo♥︎ing Legal Life: the trouble with stoicism
This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC look at how to cope with the vicarious trauma that can come with a life in the law. Being a lawyer is a profession that comes...
View ArticleLegalitax and Schoenherr advise on Tecnopool-Gostol deal
Legalitax and Schoenherr advised Tecnopool on the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Gopek, the Slovenian holding company of the Gostol Group with registered offices in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The...
View ArticleShoosmiths moves into Northern Ireland via Belfast merger
Shoosmiths has announced its move in to the Northern Ireland legal market following its merger with Belfast firm, McManus Kearney. The merger brings the total number of Shoosmiths offices to 12. The...
View ArticleOuter Temple successfully defends British triathlete against doping charges
Outer Temple Chambers’ Matthew Phillips was instructed to advise and represent a British Triathlete who tested positive for Clenbuterol at the recent World Championships in Mexico. An anti-doping rule...
View ArticleWFW records 14% hike in half-year results
Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has seen its revenue grow nearly 14 per cent in the first half of the 2016/17 financial year. Turnover increased from £59.5m to £67.6m and comes on the back of a 5...
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Top 10 stories: 28 November – 2 December 2016
Olswang and King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) continued to dominate the limelight on The Lawyer website this week. No fewer than four KWM stories made it into our top 10 most read stories as firms...
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Business services report: Tech investment wave looms for UK law firms
The UK legal market is gearing up for an unprecedented wave of technology-related investment as the vast majority of firms put technology squarely at the top of their strategic agenda. Click here to...
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David Greenwald’s potent prescription
Fried Frank chairman David Greenwald is a change agent. When he rejoined the firm in 2013 after a stint as deputy general counsel at Goldman Sachs, which included more than six years in London, it was...
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How in-house teams can take a hands-on approach to avoiding disputes
It’s a given. In-house lawyers and risk officers want to avoid time in court at almost any cost, but in order to achieve that, they need to deal with dispute resolution as effectively as possible. But...
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In-house lawyers: shake off the shackles
In the last year alone, the amount of corporate data generated within companies has grown by 40 per cent. But that information avalanche can provide opportunities as well as challenges, in-housers at...
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What firms really think about legal technology
This year’s UK 200: Business Services report, which analyses headcount-related trends across the UK legal market, focused in particular on technology. As part of this report we conducted additional...
View ArticleDoping charges dropped against British Triathlete
Matthew Phillips was instructed to advise and represent a British Triathlete who tested positive for Clenbuterol at the recent World Championships in Mexico. An anti-doping rule violation was asserted...
View ArticleAustria: Schoenherr advises EQT on sale of Automic to CA
Schoenherr has advised EQT VI Limited (“EQT VI”), together with Kirkland & Ellis, London, on the sale of Automic Software GmbH (“Automic”) to NASDAQ-listed CA Technologies Inc. (“CA Technologies”)...
View ArticleArticle 50: the Supreme Court hearing
The background In its judgment on 3 November (R (Miller and Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union), the Divisional Court found that the Government “does not have [the]...
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