Conyers increases Cayman litigation practice with new hire
Conyers Dill & Pearman’s Cayman Islands litigation and restructuring practice is pleased to welcome Sarah Lewis to its growing team. Sarah joins Conyers from Pinsent Masons in Dubai. Throughout her...
View ArticleKhaitan & Co advises Spencers’ Retail on acquisition
Khaitan & Co has advised Spencers’ Retail Ltd in relation to acquisition of 100 per cent stake in Omnipresent Retail India Private Ltd. Spencer’s Retail Ltd, part of the INR14000 crores RP Sanjiv...
View ArticleVW poaches Clifford Chance German partner for US legal chief
Volkswagen has hired Clifford Chance German partner David Detweiler as general counsel in the US, just months after an emissions tests scandal rocked the global car maker. Detweiler, who was a key...
View ArticleDechert PEP rises to $2.5m as revenue grows 6 per cent
Dechert’s average profit per equity partner rose 8.5 per cent from nearly $2.32m (£1.6m) in 2014 to $2.5m (£1.72m) in 2015. The increase came as global revenue for the firm grew 6 per cent from $839.4m...
View ArticleTop 10 stories: 29 January – 4 February 2016
This week’s top 10 stories are a particularly diverse and international selection, with international mergers, relationships in the Middle East and our South East Asia Elite all featuring. Nevertheless...
View ArticleThree top tips: Surviving as a new partner
Reed Smith partner Ranajoy Basu shares his top three tips for surviving as a new partner.
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Lawyers’ hourly rates too high? There’s an elephant in the room
I read with interest the report of the Centre for Policy Studies on “The Price of Law”. The attention-grabbing headline emerging from the report and picked up by the national media this morning is that...
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BT’s legal team made the right call
Matt Byrne, deputy editorWelcome to the BT issue. Well, ok, this week’s mag is not entirely devoted to the UK’s biggest telecoms giant, but it’s not far off. And to be fair, when it comes to BT,...
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The Hot 100 2016 party
This year’s hottest legal high-flyers celebrated together at London’s Royal Exchange Sharon Tan and Alison Levitt QC, Mishcon de ReyaStephen Rodney, Fox Rodney SearchJason Housden, MatrixLisa Gan,...
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Star legal writers: regulatory and competition
The most downloaded regulatory and competition briefings discuss pub planning permissions and cartels in fashion. Star writers in regulatory/compliance Lucy McDonnell, Gateley Adam Collinson and Aysha...
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Big Pharma: Covington and Cooley dominate hot deals market
The pharmaceutical sector has seen a lot of deal activity in the past 18 months, with large drug companies acquiring their smaller, more nimble and often more innovative counterparts. Part of the...
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BT: the most innovative in-house team in the FTSE 100
Few major businesses have been through as much change as BT has in recent years. Five years ago the company was facing a global revenue loss of £134m for the March 2009 year-end compared with a profit...
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Give environment its own court
Ben Knowles, partner, Clyde & CoClimate change is believed to be one of the greatest threats facing humanity. In an attempt to address this threat, the international community came together in...
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Moves: 8 February 2016
Move of the week Andy Kolacki, DLA Piper DLA Piper has hired Latham & Watkins debt finance partner Andy Kolacki. Kolacki joined Latham as an associate from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2005...
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Hot 100 alumni: Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, Atkin Chambers
Atkin Chambers’ Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC was named in the Hot 100 in 2008, the same year she held the impressive accolade of being the youngest woman to be made up to silk in that round. Since then...
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Networks report: Global Network of the Year shortlist
Last month Interlaw CEO Michael Siebold wrote an opinion article in The Lawyer arguing that certain international law firms bear more than a passing resemblance to networks. In fact, he argued, their...
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In-house interview: Antoinette Keane, legal director, Genzyme
Healthcare is a hot topic right now, the subject of endless regulations and transactional activity. And as Genzyme’s UK and Ireland legal director, Antoinette Keane is at the heart of it all. Genzyme...
View ArticleMcDermott’s revenue drops as PEP rises to $1.6m
McDermott Will & Emery’s global turnover dropped last year by nearly 1 per cent from $900m to $891.5m (£613.6m). Despite the slight drop in revenue, profit per equity partner nevertheless rose 3.3...
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My career story: “I won awards for my pro bono four years after qualifying as...
A member of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2015, Withy King’s Rebecca Stevens made the headlines in November 2014 for putting in more than 100 hours of unpaid work on behalf of a client who was involved in a...
View ArticleKeystone and Devereux duo launch new insurance firm
Keystone Law consultant Stuart Hill and Devereux Chambers’ Colin Wynter QC have founded a new firm to handle claims for insurance policyholders. Former Hogan Lovells partner Hill joined Keystone as a...
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