Carey Olsen still top offshore firm for LSE-listed clients
Carey Olsen has retained its place as the top ranking offshore law firm for London Stock Exchange (LSE) listed clients for the last ten years, according to the latest Corporate Adviser Rankings Guide....
View ArticleEnforcement commissioner addresses Guernsey compliance officers
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission’s (GFSC) director of enforcement, Simon Gaudion, recently took part in a well-attended session with members of the Guernsey Association of Compliance Officers...
View ArticleSocial Wine and Tapas, Marylebone, W1
“There’s a really brilliant new restaurant, you must have been to it”. People are sometimes surprised to find that I haven’t yet been to every restaurant in London, but I have a day job and I like to...
View ArticleKWM delays Europe managing partner appointment amid restructure
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) will go without a managing partner in Europe and the Middle East until the end of the year. The firm has deferred holding elections to replace William Boss, who resigned...
View ArticleSerjeants’ Inn’s Gerry Boyle successfully defends GP
Gerry acted on behalf of a GP who was accused of failing to refer a patient with a suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage. The trial was before Mr Justice Foskett, who commented upon Gerry quickly exposing...
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Day of reckoning looms for UK firms
Matt Byrne, deputy editorFor those with long memories there might seem to be nothing new in this week’s feature about the rise of the accountants. True, this time the tone of PwC, EY and KPMG suggests...
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Lawyer Market Intelligence: China’s shopping spree
Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased significantly in the past two years as the Asian powerhouse has sought to play a bigger part in the global economy. Outbound M&A and joint...
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Report: Energising Africa
Energy is one of the biggest draws for international investors looking to enter the North African legal market. Foreign direct investment is expected to increase throughout this year and the next in...
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A very legal coup: the accountancy giants
By 2018 The Lawyer UK 200 is likely to have a new member of its £100m+ revenue club, and it won’t be a law firm. PwC is targeting this benchmark aggressively. Indeed, it is already well on the way to...
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Where the action is: branding creativity and London
Mark Brandon, strategy director, Overture LondonIf you were going to build a top-end law firm finance practice, one capable of transacting complex synthetic securities transactions, you would not –...
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Star legal writers: banking
Oil prices and how banks reward their staff: topics from two of our star legal writers in the banking sector. Star writers in banking Byron Nurse and Humphrey Douglas, Dentons Elke Rehbock, Dentons...
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In-house interview: Paul Newton, Bupa
At the end of 2016 Paul Newton will retire from the business he has worked in for three decades. Since joining healthcare provider Bupa in 1987 Newton has worked his way up to head a legal team of 85...
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Hot 100 alumni: Keith Barnett, Taylor Wessing
Keith Barnett was named in the first edition of The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2000, while he was head of real estate at now-defunct Garretts. A lot has changed for Barnett in the16 years since, as he has...
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The Offshore Top 30 2016
With a 13 per cent rise in its lawyer headcount last year Maples and Calder grew faster than most of its rivals and consolidated its position as easily the largest offshore firm in the world....
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Offshore survey 2016: M&A powers expansion
See the Offshore Top 30 2016 here. From an onshore, UK perspective it has been a tough start to 2016 for the offshore world. Thanks to the £130m tax deal sealed between HM Treasury and Google, which...
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Moves: 22 February 2016
Move of the week Paul Friedman, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & SullivanQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced that litigation specialist Paul Friedman will join the firm as a partner based...
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In-house interview: Matt Wilson, Uber Technologies
It is one of the world’s fastest-growing companies yet its UK domestic legal team is only six months old. Uber Technologies UK, Ireland and Nordics legal director Matt Wilson arrived in July from...
View ArticleLinklaters Hong Kong scales down further as corporate duo defects
Linklaters’ Hong Kong corporate practice has been dealt another blow with China-focused corporate partners Betty Yap and Judie Ng Shortell leaving to join Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. The...
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My career story: “We quit the magic circle to found our own tech start-up”
Michael Hagai and Alex Isaacs trained and practised at magic circle firms but left to set up LexStep.com, a tech start-up that seeks to “put an end to annoying cold-calls from middlemen recruitment...
View ArticleRBS shareholders draft in Pinsents and former Stewarts and DLA Piper veterans...
A lawyer from Pinsent Masons, a former Stewarts Law partner and a former DLA Piper partner have been appointed to the board of the RBS Shareholders Action Group, which is embroiled in a £4bn legal...
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