Osborne Clarke names new digital business boss after Hong Kong exit
Osborne Clarke has appointed litigation partner Ashley Hurst to head the firm’s digital business sector after Adrian Bott left the role to support the firm’s Hong Kong presence earlier this month....
View ArticleSlaughters and A&O advise in £5bn bank buyout
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised in a £5.3bn asset sale from UK Asset Resolution Limited (UKAR) to a consortium of investors, including bond fund Pacific Investment...
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Career clinic: How can I get firms to target their hospitality spending more...
“I’m a general counsel and our external lawyers are big on entertainment. Over the years I’ve been to Wimbledon, Glyndebourne and rugby internationals, and a couple of years ago even got taken on a...
View ArticleFour firms gain spots on Nuclear Decommissioning Authority panel
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has appointed Eversheds Sutherland, Linklaters, Pinsent Masons, and Gowling WLG to its reviewed legal panel, The Lawyer can reveal. All of the firms on the...
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Weightmans elects new senior partner as Cutts retires
Weightmans has elected a new senior partner, appointing partner David Lewis to replace Dan Cutts, who is retiring from the firm at the end of this month. David LewisCutts was first appointed senior...
View ArticleCMS makes up 47 new partners in first post-merger round
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has promoted eighteen women to partnership in the firm’s first promotions round since the three-way merger last year. Women represented 38 per cent of the entire...
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Landmark, Littleton and 7KBW among chambers appointing pro bono champions
Chambers are appointing ‘pro bono champions’ as part of a new initiative to encourage barristers to take on not-for-profit work. The move is a result of the Bar Pro Bono Unit’s ‘FABFeb’ campaign which...
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Transatlantic law firm mergers a decade on: happy ever after?
Over the last two decades London has seen an American invasion. In addition to the transatlantic mergers of some of the City’s largest players – Lovells with Hogan & Hartson and Norton Rose with...
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Transatlantic tie-ups have slowed local growth for UK legacy firms
US-UK mergers can be divided into two waves: pre- and post-Hogan Lovells. Since 2010 transatlantic tie-ups have been characterised in terms of equals, starting with the merger of Lovells and Hogan...
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The top 30 offshore law firms 2018: Troubles in paradise
The offshore world has had better years. When, in 2016, news broke of a massive leak of data from Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, the firms that feature in our annual Top 30 Offshore Law Firms did...
View ArticleCity trio lead the way as Sainsbury’s confirms £10bn ASDA deal
Linklaters, Slaughter and May and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher have won the top roles on Sainsbury’s shock £10bn merger talks with Asda. Sainsbury’s is being advised by Linklaters partners Iain Fenn and...
View ArticleThree women get the nod in 10-strong Fieldfisher promotions round
Fieldfisher has promoted 3 women to partner in a 10-strong promotions round across the firm’s London, Manchester, Brussels, Silicon Valley and Hamburg offices. The new partners are Jochen Beck, Tom...
View ArticleClifford Chance continues Asia shakeup with new Tokyo heads
Clifford Chance has announced its second major managerial change in the firm’s Tokyo office in a month with the appointment of co-managing partners Reiko Sakimura and Leng-Fong Lai. Capital markets...
View ArticleMoFo, Skadden and Wachtell lead on $146bn T-Mobile merger
Morrison & Foerster (MoFo), Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have won the top roles on the mega-merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, which values the...
View ArticleSimmons promotes nine to partnership in latest global round
Simmons & Simmons has made up nine lawyers to partners in its 2018 promotions round, spanning six sectors in Europe and Asia. In pursuit of its 30 per cent female partnership promotion target,...
View ArticleOgier advises on major Guernsey hotel purchase
Ogier has advised on the purchase of The Peninsula Hotel by leading hotel group Kings Mill Hotel Ltd. The firm’s Guernsey corporate and property teams advised on the purchase by the group that already...
View ArticleOgier advises Domestic & General on multi-million pound note offering
Ogier has advised Domestic & General, a leading specialist provider of appliance care services for domestic appliances and consumer electronic products, in relation to a multi-million pound note...
View ArticleNew Counsel arrival as Ogier launches insurance and private wealth services...
Ogier has launched a new range of legal services in Insurance and Private Wealth into the Luxembourg market, led by Eva Gyori-Toursel who has joined Ogier as Counsel. Under Eva, Ogier’s Luxembourg...
View ArticleMetro Bank adds five firms to commercial roster
Metro Bank has added five new firms to its commercial panel, including CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Eversheds Sutherland. They have been joined by DLA Piper, Browne Jacobson and Linklaters,...
View ArticleExclusive: Norton Rose delays partner promotions until 2019 in global shakeup
Norton Rose Fulbright has postponed its partner promotions until January 2019 after overhauling its financial reporting to fit an American-style calendar year-end, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm...
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