NewLaw provider Elevate targets banking clients with latest acquisition
Provider Elevate has purchased in-house consulting and tech company Yerra Solutions, the fourth acquisition to be made by the alternative legal services provider in under three months. The move allows...
View ArticleLinklaters divulges partner gender pay gap in improved results
Linklaters is the second magic circle firm to report its most recent gender pay gap figures, containing statistics on ethnicity for the first time as well as improvements in its bonus pay. With regards...
View ArticleMoFo to hire second Reed Smith partner for City real estate venture
Morrison & Foerster is set to recruit another partner from Reed Smith to help with the launch of its London real estate practice, The Lawyer understands. Private equity real estate partner Luke...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Deloitte turns to super silk in FRC dispute over Autonomy
Deloitte has called on Brick Court super silk Mark Howard QC and Taylor Wessing disputes partner Julian Randall to defend it in the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) ongoing Autonomy investigation....
View ArticleAviva gears up for first panel review in six years
FTSE 100 insurance giant Aviva is preparing to review its legal roster, six years after last undertaking a comprehensive analysis of its panel arrangements. The company, which will launch the review in...
View ArticleHarassment-related calls to LawCare surge in wake of #MeToo revelations
Calls made to the legal mental health charity LawCare regarding bullying and harassment almost doubled in 2018, the charity has revealed. In the wake of a series of high-profile allegations of sexual...
View ArticleA&O seeks to make innovation strategy more cohesive in management shake-up
Allen & Overy (A&O) has made two senior appointments to its advanced delivery unit in an attempt to coordinate efforts among the firm’s multiple innovation groups. Senior banking partner Andrew...
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An insight into managing partners’ minds: competitive pressures, technology...
There is both relief and nervousness in the upper management floors. Relief that 2018 turned out to be a year in which law firms were busier and more profitable than ever, and yet an inescapable...
View ArticleClydes raids Ince for new Hamburg office
A total of 16 lawyers from Ince & Co’s Hamburg office are to join Clyde & Co, nearly a year after the latter announced it was launching in the German city. The team are joining four former Ince...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Quinn swaps Wilberforce QC for Essex Court heavyweight in PCP battle
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has handed the counsel mandate for PCP Capital Partners’ bitterly contested litigation against Barclays to Essex Court Chambers’ Joe Smouha QC. Smouha will now...
View ArticleSimmons shifts to larger Bristol premises after headcount gains
Simmons & Simmons is recruiting for new roles to bring its Bristol base to a headcount of over 200, following its move into a new, larger office. This week, the firm moved into a new office in...
View ArticleSlaughters and HSF dropped from eight-firm FSCS panel
Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith Freehills have been replaced by Clifford Chance and Addleshaw Goddard on The Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) revamped £12.6m panel. The FSCS, the...
View ArticleTen career-break lawyers welcomed back to the City as part of first Reignite...
The Reignite Academy, a programme aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the workplace back into the fold, has finalised its first intake, with 10 women signing on to work across...
View ArticleNorton Rose Fulbright client acquitted as SFO’s Tesco case collapses
The case against Tesco’s former financial director has been dropped, meaning all three individuals accused by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) of alleged profit misreporting have been acquitted by the...
View ArticleListed law firm brought in for KPMG on Patisserie Valerie collapse
KPMG has appointed a UK law firm to advise it on the administration of Patisserie Valerie, months after the café chain became embroiled in a scandal over accounting irregularities. Gateley, led by...
View ArticleLinklaters and Charles Russell Speechlys pair up on Stonegate pub buyout
Linklaters and Charles Russell Speechlys have acted together on another of British pub Stonegate’s acquisitions, following on from its takeover of cocktail bar chain Be At One in the summer. Stonegate...
View ArticlePriestleySoundy launch will challenge the UK mid-market to reboot on deal...
Following a swift exit from Goodwin at the tail-end of last year, the pair have returned to their old stomping ground; acting for management in PE deals. The post PriestleySoundy launch will challenge...
View ArticleMonzo wraps up panel review as three firms win places
Digital bank Monzo has finished reviewing its roster of legal advisers, appointing three firms to its panel. The firms which made it onto the roster include longtime advisers Hogan Lovells, Taylor...
View ArticleAddleshaws and Fountain Court to defend £100m claim against RBS
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has turned to Addleshaw Goddard and Fountain Court to defend it against a claim which could rise to as much as £100m from a property developer who alleges he was...
View ArticleThe price of Nabarro and Olswang: Accounts reveal cost of CMS merger
Latest accounts reveal that CMS Cameron McKenna acquired assets worth £67m from Nabarro and Olswang, in the first full-year results to be published by the LLP since the merger went live in 2017. The...
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