A raft of firms are due in the High Court today after Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan applied to adjourn a $2.7bn case on behalf of its client, following the arrest of a key defendant in Russia. Quinn’s application to adjourn is supported by Oleg Mkrtchan’s lawyers at Covington & Burling after his arrest on […]
Revenue growth at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London office slowed in the 2018 financial year, though the City outpost of the US firm still boasted a 16 per cent increase to over £80m. Turnover increased from from £71.9m to £83.6m. The headline figure was its lowest revenue growth percentage in at least five years; however […]
In her first full calendar year as a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner, Liesl Fichardt has proven her considerable worth to the decade-old London outpost. The former Clifford Chance head of tax investigations and disputes arrived at Quinn Emanuel (QE) as the first dedicated tax partner in the London office in late 2017, handling […]
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 lead Blackstone Chambers’ junior Robert Weekes, instructed by Quinn London co-managing partner Richard East and partner Khaled Khatoun who is leading the case opposite Simmons & Simmons […]
A raft of firms are due in the High Court today after Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan applied to adjourn a $2.7bn case on behalf of its client, following the arrest of a key defendant in Russia. Quinn’s application to adjourn is supported by Oleg Mkrtchan’s lawyers at Covington & Burling after his arrest on […]
Revenue growth at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London office slowed in the 2018 financial year, though the City outpost of the US firm still boasted a 16 per cent increase to over £80m. Turnover increased from from £71.9m to £83.6m. The headline figure was its lowest revenue growth percentage in at least five years; however […]
In her first full calendar year as a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner, Liesl Fichardt has proven her considerable worth to the decade-old London outpost. The former Clifford Chance head of tax investigations and disputes arrived at Quinn Emanuel (QE) as the first dedicated tax partner in the London office in late 2017, handling […]
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 lead Blackstone Chambers’ junior Robert Weekes, instructed by Quinn London co-managing partner Richard East and partner Khaled Khatoun who is leading the case opposite Simmons & Simmons […]
Former Linklaters marketing head Frank Mellish has agreed to destroy documents shared between him and the firm, in relation to matters he said would expose “the ongoing struggle [the firm] has with women in the workplace”.
There’s no doubt that firms are using non-UK growth to power their global figures. Of the 35 Top 50 firms for which The Lawyer has historical global revenue data, all but four saw higher growth outside the UK in the five years since 2019. Included in this group is Herbert Smith Freehillls (HSF), where London remains […]
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. After 10 years at the helm, Warne is spearheading a project that she founded at the World Bank, via her own company, which promotes the rule of law and access to justice, […]
Slaughter and May is to add another senior lawyer to its pensions team in the City, this time from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Charles Magoffin, a partner at Freshfields since 2010, is joining Slaughters as a senior counsel from September. Slaughters has still only ever made one lateral hire in the City, also into its pensions […]
Litigation funders will be keeping a close eye on an upcoming review into third-party funding regulation, proposed caps on returns, as well as litigation costs. The Civil Justice Council is looking to produce a full report by the summer of 2025. The review follows an increased focus on litigation funders and their role in disputes, […]
In its largest promotions round ever, Ashurst has elevated eight London lawyers to partner out of 30 worldwide. The firm has made up eight lawyers in London, as well as seven in Sydney. In total, 17 promotions were made in Ashurst’s Australian offices, meaning just five were made outside of either London or Australia. Loans […]
Frustrated Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) candidates are calling on the SRA to increase accessibility to the appeals process after a results error saw 175 candidates mistakenly told they had failed their exams. On Monday last week, the SRA announced that 175 candidates who sat SQE1 in January and were told they had failed on 14 […]
