Former White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw is launching the London office of Perkins Coie, along with five of his ex-colleagues. Bagshaw will become managing partner of Perkins Coie in London, a firm whose only offices outside the US are in Taipei and Beijing. The plan is to focus on what Perkins Coie is good […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, which up until 18 months ago had steered clear of the lateral hiring market, has added a new London partner from Kirkland & Ellis. Alexander van der Gaag is joining Cleary from Kirkland’s debt finance team. He worked at Kirkland for nine years, arriving as an associate from Baker McKenzie. […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
Hill Dickinson has secured another team hire, taking a group of six from Clyde & Co in Newcastle. Shipping partner Stephen Mackin has made the move along with five other colleagues. Mackin joined Clyde & Co in 2017, before which he spent nearly 25 years at Eversheds Sutherland. A former seafarer himself, Mackin specialises in […]
The general counsel of Coda Payments has been hired by money movement group Thunes after just eight months at the business. Ruwan De Soyza will oversee all legal, compliance and secretariat affairs at Thunes, leading a team across a broad range of practice areas, including payment regulation, licensing, compliance, M&A and commercial contracts. He will […]
A&O Shearman has increased its newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor pay to £150,000, having said it would keep to its £125,000 rate on merging last month The firm matches its rivals, which have all increased their NQ salaries by £25,000 in the last month to £150,000. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was first, followed swiftly by Linklaters and then […]
It used to be that US firms wanted big new flashy private equity hires to promote their London brand, but for now the power players are in finance.
Taylor Wessing’s UK managing partner Shane Gleghorn has been re-elected for a third term, meaning he will remain at the helm of the firm until 2027. Gleghorn is understood to have run unopposed in the election process, with his third term starting in October. He first took up the post of UK managing partner in […]
Addleshaw Goddard is urging partners to lead by example and work from the office by factoring in-person attendance into their performance assessments. The move follows a decision to mandate that all lawyers be present in the office for a minimum of three days per week, effective from 1 May 2024. Lawyers can still have the […]
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It’s that time of year again when we enjoy a string of four-day work weeks thanks to Easter and the May bank holidays. With the last one behind us, many of you are likely daydreaming about making this a permanent perk. Sure, pitching the idea of maintaining the same salary for a 20 per cent […]
London’s commuter towns find themselves in a difficult position. We’ve reported in the past on how Tunbridge Wells firm Cripps has had to adapt to increased post-pandemic poaching from City giants, and how Reading risks being killed by the Elizabeth Line. Now it’s time to look at Charles Russell Speechlys which, it turns out, is […]
Competition lawyers at UK firms can look away now. Of the 17 Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) Phase 2 merger investigations that were active in 2023, one firm’s London antitrust team advised on seven. Basic maths suggests it shouldn’t be a surprise that this is significantly more than any other firm. What is less obvious […]
Latham’s loss of four partners in Germany provides a case study in how past relationships govern moves of the future. Willkie Farr and White & Case have poached a pair of partners each from Latham’s Hamburg and Frankfurt offices: restructuring and insolvency duo Jörn Kowalewski and Ulrich Klockenbrink are heading to Willkie Farr, while equity […]
Having lost the money race to their US counterparts, traditional UK firms are clinging on to the fact that they can offer something else: longevity. More specifically, that’s lawyer longevity and the ability for people to spend a large proportion of their career at the firm at which they trained. There are countless partners at […]
The general counsel of Coda Payments has been hired by money movement group Thunes after just eight months at the business. Ruwan De Soyza will oversee all legal, compliance and secretariat affairs at Thunes, leading a team across a broad range of practice areas, including payment regulation, licensing, compliance, M&A and commercial contracts. He will […]
A&O Shearman has increased its newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor pay to £150,000, having said it would keep to its £125,000 rate on merging last month The firm matches its rivals, which have all increased their NQ salaries by £25,000 in the last month to £150,000. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was first, followed swiftly by Linklaters and then […]
It used to be that US firms wanted big new flashy private equity hires to promote their London brand, but for now the power players are in finance.
Taylor Wessing’s UK managing partner Shane Gleghorn has been re-elected for a third term, meaning he will remain at the helm of the firm until 2027. Gleghorn is understood to have run unopposed in the election process, with his third term starting in October. He first took up the post of UK managing partner in […]
Addleshaw Goddard is urging partners to lead by example and work from the office by factoring in-person attendance into their performance assessments. The move follows a decision to mandate that all lawyers be present in the office for a minimum of three days per week, effective from 1 May 2024. Lawyers can still have the […]
