Dentons in merger talks with Dutch firm Boekel (2024)

A team from Mishcon de Reya and Twenty Essex has emerged victorious in a decades-long legal battle named as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024. The case, brought by the Arnold & Porter-repped Czech Republic against Liechtenstein blood plasma company Diag Human and its owner Joseph Stava, sought to overturn a 2022 […]

Seven firms includingKirkland & Ellis and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed leading roles on the £5.4bn takeover of investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown (HL). The consortium of bidders comprises CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and Platinum Ivy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Kirkland & Ellis led for the consortium, with corporate partners […]

Milbank has announced that associates around the world are soon to receive summer bonuses of up to $25,000. To be paid by the end of September 2024, associates can expect a sum between $6,000 and $25,000, as first reported in Above the Law. Associates with six years of experience or more, as well as special […]

Linklaters has banned one of its partners from drinking alcohol following accusations of inappropriate behaviour during a recent business trip. The currently unnamed partner has been issued with a final warning and has been banned from drinking alcohol at work events, after complaints that he had sexually harassed a female associate during a work retreat […]

The president of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), Mr Justice Marcus Smith, has been reprimanded for serious misconduct after he wrote a love letter to a junior colleague. The decision was handed down yesterday (8 August) by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO), and is the most severe sanction short of removal from office. The […]

This report contains: an overview of the UK corporate market in 2023 and the positive shift in moodamong lawyers at top corporate practices ranking of the top 50 City firms based on UK corporate revenue, highlighting those achieving significant growth insight into firms’ strategic plans for its UK corporate group over the next five years

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This dashboard: contains an overview of the claims at a selection of courts in the UK. allows you to compare activity at the courts in Q2 2024 against Q2 2023.

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And just like that, the Olympics are coming to an end. A bit of a comedown for many, but not for the sports lawyers of Northridge Law. Within the space of two Olympic cycles, the sports boutique has cemented itself as, just possibly, the most heavyweight sports team in the country, hop, skipping and jumping […]

An old-school Lincoln’s Inn firm with royal connections. A media-savvy employment specialist. And a full-service regional outfit with a non-lawyer CEO. The similarities aren’t immediately apparent but Farrer & Co, Lewis Silkin and Birketts all passed £100m in revenue in 2023/24, leaving rivals trailing in their wake. That’s what’s so impressive about these three firms. […]

In recent years, Leeds has become a hotbed for new players in the legal arena. And so the burning question old-timers have been asking is: what are their ambitions and how’s that going to affect us? Well, Gowling WLG appears content with its real estate team from Womble Bond Dickinson and has no major expansion […]

The Lawyer’s UK200 has relatively few truly specialist firms. There are a handful of big litigation, personal injury and insurance beasts, like Stewarts, Digby Brown and Keoghs. Sackers focuses on pensions; Stowe and Vardags on family, but the bottom end of the annual ranking of the UK’s largest firms is dominated by regional independents doing […]

Chances are, when asked to name a private equity law firm in the City your first thought would turn to Kirkland, Latham or Simpson Thacher. Hands up who said Sidley? Thought as much. But here’s a data nugget for you. Over the past decade, Sidley’s global private equity-related fee income is thought to have risen […]

A team from Mishcon de Reya and Twenty Essex has emerged victorious in a decades-long legal battle named as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024. The case, brought by the Arnold & Porter-repped Czech Republic against Liechtenstein blood plasma company Diag Human and its owner Joseph Stava, sought to overturn a 2022 […]

Seven firms includingKirkland & Ellis and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed leading roles on the £5.4bn takeover of investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown (HL). The consortium of bidders comprises CVC Capital Partners, Nordic Capital and Platinum Ivy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Kirkland & Ellis led for the consortium, with corporate partners […]

Milbank has announced that associates around the world are soon to receive summer bonuses of up to $25,000. To be paid by the end of September 2024, associates can expect a sum between $6,000 and $25,000, as first reported in Above the Law. Associates with six years of experience or more, as well as special […]

Linklaters has banned one of its partners from drinking alcohol following accusations of inappropriate behaviour during a recent business trip. The currently unnamed partner has been issued with a final warning and has been banned from drinking alcohol at work events, after complaints that he had sexually harassed a female associate during a work retreat […]

The president of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), Mr Justice Marcus Smith, has been reprimanded for serious misconduct after he wrote a love letter to a junior colleague. The decision was handed down yesterday (8 August) by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO), and is the most severe sanction short of removal from office. The […]