The UK’s Appleby will open a new office in Guernsey, Channel Islands in the spring of 2010. Appleby’s Guernsey office will focus on corporate, commercial, private client, litigation, insolvency and restructuring law. Two group partners in the corporate team, Barney Lee and Helen Crossley, and Jeremy Le Tissier and Gavin Ferguson in the Litigation/Insolvency and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
UK firm HBJ Gateley Wareing has bought out Olivers WS. Olivers, with offices in Edinburgh and Hawick, is a specialized practice composed of 4 solicitors and staff dealing with residential real estate. The HBJ group was formed in 2006 with the merger of Henderson Boyd Jackson and Birmingham’s Gateley Wareing. It has 500 attorneys [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Last night the partnerships of both Hogan & Hartson and Lovells finished voting on the proposed merger and it has been approved on both sides of the Atlantic. As of May 1, 2010, the two firms will become one mega trans Atlantic entity called Hogan Lovells. Although the new name wasn’t announced until [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The economic crisis in Dubai is creating a large amount of legal work for firms involved in the debt restructuring negotiations. Firms with deep roots in the country are getting the bulk of the work, and most of those are UK firms. Clifford Chance has scored big as the primary advisor to Dubai [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
Merger talks are still underway between US firm Hogan & Hartson and the UK’s Lovells, but one importnat hurdle has now been cleared. The partners of both firms have agreed on a name. If the merger goes through, the firm will be known as Hogan Lovells, leaving Nelson Hartson out in the cold. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 13, 2009
Today is Friday, November 13th, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s news. Foley & Lardner snag a prominent IP lawyerfrom Sheppard Mullin… Baker Hostetler open an office in Chicago… Intel and AMD have reached a $1.2 billion settlement… and according to a survey from PWC, UK firms are feeling the pinch… Anyone interested in the history of the superstitions [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 12, 2009
The top 100 UK firms by revenue dropped saw profits decline by an average of 30% last year, according to a new report out from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The largest decline in income came in the second tier of firms, those listed at #11-25, where partner per partner profits were down by 28%. Firms in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 8, 2009
Hogan & Hartson has begun negotiating a merger with UK firm Lovells. Talks are still in the early stages and obviously when two firms of this size merge, there are a large number of issues to discuss. In particular, US and UK firms use very different account methods and different partnership distribution schemes, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
UK firms Halliwells and Manches are confirmed to have begun merger discussions a few months ago. Partners from both firms haveconfirmed the talks, which have now entered the due diligence phase. No formal firm wide announcements have yet been made and no final decisions have yet been made. The two firms have a combined [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
It’s been a rough week in the UK. First Eversheds, and now Marks & Clerk who confirmed that they are merging their Liverpool office into the Manchester office and reducing the size of their Leicester office. As part of the reduction, Marks & Clerk is letting go of nine fee earners and 51 staff. Marks & [...]
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