New details have emerged around the cohort of associates made redundant from CMS last autumn. Sources have told The Lawyer that the group of corporate lawyers let go in the September 2023 consultation round included an associate in the early days of her maternity leave. Other accounts reveal that at least one among the discharged […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has boosted its restructuring ranks in London, hiring an alumna back to the team. The US firm has added Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Lisa Stevens to its business restructuring and reorganisation practice group. It emerged this morning that Stevens had exited the magic circle firm after only 18 months. Her move […]
Corporate teams from Herbert Smith Freehills and Stephenson Harwood have secured wins for their respective clients Panmure Gordon and Liberum in the recent merger to create the UK’s largest independent investment bank. The HSF team led for Panmure with corporate and governance partner, and client relationship holder James Palmer alongside corporate partner Caroline Rae. Senior […]
Many starting lawyers will come into the profession comforted by the promise of a stable, straight-forward career where the next steps are clearly laid ahead towards the golden ticket of partnership. But for KHP Ventures new head of legal and operations, Jing Wei Luo, his career has been spent moving back and forth between private […]
A member of Milbank’s financial restructuring team is making the move to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld after six years at her former firm. Jacqueline Ingram joined Milbank in 2018 as part of a four-partner office raid from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft led by the firm’s then co-chair of financial restructuring co-chair Yushan Ng […]
Pinsent Masons is stretching its capabilities in the UAE beyond Dubai, with the opening of a representative office in Abu Dhabi. After almost two decades operating out of Dubai, the firm has signed on for its licence to operate out of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision 2030 plays a role […]
Acting on their first deals since coming across from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in November, new Kirkland & Ellis partners Ian Barratt and Sinead O’Shea have advised heavy-hitting private equity clients Apax Partners and KKR respectively. The latest transactions shows the firm has wasted no time in getting the ball rolling to further solidify partnerships […]
The number of associates who signed up for Slaughter and May’s flexible working pilot has been revealed, with the firm deciding to make its reduced hours scheme permanent from the start of this year. Slaughters’ recent decision to permanently implement its flexible working ‘switch on/switch off’ model is understood to have involved the participation of […]
DWF Belfast is offering half of its 2024 training contracts to those coming through the SQE route as part of its latest recruitment strategy. On top of plans to increase the number of slots on offer from nine to 12, the new policy aims to take on six aspiring lawyers from what DWF Belfast managing […]
Property associates at City firm Fladgate have been asked to work a four-day work week, along with a corresponding pay cut, The Lawyer understands. According to RollOnFriday, lawyers were told that the decrease in workdays was a necessary cost saving move. Affected lawyers in the real estate team are understood to have until 22 December […]
We’ve just launched Partnerless, a new email specifically for associates. Sign up here for weekly career intelligence and market chatter. After years of waiting on the sidelines, this has been Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s year to start picking up the pace on lateral growth. At least since 2020, the US firm has largely stayed out of the […]
Pinsent Masons is appointing AI champions within every office, creating 11 different “communities” of employees participating in data product testing. The firm wants to make support around AI-related initiatives locally accessible by establishing advanced delivery teams for each practice group, as well as function-focused communities to test the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot. The 11 […]