Hogan Lovells is the latest firm to join the likes of A&O and Linklaters in hiking its newly-qualified solicitor pay, The Lawyer understands. Newly-qualified solicitor pay in London is set to rise by 12 per cent from £107,500 to £120,000. Birmingham NQs will be paid £75,000, an increase of £5,000. Pressure on firms to meet NQ […]
Mel Rowlands is moving on after nine years at Smiths Group, beginning there as its deputy group general counsel before moving up to group general counsel. Her previous general counsel experience involved a two-year stint as the general counsel of British Gas, building on her energy sector experience. Prior to that, she spent three years […]
Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech incubator, has picked a series of start-ups for its latest intake. This intake makes up Fuse’s seventh cohort, and boasts two streams: one focused on legal tech, and the second on digital assets including NFTs, payment and security tokens and derivatives. In total, 226 companies applied in the hopes of […]
Partners are (for the most part) brilliant lawyers, but nobody’s perfect and questions can sometimes be raised around their competence in one particular area: communication. We get it. They are under pressure. Extremely busy. And while technically gifted when it comes to all things legal, sometimes when it comes to things like communication style, they […]
Starbucks has appointed a new general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Huma Allana is taking on the role, moving over from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners where she has been vice president legal for Great Britain. She is replacing Eric Baker, who took on the role on an interim basis from Starbucks North […]
Aristocrat is a big name in the gambling industry. A major provider of slot machines at casinos around the world, in recent years the business has branched out into the mobile gaming industry with its subsidiary Pixel United, building up its brand with the takeovers of Plarium, Big Fish and Product Madness. In 2021, Aristocrat’s […]
In-house lawyers are telling the regulator to step up and offer support rather than platitudes
Sports retail giant JD Sports Fashion has hired a new general counsel and company secretary as its incumbent has moved on after just 10 months in the role. Theresa Casey has replaced Nim Cassidy, having moved from Open Banking where she had been GC for the past year. Prior to that she was GC and […]
Luxury brands group Richemont has hired a new global general counsel (GC) from US food conglomerate Kraft Heinz. Thomas Loest makes the move, having spent three years as GC at the business known for producing Heinz, Philadelphia and Capri Sun. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, Loest has replaced Richemont’s longstanding GC Cedric Bossert, who has decided […]
Firms, such as Clifford Chance and Simmons & Simmons, are gradually lining up to appoint dedicated heads of wellbeing, once perceived as a gimmicky role by some and now an integral part of a law firm’s business strategy. Last year, Clifford Chance hired Charles Alberts from Aon as its first global head of wellbeing and […]
Texas-headquartered law firm Haynes & Boone has hired 11 London and Belfast-based professionals from collapsed boutique funds firm MJ Hudson. It has picked up three partners, Karma Samdup who joins as head of private funds and venture based in London, as well as venture capital partners Andrew Pannell and Ronan McCann. The partners are taking […]
Listed water utilities giant Pennon is set to review its panel of external legal advisers, The Lawyer has learnt. This will be the company’s first panel review under its new legal leadership, which includes general counsel and company secretary Andrew Garard and deputy general counsel Barry Matthews. Andrew Garard joined Pennon last year, replacing Simon […]