BLM is offering a flexible working programme for all its staff in London as the firm consolidates its two offices into one location. BLM will reduce the space it occupies in London with the combination of two offices into a single City location on Fenchurch Street in a move scheduled for between 6 and 10 […]
Addleshaw Goddard is in the process of establishing a contract lawyer offering in the mould of those set up by Eversheds, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Pinsent Masons before them. According to Addleshaw Goddard managing partner John Joyce the project has been on the table for sometime but kicked into action six months ago when […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partners have elected head of employment Lisa Mayhew as managing partner effective 1 May. Last week The Lawyer revealed the two would go head-to-head today in the firm’s first contested managing partner election for 16 years (29 January 2015). Incumbent managing partner Neville Eisenberg is expected to make a play for […]
Walgreens Boots Alliance has made former Alliance Boots legal counsel and chief administrative officer Marco Pagni executive vice president (VP) and global chief legal and administrative officer of the newly combined business. The company was created through the combination of Walgreens and Alliance Boots in December 2014 (7 August 2014). Alongside Pagni’s promotion yesterday (2 […]
Pinsent Masons has bulked up its global energy group with the addition of Bond Dickinson oil and gas specialist Paul McGoldrick in London and corporate partner Osama Hassan in Dubai. McGoldrick joined Pinsents’ London office last month with legal directors John McSparran and Jane Chester and solicitor Katie Rich. He was a partner in Bond […]
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) managing partner George Eddings is set for a challenge to his leadership in March as his two-year tenure comes up for renewal. Eddings was head of global shipping and transport before he was elected managing partner in 2012. He replaced his predecessor Greg Gray, after an uninterrupted 10-year stint at the […]
Eversheds and Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) have both expanded their reach in Africa this week with the firms signing strategic alliances in South Africa, and Uganda and Zimbabwe respectively. Eversheds’ latest tie-up is with Cape Town-based Walkers, a full-service firm that counts EY, Investec, Hyprop Investments, Nedbank, Old Mutual, RGA Reinsurance, Standard Bank, and Woolworths […]
Longstanding DAC Beachcroft (DACB) Madrid lead partner Pablo Wesolowski has left the firm to join 11 former colleagues at Rousaud Costas Duran (RCD). According to DACB’s website, it leaves the firm’s Madrid office with a total of 13 lawyers, including partners José María Álvarez-Cienfuegos, Enrique Gich and José María Pimentel. Wesolowski joins 11 former DACB […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) head of corporate David Collins and head of employment Lisa Mayhew will go head-to-head on Tuesday (3 February), when partners vote in the firm’s first contested managing partner election for 16 years. Incumbent managing partner Neville Eisenberg is set to stand down at the end of April after five consecutive terms […]
Clifford Chance has kicked off a review of its lockstep, which could see changes made as early as the beginning of the next financial year. A spokesperson for the firm confirmed that a review is underway but said it was in the earliest discussion stage with no formal plans on the table at the moment. […]
Bird & Bird is facing a €130m (£97.7m) professional negligence claim brought by a group of around 30 German real estate funds, in the latest development in a corruption trial against a former client. The claims follow the news that a Hamburg-based Bird & Bird lawyer and a former partner had been called as witnesses […]
Shakespeares chief executive Paul Wilson has stepped down from his role after nearly nine years at the helm of the acquisitive Midlands-based firm. Wilson joined Shakepeares in 2006 when turnover was £10m with a team of less than 200 (6 March 2006). The firm’s chief client officer Andy Raynor, who joined last year in a […]