How Burges Salmon fixed its queen bee problem
Burges Salmon has recently been grappling with a succession issue – just not the challenge firms typically face.
The Energy Edit: Addleshaws head reveals plans to double revenue
Addleshaw Goddard’s energy practice has come a long way from doing the “weird renewables stuff” in the 90s, now aiming for £70m in revenue by the decade’s end.
A trip to Goodwood: GC preps for motorsport history
For legal head Judi Gadsby, a lunchtime walk through the Goodwood Estate, with her golden retriever in tow, is one of the many perks of her day job. The 300-year-old estate is the seat of the Duke of Richmond and comprises nearly 11,000 hectares of land in Chichester, West Sussex. As head of legal at […]
Beyond the Bubble: Fenwick Elliott looks to Chile, and Addleshaws to Leeds
London: As a construction and energy disputes boutique, Fenwick Elliott is naturally one of the more internationally-minded small firms in the UK market and it is entering a new phase of overseas planning. The firm is currently in the process of applying for a licence to practise in Saudi Arabia. That is still underway, but […]
Kirkland secures ESG hire from HSF
HSF’s head of ESG for the UK, EMEA and US regions has left the firm after 12 years, joining Kirkland & Ellis as a partner. Rebecca Perlman qualified into corporate with HSF in 2014, making partner in 2022. She had been promoted to co-head of HSF’s sustainable and impact investment team in 2017, becoming its […]
Revealed: The most polluting law firm websites
Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co and Clifford Chance have the most environmentally polluting websites among UK law firms, data provided to The Lawyer has found. According to data from Website Carbon and compiled by TBD Marketing, Hogan Lovells is at the bottom of the list with its website generating 1,728.52 kg of CO2 per year. […]
Energy trio move across to DLA Piper
Hiring from Paul Hastings and Brown Rudnick, DLA Piper has expanded its energy and infrastructure group with three new partners. Paul Hastings duo Steven Bryan and Derwin Jenkinson join DLA Piper advising on corporate, and finance, projects and restructuring matters, respectively. They are joined by Brown Rudnick corporate partner Paul Doris, who arrives at the […]
The Energy Edit: Behind HSF’s bumper interconnector project
The energy crisis poses an opportunity for law firms to become experts in new areas of project finance – an opportunity HSF has grasped with both hands.
EY energy duo set to join Hunton Andrews Kurth
Two energy partners from EY Law are set to join a US firm’s London office. The Lawyer understands that Charles Morrison and Dimitri Papaefstatiou are leaving for Hunton Andrews Kurth after three years at the Big Four firm. Morrison was a solicitor for 15 years at DLA Piper before joining EY Law as partner in […]
Freshfields tells its lawyers to fly economy
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will have to opt for lower-class travel options, according to the firm’s revised travel policy implemented in 2023. The move comes as part of the magic circle firm’s commitment to a 37 per cent reduction in business travel carbon emissions by 2027. The revised policy emphasises the need for efficiency […]
Pogust Goodhead launches Aussie office in mining giant’s “backyard”
Pogust Goodhead has launched an office in Sydney with a warning to Australian corporations that the firm is “ready to hold them to account”. The claimant law firm, which specialises in social and environmental mass claims, has hired Sydney litigation boutique Crichton & Co’s two partners, Amie Crichton and Joshua Carton. It is also looking […]
Smiths to Sonnedix: GC Mel Rowlands’ new role in renewables
Longtime in-houser Mel Rowlands had a knock-out year in 2023, making a juxtaposing career change last July. The former group general counsel of Smiths Group, a 170-year-old diversified industrial conglomerate with 20,000 employees, made the move to 15-years young Sonnedix, a renewable energy producer. Rowlands couldn’t have joined the sustainable power sector at a better […]