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Deal watch: Latham, Baker McKenzie and HSF return to dealmaking as Pinsents keeps it local
After a turbulent period outside the deal rooms for some of the world’s largest corporate firms, Latham & Watkins and Baker McKenzie have won key corporate mandates while Herbert Smith …
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Rampant Kirkland surges past Latham to become world’s top-billing law firm as PEP closes in on $5m
Kirkland & Ellis has hiked revenues by more than $500m to overtake Latham & Watkins as the world’s highest-earning law firm, as revenues surged to $3.165bn. The Chicago-bred giant today …
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Fletchers Solicitors opens 2018 Trailblazer Solicitor Apprenticeship Scheme
Fletchers Solicitors has begun accepting applications for their Trailblazer Solicitor Apprenticeship Scheme which is set to commence in September 2018. Applications, which can be made online or via email, will …
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‘Clients want greater choice’: Fieldfisher’s Condor spreads wings through Integreon deal
A year since its much-touted launch, Fieldfisher’s alternative legal services platform Condor has agreed a partnership with pioneering legal outsourcer Integreon. Launched in January 2017, Condor is a division of …
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‘Real opportunity in Ireland’: Lewis Silkin becomes fourth firm to open in Dublin post-Brexit vote
City firm Lewis Silkin is to follow in the footsteps of Simmons & Simmons, Covington & Burling and Pinsent Masons by launching a Dublin office. The new outpost, which will …
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Seven wonders: Globetrotting Dentons combines with firms in Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia
The world’s largest law firm by fee-earners, Dentons, is continuing its relentless global expansion as it announces new combinations with seven law firms across Africa, the Caribbean and South East …
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#MeToo: SRA puts foot down on non-disclosure agreements
With the profession rocking from multiple allegations of sexual harassment against law firm partners recently, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has today (12 March) taken action to combat the misuse …
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Deal watch: Global 100 elite line-up on $6bn GKN-Dana transatlantic union
A group of elite firms both sides of the Atlantic, including Macfarlanes and Slaughter and May, face off as British engineering giant GKN has agreed to a $6.1bn merger of …
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Macfarlanes launches white-collar practice with Eversheds team head hire
Macfarlanes has today (9 March) announced that Eversheds Sutherland corporate crime head Neill Blundell will be joining the firm in a move that will see him spearhead the launch of …
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City of angels: Baker McKenzie launches in LA with Hogan Lovells team hire
Baker McKenzie has opened its ninth US office in Los Angeles after recruiting a five-partner employment and litigation team from rival global firm Hogan Lovells. As the firm looks to …
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