Each week, Deal Week speaks to a top City partner to find out why they became a lawyer, why their firm is so much better than the competition - and what cheese goes on their Jacobs crackers behind closed doors
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Orrick London head Martin Bartlam on jet-setting deals,
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Julian Long, one of Freshfields’ most prolific M&A partners, tells Dealmaker about his day in court and the immortal cheese/time dilemma... Deal Week knows it well (5/6/08)
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Allen & Overy rising star Richard Browne on the tyranny of hourly billing and the M&A cycle. He usually remembers to leave the office early when he can (29/5/08)
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Ashurst infra guru Mark Elsey on public transport, Geoffrey Green’s powers of persuasion and making it up in
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One of the top M&A lawyers outside the Square Mile, Chris Godfrey heads up the corporate practice at Bristol giant Burges Salmon. You don't want to know what he's going to do with that rusty knife (15/5/08)
- He’s stumped by basic sartorial questions but Gareth Edwards heads the corporate practice at Pinsent Masons just the same. Many people come back from their gap year as tanned surfer dudes. He came back a lawyer (8/5/08)
- Recently promoted to co-head of bank finance, Magdalene Bayim-Adomako is one of the rising City stars at White & Case. She has her eyes on the prize and can spot cheese made with pasteurised milk from a mile off (1/5/08)
- Slaughter and May’s new head of corporate, Frances Murphy, on eureka moments, clay pigeon shooting and not being fluffy. She's also addicted to blackberries. Or BlackBerrys. One of the two (24/4/08)
- Penny Angell (pictured below right) is one of the leading lawyers in Lovells’ leveraged finance team. She knows how to get noticed in the LBO boys' club - wear a pink jacket (17/4/08)
- Project finance specialist Jamie Logie was the first
- Middle Eastern pioneer, extreme sports fanatic and pretty decent securit
ies lawyer, Camille Abousleiman currently practises at the London arm of Dewey & LeBoeuf. Becoming a lawyer wasn't a difficult choice for him - in fact, he didn't choose to become a lawyer at all (3/4/08)
- Iain Newman is the straight-talking, fleece-wearing head of corporate at Nabarro. He can't understand why anyone would want to be an accountant, even his brother (20/3/08)
- Private equity specialist Will Rosen is one of the star recruits to DLA Piper’s City corporate team and is an expert at "moving boulders from the critical path". Which should help him get the job he really wants - chairman of Manchester United (13/3/08)
- Michael McDonald is one of the leading M&A partners in at the City arm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. After ruling out professional golf and international rock-stardom as career options, he became a corporate lawyer and is now a proudly addicted deal-junkie (6/3/08)
- LG corporate veteran Nick Heather is one of the leading lawyers for the Alternative Investment Market and a persistent headache to his management. He's also the first Dealmaker interviewee to correctly identify good old-fashioned mature cheddar as "the king of cheeses" (28/2/08)
- Philip Goodstone is one of the leading partners in Addleshaw Goddard’s much-touted Manchester corporate team. He became a transactional lawyer after spending a day cleaning filing cabinets as a litigation trainee. Be warned, however: his enthusiasm can apparently be "very, very annoying" (21/2/08)
- Norton Rose international man of mystery Campbell Steedman (pictured) heads the firm’s M&A practice in the Middle East. He still hasn't got over the horror of losing the final of the City Rugby Cup to Freshfields... five years ago (14/2/08)
- Confirmed deal junkie Alan Samson co-heads Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s highly-rated real estate team. His career was nearly scuppered by the classic trainee error of forgetting to post a letter for his supervising partner - otherwise, he claims, he'd have ended up in Hollywood. Lucky escape (7/2/08)
- Phil Sanderson is one of the leading - and most sardonic - partners in Travers Smith’s private equity team. He never bakes a deal until it's ready for the oven. Period (31/1/08)
- Adam Freeman is a leading partner in Linklaters’ upwardly-mobile acquisition finance team. He opens his metaphorical kimono to reveal his "swing demons" and a penchant for blue-veined cheeses (17/01/08)
