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US firm seals London launch with Clydes partner hire
US law firm Vedder Price is launching in London with the hire of Clyde & Co’s co-head of aviation finance, Gavin Hill, marking the firm’s first presence outside of its home country. The City office will go live next month, with Hill and ex-F...
08 Sep 2011 | 00:00 | 
Clydes installs Barlows partner on new Canada management board
Clyde & Co has added a London insurance partner from merger partner Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to the management board of its new Canadian arm. Roderic McLauchlan is set to join Clydes’ Toronto office later this year when he will take up a position on...
08 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
BLG-Clydes tie-up to take Clyde & Co name; 15% of Barlows partners to go
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co have approved the largest-ever merger between two UK law firms, with the combined firm to operate under the Clyde & Co banner when it launches later this year. As Legal Week went to press, partners were set to f...
04 Aug 2011 | 00:00 |
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Clydes and Barlows back merger deal after partner votes at both firms
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co have confirmed their merger deal following votes in favour of the move from both firms' partnerships, marking the largest-ever tie-up between two UK law firms. The votes, which took place yesterday (28 July) at ...
29 Jul 2011 | 15:44 |
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Partner exits on the cards ahead of Clydes-Barlows merger deal
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is set to ask nearly 10% of its partnership to leave if its merger with Clyde & Co is approved by both firms' partnerships this week. Around 10 of Barlows’ 97 partners are expected to be asked to go as part of the terms of t...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
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Insurance firms beat top 50 with PEP and revenue up by 10.3% on average
Insurance and shipping firms have once again outpaced the UK top 50, with the firms seeing both revenues and profits per equity partner (PEP) increase by an average of 10.3%. The group, which comprises Clyde & Co, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Holman Fenw...
21 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Bird & Bird, Clydes and Freshfields emerge as star performers over five-year run
Bird & Bird, Clyde & Co, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and DLA Piper have emerged among the best-performing firms in the top 25 over the last five years, but Legal Week research confirms that many smaller firms have outpaced their larger rivals in gr...
21 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
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Clydes and Barlows to vote on merger deal by end of July
The proposed merger between Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is set to go to a vote by the end of July after Clydes’ partnership indicated broad support for a tie-up. Clydes’ partnership conference in June saw partners given the chance t...
07 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Clydes, CMS and BLP gain edge over top 20 rivals on key lifestyle factors
Clyde & Co, CMS Cameron McKenna and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) lead their key peers in providing a rewarding lifestyle for their lawyers, according to a flagship research project from Legal Week. The research shows Clydes emerging as the highest...
30 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
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Clydes to launch in Toronto and Montreal with Canada merger
Clyde & Co has sealed a merger deal with Canada's Nicholl Paskell-Mede (NPM) following a vote at the firm's partner conference last weekend. The move, which will mark Clydes' first presence in the country, will take effect on 1 September this year,...
27 Jun 2011 | 15:05 |
Clients, partners polled on merger with Clydes and BLG set for July vote
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co partners could approve their potential merger as early as July, with the resulting tie-up likely to go live later this year. The merger talks, exclusively revealed by Legal Week on 3 June, have now reached advan...
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
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Double or quits - can a high-stakes bid create a global insurance giant?
With the dust settling on the surprise merger talks between arch-rivals Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, the question is how likely a deal will be to happen. As Legal Week went to press, the odds looked maybe better than even, with talk that a pr...
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Clyde & Gilbert – some initial thoughts
United merging with City? Microsoft with Apple? Linklaters with Freshfields? That, in City insurance terms, is pretty much what you've got with the news exclusively revealed on legalweek.com today that Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert are in merge...
03 Jun 2011 | 17:01
Exclusive: Clydes and Barlows in advanced stage talks over merger
Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert are in advanced merger talks, Legal Week can reveal, with a potential deal set to create a £300m law firm in one of the largest-ever unions between two UK practices. Senior partners at the two firms have been i...
03 Jun 2011 | 12:00 |
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Clydes to allow fee earners to count pro bono as billable hours
Clyde & Co has introduced a new policy that will see UK fee earners allowed to include up to 50 hours of pro bono work in their billable hours targets. The new policy, which came into effect last month, means lawyers will be able to count some pro ...
02 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
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