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Olswang best-paid partner takes home £681k; Charles Russell's top-earner makes £293k
Olswang’s highest paid member took home £681,000 last year according to limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts recently filed with Companies House. The accounts show that the firm’s operating profit fell from £31.6m in 2009-10 to £29.3m l...
27 Jan 2012 | 17:23
Raft of firms lead on Soho House majority stake sale
Olswang, Latham & Watkins, Ashurst and Withers have all taken a role on the sale of a majority stake in private members’ club chain Soho House Group. Olswang advised Soho House owners Richard Caring and Nick Jones with a team led by City corpo...
27 Jan 2012 | 00:00
Olswang shortlists LPO providers in preparation for new panel
Olswang is set to appoint a panel of legal process outsourcers (LPOs) to carry out low-value document review work for the firm. The firm has identified a shortlist of seven LPOs with a view to selecting three to act as its preferred providers wh...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 1 comment
Bird & Bird adds two partners in London with Olswang and DLA hires
Bird & Bird has made a pair of lateral partner hires for its City base, including Olswang's former head of commercial litigation, Steven Baker. The top 15 UK firm has also hired a partner for its real estate practice, with Ed Cooke joining from DLA...
18 Jan 2012 | 10:50 | 
Olswang brings in real estate partner in London with BLP hire
Olswang has bulked up its City real estate team with the hire of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Graham Lloyd-Brunt. Lloyd-Brunt joined the firm yesterday (3 January) after seven years as a partner at BLP.
04 Jan 2012 | 10:11 |
Olswang brings in DLA partner for Singapore office launch
Olswang has hired a partner from DLA Piper for its Singapore arm as the firm gears up for its official office launch in the New Year. Jonathan Choo joined the top 40 firm as a partner and local head of dispute from DLA Piper, where he was of counse...
01 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Olswang makes out-of-season partner promotion with outsourcing lawyer made up
Olswang has made an out-of-season partner promotion in response to an upturn in work in the outsourcing sector. Matthew Bennett has joined the partnership as of 1 November in the firm's commercial group.
08 Nov 2011 | 11:27 |
News Corp replaces Farrers with Olswang for phone-hacking work
News Corporation has parted ways with legal adviser Farrer & Co and appointed Olswang to advise it on all civil claims relating to phone-hacking at the News of the World (NoW). Farrers has been the primary adviser to the now-defunct tabloid through...
17 Oct 2011 | 12:24 |
Olswang sees two partners depart for Chiomenti and BSkyB
Olswang has seen a brace of departures in London with two partners exiting the firm to join Italy’s Chiomenti and BSkyB. Former international finance head Michael Benster has left to join Chiomenti in London, taking partner headcount in the Itali...
06 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Olswang reintroduces COO role for international growth drive
Olswang has appointed a chief operating officer (COO) for the first time in four years in a bid to support the firm’s recent international expansion. Simon Glynn, formerly group director of strategy and operations at Management Consulting Group (...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
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Olswang signs up for touted new trainee temp business Acculaw
Olswang has become the first firm to sign up for a pilot scheme to accept trainee solicitors from Acculaw, a newly-launched body that will take on and second trainee solicitors to law firms. The company, which received approval this month from the ...
20 Sep 2011 | 12:50 |
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DLA Piper and Olswang win roles as Vodafone confirms new legal panel
Vodafone has completed a review of its group and UK legal advisers, with Olswang and DLA Piper winning first-time appointments. The panel is divided into two - a group panel which will handle the legal services for Vodafone's corporate centre and a...
13 Sep 2011 | 09:32 |
Olswang, Freshfields among firms on major German real estate deal
Olswang's Berlin office has won a key role on Germany's largest commercial real estate deal so far this year, with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer also advising on the €740m (£652m) transaction. The deal, which has handed roles to a raft of law f...
25 Aug 2011 | 12:00 |
Olswang and Taylor Wessing act on £160m sale of St Katharine's Docks
Olswang and Taylor Wessing have lined up to advise on the £160m sale of St Katharine's Docks in central London to Max Property Group and a South African family trust.Olswang advised real estate fund manager F&C REIT on its sale of St Katharine’s Es...
10 Aug 2011 | 10:55 |
Olswang set for Singapore launch as firm targets global integration
Olswang has applied for a licence to open in Singapore as the firm heralds international integration as one of its key themes for 2011-12. The firm applied for a Singapore licence last month with a view to launching later this year, with the new ba...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
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