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DLA Piper names new managing partner for Birmingham base
DLA Piper has named Russell Orme as the firm's new Birmingham managing partner, replacing Chris Rawstron in the role. Orme will take up the post next month (1 April), while also remaining as the firm's head of corporate in the region - a role he to...
17 Mar 2010 | 16:02
In-house legal salaries set for 2010 upturn
In-house legal salaries are beginning to increase once more, while recruitment activity is also returning to the sector, according to new research. The survey, conducted by legal recruitment consultancy Robert Walters, states that lawyers working a...
17 Mar 2010 | 15:53
McDermott and Harbottle advise as Switalski dispute reaches settlement
F&C Asset Management has settled its long-running £19m discrimination dispute with former legal head Gillian Switalski. The undisclosed settlement comes after Switalski's claims of sexual discrimination, harassment and victimisation were upheld, h...
17 Mar 2010 | 14:22
JP Morgan appoints former Napster general counsel as new legal chief
JP Morgan Chase & Co Investment Bank has named Jonathan Schwartz as its new top lawyer, reports Corporate Counsel. Schwartz, the former executive vice president and general counsel of Cablevision Systems, joined JP Morgan as general counsel of its ...
17 Mar 2010 | 13:55
Milbank sees partner profits rise by 5% against fall in revenues
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has posted increased partner profits for 2009, despite a slight dip in revenue, reports The Am Law Daily. The firm's turnover fell by 3% to $601.5m (£391.7m), while the number of lawyers dropped by 8% and the firm's p...
17 Mar 2010 | 12:13
CC and Norton Rose lead on $400m refinancing of mining company
Clifford Chance (CC) and Norton Rose have advised on a $400m (£265m) refinancing for international mining company Equinox Minerals. The Toronto and Australia-listed company will use the senior and subordinated loan facility to refinance existing d...
17 Mar 2010 | 11:29
Nordic law firms eye 2010 recovery despite tough year of falling revenues
Several leading Nordic law firms have posted declining revenues after the global recession hit the region hard in 2009. Leading Swedish independents Mannheimer Swartling and Vinge both saw a significant drop in revenues last year. Mannheimer, which...
17 Mar 2010 | 10:42
CC appoints new head of European litigation
Clifford Chance (CC) has appointed a new head of European litigation, after former postholder Fabian Von Schlabrendorff stepped down. Amsterdam-based litigator Jeroen Ouwehand takes over from Frankfurt-based Von Schlabrendorff, who led the practice...
17 Mar 2010 | 10:42
Addleshaws heads up 2010 trainee retention rankings with 89% of March intake kept on
Addleshaw Goddard retained the highest number of March 2010 qualifying trainees in the UK top 30, with the national law firm keeping 89% of its intake. The firm kept on eight of the nine trainees qualifying and 100% of those applying for jobs, putt...
17 Mar 2010 | 10:41
O'Melveny and Squire Sanders overhaul City management teams
US law firms O'Melveny & Myers and Squire Sanders & Dempsey have overhauled their London management. O'Melveny has named investment funds partner Solomon Wifa as the new head of its City office, with Wifa replacing funds partner John Daghlian, who ...
17 Mar 2010 | 10:41
Dewey appoints first London head since 2007 LeBoeuf merger
Dewey & LeBoeuf has named litigator Peter Sharp as the head of its London office. Sharp's appointment marks the first time the firm has had a office head in the City since the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae.
16 Mar 2010 | 15:47
Freshfields appoints Paris partner as new head of MENA corporate
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named a new head of the firm's Middle East and North Africa (MENA) corporate practice. Bertrand Pellet, who has been based in Paris for the past seven years, will succeed corporate partner David Higgins in the rol...
16 Mar 2010 | 14:54
Skadden names new management for Asia-Pacific practice
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has appointed a new co-head of its Asia-Pacific practice. Tokyo partner Audrey Sokoloff has been named as joint head of the group alongside Alan Schiffman, with effect from today (16 March).
16 Mar 2010 | 13:42
DLA Piper faces sexual discrimination claim from former partner
DLA Piper is this week defending itself in a Liverpool employment tribunal against sexual discrimination allegations brought by a former partner. The six-day hearing kicked off yesterday (15 March) after former real estate partner Sarah Sweeney sta...
16 Mar 2010 | 11:51
Simpson Thacher and Wachtell lead on Apax's $3bn Tommy Hilfiger sale
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have taken lead roles on buyout house Apax Partners' sale of Tommy Hilfiger to US clothing giant Phillips-Van Heusen for $3bn (£1.9bn). The sale comes around four years after Apax purchas...
16 Mar 2010 | 10:27
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