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Two tribes – the co-existence of corporate and litigation at Herbert Smith
If you were a company in need of a tough litigator in the 1980s there would have been one name at the top of your list: Herbert Smith. The firm was acknowledged to be streaks ahead of its rivals, with star names including Lawrence Collins, Charles Pla...
08 Dec 2011 | 09:38 | 
The institution - can Herbert Smith reinvent itself for a fast-changing global market?
With cracks appearing in Herbert Smith’s venerable exterior, Suzanna Ring and Georgina Stanley ask if this proud City firm can renew itself for a rapidly changing global market
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Inexpensive remedies at any price? The issues around ‘DIY freezing orders’
Suppose someone in another European Union member state – say, Bulgaria – owes a friend of yours £3,000. He says that he is going to do everything he can to avoid your friend getting his money. You could tell your friend about the worldwide freezi...
29 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Litigation & Regulatory Team of the Year
Herbert Smith wins Litigation and Regulatory Team of the Year thanks to its work securing British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) damages of at least £272m from EDS following the botched installation of a customer relationship management (CRM) system. Th...
07 Dec 2010 | 06:57 |
M&A Team of the Year
Herbert Smith's regional focus on India and Africa combined neatly with its telecoms expertise to land it the plum role advising Bharti Airtel on its £7bn acquisition of Zain Africa, which operated in no fewer than 15 African countries. This was t...
07 Dec 2010 | 06:56 |
Bending over backwards - how City law firms are handling the flexible working question
At first glance flexible working can seem like a simple issue of giving your staff a shot at achieving that elusive work/life balance. But closer inspection shows that the City's top law firms take different, and at times opposing, views on the pros a...
22 Sep 2010 | 10:59 |
End of FSA is an opportunity to influence global reform
After a period of 'will they, won't they?', the Chancellor finally ended the speculation over the Financial Services Authority's (FSA's) fate in his Mansion House speech. The announcement spelled the end of the tripartite regulation system as well ...
21 Jul 2010 | 12:17 |
From Paris to Africa
Crushed frogs. That's what a witch doctor in Zaire slathered on Jean-Claude Petilon's legs a few hours before he played his first game with a local basketball team. "The frog lotion would make us jump higher," Petilon recalls. Today, a photograph o...
07 Jul 2010 | 08:59 |
China: Keeping China's secrets
In the business community, we have seen continued deliberation as to whether the Rio Tinto decision has had any implications for the way in which foreign businesses conduct their negotiations in mainland China. The situation is far from clear, and ...
26 May 2010 | 09:49 |
Herbert Smith sets precedent with success of retail rescue
In the same week that figures from the Insolvency Service revealed company administrations grew by more than 50% during the first three months of 2009 compared to the previous year, the rescue of troubled sports retailer JJB Sports offered a glimmer o...
07 May 2009 | 03:31 |
Richard Brophy: Environmentally-efficient practices worth the investment
Ask a bunch of lawyers five years ago what their business was doing about reducing its impact on climate change and you will have expected more than a few blank stares. Even today, there is less than universal understanding and buy-in as to what firms...
29 Jan 2009 | 00:01 |
Commentary: Big names fear losing out in BAA airports sale
Whichever way you look at it, airport operator BAA has had a spectacularly turbulent summer. If dealing with the opening of Heathrow Terminal Five was not trouble enough, the company last week learned that the Competition Commission intends to force a...
28 Aug 2008 | 03:34 |
Betting the bank
"In the banking world, size matters." More a statement of fact than ambition but the observation by Jason Fox, Herbert Smith's head of finance, recognises that it takes plenty of bodies to be taken seriously in the clubby world of banking.
24 Jul 2008 | 01:08 |
Commentary: H1 tables - never mind value, turn up the volume
Barring an unlikely revival in big-ticket M&A in the second half of the year, the key deal leagues look likely to be remembered chiefly as the BHP/Rio tables, so complete is the grip of the £114bn mining merger bid on the key tables from Mergermarket...
10 Jul 2008 | 03:48 |
Litigation, dispute resolution and arbitration: Global governor
In 1958, when the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards was concluded, international commercial arbitration as we know it today was in its relative infancy. Fifty years on, arbitration has become the pre-emi...
03 Jul 2008 | 03:01 |
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