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Pinsents LLPs: £9m property charge and £25m incentive for London move
Pinsents Masons’ incurred a one-off property charge of £9m in 2010-11, cutting profit available for discretionary division between partners from £63.3m to £54.3m according to limited liability partnership(LLP) accounts recently filed with Compani...
10 Feb 2012 | 16:25
Pinsents and McGrigors confirm management roles for merged firm's May launch
The McGrigors brand name is to disappear from the UK legal market when the Scots law firm formally ties up with national practice Pinsent Masons later this year. The two firms confirmed their merger earlier this week (6 February) following a vote b...
10 Feb 2012 | 00:00 | 2 comments
Pinsents and McGrigors confirm merger under Pinsent Masons brand
Pinsent Masons and McGrigors are set to merge on 1 May, with the combined firm to operate under the Pinsents banner. Partners at both firms approved the union in a vote which closed on Friday (3 February), paving the way for the creation of a firm...
06 Feb 2012 | 11:12
McGrigors partners to begin voting over Pinsents merger deal
McGrigors partners are set to vote tomorrow (3 February) on the firm’s proposed merger with Pinsent Masons. Voting will open tomorrow morning at the Scottish firm after the pair confirmed last month that they were in discussions about a union tha...
02 Feb 2012 | 18:14
Court strikes out part of £10m negligence claim against Pinsents
Pinsent Masons has successfully won part of its bid to overturn a £10m negligence claim brought against the firm by former client, Shepherd Construction. The firm applied to strike out parts of Shepherd’s claim relating to the firm’s advice, with...
27 Jan 2012 | 15:52
Government legal spend drops 36% amid austerity cutbacks
Government legal spend through its central panel of external advisers fell by more than a third last year, with the findings coming as a long-awaited review of the roster kicked off in earnest earlier this month. Figures released by the Government ...
27 Jan 2012 | 00:00
Pinsents and McGrigors in merger talks over near-£300m tie-up
Pinsent Masons and McGrigors are in merger talks over a deal that could create a combined firm with revenues of around £282m. The talks have been confirmed by both firms today (19 January) with partner votes expected to be held in February. If ...
19 Jan 2012 | 15:26
Pinsents set for Paris and Germany launches as Salans alliance ends
Pinsent Masons is set to open its first offices in continental Europe, with the planned launches coming as it emerges that the national firm’s alliance with Salans has come to an end. The firm is expecting to open in France and Germany in the first ...
12 Dec 2011 | 11:08 | 
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Eversheds, Pinsents & DAC Beachcroft grab spots on United Drug's inaugural panel
Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and DAC Beachcroft have won roles on healthcare company United Drug's inaugural legal panel. The trio was appointed to the company's UK panel following a formal tender process over the summer and are expected to advise on a b...
22 Nov 2011 | 10:45 |
Fee income at Pinsent Masons up 6% over first half of year
Pinsent Masons has become the latest firm to announce its half year financial results, posting a 6% increase in revenue for the first half of 2011-12. The UK top 20 firm's total fee income for the first six months of the year stood at £105m, up 6% fr...
16 Nov 2011 | 12:34 |
Trio of LG partners join Pinsents as spate of City exits continues
LG is to lose a trio of finance and restructuring partners to Pinsent Masons, taking the number of London partners to hand in their notice since September to eight. Head of finance and restructuring Nicholas Pike, head of restructuring and insolvency ...
07 Nov 2011 | 10:49 |
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Squire Sanders Hammonds signs up Pinsents partner as outsourcing and procurement chief
Squire Sanders Hammonds has recruited a partner from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing and procurement group. Garfield Smith joined the firm on 1 October from Pinsents, where he had been a partner for four years and headed the financial...
21 Oct 2011 | 14:59 |
Maclay Murray boosts London corporate with Pinsents partner hire
Maclay Murray & Spens has strengthened its London corporate practice with a partner hire from Pinsent Masons. Darius Lewington joined the firm last month after nine years at Pinsents, where he worked on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions...
05 Oct 2011 | 11:33 |
Pinsents signs up Clarke Willmott quartet for sports team
Pinsent Masons has boosted its City sports practice with the hire of a senior partner from Clarke Willmott. Trevor Watkins is set to join the UK top 20 firm next month as head of its sports group. He joins from Clarke Willmott's Southampton office,...
30 Sep 2011 | 14:07 |
Pinsents recruits new nuclear co-head with EDF Energy hire
Eversheds and Pinsent Masons have both appointed new energy-related practice group heads, with the latter recruiting a partner from EDF Energy. Pinsents has hired EDF's nuclear legal head Chris White as co-head of the firm's international nuclear p...
27 Sep 2011 | 09:42 |
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