Disputes: NRF hires Orrick litigation heavyweight as 20 Essex Street’s Morpuss QC joins Macfarlanes Sarah Downey Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has today (10 April) announced the hire of Orrick Rambaud Martel’s Philippe Hameau as a dispute…
Partner promotions: Macfarlanes defies downward trend by making up nine lawyers Sarah Downey Macfarlanes is the latest of a small number of City firms to announce growth in the number of lawyers made…
Key real estate and construction hires for Macfarlanes, Taylor Wessing and Withers Legal Business Property and construction lawyers are taking advantage of being back in vogue with a number of high profile moves in…
Lateral movement: Martin explains Macfarlanes’ current hiring spree Sarah Downey One of the biggest surprises to come out of Macfarlanes lately is not that it was one of the strongest…
Real estate round up: Macfarlanes, HSF, Slaughter and May and Hengeler Mueller each win key commercial property mandates Legal Business It’s been a week for the traditional corporate bluebloods to shine in real estate-related work, with Macfarlanes, Slaughter and May…
The guessing game is over as Vodafone’s $130bn Verizon sell off sees Slaughters acting opposite Macfarlanes and Wachtell Sarah Downey Intense speculation over Vodafone’s $130bn disposal of its US group, whose principal asset is its 45% interest in Verizon Wireless,…
LB 100 – The second quartile: Wind swept Sarah Downey Mid-pack advisers faced contrasting fortunes over the year, with many generalists seeing margins under continued pressure, while a sizeable band…
Revolving doors: Macfarlanes continues lateral hiring spree as DWF and Walkers make key appointments Jaishree Kalia As Macfarlanes’ tightly focused business model goes from strength to strength amid testing market conditions, its rate of lateral hires…
Trainee retention: Macfarlanes & Latham reveal numbers Legal Business Macfarlanes has become the latest City firm to decide on its trainee retention rates, with 18 out of 24 trainees –…
Revolving Doors: Macfarlanes, LG and Howes Percival boost commercial real estate as CMS takes on RPC reinsurance head Sarah Downey A resurgence in commercial real estate work has seen heightened lateral activity in the sector with hires by Macfarlanes, Lawrence…
Double digit growth for Macfarlanes as firm disputes ‘new normal’ Legal Business A depressed transactional market in the UK has had little effect on the financial performance of Macfarlanes, with the high-performing…
Revolving Doors: Olswang, Macfarlanes, Dechert, DWF and Weightmans in strategic partner hires David Stevenson Macfarlanes and Dechert have made key strategic hires in the past few days while top 35, 382-lawyer UK firm Olswang has…
Rule changes put transfer pricing practices centre stage David Stevenson The increased global focus of governments on tax avoidance means a handful of international law firms have been pushing their…
LB100 Macfarlanes: Swimming Against The Tide Legal Business At the time of the first LB100, Macfarlanes was three years into a non-exclusive international alliance that included US firm…
FSA scrutiny increases financial service practitioners’ workload Legal Business Financial regulation partners are now in even higher demand as financial institution clients panic after the Financial Services Authority (FSA)…
