Management overhaul at Travers Smith with appointment of four new department heads Legal Business Travers Smith has overhauled the management of its private equity, financial services & markets, real estate, and banking and corporate recovery…
Partner promotions: Travers makes up two in third consecutive fall Legal Business The latest City firm to announce its 2014 partner promotion round, Travers Smith today (19 May) revealed that it has made…
A good week for…Osborne Clarke, advising on the £3.6bn Carphone Warehouse/Dixons merger and IPO of Patisserie Valerie Legal Business Ordinarily a week advising on the AIM flotation of luxury cake and cafe chain Patisserie Valerie, which formally starts trading…
Travers corporate partner David Patient to succeed Andrew Lilley as managing partner Legal Business Travers Smith today (17 April) announced that current managing partner Andrew Lilley will hand over to senior corporate partner David Patient…
Life during law: Phil Sanderson Legal Business I used to pretend I decided to be a lawyer at 16. My sister made a visit to me in…
Deal Watch: Slaughters advises on £3.6bn ICI pension annuity buy-in and £390m Ignis buyout; Travers leads on $3.1bn Nets sale Francesca Fanshawe Standout corporate mandates over the past few days have included a high profile run by Slaughter and May on deals including…
City hire: Reed Smith takes on Travers Smith leverage finance partner Ben Davis Legal Business With Reed Smith’s London office results touted to break the $200m mark next week, the top 30 global law firm has hired Travers…
Trainee Retention: Hogan Lovells, Travers and RPC reveal numbers Legal Business The trainee retention rates rollercoaster continues to bring with it good news and bad as today firms including Hogan Lovells,…
Comparing apples with, err, pears: Dentons’ financials show slight increase in revenue as Withers and Travers reveal numbers Legal Business If the financial results of 2013 are useful for one thing, it will be to remind us of the sheer…
Travers senior lawyers to be paid for interruptions to family life as firm adopts more merit-based model Legal Business Travers Smith has become the latest City firm to overhaul its lockstep for senior associates in a bid to incentivise and…
After Travers defeat, Linklaters faces discrimination claim by former paralegal Caroline Hill Linklaters is being sued by a former paralegal for unfair dismissal and discrimination just weeks after top 50 law firm…
Travers Smith suffers defeat for pregnancy dismissal Sarah Downey Top 50 City firm Travers Smith has suffered the rare public reverse of losing a high-profile discrimination case after a…
Travers Smith in surprise discrimination defeat Legal Business Top 50 City firm Travers Smith has suffered the rare public humiliation of losing a high profile discrimination case after…
FFW and Travers Smith shake up senior roles Legal Business City firms Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) and Travers Smith have overhauled senior management, with each seeing new appointments to the…
Travers Smith launches review of US best friends network Legal Business Travers Smith has always been one to plough its own furrow and last month the firm confirmed it was reviewing…
