Leaders League was lucky enough to talk to Jay Wetterau, Head of Inclusiveness and Diversity at international law firm Fieldfisher. His 10 years of experience promoting diversity a...

Leaders League provides insight from the World Law Forum Conference on Arbitration of Business and Human Rights Disputes, which included Cherie Blair CBE QC and Lord Goldsmith PC Q...

Fast-growing international law firm Fieldfisher has expanded its energy practice by hiring five partners across London and Birmingham. The UK team at Leaders League gets exclusive ...

Following her high-profile move from Allen & Overy to Kirkland & Ellis at the end of last year, Leaders League talks to IP litigator Nicola Dagg about how her first 100 day...

As international law firm DWF goes from private to public ownership via the London Stock Exchange, Leaders League looks at how an IPO that was years in the making unfolded, and con...

Big Four professional services firm Deloitte has hired Michael Castle, formerly a banking partner at Allen & Overy, as managing partner of its legal arm

The largest investment opportunity in history?

The former Prime Minister has been hired by Partners Group to advise the private equity firm on its $1 billion impact investments program

US law firm’s hire of Adrian Maguire from Freshfields, just one year after bringing in his former boss on a $10 million yearly salary, could herald the end of the dominance enjoyed...

One of Australia’s oldest litigation funders has floated on the London Stock Exchange, raising £20 million

With Brexit looming large this week, London-headquartered firm Pinsent Masons continues to expand its newly opened Dublin office. Meanwhile, Shearman & Sterling became the late...

A specialist criminal firm becomes wholly employee-owned, two regional firms merge to scale up and several US firms make up partners in London

Nearly 10 years after Burford Capital became the first-ever litigation funder to go public in the UK, Manolete Partners has announced it plans to IPO on AIM in mid-December

London-based Hodges Jones & Allen has become the first-ever wholly employee-owned UK law firm following a change in its ownership structure

Fieldfisher kicks off revenue reporting season, new CEOs are appointed at Shakespeare Martineau and Shoosmiths while DLA Piper shakes up its management team

The London team at Leaders League attended an early evening panel discussion on The Future of Cartels: Classes, Claims and Criminals jointly organised by Skadden, Charles River Ass...

A delegation from Leaders League had a stimulating experience at the Life Science IP conference in London on 27-28 November

This week Clifford Chance elects a new Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs loses an old London Managing Partner, Deloitte announces it will launch its UK legal arm at the start of ...

Clifford Chance has made history by electing its first-ever non-UK-based Senior Partner

As a response to the increased UK interest in the Luxembourg market, Wilgen opened a London representative office in June and celebrated this launch in November

Senior partner elections at Clifford Chance and Travers Smith make the news this week, along with several high-profile partner moves

Having been with Eversheds in the United Kingdom for twenty-one years, Ian Gray has participated in the many expansions the firm has made, including the one that gave rise to its c...

Leaders League is proud to present its rankings for M&A in the UK for 2018.

City firm Travers Smith, known for its excellence in all things private equity-related, has elected Kathleen Russ as Senior Partner

The SRA and Brexit featured heavily in the UK legal press this week.

A team from Leaders League’s London office attended the Private Placements Global Forum Europe organised by Knect365

Gordon Dadds makes a big purchase, Latham & Watkins promotes a record 9 London partners, and judges get a pay rise this week

Simon Levine has been re-appointed as International Managing Partner of international law firm DLA Piper following an uncontested election process

Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy has hired public international law specialist Suzanne Spears

HFW has hired project finance specialist Andrew Thomas from Hunton Andrews Kurth in London

Partners at Pitmans and Bircham Dyson Bell have overwhelmingly voted in favour of merging their two firms

London-headquartered 700-lawyer international firm Fieldfisher has officially combined with 60-lawyer Spanish firm JAUSAS

Sidley Austin’s global finance practice co-head and former London managing partner Matthew Dening has left for Baker McKenzie

Leaders League is delighted to announce the arrival of Jonathan Armstrong to its growing UK team.

International law firm HFW has recruited Carol-Ann Burton into its insurance and reinsurance practice in London

On December 5th the French council of economic analysis, held a conference about the economic and financial consequences of Brexit, led by Anne-Laure Delatte and Farid Toubal. The ...

Brown Rudnick has hired private equity partner Philip Watkins from Katten Muchin Rosenman in London

Often power and success go hand in hand with age and experience, but this is not necessarily always the case. Some of the most exciting startups and most important global movements...

It has been said that, “success breeds success.” However, many inspirational leaders only found their success after suffering great failure and learning how to turn this failure in...

Co-founder of Raise and president of Women’s Forum, Clara Gaymard defines a liberated company by its capacity to “put people at the heart of its ambitions, not processes and progre...

The numbers have been crunched and while the peak of 2015, when 81 startups passed the billion dollar value mark, was not reached, in 2017, we saw the creation of 14 more unicorns ...

The UK’s second-largest construction firm, Carillion, has gone into liquidation after talks with the government failed to find a solution to its financial problems.

As arbitration week is under way, Leaders League publishes its exclusive interview with highly regarded barrister Christopher Style QC, deputy chairman of the London Court of Inter...

As Arbitration Week continues, Leaders League provides insight from leading third-party funder Burford Capital on how to monetise arbitral awards

UK arm of global law firm Taylor Wessing posts record-breaking turnover figures, with revenue for 2018/2019 hitting £156.6m

This year’s event saw thousands of IP experts assemble to make connections and share ideas – all against a grand Westminster backdrop in London, England.

The Atlanta-based firm takes advantage of the UK's booming payments sector.

As well as chairing the EU’s Task Force on Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector, Richard Parlour chairs Financial Markets Law International, a law firm that advises financial inst...

The thriving national firm has further strengthened its capabilities in one of its core areas.

Blackstone Infrastructure Partners (BIP) has recruited former managing partner and head of Europe at Brookfield Infrastructure Jonathan Kelly as a senior managing director and head...

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer M&A partner Sam Newhouse has left the firm to join Latham & Watkins’ London office.

LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, has announced a number of senior promotions across the firm as part of a commitment to invest £1.2billion in UK mid-market busi...

British American Tobacco (BAT) has agreed a new £6 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility.

The Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have sought to allay fears that banks may not fulfil their obligations to ensure businesses and consumers be...

Norton Rose just asked staff to take a four-day week; other firms are reshaping their compensation.

UK banks have been banned from asking for personal guarantees for emergency coronavirus business loans.

The Boston firm continues to build one of its key pillars internationally.

We spoke to Brown Rudnick partner and restructuring specialist Charlotte Møller about airline restructuring, the UK government's response to distressed companies, and the seismic c...

Two IP giants combine in a major deal that raises questions for the IP management sector.

The Carlyle Group has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in global funds network Calastone.

London-based real estate investment trust Shaftesbury has embarked on an equity capital raising, which aims to raise gross proceeds of approximately £297 million via a fully underw...

Wheaton Precious Metals’ entire issued share capital has been admitted to the Official List of the FCA (standard segment) and have begun trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s London office has recruited former Morgan Stanley managing director and EMEA head of conduct risk Matthew Nunan as a partner.

UK-headquartered Passion Capital was the lead investor in fertility and private healthcare benefits business Fertifa’s seed investment round with an investment of £1 million.

UK-based property services group Countrywide Plc is set to undergo a recapitalisation – partly with funds from Alchemy Partners - subject to shareholder approval at the company’s f...

London-based private equity fund CGE Partners has announced an investment in Oxford-headquartered power and energy data and analytics provider Aurora Energy Research.

Independent securities business Shore Capital acted as nominated adviser (Nomad) and sole broker on a £20 million equity raise by London-headquartered Helios Underwriting.

The Carlyle Group has acquired Beechcroft, a UK developer specialising in for-sale senior housing, from Alchemy Partners.

London-headquartered mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital has backed the buy-out of Totalmobile, a UK field service management software provider.

Private equity investor Endless has acquired Hovis, the 134-year-old UK bakery brand for an undisclosed price.

London-headquartered GHO Capital Partners LLP, the European specialist investor in healthcare, together with the existing Envision management team and employees, have increased the...

UK private equity firm Livingbridge has invested in e-commerce platform provider Visualsoft.

It is the largest deal in AstraZeneca’s history, and the third-largest deal of 2020.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is known around the world as an elite New York firm – but it has had an office in London, England since 1973. That office’s managing partner, Philip...

The firm’s travails highlight the dilemma of law firms going public.

The CIO of market-leading litigation funder Therium Capital Management speaks to us about its not-for-profit arm, Therium Access, which was founded in March 2019 against a backdrop...