Alex Newman

July 17, 2014 | International Edition

A group of four leading tax barristers - including QCs Philip Baker and Patrick Way - are leaving Gray's Inn Tax chambers to form a new set.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 17, 2014 | International Edition

Ropes & Gray is set to double its headcount in London, after the Boston-headquartered firm signed a twenty year lease for a larger 45,000 sq ft office at 1 New Ludgate.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 15, 2014 | International Edition

Latham & Watkins has elected London project finance partner Bill Voge to succeed Bob Dell as global chair and managing partner, the firm's first new leader in two decades.

By Alex Newman

4 minute read

July 14, 2014 | International Edition

Latham & Watkins' search for a new head of the firm will continue after partners failed to unanimously elect a successor to long-standing global managing partner and chairman Bob Dell, Legal Week has learned.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 11, 2014 | International Edition

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom private equity veteran Allan Murray-Jones is to step down as a partner from the firm later this summer.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 11, 2014 | International Edition

A number of former Cobbetts partners who moved to DWF in last year's pre-pack administration are to face payment claims in the final wind-down of the failed firm, Legal Week has learned.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 07, 2014 | International Edition

White & Case has signed over the rights to all present and future client fees, as part of a refinancing deal with its banks.

By Alex Newman

3 minute read

July 06, 2014 | International Edition

Kirkland & Ellis corporate partner Christopher Braunack is to become the third partner from the firm's Hong Kong office to relocate to the City, when he joins the London base later this summer.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read

July 03, 2014 | International Edition

On 25 June the New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, filed a lawsuit against Barclays, alleging a "systematic pattern of fraud and deceit" within its so-called 'dark pool' trading operations.

By Alex Newman

4 minute read

July 01, 2014 | International Edition

Osborne Clarke has this week lost the heads of its technology and telecommunications practices to Fieldfisher and Reed Smith respectively.

By Alex Newman

2 minute read