Sofia Lind

February 05, 2008 | National Law Journal

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is leading a heavyweight lineup of advisers on Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Web rival Yahoo. The New York firm is advising Yahoo on the deal, while Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft are understood to be acting for Microsoft. Microsoft's appointment of Simpson Thacher could be seen as a blow to Sullivan & Cromwell, which has traditionally been viewed as one of Microsoft's main advisers, defending the company in numerous antitrust cases.

By Sofia Lind

3 minute read

January 25, 2012 | Law.com

Hill Dickinson and Kennedys are the latest top 50 U.K. law firms to confirm plans to convert to an alternative business structure, which permits non-lawyer ownership of law firms. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has received 65 applications from law firms and non-legal companies to convert to an ABS in the two weeks since it began taking applications Jan. 3.

By Sofia Lind

4 minute read

April 01, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

YRC lifts a seasoned navigator into the driver's seat of its legal department.

By Shannon Green, Jan Wolfe, Sofia Lind

13 minute read

June 09, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read

September 15, 2009 | Law.com

Lovells has launched an alliance with a Saudi law firm in a bid to service the market on the ground. The top 10 London firm has signed an agreement with Al-Yaqoub Attorneys & Legal Advisers, led by former Trowers & Hamlins ally Montasir Al-Yaqoub. Al-Yaqoub is the only partner in the three-lawyer firm, although Lovells counsel Imran Mufti and associate Mustafa Kamal are being seconded to the firm. Al-Yaqoub is currently based in Riyadh but will also open in Jeddah, where Mufti will be based.

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read

June 07, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read

July 25, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read

April 06, 2011 | Law.com

Fears of an oversupply of aspiring lawyers have been reinforced by new research from the Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, showing a 16 percent fall in the number of available training contracts last year, despite the profession as a whole continuing to expand.

By Sofia Lind

4 minute read

July 29, 2009 | Law.com

White & Case is opening an office in Doha, after receiving approval from the Qatar Financial Centre Authority to establish a base in the region. London-based corporate partner Andrew Macklin will relocate to Doha to head up the new office, with a number of lawyers from other offices also transferring to the new outpost. The office will be White & Case's third in the Middle East and will focus on corporate and finance work.

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read

May 29, 2008 | Law.com

Paris heavyweight De Pardieu Brocas Maffei has raided Norton Rose for competition partner Laure Givry, who joins the French boutique this week. Givry joins De Pardieu as a partner from Norton Rose's local office, along with associate Chantal Andrioti.

By Sofia Lind

2 minute read