Interview
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The Cadbury hero - Hank Udow on his new role at Reed Elsevier and the epic Cadbury takeover
By Friederike Heine | November 16, 2011
Ex-Cadbury GC Hank Udow tells Friederike Heine how his legal team coped with Kraft's takeover
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Dealmaker: Patrick Sarch
By Legal Week | November 2, 2011
The CC corporate partner on another way to put on carbs and a glamorous gig in South London...
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Dealmaker: Nicola Richards
By Legal Week | October 19, 2011
Macfarlanes corporate partner on golf rage, supporting diversity and a truly memorable deal...
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What I wish I knew when I left uni - the profession's finest offer some life advice
By Legal Week | October 19, 2011
They say hindsight is 20/20 – London's senior lawyers offer their very best advice to Legal Week readers...
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The client is king - Linklaters' new senior partner aims for a more responsive style
By Friederike Heine | October 19, 2011
Linklaters' new senior partner Robert Elliott has spent much of his first weeks in office courting general counsel. Since formally succeeding David Cheyne in the role at the start of this month, Elliott has paid a visit to most of the firm's top 50 clients, which include the likes of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and BP. The number of meetings represents something of a shift for Linklaters, demonstrating its recognition of the growing power of in-house counsel and the way the firm needs to change its service accordingly.
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More connected - BT's GC on plans to overhaul the telecoms giant's legal team
By Legal Week | October 12, 2011
When Dan Fitz took over as BT's group general counsel in April 2010, it was with the mandate to assess whether the FTSE 100 telecoms giant was getting value for its internal and external legal expenditure – a not insignificant task, considering BT has operations in 170 countries and a legal function divided into six distinct groups headed by six general counsel or chief counsel. Job cuts of around 20% of BT's workforce in 2008 and 2009, including around the same percentage of cuts within the legal team, also meant Fitz was required to assess whether the structure of the remaining 430-strong legal team was fit for purpose.
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'Oiling the machine' – Freshfields' new City chief bids to modernise gung-ho style
By Suzi Ring | October 5, 2011
"It's a bit like being a cox in a rowing boat. If everyone is rowing in sync, the boat is going to move much better. My role is part helping set the direction and part getting everyone pointing the same way and oiling the machinery to achieve this," says Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Mark Rawlinson of his new role as London head. Freshfields born and raised, the role is not Rawlinson's first management position at the firm he joined in 1982, following a three-year stint as London corporate head that ended this summer. However, in taking over from his predecessor Tim Jones, Rawlinson, who to date has been better known for his transactional work than management matters, has set himself a bigger challenge: transforming the office's working culture.
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Norton Rose seals South America entrance with new Canada tie-up
By Sofia Lind | October 4, 2011
Norton Rose has confirmed that it is to add a second Canadian firm to its international network, with Calgary-based Macleod Dixon to merge with the firm on 1 January 2012. The move, news of which first emerged in the Canadian press yesterday (3 October), will gift the group an additional 250 fee earners, adding to its Swiss Verein-structured international network which already comprises 2,500 fee earners.
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Dealmaker: John Davies
By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
Freshfields' head of competition on setting the room on fire and making a spine-tingling mistake
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'Living in interesting times': CC's Sweeting on lockstep, law firm culture and the emerging markets
By Sofia Lind | September 21, 2011
Clifford Chance (CC) senior partner Malcolm Sweeting is certainly no Stuart Popham. Popham, a born public speaker, who many suggest would have made a brilliant politician, ended his eight years as senior partner with a strong profile in industry that reflected the figurehead style he brought to the role. In contrast, Sweeting's electoral platform was a very different one. As a self-proclaimed "guardian of the partnership culture", Sweeting's take on the role is much more internal-facing. Indeed, one of the City finance partner's key objectives during his first nine months in office has been to ensure he is constantly visible to the partners and that they know what he is up to.
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