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Hogan Lovells eyes 10% revenue growth in Asia

Hogan Lovells is looking to grow its Asia revenue by 10% in the next year by building out partners in China, South East Asia and Japan. The transatlantic firm, which currently generates more than 90% of its business in the US and Europe, will also make a decision about whether or not to launch in Australia.
4 minute read

International Edition

The compass points south – how do in-house legal teams in Africa rate their external advisers?

Ian Isdale, group company secretary and general counsel of leading African food and consumer goods company Tiger Brands and immediate past president of the Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa, is putting it mildly when he says: "There has been a heightened interest in Africa and in the next five years I don't see that interest waning." Recent years have seen a host of UK and US law firms – ranging from Norton Rose Fulbright and Linklaters to Hogan Lovells and even Slaughter and May – attempting to come up with ways to penetrate a market where activity levels have remained buoyant, despite economic challenges elsewhere in the world. So with law firms and corporates increasingly turning their attention south, Legal Week Intelligence has, for the first time, extended its flagship Client Satisfaction Report to Africa, to uncover the key trends affecting in-house legal teams in the continent and their satisfaction with external legal advisers
15 minute read

International Edition

National Grid to review firms ahead of panel overhaul

National Grid is to conduct back-to-back reviews of its external legal advisers, after the term for its current line-up ends on 31 March. The first 'closed' review - which will begin in the next few weeks - will evaluate cost structures and the performance of the existing 16-firm line-up, and extend the terms of the current panel for a year.
4 minute read

International Edition

United Nations taps Linklaters to produce GC sustainability guide

Linklaters has secured a high-profile pro-bono mandate to help the United Nations (UN) produce a corporate sustainability guide for general counsel.
2 minute read

International Edition

'Let's make history' – how the Canada-EU trade agreement is breaking new ground

After almost five years of negotiations, Canada and the European Union (EU) announced last October the signature of an agreement in principle of a new generation of economic partnership known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). In 2007 the multilateral negotiations of the World Trade Organization (the Doha Round) failed and the EU needed to propose a new trade policy to its member states. It was not only the beginning of a new era of global trend, but a 'race' to sign bilateral free trade agreements. For Canada to face competition from developing economies, especially China, the country's economy needed, as it still does, to diversify its markets to be less dependent on the US.
6 minute read

Legal Week

Corridors of power: corporate heavyweight Charles Randell looks back at a colourful 33-year career at Slaughters

From advising on a tranche of Thatcher-era privatisations to helping the Government steer through the banking crisis, recently retired Slaughter and May partner Charles Randell has had an eventful 33 years at the magic circle firm. Charlotte Edmond finds out about his highs and lows
20 minute read

International Edition

Corridors of power: corporate heavyweight Charles Randell looks back at a colourful 33-year career at Slaughters

From advising on a tranche of Thatcher-era privatisations to helping the Government steer through the banking crisis, recently retired Slaughter and May partner Charles Randell has had an eventful 33 years at the magic circle firm. Charlotte Edmond finds out about his highs and lows
10 minute read

International Edition

Allure undimmed – why international firms are queuing up to grab a piece of the Canadian market

Troubles in Canada's energy industry have taken the shine off its economy, but this has done little to deter the host of international outfits eager to tap into the market. With firms such as Dentons and Norton Rose Fulbright already active there, James Boxell asks what attracted them to the country, and whether their 'one-stop shops' can take on the dominant seven sisters
12 minute read

International Edition

Bakers and Freshfields on hand for $2.9bn Russian energy JV

Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed the mandates on a major Russian energy deal which sees Novatek and Gazprom Neft jointly acquire a 60 per cent stake in Artic Russia for $2.94bn (£1.8bn).
2 minute read

International Edition

Shell GC Peter Rees to step down after three years in the role

Peter Rees QC has stepped down as legal director of Shell, just three years after joining the company from Debevoise & Plimpton. In a statement, a spokesperson for the energy giant said: "Shell can confirm that Peter Rees is stepping down as Legal Director of the Company with effect from 10 January 2014 to pursue other interests."
2 minute read

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