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Wragges, LG confirm management board for merged firm

Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham have set up a new management board for the combined firm, which will be structured around five practice groups when the merger goes live on 1 May.
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International Edition

HowardKennedyFsi opens £60m merger talks with Davenport Lyons

Davenport Lyons and HowardKennedyFsi (HKFsi) have begun talks over a merger which would create a £60m law firm on the fringes of the UK top 50. The discussions begun after Davenport Lyons, which is based near London's Covent Garden, approached HKFsi - the product of last year's merger between West End firms Howard Kennedy and Finers Stephens Innocent.
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International Edition

Thirty Nine Essex Street launches in Kuala Lumpur

Thirty Nine Essex Street has launched an office in Kuala Lumpur, making it the first UK chambers to have a presence in Malaysia. The set has taken an office at the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration.
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International Edition

Ince & Co launches redundancy round with 16 jobs at risk

Ince & Co is set to cut up to 16 jobs after launching a redundancy consultation with its legal and support staff. The redundancies will affect up to 10 fee earners from the firm's insurance and shipping practices as well as six business services roles, which are a mix of secretarial and support staff.
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Legal Week

Reasons to be cheerful – is the LG merger a good move for Wragge & Co?

For a law firm leader, Wragge & Co senior partner Quentin Poole is very approachable. Neither colleagues nor rivals seem to have a bad word to say about him and, as the firm's long-awaited London merger draws closer, he has more reason than ever to be cheerful. Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co may not exactly roll off the tongue, but the tie-up goes some way towards giving Wragges the London traction it has been struggling to build organically for many years. Not to mention a shiny, relatively new office in More London – albeit, an office more synonymous with merger partner Lawrence Graham's financial difficulties than anything positive. The union, which goes live in May, takes Wragges from Birmingham firm to UK player and represents a shift in its approach to the UK legal market and beyond. It's a deal that makes sense for both firms even though it does not come near to delivering the finished article.
11 minute read

International Edition

Reasons to be cheerful – is the LG merger a good move for Wragge & Co?

For a law firm leader, Wragge & Co senior partner Quentin Poole is very approachable. Neither colleagues nor rivals seem to have a bad word to say about him and, as the firm's long-awaited London merger draws closer, he has more reason than ever to be cheerful. Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co may not exactly roll off the tongue, but the tie-up goes some way towards giving Wragges the London traction it has been struggling to build organically for many years. Not to mention a shiny, relatively new office in More London – albeit, an office more synonymous with merger partner Lawrence Graham's financial difficulties than anything positive. The union, which goes live in May, takes Wragges from Birmingham firm to UK player and represents a shift in its approach to the UK legal market and beyond. It's a deal that makes sense for both firms even though it does not come near to delivering the finished article.
3 minute read

International Edition

Wragges, LG on lookout for global merger following domestic tie-up

Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham (LG) will seek a global merger once their own tie-up goes live on 1 May. In an exclusive interview with Legal Week, Wragges senior partner Quentin Poole said a merger with an international practice or practices was on the cards. The firms are thought to be interested in the model adopted by Norton Rose Fulbright and Dentons, both of which have expanded rapidly through a series of combinations. "Both firms will be more attractive now we have a bigger proposition in the UK and we are very open minded about a global merger," said Poole.
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International Edition

A job half done – has DLA's much-lauded hire of Tony Angel delivered on its promise?

Expectations were high when DLA Piper brought in former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel in late 2011. With a reputation as someone unafraid of making difficult and unpopular decisions, and tasked with reinventing DLA's UK practice and better integrating the US and international arms of the firm, Angel's hire sent a signal to the market: DLA meant business. But despite the fact Angel's costly hire – with the package rumoured to be worth some £2m a year – was always intended to be for a fixed term, some partners within the firm were surprised by the news that he was to step down as global co-chair in January 2015. "It had been on the cards," said one. "But it was a lot quicker than we expected." Now, as the firm prepares to hand over to a new leadership team – with Nigel Knowles set to take over from Angel as co-chair and UK intellectual property partner Simon Levine succeeding Knowles as co-CEO – attention is focusing on what Angel's legacy at DLA will be.
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International Edition

King & Spalding launches multi-practice global law firm alliance

King & Spalding (K&S) has entered into an alliance with 15 global law firms to refer work across a range of practice areas, including employee benefits, executive compensation, tax, employment and labour law.
2 minute read

International Edition

Cleary partner joins HSBC as litigation and regulatory co-head

HSBC has appointed two new general counsel to oversee its litigation and regulatory enforcement departments. The appointees include Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton white collar partner Shawn Chen.
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