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Dec 11, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
Last month, another Big Law Transatlantic merger – this time HSF and Kramer Levin. Plus Luxembourg is suddenly all the rage with UK and US firms …
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
Hogan Lovells announced the closure of 3 of its offices in Johannesburg, Sydney, and Warshaw in the coming months, with 120 professionals to be laid off. The firm said it is focusing on its key markets. There had reportedly been challenges in maintaining the profitability levels of the Warsaw office. K&L Gates and Weil Gotshal left Warsaw in the last 5 years.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
The AmLaw 100 data for revenues and PEP for 2023-24 for the top global firms has been published. What are some of the things we’re seeing?
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
Successfully integrating new partnersApril 2024In “Insights”, we at Bignon De Keyser share our analysis of trends, innovations, new tools, new service offerings and original ideas that may be of interest to our clients.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
nature.com | Stewart Jennings |Andrew J. Challinor |Peter Smith |Edward Pope |Sarah Chapman |Sylvia Helga Vetter | +11 more
Correction to: Nature Food https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00901-y, published online 2 January 2024. In the version of the article initially published, the XDER threshold for dietary energy in Figs. 3 and 4 and Supplementary Figs. 6–11 was incorrectly set at approximately 230%. This is now corrected to be at approximately 130%. Figs. 3 and 4 have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article, and amended Supplementary Information is available online.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
We offer a selection of key market developments from last monthThe UK litigation funding market gets a boost from proposed legislation to reverse case lawThe Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill has started its Parliamentary progress. Its intent is to reverse the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the recent PACCAR decision that litigation funding agreements which give funders a share of the damages are damages-based agreements, making many unenforceable.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
Orrick, fresh on its recent reported losses in Italy, has shut down in Shanghai and will redeploy most of its lawyers to its remaining Beijing office. It is also closing in Taipei, Taiwan, following the departure of its permanent lawyers to Baker Botts. Weil Gotshal & Manges in contrast has announced the closure of its Beijing office and indicated it is reviewing its position in Shanghai. In the same vein, it is reported that Kirkland & Ellis has let go some 9 capital markets lawyers based in Asia.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
The last month has seen some interesting movement in bonus schemes in European law firms. In January, Swedish firm Mannheimer Swartling announced a change in its bonus scheme for associates. The bonus is no longer assessed on hours worked but operates as a profit share, thought to be equivalent to 2 months’ salary. This aligns the associate bonus to the firm’s pure lockstep model for partner remuneration and represents a shift from the previous billable hours-based approach.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Andrew J. Challinor |Peter Smith |Edward Pope |Sarah Chapman |Sylvia Helga Vetter |Richard King | +11 more
AbstractImproving nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa under increasing climate risks and population growth requires a strong and contextualized evidence base. Yet, to date, few studies have assessed climate-smart agriculture and nutrition security simultaneously. Here we use an integrated assessment framework (iFEED) to explore stakeholder-driven scenarios of food system transformation towards climate-smart nutrition security in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
irglobal.com | Richard King
We offer a selection of key market developments from last month. Saudi Arabia remains fertile ground for international firms in expansionary mode; Middle East firm takes up an AI opportunityMishcon de Reya is establishing a Saudi Arabian joint venture with the Ebrahim Al Habardi Law Office in Riyadh, previously connected with Jones Day. The firm will focus on high net-worth individuals. This is Mishcon’s 3rd international location after Hong Kong and Singapore.
