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3 days ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Baker McKenzie has promoted 41 new partners across its international network in its annual summer promotions round, with 18 new partners having been made up across North and Latin America in January. This year’s 59 promotions form the smallest cohort for the firm of the past 10 years, during which it has regularly promoted more than 80 to partner.
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3 days ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Latham & Watkins has boosted its antitrust and competition bench in Washington DC with the hire of a former deputy assistant attorney general. Andrew Forman has joined the firm’s litigation and trial practice after just under three years in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where he advised on merger and conduct investigations and litigations, and contributed to antitrust policy programmes.
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5 days ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Weil Gotshal & Manges is guiding private equity firm Advent International's takeover of FTSE 250 industrial group Spectris, repped by Slaughter and May. The deal gives the group an enterprise value of £4.4bn including debt and marks one of the largest recent takeovers of a London-listed business. The Weil team guiding Advent is led by private equity partner Jonathan Wood, co-head of the firm's London office.
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5 days ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Shoosmiths has reported record financial results for the 2024/25 financial year, growing profit per equity partner by 30% to exceed £1m for the first time against a 5% rise in revenue. The 650-lawyer firm's PEP hit £1.01m as turnover rose to £217.2m, marking a decade of continuous growth. Meanwhile the firm's net profit growth accelerated from 5% in 2023/24 to 16% last year, reaching £76.6m.
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1 week ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Browne Jacobson has rung in this year’s UK financial reporting season, announcing it grew turnover by 16% in the year to 30 April to a record high of £137m. The results mark the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth for the UK top 50 firm, which has added nearly £90m to its topline since 2014, when it reported turnover of £50m. The 580-lawyer firm noted it had made 13 lateral partner hires over the course of the year – the most it has made in a single year to date.
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avhandlingar.se | Chiara Ruffa |Anna Danielsson |Victoria Basham
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1 week ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Sullivan & Cromwell has made a very rare lateral hire in London, adding the global co-head of A&O Shearman's financial services regulatory group. Barnabus Reynolds was previously a partner at legacy Shearman & Sterling and brings decades of experience advising financial institutions including Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank and ICE on cross-border transactions and regulatory matters, focused on UK and EU regulations.
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1 week ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
Nigel Knowles is set to retire as the group chief executive officer of DWF. Knowles will stand down 1 August, after which he will remain at the firm as a senior adviser focused on client engagement and growth. He will be succeeded by Matthew Doughty, currently CEO of DWF's insurance services division. Knowles' career in law spans more than four decades.
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2 weeks ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
A trio of firms – CMS, DLA Piper and Ashurst – have raised pay for their newly qualified lawyers, signalling the continued importance of junior lawyers in the battle for talent. CMS has upped its London NQ salary to £120k, DLA Piper to £130k and Ashurst to £140k. CMS's rise from £110k came into effect this month and puts it on a par with Simmons & Simmons and Travers Smith, according to figures published by Legal Cheek.
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2 weeks ago | 
globallegalpost.com | Victoria Basham
TLT has elected its head of financial services, Andrew Lyon, as its new senior partner. Lyon will begin his three-year term on 1 January 2026 and succeed Sasha Butterworth, who has served as senior partner since 2022. Butterworth will continue her role at TLT as a partner and head of the pensions team after standing down. For his part Lyon joined TLT's London office as a partner in 2007 and has since helped to build one of the largest financial services disputes and investigations teams in the UK.
