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Baker McKenzie completes 2025 partner promotions with 41-strong international round

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.
Latham & Watkins hires former deputy assistant attorney general in Washington DC

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.
UK Supreme Court backs concept of post-sale confusion in Umbro trademark case

4 days ago | globallegalpost.com | Maura O’Malley

The Supreme Court has affirmed that post-sale circumstances can be taken into account when assessing similarity in a case where Umbro brand owner Iconix had accused fashion footwear brand Dream Pairs of trademark infringement. Supreme Court judges Lord Hodge, Lord Hamblen, Lady Rose, Lord Briggs and Lord Stephens handed down their unanimous judgment today (24 June), thereby reinstating a High Court decision that there was no infringement.
UK Supreme Court backs use of post-sale confusion in Umbro trademark case

4 days ago | globallegalpost.com | Maura O’Malley

The Supreme Court has affirmed that post-sale circumstances can be taken into account when assessing similarity in a case where Umbro brand owner Iconix had accused fashion footwear brand Dream Pairs of trademark infringement. Supreme Court judges Lord Hodge, Lord Hamblen, Lady Rose, Lord Briggs and Lord Stephens handed down their unanimous judgment today (24 June), thereby reinstating a High Court decision that there was no infringement.
Weil, Slaughter and May guide Advent's £4.4bn Spectris takeover

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.
Shoosmiths' PEP passes £1m milestone in record year

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.
‘Back to the drawing board’: City lawyers criticise HMRC efforts to curb tax avoidance

1 week ago | globallegalpost.com | Ben Rigby

Legal professional bodies including the City of London Law Society have criticised a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) consultation on addressing promoters of marketed tax avoidance schemes. The consultation followed earlier government actions, announced in March, giving HMRC new powers to obtain information from tax advisers, targeting alleged non-compliance worth nearly £40bn according to the Treasury. In March HMRC consulted on proposals to target promoters of tax avoidance schemes.
Legal profession marks six years of Women in Law Pledge

1 week ago | globallegalpost.com | Ben Rigby

The Law Society, the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) have marked the sixth anniversary of the Women in Law Pledge with renewed calls for gender equality in the legal profession. The pledge was launched in June 2019 by former Law Society president Christina Blacklaws and represented a commitment by key professional bodies to advance gender equality across the profession.
Browne Jacobson's revenue hits record £137m after 16% growth

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.
LexisNexis and AI platform Harvey strike legaltech partnership deal

1 week ago | globallegalpost.com | Ben Edwards

US legal data and research provider LexisNexis and AI platform Harvey have announced a strategic alliance to integrate their technology to support legal workflows. The alliance brings together two giants in the legaltech space, combining LexisNexis’s generative AI technology and legal content and Harveys legal-specific AI platform.