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Byline: Kate Beioley Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Ashurst have all won roles for the UK's big four retail banks currently at the centre of a major Competition and Markets [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie, CMS Cameron McKenna and Taylor Wessing have all advised on the Au700m sale of the landmark Gherkin building to the Safra Group controlled by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley General Motors general counsel Michael Millikin is to retire next year after 37 years at the company and five years at the helm of the auto giant's [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley CVC has turned to long-standing adviser Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has for its e1/4700m (Au551m) acquisition of Helsinki-based Paroc. Corporate partner Tim Wilmot led the magic circle team [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The explosive $1.6bn oil row between Excalibur Ventures and Texas and Gulf Keystone took a new turn yesterday (23 October) when the High Court ruled the third-party [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance has re-elected senior partner Malcolm Sweeting for a second term following an uncontested election, handing him another four years in the top role. Sweeting was [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has requested an urgent cash injection of Au26.5m -- 75 per cent above its core budget -- in order to pursue its [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance's private equity co-heads are determined that their sector remains the 'crown jewels' of the corporate team despite high-profile partner exits. But a new succession plan [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Drax is on the brink of appointing its first head of legal for two years in a move which could spark an in-house restructure. When former legal [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Linklaters' new global litigation Michael Bennett has decided not to appoint a new London disputes chief after opting for a more streamlined management group. Bennett was named [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Former Queens Park Rangers chairman Antonio Caliendo has been allowed to keep his conditional fee arrangement (CFA) in a case launched against Mishcon de Reya despite missing [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Burges Salmon, Eversheds and Pinsent Masons have won spots on the Nuclear Decommissioning Authorityas (NDA) reduced legal panel. The new panel has been reduced from five firms [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Facebook has launched a lawsuit against DLA Piper and a raft of US law firms alleging they represented a fraudulent claimant pursuing Facebook for 50 per cent [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Ofgem has extended its panel for another two years, giving Burges Salmon, Hogan Lovells, Nabarro and Pinsent Masons along with nine other firms a further term as [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Specsavers has triumphed in a five-year trademark battle which went all the way to the European Court of Justice, having switched from Eversheds and Blackstone Chambers' silk [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley National Grid UK general counsel and company secretaryKaren Clayton has left the network in the midst of a full-scale panel review due to be finalised in April [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley EDF has turned to Clifford Chance antitrust partner Jenine Hulsmann to win approval for a nuclear reactor subsidy scheme from the European Commission (EC), enabling the first [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Linklaters has continued its push on diversity by launching a new ally programme aimed at support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) colleagues. The launch comes after [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Eon head of legal Graham Line has stepped down from his role to lead the company's response to the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) probe into the [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A raft of chambers and firms, including the likes of Blackstone and Matrix Chambers and Farrer & Co and Nabarro, have emerged as advisers on Supreme Court [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Clifford Chance, Osborne Clarke and Stephenson Harwood are understood to have missed out on Lloyds' core panel spots in its latest review, which [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Nabarro has formed a new French alliance with LefE?vre Pelletier & AssociE's seven months after breaking up with former alliance partner August & Debouzy. The new firm [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has enlisted Three Raymond Buildings' Simon Farrell QC andRachel Scott for its court case against French train giant Alstom, which it accused [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The newly-formed Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is looking to hire a director of criminal enforcement as part of three new director roles aimed at beefing up [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Indian property company Unitech has triumphed again against Deutsche Bank in the latest stage of the long-running $177m (Au110m) Libor battle over allegedly missold loans and swaps. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley EDF Energy has launched its latest panel review and will keep its new roster for three years, replacing its current two-year panel system. Current UK panel firms [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Longstanding 20 Essex Street clerk Brian Lee has left the set after 26 years to join 7KBW as the chambers' first marketing director. After over two decades [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Lawyers are among the hardest-working professionals and are likely to stay with their employer for longer according to a career survey conducted by recruitment agency Robert Walters. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Mishcon de Reya will hold the first-ever management elections for its real estate and employment head roles next month with employment head Joanna Blackburn pledging to step [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Court of Appeal has quashed a judicial review of the new rating system for criminal barristers introduced by the Legal Services Board (LSB), bringing an end [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has launched a new branch of its efficiency programme launched in March specifically targeting project management and legal process improvement (LPI). The Streamline [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley DLA Piper has fought off a derivatives mis-selling case for Natwest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) which were found to have given 'negligent but not [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Tesco general counsel Adrian Morris and 25 other lawyers based at the supermarket's headquarters will be sent onto the shop floor over the next three months in [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Former Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) legal head Rob Higgins has taken up one of the organisation's three new executive positions following the exit of commercial director Sean [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Doughty Street Chambers has been forced to upgrade its website hosting arrangements to cope with a surge in traffic following the nuptials of member Amal Alamuddin and [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Russian tycoon Sergei Pugachev has switched counsel from Stephenson Harwood partner John Fordham to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson for the latest stage of his $2bn [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Doughty Street has restructured its clerking team to focus on practice areas and beefed up its criminal team, adding 2 Hare Court's Maurice MacSweeney as a new [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer managing partner David Aitman and corporate chief Edward Braham are 'taking on Wall Street' and want the US market to think of them a [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Nabarro's position on brewer Molson Coors panel is understood to be under threat, with sources saying the company is searching for a replacement debt and competition adviser [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Wonga's first-ever general counsel Lucy Vernall has left the company for internet lender Funding Circle, months after Wonga was forced to pay Au2.6m in compensation for sending [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie has appointed Gillian Coyle as its London HR director, bringing it closer to its diversity targets and handing it a 50 per cent female [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance global chief operating officer (COO) Amanda Burton is stepping down at the end of the year following a raft of leadership changes at the firm. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley What is more important to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer? The sacred lockstep or a swathe of heavy-hitting veteran US partners to build up its growing presence in New [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has permanently rolled out its scheme offering associates $2,000 to work anywhere in the world for a week. Quinn chief John Quinn [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Doughty Street has lost another public law silk with the exit of Paul Bowen QC to Brick Court, just months after a five-barrister team left Doughty Street [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The High Court has cleared Times lawyer Alastair Brett of aknowinglya misleading the court but found he had acted arecklesslya in revealing the identity of the aNightJacka [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Society of Conservative Lawyers has published a paper setting out proposals for more devolution to Scotland, England and Wales to establish a aquasi-federal kingdoma after yesterdayas [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Last week Ropes & Gray chief Mike Goetz said UK firms needed to be worried about their private equity finance 'vulnerability'. Now the magic circle is hitting [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired former DLA Piper Asia Pacific head Bob Charlton as its new head of Asia and Hong Kong managing partner. Charlton will join [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Pinsent Masons is fielding three employment tribunal claims from an employment partner, senior associate and associate stemming from its employment practice restructuring last year. The firm is [...]