As the world’s highest-grossing law firm, Kirkland & Ellis is used to pushing the limits and has done so again making 141 partners in the largest partner-promotion in a big law firm. The firm promoted 122 partners last year and interestingly it works to fast-track associates to partnership in contrast to many firms that increasingly
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Powered by LawFuel -LONDON, October 7, 2019: International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that David Avery-Gee will join the Firm as an M&A partner in the London office. David is currently a corporate partner at Linklaters. He has advised on many high-profile and complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and IPOs across a
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The US, as the largest legal market in the world with 1.3 million lawyers might appear to be ‘over-serviced’ if anything with law firms. But global player and ‘polycentric’ player Dentons have big plans for the big market. Dentons announced its plans to merge with two US law firms, believes the US market needs a
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Norton Rose Fulbright have joined forces with Jaramer Legal, a firm formed last year to help fill the commercial law gap for Indigenous commercial lawyers. Formed with Bevan Mailman, a Bidjara man and Brian Bero, a Meriam man, the firm sees Norton Rose provide administrative support and training to Jaramer and regularly seconds lawyers there.
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The Insolvency Practitioners Regulation Act 2019 –Mandatory Reporting Obligations The Insolvency Practitioners Regulation Act 2019 (Act) was passed on 17 June 2019. Based on a recent MBIE Discussion Paper, the operative provisions of the Act will not come into force until June 2020. When fully implemented, the Act will introduce licencing requirements for all insolvency
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Lane Neave has advised Public Trust in relation to a public retail bond issue by Metlifecare Limited (Metlifecare). Metlifecare has now issued NZ$100 million of secured fixed rate bonds, exceeding its minimum target of NZ$75 million and accepting NZ$25 million of oversubscriptions. Chief Executive Officer, Glen Sowry, said the response indicated Metlifecare’s position as a trusted company
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Synlait Loan Achieves First ESG Measures Powered By LawFuel –Chapman Tripp worked with ANZ on a ground breaking deal for New Zealand’s first loan linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures. The loan has been provided to milk processing firm, Synlait. The ESG component of the $50m loan to Synlait means the interest costs
How To Write Google-Topping Blog Posts For Your Law Blog Dan Garner – Achieving top SEO rankings for your law firm can be tough – but there are key steps you can take to ensure your law firm SEO success and achieve top rankings. Writing the most esoteric, authoritative blog post in the world will
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The Attorney General and policy-shaper who topped last year’s list remains at Number 1. An Otago Law & Business graduate, he subsequently blended his community involvement with both business and law. He co-founded the Dunedin Community Law Centre, worked for Anderson Lloyd (when it was Anderson Lloyd Caudwell and then entered business working as manager
Where Are The High Growth Areas? It takes ‘Forbes’, that purveyor of key lists that attract eyeballs everywhere, to provide us with the largest law firms in the world – and to outline how some are growing faster than ever. They are also becoming more specialized. Working with Statista, ‘Forbes’ selected 243 firms and identified
