Jami McKeon was Morgan Lewis’s first ever female chair, having been elected in October 2013 and taking over last year. She then completed the deal with Bingham McCutchen, which oversaw the addition of 226 partners who joined Morgan Lewis. The Lawyer spoke to Ms McKeon about the delicate negotiations involving the Morgan Lewis deal along […]
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It may not be Forbes, but Investopedia have come out with their list of the top 10 law firms based on revenue numbers that have been recently published. We know that publishing the “largest law firm” can be based on a variety of stats ranging from revenues, to revenues per partner, lawyer numbers, growth figures
Law firms in China continued to grow during 2014, fueled mainly by M&A and regulatory work and the US firms surveyed by China Daily say they expect the trend to continue this year. “The volume, deal size and sophistication of US acquisition matters from our China-based clients have steadily increased in the past several years.
A law firm founded in Yorkshire by a husband and wife team and entrepreneurs in 2009 already employs 70 people and has forecast an income increase of £1.1million this year, after acquiring new offices and hiring 23 new staff in 2014. Newtowns Solicitors of York has long term growth plans and a successful expansion of its
LawFuel.com – January 8, 2015 – Reed Smith LLP today announced the election of 24 new partners, effective January 1. Fourteen of the new partners practice in Reed Smith’s U.S. offices; seven in the firm’s London office; and one new partner is in each of the firm’s offices in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
LawFuel.com –Law Firm News & Commentaries – Skadden represented The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, the state-owned Egyptian petroleum company, on a $1.3 billion pre-export financing, which closed December 29, 2014. The financing was raised though a syndicated bank facility. This was the first time the company had been able to raise long-term debt in the international
LawFuel – com Ropes & Gray Counsels Dunkin’ Brands on $2.4 Billion Whole-Company Securitization Ropes & Gray is advising Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc. on the planned refinancing of its senior secured credit facility with a new $2.4 billion securitized financing facility. The new facility is expected to be comprised of $2.3 billion of senior fixed-rate term
Stéphane Charbonnier, the Charlie Hebdo publishing director and cartoonist, was on an al Qaeda “wanted” list and lived under police protection after defending his newspaper against his Prophet Muhammad cartoons that outraged the Muslim world and ultimately lead to the murder of the cartoonist, known as “Charb”. Richard Malka, Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer, said the magazine’s
Mona Dotcom is the target of US attempts to access her husband Kim Dotcom’s assets with court papers filed in December that seek to define the extent of her marital property under a matrimonial property order that she is yet to seek in New Zealand. Kim Dotcom’s millions have been frozen after his January 2012
Losing weight and reducing diabetes risks is always a good new year resolution, however two-thirds of overweight adults in the US face difficulty receiving insurance coverage for new drugs like the anti-obesity drug Saxendra. Diabetes Destroyed – Watch the video on reducing diabetes naturally – Click Here to Watch In December, the Food and Drug
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