Brought into Freshfields this year to strengthen its private equity and financial sponsors group, following nine years as Partner at a smaller London boutique she handled domestic and international M&A and commercial transaction work. With the firm’s growth increasingly coming from financial and complex regulatory and competition work, Ward’s work is at the core of the Freshfields […]
The largest law firm in Hamilton is one credit claimed by Tompkins Wake, but its 100th centenary has also seen the firm building on the Waikato origins it enjoyed when founded by ‘Lance’ Tompkins and Cecil Wake in 1922. Now sitting among the top 12 firms in the country, the firm enjoyed an evening with
The bonuses may have been big an growing in the past couple of years, but 2023 looks tougher with Big Law scaling back the bonuses as Baker McKenzie kicks off the bonus season with the first, publicly declared bonuses. Baker McKenzie has agreed to pay its US associates end-of-year bonuses of up to $115,000 depending on
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Putting the 2022 LawFuel Power List together revealed some of the challenges and developments occurring with New Zealand law firms, apart from the impressive array of legal candidates who stand ready to occupy the Power List ranks. A range of firms in the mid sector, as well as the boutiques, continue to perform high level
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Fast-growing Australian law firm Hamilton Locke is expanding its operations to New Zealand, with the aim of bringing to New Zealand the benefits of “the fastest growing law firm in Australia”. The corporate law firm has set up a firm in Auckland, incorporating the boutique Auckland law firm Anderson Creagh as its cornerstone legal base.
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Pinsent Masons has recruited K&L Gates energy and infrastructure partner Kirstie Richards together with two senior associates to strengthen their planning and environment work. The team advise energy generators, renewable energy developers and construction companies on complex large scale environmental projects. Richards’ established and led its environment and planning practice nationally. Australia office head at
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Three of Australia’s big four banks have settled class action lawsuits following an action brought by Slater & Gordon over the sale of credit insurance products. The lawsuit was filed against Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AX), Westpac Banking Corp (WBC.AX), and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ.AX) on behalf of around one million customers of the banks The
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A new report indicates tougher times ahead for law firms as they take a gloomy approach to looming recession and declining M&A activity. The report from Thomson Reuters showed that the Thomson Reuters’ Law Firm Financial Index (LFFI) remained at its all-time lowest score, exacerbating concerns for how 2022 will end in the third quarter.
Meredith Connell have recruited former Chief Operating Officer for the UK at Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance as the firm’s new chief executive. Sophie Schwass’s appointment was announced by Meredith Connell Managing Partner Steve Haszard (pictured above) who said she would start at the firm in February 2023. Haszard retires from the partnership next
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Innovative UK law firm gunnercooke has launched its first US office as it develops its international growth strategy to continue on its path towards joining the Big Law coterie of global law firms. The US launch follows its 2021 launch in Germany. The firm claims to have increased revenues by 50 per cent in the
