A&O's Australian senior partner to leave firm
Allen & Overy’s Australian senior partner Grant Fuzi is set to leave the firm at the end of 2014, four years after launching the UK firm’s Australian presence. A…
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Pay rise for London associates at Herbert Smith Freehills
Herbert Smith Freehills has announced a pay rise for newly qualified and junior associates in London, bringing its junior salaries in line with those paid by
Slaughters announces annual pay rise
Slaughter and May has announced its annual pay rises, bumping up pay for newly qualified lawyers by £2,000 to award a salary of £65,000. The boost brings Slaughters out of last place among magic circle firms for…
Singapore grants foreign law practice licenses
Singapore’s Ministry of Law has renewed the Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licences for Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance,
A&O promotes 16 lawyers across global network
Allen & Overy has promoted 16 lawyers to the partnership across its global network, with effect from 1 May 2014. The International Capital Markets practice saw the greatest…
Freshfields and Bakers report strong retention figures
Freshfields and Baker & McKenzie have reported high trainee retention figures: keeping on 80% and 88% of newly qualified lawyers…
HSF tweaks pay to keep top Australian partners
Herbert Smith Freehills has introduced a provision in its compensation system that aims to hold on to the top performers in the firm’s Australian offices. The new…
Weil Gotshal loses financial regulation expert to A&O
Weil Gotshal is losing the head of its Financial Reform Working Group and Financial Institutions Regulatory Practice, Heath Tarbert, to Allen &…
International firm A&O keeps 84% of trainees
Allen & Overy has released its trainee retention figures, announcing that it will keep 84% of its March 2014 qualifiers. 45 of the 49 trainees who are due to qualify applied to stay…
A&O's london lawyers to be offered contract work
Allen & Overy is set to begin a trial of a new program that allows top lawyers to work on a contract basis. The service, which goes by the name of “Peerpoint,” will begin with…
A&O posts 7.4% hike in half-year revenue
Allen & Overy has recorded a 7.4% revenue hike in the first half of the 2013-14 financial year, when compared to the same period last year. Revenue grew to £608m in the six…
Bakers boosts Tokyo M&A practice with new hire
Baker & McKenzie has boosted its Tokyo M&A practice with the hire of partner Jeremy White from a role as counsel at Allen & Overy.…
Top 20 UK firms reduce equity partnerships
The UK's 20 largest law firms by revenue have seen the overall proportion of equity partners fall by 12% over the last seven years, with equity partners accounting for 59% of the total partner count in 2012-13, according…
Prediction: top law firms in 2023
The Lawyer says that the term ‘magic circle’ will soon lose its utility as a descriptor of the UK’s elite law firms.
The magic circle, which consists of Allen & Overy,
Linklaters hires new head of insolvency in Asia
Linklaters has a new leader for its restructuring and insolvency practice in Asia, after the hire of former Allen & Overy partner David Kidd.…