News About Linklaters

Mastercard settles merchant group action in interchange fee litigation

Confidential settlement struck with more than 1,900 businesses

19 Jun 2024

Linklaters real estate team departs for Swedish independent

Former real estate transactions practice heads Magnus Lidman and Anna Eriksson take five associates to Gernandt & Danielsson

14 Jun 2024

Linklaters ups London NQ pay to £150k

Firm matches Magic Circle rival Freshfields but still lags market topping £180k at Gibson Dunn and Quinn Emanuel

17 May 2024

Gibson Dunn unveils hire of Linklaters’ former leveraged finance co-head in London

David Irvine joins US firm to co-lead global finance practice

16 Apr 2024

Linklaters promotes 27 to partner as gender diversity target on track for fourth year

Women make up just over 40% of cohort, though overall promotions fell compared to 2023

27 Mar 2024

Linklaters, Slaughters lead on Mondi’s £5bn DS Smith bid

Linklaters acts for Mondi in deal to create £10bn packaging giant as global M&A surges after 2023’s slump

11 Mar 2024

Paul Weiss raids Linklaters again in London for M&A partner

Dan Schuster-Woldan joins as head of European public M&A

1 Feb 2024

Shearman global co-managing partner takes six-strong M&A team to Linklaters in New York

UK firm hails 'transformational step' in US growth strategy as rainmaker George Casey joins as global co-chair of corporate alongside five more lawyers

8 Jan 2024

Ex-Linklaters Middle East head takes back reins from successor after a year

Scott Campbell resumes leadership role following Jonathan Fried’s return to full-time practice

4 Jan 2024

Paul Weiss unveils latest top-level London lateral: Linklaters’ ex-antitrust head

New York firm adds latest piece to jigsaw in drive to create elite UK law practice

20 Dec 2023

Reed Smith secures capital markets partner in London from Linklaters

Linklaters lifer Mark Drury one of three partners to leave Magic Circle firm in recent days

18 Dec 2023

Comic Relief names Diageo general counsel as new chair

Former Linklaters partner Tom Shropshire to step in on interim basis following Eric Salama’s early retirement

24 Nov 2023

Linklaters adds Norton Rose Fulbright partner to launch global risk advisory practice

Jane Caskey joins in London just days after cybersecurity partner duo left NRF for Allen & Overy

21 Nov 2023

High Court finds for telecoms companies in Phones4U litigation

Hogan Lovells, Covington, Clifford Chance, Mishcon and Linklaters secure wins in blockbuster competition case

14 Nov 2023

Kirkland secures tax partner from Linklaters in London

James Morgan’s hire follows 12-partner raid on Kirkland by Paul Weiss that included two London tax partners

13 Nov 2023

Linklaters secures Addleshaws’ competition head in London

Bruce Kilpatrick to rejoin Magic Circle firm’s leading antitrust practice after 16 years at AG

13 Oct 2023

Linklaters, Herbert Smith Freehills called in for Metro Bank rescue

Deal sees HSF client Spaldy Investments become embattled high street bank’s majority shareholder

9 Oct 2023

Linklaters to cut lawyers in China due to ‘prolonged downturn’

All three offices impacted; firm underlines commitment to China market

19 Sep 2023

Paul Weiss unveils 13-partner transatlantic team after swoop on rival Kirkland

Team includes one partner from Linklaters as Wall Street firm also commits to new LA arm

11 Sep 2023

Clifford Chance hires ‘one of Asia’s top M&A lawyers’ from Linklaters in Hong Kong

Alex Bidlake joins as a partner after more than 15 years at Magic Circle rival

24 Aug 2023