UK-headquartered firm grows profit per equity partner 3% in year to end of March as revenue inches up 1% to £385m | 11mos
Tax
McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel merged 1 August to form 1,750‑lawyer firm with revenues of $3bn | 11mos
Combination set to go live on 1 August, creating top-20 US firm by revenue with more than 1,750 lawyers | 1yr
Summer tally follows 18 Americas promotions in January with the overall proportion of women dipping slightly to 47% | 1yr
City of London Law Society among legal professional bodies to speak out against HMRC consultation on addressing promoters of marketed tax avoidance schemes | 1yr
Legacy Shearman & Sterling’s London tax head Simon Letherman joins as corporate finance specialist Lerika Le Grange moves over from Taylor Wessing | 1yr
Firm doubles down on European expansion strategy with new offices in Warsaw and Krakow staffed with team hired from Polish boutiques | 1yr
Alex Jupp marks US firm’s 11th lateral hire in London over past year | 1yr
Majority-female round follows top City independent posting double-digit revenue and profit growth for FY24 | 1yr
Three partners join alongside two counsels and seven associates | 1yr
Matt Miner fills spot left vacant by Tonya Robinson’s departure to Vanguard last year | 1yr
Split comes ahead of Kramer Levin’s planned merger with Herbert Smith Freehills | 1yr
Firm to open seventh base in continental Europe early next year ahead of planned merger with US outfit Kramer Levin | 1yr
Slaughters, Cravath, Bakers and Latham among firms acting on long-awaited offloading of online luxury retailer | 1yr
Robert Waterson joins to lead UK tax disputes team | 1yr
Seventeen tenants move their practice as London barristers’ chambers closes after more than a century | 1yr
Principal John Kwak joins from Korea Big Six firm Kim & Chang with two more tax specialists | 1yr
Simon Skinner joins having earlier led Travers’ tax team | 1yr
New base in Brazil’s financial centre will provide US legal advice on cross-border transactions | 1yr
Steven Matays joins Magic Circle firm as it continues to push for more US market share | 2yrs