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...Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s highest-grossing law firm, poached two partners from magic circle firms in London in the space of a week in September....
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...A group of law firms including Kirkland & Ellis were reportedly hit by a ransomware group earlier this year....
...“The time of firms planting flags on the map is over,” says Tony Williams, principal at Jomati Consultants and managing partner of leading UK law firm Clifford Chance in the late 1990s....
...But the bigger issue, for the UK’s magic circle, is that US behemoths such as Kirkland & Ellis or Skadden Arps are stealing their lunch. Top US firms are structurally more profitable....
...Squire Patton Boggs and Clifford Chance declined to comment. Kirkland & Ellis did not comment on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record....
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...Job moves Law firm Kirkland & Ellis has named 205 partners....
...Shearman’s equity partners took home an average of $3mn in 2021, far short of the $7mn paid out by rivals including Davis Polk & Wardwell and Kirkland & Ellis....
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...She joins from Kirkland & Ellis. Clifford Chance has hired Jill Concannon Christie as a US securities and high yield partner, based in London. She joins from White & Case....
...She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Kirkland & Ellis has poached M&A lawyer Toby Parkinson, Clifford Chance’s co-head of infrastructure, as a partner in its London office....
...US law firm Kirkland & Ellis hired two of its senior private equity lawyers, David Higgins and Adrian Maguire, in recent years, while Latham & Watkins recruited another senior deals lawyer, Sam Newhouse,...
...Clifford Chance also introduced a special bonus system for its UK private equity team....
...Days later, Linklaters announced changes to its lockstep, following Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Allen & Overy....
...They both joined from Clifford Chance. The Chicago-based law firm also hired Jamie Lynn Walter to join its investment advisory team in Washington DC. She was most recently at Kirkland & Ellis....
...He joins from Kirkland & Ellis. Clifford Chance has hired William Sturman and Kelly Labritz as partners in its funds and investment management practice, based in New York....
...This year, toilers at Kirkland & Ellis’ London office reported stopping work at 11.28pm, a figure that seems both overprecise — even as an average — and improbably high....
...It was started by New York-based firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore and continued by the likes of Kirkland & Ellis amid the buyout boom. Junior lawyers in London are the beneficiaries....
...Where Kirkland & Ellis goes, others eventually have to follow. That is the major lesson for law firms of recent years....
...A glance at recent mandates won by Clifford Chance illustrates the point....
...Partners at Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance received almost £2m each on average....
...A freshly-qualified lawyer at London-based Clifford Chance will now earn £107,500 after a pay rise in October, matching rivals at Linklaters....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Gregory Scott, a private equity senior associate at Clifford Chance, as a partner in its London office, according to Financial News....
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