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Allen & Overy warns of headwinds as profits drop

...The planned tie-up, announced in May, is the culmination of decades of efforts by Allen & Overy to establish a decisive presence in the US market....

July 13, 2023

News updates from July 13: SEC sues bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, Decline in UK GDP less steep than expected

Allen & Overy profits stagnate on ‘challenging market conditions’

...Profits at UK law firm Allen & Overy remained stagnant as the firm grappled with what it called “challenging market conditions” and globally high inflation....

July 13, 2023

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ReviewAlbums

The Last Dinner Party: Prelude to Ecstasy — ornate debut lands amid hype and controversy

...Lead guitarist Emily Roberts, who reached the semi-final of the BBC Young Jazz Musician 2020, plays astutely timed and weighted solos....

February 1, 2024

Legal services

Profits stall at London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms during US expansion

...Freshfields and Allen & Overy have made recent strides in the US....

July 31, 2023

How To Spend It In...

Plum Sykes’s guide to The Cotswolds

...It’s quite groovy; you’ll see people in there like Damien Hirst and Lily Allen but also drystone wallers....

April 18, 2024

Jo Ellison

The joy of the flop

...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend Letter in response to this article: If at first you don’t succeed, fail in style / From Robert C Austin, Professor...

September 8, 2023

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Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Clifford Chance LLP

Clifford Chance rules out merger as revenues top £2bn for first time

...By contrast, Allen & Overy, an arch-rival, announced plans for a $3.4bn merger with the US law firm Shearman & Sterling in May....

July 19, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

Growth — it’s time for a reckoning

...The Nobel laureate Robert Solow found that American growth over the first half of the 20th century came overwhelmingly neither from investment nor growth in the labour force, but from using what resources...

April 10, 2024

Unhedged

The arc of history, and markets Premium

...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com Grand market narratives In the Apple TV show Foundation, based on the Isaac Asimov novel, the plot is set in motion by a mathematician who, using a fancy algorithm, predicts...

September 19, 2023

FirstFT

FirstFT: Morgan Stanley chief predicts markets will ‘take off’ when Fed begins rate cuts

...Allen & Overy has created an artificial intelligence contract negotiation tool....

December 22, 2023

News in-depthDonald Trump

Trump prepares his final pitch on presidential immunity

...One likely priority for chief justice John Roberts will be to gather as much consensus as possible for a decision, rather than expose the court to more criticisms about partisanship....

April 24, 2024

ReviewHistory books

The Revolutionary Temper — what drove the French to overthrow the monarchy?

...The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, by Robert Darnton, Allen Lane £30/ WW Norton & Co $45, 576 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s European comment editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT...

November 7, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023: from our stable

...Chief Inspector Robert Napoleon investigates the death of an important businessman — and loses himself deep in the case, even when he falls asleep. 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World...

November 18, 2023

Due Diligence

A lifeline for Canary Wharf Premium

...Haleon has hired Dawn Allen as chief financial officer beginning in October. She previously worked for Tate & Lyle and Mars....

April 25, 2024

Transcript

Pub quiz showdown: Alphaville vs Unhedged

...(Laughter) Ethan Wu Who is Lily Allen? Katie Martin OK. She’s a Brit. Robert Armstrong That explains why no one knows who she is....

November 8, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Is the west talking itself into decline?

...One of the most compelling arguments comes from US economic historian Robert Allen, who argues that Britain’s successes in commerce in the 16th and 17th centuries pushed wages up and energy costs down, creating...

January 5, 2024

Insurance

Assured Guaranty has more than $10bn exposure to troubled UK water companies

...“Our role has very much been holding the hands of anxious investors,” Jennifer Marshall, a partner at law firm Allen & Overy, said. “So far . . . there haven’t been any defaults....

July 12, 2023

The Week Ahead

Round two for US Republican voters

...Japan monetary policy committee meeting minutes France: January consumer confidence survey Germany: GfK consumer confidence survey UK: GfK consumer confidence survey Results: American Express Q4, Booz Allen...

January 21, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

The loneliness of Mike Pence Premium

...It’s coming out in early October in the UK (Allen Lane) and in January 2025 in the US (One Signal, Simon & Schuster). Your signed copy is (almost) in the post....

March 22, 2024

Due Diligence

Greenhill and Lazard: investment banking pioneers at a crossroads Premium

...Allen & Overy thinks it can do one better....

May 23, 2023

Summer Books 2023

Best summer books of 2023: History

...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (Basic Books) Founded in 1958 by businessman Robert Welch, the John Birch Society was so fiercely anticommunist and...

June 24, 2023

Summer Books 2023

Best summer books of 2023: Literary non-fiction

...The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle (Allen Lane/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Carlisle’s magisterial biography explores the many facets of George Eliot’s radical life and work...

June 20, 2023

ReviewMusic

Jazz in the Round at the Cockpit, review — an intimate duo, a master pianist, a groovy saxophonist

...“Rain”, composed by jazz pianist Geri Allen, brilliantly conjured watery windows and leaden skies....

April 26, 2023

Due Diligence

Bob Iger’s plan to reshape Disney, again Premium

...Robert dives deep into the weeds in this Alphaville post to explain why. We recommend reading it in full....

July 14, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

Doppelganger — Naomi Klein follows her double down the rabbit hole

...Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Allen Lane £25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $30, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...

September 7, 2023

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