RBG Holdings, which comprises Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal, has dismissed market speculation it is looking to be acquired. The business, which includes the litigation-focused Rosenblatt and the corporate-focused Memery Crystal within its legal services division, RBG Legal Services, listed on the AIM market in 2018. However, it has seen revenue, profits and its share price […]
DLA Piper has appointed its next UK managing partner to take over from Liam Cowell in December, The Lawyer can reveal. Andrew Dyson – who is the Leeds office managing partner and co-chair of the data, privacy and cybersecurity practice – has been selected for the role. Dyson joined DLA Piper in 2003, having spent […]
This week: HSF and Kramer Levin isn’t the only merger in town, while another firm takes action after a staff survey revealed much dissatisfaction with its choice of tea.
Shares in listed firm, RBG Holdings, plummeted to an all-time low of 1.55p this week (share price listed on November 7). RBG Holdings, which encompasses Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal, posted a loss before tax of £5.7m at its September half-year announcement, with revenue down from £19.8m to £18.4m over the year. The firm said it […]
Thirteen firms have more partners based in the UK than the magic circle, according to a new ranking from The Lawyer that gives a never-before-seen picture of the nation’s 300 largest legal businesses. The new report – The UK Legal Universe – brings together the UK revenues of the traditional UK firms, the US firms in London, […]
What do you mean you don’t remember our Horizon email of two years ago about the Shropshire legal market? It had plenty of rambling whimsy, some irrelevant historical facts and the advice at the end that two distantly-related firms, FBC Manby Bowdler and Lanyon Bowdler, should come together to create a West Midlands superpower. That prediction […]
DLA Piper has announced a new-look executive committee as Charles Severs readies himself to take the reins as global managing partner and co-CEO. The new executive committee includes deputy managing partner and managing director for international practice groups Sandra Wallace, managing director for clients Benjamin Parameswaran, managing director for sectors Mark O’Conor, managing director for […]
Early signs suggest that Walker Morris’s new solicitor sabbatical scheme is boosting talent retention.
Trowers & Hamlins’s trainee numbers fell slightly last year, while the firm is of one of many considering how to balance out intake numbers with new solicitor apprentices. The firm has 56 trainees in total, but its intake numbers dipped slightly in the last iteration as a result of SQE exam grades and subsequent resits. […]
The North West Legal Consortium (NWLC) has revamped its solicitors framework panel, bringing in eight new firms and dropping seven others. In total, 15 firms have been selected for the new panel, which is set to operate for four years between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2028. The eight newcomers are Brodies, Capsticks, Hill […]
Myerson has become the third firm in the UK200 to transition to an employee ownership trust (EOT), in a move that bucks the trend of consolidation and private equity takeovers in the mid-tier. The Manchester-based firm – which focuses on disputes, corporate, real estate and private client work – completed the restructuring process at the […]
Flint Bishop has acquired Walker Morris’s 34-strong volume banking and finance recoveries division to launch in Leeds. As part of the transfer, director Justin Coley will continue in the role of head of recoveries, while Rebecca Calland and Ellen McLean have been promoted to the position of partner. Other key figures joining from Walker Morris […]