Freshfields tax partner leaves for Norton Rose as Paris exits mount
The move follows a four-partner team leaving for US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in April, including Freshfields’ Paris employment head Emmanuel Benard.
Freshfields to lose Paris quartet to Orrick’s French office
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer looks set to lose four partners in its Paris office to US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Goodwin Procter hires KWM team for Paris launch
Goodwin Procter is to open its first office in Paris after hiring a four-partner team from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).
France’s Veil Jourde opens in Brussels
French firm Veil Jourde has launched a Brussels office, in its first foray outside Paris. The move comes just a year after the firm launched a competition team with the hire of partner Emmanuel Tricot from Winston & Strawn. The Brussels office will advise on competition, state aid, regulated industries such as telecoms, merger control […]
Europe’s largest firm Fidal reports flat 2015 turnover
Europe’s largest independent law firm, France’s Fidal, has reported a slight dip in revenue for the 2014/15 financial year, with turnover down 0.4 per cent to €346.1m (£271m). The results follows an 8 per cent rise up to €347.5m between 2012 and 2014. That uptick saw Fidal overtake Iberian firm Garrigues to become the highest-grossing independent firm on the […]
Funds boutique MJ Hudson picks up KWM partner for Paris launch
Funds boutique MJ Hudson has hired King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) partner Benjamin Aller to launch a Paris office.
Nabarro’s French ally Lefèvre Pelletier announces €44m merger
Nabarro’s French ally Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés and fellow Paris firm CGR Legal have announced a merger creating a €44m (£32.9m) firm with 160 lawyers. The merger will propel the combined firm, LPA CGR, into the top 10 independent French firms by turnover and also into The Lawyer European 100. LPA CGR will boast a […]
European firms join Slaughters and BLP on latest GE disposal deal
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has won a role on its second General Electric (GE) related acquisition in a month, working with Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel on the acquisition of GE’s equipment finance and receivable finance businesses. The transaction comes just a few weeks after BLP advised an investment consortium on its £3.8bn purchase of […]
Fieldfisher hit with €28k damages after tribunal rules it unfairly dismissed Paris secretary
Fieldfisher has been ordered to pay damages and costs totalling €28,454 (£20,000) after a Paris employment tribunal found it had unfairly dismissed a secretary from its office in the French capital. The decision was handed down on Monday (23 November) with a reasoned judgment expected in due course. The secretary had claimed that she was […]
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Hogan Lovells pays tribute to Paris associate Valentin Ribet
Hogan Lovells has paid tribute to Valentin Ribet, a litigation associate in its Paris office who was killed at the Bataclan concert hall in the terrorist attacks on Friday night. In a statement the firm said: “This is an awful tragedy and hard for any of us to truly comprehend. We are shocked by both our […]
Gide absorbs ally’s Paris office while quartet of associates quit for boutique
Gide Loyrette Nouel has absorbed the Paris office of Spanish ally Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, picking up partner Nuria Bové and three other lawyers to create an Iberian desk. The Iberian desk will support Iberian and Latin American companies on their operations in France, as well as French clients on their operations in the Iberian Peninsula […]
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VW instructs Freshfields to defend emissions scandal claims in UK and France
Volkswagen (VW) has instructed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to defend a raft of civil claims that will be brought in the UK and France in relation to the car giant’s global emissions scandal. Lawyers from Freshfields’ London office are expected to work closely with a team from Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, which is understood to […]