Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, BonelliErede and Chiomenti battle it out in pursuit of PE dominance; White & Case provides a blueprint for growth in Sweden; and Wolf Theiss’ new Brussels office highlights the firm’s growing ambitions. […]
Dentons’ Warsaw office has hired two CMS lawyers to strengthen its energy group after the firm lost seven lawyers in the city to Greenberg Traurig. Partner Piotr Ciołkowski will be Dentons’ new co-head of the energy sector group. He has two decades of experience advising clients in the energy sector, particularly on regulatory and investment […]
Greenberg Traurig is launching a new practice in Poland with the hire of seven Dentons lawyers, The Lawyer can reveal. Leading the project and structured finance group in Warsaw will be partner Piotr Nerwiński, former co-head of the banking and finance team at Dentons, where he spent over a decade. He specialises in project and […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, Horten’s having a real year to forget as news emerges of its managing partner and co-chair leaving to join one of Denmark’s largest firms; Germany’s GSK Stockmann opens up about some early […]
Bates Wells is one of the leading firms on the ‘purpose’ front. But its management is also trying to boost its lawyers’ business sense.
Hogan Lovells joined A&O Shearman in the shut-your-Johannesburg-office club last month. But it went two steps further, announcing it would also close in Sydney and Warsaw. The latter was the largest of the three offices, with 30 lawyers and three partners based there at the time of the announcement. Warsaw sources say the firm had […]
Central and Eastern European (CEE) firm Wolf Theiss has broken new ground by opening an office in Brussels. The office will not be handling matters related to Belgian law. Instead, its core function will be to service the firm’s clients in CEE and Southeast Europe (SEE) in inbound and outbound matters related to EU law, […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, we take a look at the Warsaw firm doing succession right; why Norway’s Thommessen is managing lockstep carefully; and a big change takes place in the London office of an Iberian firm. […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this week’s edition, we explain why hearing the names of a select group of elite firms is piquing our interest; and what can be taken away from Hogan Lovells’ Warsaw retreat. US firms are dictating […]
As Hogan Lovells prepares to close three of its global offices, figures obtained by The Lawyer show that profits generated by the affected Warsaw base halved in 2023. Earlier this month, the firm announced it would close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw. The firm’s Warsaw office is the larger of the three, home to […]
Welcome back to The Passport after our usual summer break. This week, we explain what the future may hold for Schjødt as managing partner Magnus Lütken casts his mind ahead; and how can Eversheds stand out in Benelux? You will also notice a new addition to The Passport which is our moves section, highlighting some of […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition, we introduce you to Mayer Brown’s new Paris team and tell you how the personal relationships sealed the deal; what the freshly de-merged CGR Avocats means when it talks about being a “last […]