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. […]
Clifford Chance-repped Shell has won an appeal to overturn an earlier ruling that required the oil giant to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by the end of the decade. The case goes back to 2018 when Dutch environmental organisation Milieudefensie (also known as Friends of the Earth Netherlands) alongside six other […]
A raft of corporate heavyweights are acting on Clayton Dubilier & Rice’s (CD&R) €16bn acquisition of Opella, a subsidiary of the French pharmaceutical group Sanofi. CD&R will acquire a 50 per cent controlling stake in the business in one of the largest private equity deals in Europe this year. Kirkland & Ellis is leading for […]
Equity partners at Dentons in Europe have chosen the next regional CEO with the firm’s former Dutch managing partner stepping into the role. Amsterdam-based Wendela Raas will replace Tomasz Dąbrowski on 1 November for the first term in the role. The election was understood to have been contested between Raas and three other equity partners […]
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 […]
Last summer, The Lawyer reported that Paul Hastings was on the hunt for growth in its Paris office and this year, the firm made its move in one of the French capital’s hottest markets. With white collar boutique Antonin Lévy & Associés joining Paul Hastings last month, we look at how the team sets itself […]
Roschier partners have elected Stockholm-based Johan Sidklev as the firm’s new managing partner. Sidklev will replace Helsinki-located incumbent Mikko Manner on 1 December, though tasks are now being handed over from the outgoing leader to the incoming one. Sidklev won the election unopposed, though The Lawyer understands there was a period of informally sounding out […]
Geradin Partners has kept up its blistering expansion push by opening its third office this year in Helsinki. The firm has hired two partners from Roschier – Mikko Alkio and Christian Wik. They join Geradin today, marking the office’s launch in the Finnish capital. A further four colleagues will join of various seniorities, with more expected […]
Media and reputation firm Schillings has opened its first European office outside of the UK by launching in Dublin. The office will offer advice in crisis management, risk mitigation and “opportunity harnessing” with further service lines in “intelligence, law, communications, diplomacy and security to handle high stakes situations”. Schillings CEO David Imison said of the […]
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 […]
Latham & Watkins has lost another member of its Continental European transactional team, with a leveraged finance partner joining A&O Shearman in Paris. Michel Houdayer has made the move to A&O Shearman today (16 September). He was a Latham lifer, having joined the firm in 2002 and spent almost a decade in the partnership having […]
The Lawyer’s European Awards is back this year to crown the crème de la crème of the European legal market. We received a huge number of entries from firms across the Continent, seeking to pick up some of the most prestigious prizes in the profession. The event will be held in-person at the JW Marriott […]