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CC corporate partner Steven Fox, who joined the magic circle firm last year from Ashurst, is leading the firm's team advising SS&C on UK law alongside CC partners Lee Coney (corporate), Roderick McGillivray (finance), Simon Crown (regulatory) and Sonia Gilbert (employment).

Not exact matches

«To say the vultures are circling is probably an understatement,» Larry Perkins, the CEO and founder of the advisory firm SierraConstellation Partners, told Business Insider last month.

Since stepping down from running British food giant Premier Foods Plc in June last year he has worked with a string of private equity firms including KKR which is now circling Treasury Wine after approaching the board in April with an offer of $ 4.70 per share.

The figures are contained within CC's annual corporate responsibility report, which states that the magic circle firm invested a total of 58,368 hours in pro bono and community activities during the year, up 2 % from the figure of 57,071 hours reported last year.

The magic circle firm's latest partner promotions, announced last week, included City competition lawyer Kerry O'Connell, who will move from London to Brussels before the end of the year.

Banding systems and combined pay and bonuses mean rates across the magic circle are harder to compare than at most US firms, but Clifford Chance, for example, last year pushed NQ rates up to # 85,000 including bonus.

The UK magic circle saw growth hampered by the faltering euro in 2014 - 15, with Allen & Overy (A&O) the only firm with an international spread to see a marked revenue increase in the last financial year.

The firm, which last month became the first of the magic circle to file its gender pay gap report, revealing a pay gap of 23 % for non-partner employees, has now announced that when including partners, the overall gender pay gap for all employees and lawyers rises to 60.3 %.

Allen & Overy's (A&O's) management team took home a combined # 15.8 m during the last financial year, according to the magic circle firm's limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts.

Bates, who has been London finance head for the last seven years, will take up a four - year term at the helm of the magic circle firm's City office on 1 January next year.

The vote, news of which was first revealed last week, was largely seen as a formality after the magic circle firm successfully courted the private equity star, despite interest from US outfits including Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

The five magic circle firms brought in # 5.5 bn last year — an impressive performance and certainly the best average showing across the legal elite in several years.

The magic circle firm unveiled its «Fintech Fast Forward» scheme last October, and opened the first round of applications for the scheme the following month.

Last month, Cravath Swaine & Moore kickstarted an associate pay war among US and magic circle firms when it hiked its first - year US associate pay $ 180,000 (# 124,000) a year.

Within law - student circles, a 2L at the University of Virginia gained mythic notoriety last summer when she reportedly drank too much, undressed too much and dove into the Hudson River while attending a party hosted by the firm where she was a summer associate.

Ellis, who was a partner at MoFo between 2007 and 2008, has rejoined her old firm this week to work alongside corporate partner Thomas Chou and M&A partner Jeremy Hunt, who joined the firm last year from magic circle firm Allen & Overy.

The magic circle firm has hired IP partner Mark Heaney, who joined Simmons from US firm Baker Botts last year, alongside fellow Simmons IP partner David Stone (pictured).

The magic circle firm took a small equity stake in the business in return for its help developing the software last year.

Over the last 5 years Alexandra has focused on introducing Resource Management structures in to new markets and sectors, including implementing one of the first dedicated Resource Management functions in to a magic circle law firm.

Last month, Legal Week revealed that Berkovich was in talks to join the magic circle firm following a restructuring of Ashurst's New York office.

Having pulled a 15 - or 16 - hour day at the coalface (ok, at the PC) in your magic circle firm's boiler room, the last thing you want to do when you get home is to get out the egg whisk and the mineral water.

The group of 18 new partners — an increase of two on last year — features six London lawyers, including structured finance senior associate Richard Hart, whose promotion comes after the recent review of the magic circle firm's finance offering.

The magic circle law firm — which is the UK central bank's preferred legal adviser — has so far advised the Bank on matters including a # 170bn stimulus package unveiled last month to boost the economy.