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Clifford Chance (CC) has become the latest firm to sign a deal with an artificial intelligence (AI) provider, with the magic circle firm partnering with Kira Systems.
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«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.
The top 30 law firms made up fewer partners this year, while there was a worrying dip in the number of women promoted at the magic circle.
The magic circle firm, which overhauled its three - tier lockstep system in 2015, has long had the ability to reward top - performing partners by moving them above its core 100 - point plateau, but has previously opted against such a move — even for lateral hires in the highly competitive US market.
A&O banking counsel Catherine Lang - Anderson on mentoring the magic circle firm's senior partner
Corporate partners Pistilli and Simmons — whose former firm Chang Pistilli & Simmons was taken over by CC in 2011 — left the magic circle firm in February and launched their own boutique, Pistilli Simmons, this May.
Magic circle firm appoints competition partners to lead 40 - strong group of lawyers around the world
«Clarity on what it takes to make partner is something that differs between associates, but I also think that until you reach a certain point, it's more important to focus on what you're doing as an associate and how to improve yourself in that role than looking too far ahead,» says a three - year PQE associate at a magic circle firm.
For example, in early April, it was reported that U.K. magic circle firm Allen & Overy had launched a major recruitment drive in order to add up to 20 associates and partners to its United Arab Emirates» office.
Of the other magic circle firms, both Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have told Legal Week they will not release partner data.
Having made partner in 2015 after spending 11 years with the magic circle firm, she impressed the judges with her ability to co-lead the Linklaters team with London partner Jonathan de Lance - Holmes advising SoftBank on launching a technology fund that can raise as much as $ 100bn (# 81bn) over the next five years.
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.
The magic circle firm's London - based team was led by corporate partner John Geraghty, with support from tax partner Lydia Challen.
Linklaters has become the first magic circle firm to announce its 2016 - 17 results, posting a 7.8 % hike in profits per equity partner (PEP) alongside a revenue rise of almost 10 %.
Latham & Watkins has sealed the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) M&A partner Edward Barnett, in the latest in a series of magic circle recruits for the expansive US firm.
Clifford Chance (CC) has become the first magic circle firm to include equity partners in its gender pay gap report.
He spent almost 10 years as a partner at the magic circle firm, where he was one of the firm's global telecommunications, media and technology sector leaders.
Wood (pictured) was previously a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and was posted to the magic circle firm's Tokyo office between 2007 and 2011, spending more than two years as managing partner there.
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 %.
The corporate star has been a partner at the magic circle firm since 2001, and recently co-led CC's team that advised the controlling shareholders of AB InBev on its $ 275bn (# 177bn) merger with rival SABMiller.
Five years after Linklaters turned the trend for firms planting flags around the world on its head with a return to alliance deals, its partner firms — Australia's Allens and South Africa's Webber Wentzel — do not let you forget their ties to the magic circle firm.
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Sum has spent eight years at Linklaters having trained at Allens, the magic circle firm's Australian alliance partner.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's London aviation finance team is leaving to join US firm Holland & Knight, following a review of the magic circle firm's wider finance practice that will result in a number of partners leaving by the end of the financial year.
The magic circle law firm, which is a regular adviser to Lloyds, is fielding a team under relationship partner Jeremy Parr and corporate partner Duncan Barber.
Wood, described by awards chairman Ed Sparrow as a «polymath», has spent a long career at the magic circle firm, including 29 years as a partner from 1973 to 2002 and 10 years as head of its banking department.
Allen & Overy managing partner Andrew Ballheimer and senior partner Wim Dejonghe discuss the magic circle firm's focus under their watch
Magic circle firm confirms contenders to replace senior partner David Morley and managing partner Wim Dejonghe
Magic circle firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) have won lead roles as «partner firms» on long term client Pearson's first legal panel.
Magic circle firm pulls plug on Cologne as it beefs up Duesseldorf with 16 Cologne partners and its Frankfurt based global corporate head Rick Van Aerssen
Magic circle firm to cut Germany - based partners» profits as part of a global drive to match its US rivals
One magic circle partner says: «What will be highly in demand are experts in trade law and that is something most UK law firms do not really have.»
Kensell departs after campaigning unsuccessfully to become senior partner at the magic circle firm earlier this year.
The magic circle firm has moved down or frozen about 50 % of its German partners in a bid to improve profitability, with only a handful of the firm's 51 German partners now understood to be sitting above 40 points.
Concerns that partners at large may not consider these issues could lead a law firm leader to err on the side of maintaining profitability data within a small circle of senior management, or exposing it only in the context of a formal presentation that includes the relevant explanations.
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).
Exits from magic circle firm's German practice continue to mount with partner set to join Mayer Brown in April 2016
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 looks set to benefit from the fallout at Ashurst, with partners expected to vote on Berkovich's hire in the coming days.
Stewart, who has been a partner with the magic circle firm for almost two decades, is in the running for the position after being put forward for nomination.
Douglas Tween, who also led Bakers» New York litigation practice, will join the magic circle firm as a partner in its competition practice and will lead its US cartel and government investigations practice.
Vivian Yiu due to depart after 10 years at the firm as the trend of magic circle Asia partner exits to US firms continues
Allen & Overy (A&O) has named London - based capital markets chief David Krischer as the magic circle firm's new US managing partner.
His departure will leave the magic circle firm with one US - qualified partner in its Shanghai office when he joins Ant Financial on 1 September.
Lloyd (pictured) was previously a partner at the magic circle firm in Hong Kong for five years before moving to Sidley in 2010.
Bagshaw (pictured) and Youle, who have been key in helping to build the magic circle firm's private equity practice have been partners at Linklaters since 2007 and 2006 respectively.
The magic circle firm's newly elected management team is working to change how partners at A&O are appraised
Marisin was formerly Moscow head of disputes and local managing partner at the magic circle firm.
The magic circle firm's team was led by London litigation partners Roger Best, Roger Leese and Maxine Mossman.
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).