Partners at Salans, SNR Denton and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC) have ratified the firms’ three-way merger. All three firms approved the deal, with Salans partners asked to publicly state their voting preference in a firm-wide meeting on the 28 [...]
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Legal Market Round-up: December 2012
The Lawyer produces essential guide to the year’s top mergers. Since 1 January this year there have been at least 12 mergers or bolt-ons announced or completed featuring firms with 20 lawyers or more in the UK alone. Read more: http://www.thelawyer.com/state-of-the-unions/1015124.article [...]
Legal Market Round-up: November 2012
Direct Line has confirmed that it is considering setting up a legal services armwhen it is spun off from current owner Royal Bank of Scotland. The revelation appears in a prospectus for a share flotation in the group, due to [...]
Legal Market Round-up: September 2012
Here come the Americans as Rocket Lawyer starts recruiting law firms. Rocket Lawyer, the Google-Ventures backed online legal document service, has launched its On Call programme into the UK, the first step towards the much-anticipated website going live to the [...]
Legal News Round-up: August 2012
Freshfields loses Apple case as Galaxy tablets not ‘cool’ enough to be copies. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been defeated for the second time in a week after the High Court ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets do not look “cool” enough to [...]
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