The co-head of Freshfields’s private capital group has taken over as the firm’s UK managing partner. Victoria Sigeti takes on ...

Burness Paull has broken the £100m turnover barrier for the first time, with a 12 per cent increase in 2025/26 taking the total for the year to £105.2m.

Fox Williams is preparing a securities group action, or “stock-drop” claim, against British American Tobacco (BAT) in the High Court, The Lawyer can reveal.

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your cheat sheet to the litigation market, bringing you the week’s top ...

Anthropic’s launch of Claude for Legal will put legal AI start-ups under increased pressure to stay ahead of large language ...

O Shearman has elected six partners to its refreshed board, but the lack of gender diversity in the elected members has left ...

Fletchers Group is to acquire Freeths’s clinical negligence and court of protection teams, which sees the private equity-backed firm move into Nottingham, Oxford and Derby. A total of 42 Freeths ...

Francis Westelinck is Regional General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Danone BENELUX, where he leads a multidisciplinary legal, compliance and regulatory team across the region.

AGRD Partners, the private equity-backed association of Swedish law firms launched last year, has added its first non-Swedish firm to the group. Icelandic firm BBA/Fjeldco has joined the platform… ...

Kelly Whittaker is a Director in the firm’s Dispute Resolution team and Head of Freeths Legal Data Analytics. Kelly advises companies and corporate across a wide range of sectors on issues ...

The head of Ashurst’s energy and infrastructure M&A practice is leaving the firm pre-merger to join Vinson & Elkins in London. Michael Burns is gearing up for a move to Vinson, The Lawyer understands… ...

Rosling King has filed for administration, citing “unmanageable” creditor pressure for the decision amid suggestions that it ...