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Linklaters launches AI data analysis tool
March 13th, 2017
Linklaters has teamed up with city tech start-up Eigen Technologies to launch an AI-backed data analysis and extraction tool in order to achieve ‘a level of flexibility’ not currently available on the marketplace. Eigen’s co-founder Lewis Liu was formerly ...
Paul Weiss, Linklaters and Freshfields alumni lock horns as Kraft Heinz drops $143bn deal for Unilever
February 20th, 2017
In what would have been the second largest M&A deal in history, Unilever has rejected a $143bn takeover approach from Kraft Heinz as Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Linklaters take opposite sides. Unilever, the company behind brands ...
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of new Senior Partner
May 24th, 2016
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of Charlie Jacobs as the firm’s new Senior Partner. Elected on a five-year term the appointment will be effective from 1 October 2016, once current Senior Partner Robert Elliott’s term ends. Charlie Jacobs joined ...
Magic Circle firm Linklaters announces 25 new Partner promotions
April 19th, 2016
Linklaters announces the election of 24 new Partners and a senior consultant across 10 jurisdictions. The promotions take effect on 1 May 2016. The new appointments cover 10 areas of practice. Fifteen of these promotions are based outside London ...
A&O and Linklaters win advisory roles on $965m financing of Travelex and UAE Exchange
April 7th, 2016
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have won roles advising on a $965m combined financing deal for UAE Exchange Centre and Travelex Holdings backed by nine banks, to support both forex companies’ growth plans. The $890m loan financing with a $75m accordion ...
Law firms win pay battle with RBS as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy reappointed
January 12th, 2016
The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended in victory for the lawyers, as Magic Circle firms Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) won appointments to the bank’s legal ...
Tackling mental health in law firms
December 14th, 2018
Recent news that the head of global law firm Baker McKenzie, Paul Rawlinson, is taking temporary leave due to exhaustion raises the question of whether law firms are doing enough to support the wellbeing of their employees, says Averil ...
The legal firms that advice L’Oreal to sell The Body shop for €1bn
June 13th, 2017
Linklaters, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Baker McKenzie are advising as L’Oreal looks to sell The Body shop for €1bn to Brazilian cosmetic company Natura. Natura is in exclusive negotiations with L’Oreal, which put The Body Shop up for ...
International law firms advised in a 12.2bn sale of a pan-European logistics company
June 6th, 2017
The international law firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance (CC) have advised Blackstone and China Investment Corporation (CIC) respectively, as Blackstone announced the $12.2bn sale of its pan-European logistics company Logicor to CIC. Simpson Thacher advised real estate ...
Dentons makes it onto Standard Chartered’s overhauled global legal panel
May 19th, 2017
For the first time Dentons has won a spot on Standard Chartered’s global legal panel while Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), Baker McKenzie, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Slaughter and May and Linklaters have all been reappointed. Review ...
