Herbert Smith Freehills to merge with US rival to create £1.6bn law firm Legal Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) is set to merge with US law firm Kramer Levin to create a £1.6bn "global legal powerhouse"
Meet Julien Martinet: The savvy lawyer who poached an entire team from law giant Hogan Lovells weekend profile Julien Martinet this week hit the headlines for leaving Hogan Lovells, one of the biggest law firms in the world, to start his own specialist litigator, Swift Litigation – and taking his entire team of lawyers with him. Martinet’s departure from Hogan Lovell’s came after former Boies Schiller Flexner partner Natasha Harrison left the New [...]
Hogan Lovells partner leaves firm to start up rival litigator – taking six of his colleagues with him Jumping ship A former Hogan Lovells partner, from the law firm’s Paris office, has poached six of his colleagues to start his own rival litigator. Former Hogan Lovells partner Julien Martinet has left the Anglo-American law firm to establish his own Paris-based company, Swift Litigation, according to Law.com. Martinet’s new team will also be taking Hogan Lovells’ [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING January 4, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES US PUBLIC PENSIONS FACE $2,000BN SHORTFALL The US public pension system faces a higher-than-expected shortfall of more than $2,000bn that will increase pressure on many states’ strained finances and crimp economic growth, according to the chairman of New Jersey’s pension fund. The estimate by Orin Kramer will fuel investors’ concerns over the deteriorating [...]