Top law firms Clifford Chance and Linklaters emerge as the latest City heavyweights set to cash in on the stock market float of $60 billion commodities giant Glencore... more
Comment: In Carluccio’s the price of a meal is relatively low, but turnover is high. At Prezzo they charge a bit more but rely on customers eating at traditional hours. Which is the better investment?
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Leading City law firm Linklaters gave failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers the legal go-ahead to use a complex series of deals to keep
$50 billion (£32.9 billion) of liabilities off its balance sheet... more
Pharmaceuticals firm Goldshield might have understated how much profit it made for several years before management bought the company for £179 million in December... more
A friend of mine who is something of an internet guru once pitched for a job to revamp a well-known company's website. Later, the managing director sought me out. "Your pal was superb." Then he frowned. "But we can't hire him"... more
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer must be ringing up their Clifford Chance counterparts to gloat. Equity partners at the triple-barrelled legal firm pocketed almost twice as much as those at its Magic Circle rival last year... more
Linklaters today emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year ... more
Linklaters emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year... more
Further proof that even the mighty "Magic Circle" City law firms are not immune. No sooner does Linklaters announce cuts than arch-rival Clifford Chance reveals it too is taking a long, hard look at its partners... more
Which of our High Street banks has for the most part ridden out the financial crisis? Yep, HSBC, the bank that rode roughshod all over corporate governance rules by successively appointing their chief executives to be chairman... more
Legal Analysis: If there is one group of people that has done well out of the Lehman-to-Lloyds TSB-HBOS rollercoaster then it has to be the lawyers. Not all of them are benefiting, of course... more
It can’t be much fun being John Mack at the moment. The famously aggressive boss of Morgan Stanley — “There’s blood in the water, let’s go kill,” is one of his exhortations — is clearly struggling to come to terms with the dire situation that confronts him... more
From my sun-lounger at the Mark Warner complex at San Agostino in the Peloponnese, these past two weeks, I noticed a fundamental change from the previous occasion I went on one of their holidays... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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