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City Spy: Irish troubles for top London hotels

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:42:49 GMT

Three of London�s best-known and most upmarket hotels � the Berkeley, Claridge�s and the Connaught � could soon end up being controlled by the Irish taxpayer

Family-unfriendly law firms �failing to promote women�

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:23:34 GMT

Women make up fewer than one in six partners at the City�s leading law companies, a study reveals

Roman pushes the boat out at St Barts

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:13:51 GMT

Government�s economic policy slammed by its own top adviser

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:42:58 GMT

One of the Government�s leading City advisers today painted a bleak picture of the UK economy and launched a scathing attack on the Bank of England

Forget big bonuses - we need to stop the City gravy train

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:54:35 GMT

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"

Unions are livid at Tory pay freeze

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:55:17 GMT

Union leaders are furious about Tory plans to impose a pay freeze on public sector workers to help cut the UK�s Everest-style debt mountain

Goldman�s top of the bonus heap

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:35:10 GMT

The �heads I win, tails you lose� report into the bank bonus culture by New York attorney-general Andrew Cuomo set tongues wagging

City Spy: Who is spinning fast over UKFI?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:05:01 GMT

UK Financial Investments, the quango set up to look after taxpayer stakes in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scoltand, is clearly unhappy about the amount of media attention it is attracting

Winners and losers in law's Magic Circle

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:50:42 GMT

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

Parties and stars for broker who was �living the dream�

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:32:10 GMT

Anjool Malde�s page on a website for start-up companies lists his work status as �living the dream�. And to outsiders, it seemed he was

City Spy: Slaughtered � by a �22m legal bill

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:59:18 GMT

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott says he was �staggered� to find out Slaughter and May cost the Treasury �22 million last year for legal advice on the credit crunch

Credit crisis lawyers cost taxpayer �23m

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:18:45 GMT

City law firm Slaughter and May was paid more than �22million by the Treasury last year for legal advice on the financial crisis.

Greenbury heads for clash with son over bank bonus

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:57:03 GMT

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Sir Richard Greenbury, the old Marks & Spencer warhorse, next meets his son, Adam, a director of Rothschilds.

Lords should give Myners proper grilling

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:08:59 GMT

Mervyn is bold enough to speak his mind at last

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:30:34 GMT

So what's got into Mervyn King? Months of fuming and frustration at the posturing and point-scoring by politicians finally seem to have got the better of the Bank of England Governor - hence, at last, he has spoken his mind. He can do so in the knowledge his position is nigh impregnable.

Goldman faces a double grilling on Rock rescue role

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:19 GMT

Goldman Sachs faces two Parliamentary inquiries into its role as Government adviser during the nationalisation of Northern Rock

�Magic circle� has lost its aura as City law firms feel pain of recession

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:16:03 GMT

Legal Analysis: What affects our clients affects us, the global managing partner of the world's biggest law firm tells Joshua Rozenberg

Lawyers charge �900 per hour

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:21:09 GMT

London insolvency lawyers have ramped their fees up to �900 per hour as the economic crisis deepens, it emerged

Aldi trainee graduates get �40,000 plus Audi

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:53:29 GMT

A supermarket is offering graduates a starting salary of �40,000 plus a company car as job vacancies for university leavers fall by a fifth

Clifford Chance cash call to 400 partners

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:22:47 GMT

Legal: The credit crunch looks set to hit the City law firms hard after Clifford Chance, the biggest law firm in London � and the world � admitted it had ordered a cash call of �100,000 per partner, and is laying off 80 solicitors

HSBC did well � by ignoring City�s rules

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:30:58 GMT

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

City party's over - let's have a fat-cat clearout

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:16:15 GMT

Prosecco not champagne. God forbid, Twiglets instead of caviar. The years of excess are over a grim, new age has taken hold. Don't believe me? You still think Nicky Haslam's �200,000 bash last Thursday was typical? You're wrong

Top City law firms hike fees to �900 a hour in the crunch

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:42:30 GMT

City solicitors are increasing their hourly rates despite the onset of recession, with top insolvency lawyers charging as much as �900 an hour

Law

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:56:19 GMT

London�s practitioners give the lead to the nation and by implication to the rest of the world in every field.

Does Putin now have Rupert Murdoch in his sights?

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:58:47 GMT

NOW a peace of sorts seems to have broken out between BP and its Russian partners, the talk has turned in Moscow to which Western business partner might next fall foul of the combined business-state machine

Legal firms score well on soccer deals

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:50:22 GMT

Law: Law firms including Hammonds and Slaughter and May had a bumper August advising football clubs on the frenetic transfer season

City lawyers fear good times are over

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:53:25 GMT

Legal analysis: James Baxter, editor of Legal Business magazine, sees dark clouds on the horizon, with most law firms expecting to show a drop in profits this year after a decade of rapid growth

City lawyers earning up to �2.5m despite credit crunch

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:13:35 GMT

The City's top lawyers earned nearly �2.5million each as the big law firms billed clients a record �14billion last year, new figures reveal

Hedge funds fight hard for Northern Rock compensation

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:26:52 GMT

Legal Analysis A hedge fund that bought heavily into Northern Rock is claiming its human rights were violated when the mortgage lender was nationalised in February