Matt Byrne

For years, particularly since 2016 and the vote for Brexit, much has been written about the odds of London’s decline as a world financial hub. Most of it has focused on deal and investment activity.

Dickson Minto has made a rare dip into the recruitment market with the appointment of a real estate partner from Walker Morris. The former group head of Leeds-based Walker Morris’ real estate practice…

The Brits are back. We don’t mean the annual popular music jamboree at which microphones are dropped, singers’ bums are bared and popstars challenge each other to punch-ups. We mean UK-headquartered…

Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has unveiled a new global leadership structure that could see partners paid significantly more for originating or introducing work regardless of where it is carried out.

Last Friday, the UK legal market’s brightest and best BD and marketing professionals crammed themselves into one of Henry VIII’s former haunts to talk about the future of the profession at The Lawyer’…

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Once, let’s say around two decades ago, the most eye-catching lateral hires stories were all about US firms raiding the Brits in the latter’s back yard. Then, thanks to the sheer scale of the…

Maybe it’s just us, and our obsession with the UK 200 metrics, which come most into focus around this time of year? Or maybe the legal market really has never been more competitive? Certainly…

Black box compensation systems are now a ‘thing’. Well, to be honest they’ve been a bit of a thing for decades, with firms such as Jones Day famously opting to not divulge what partners get paid…

Has Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) turned a corner? Its new partners presumably think so. Certainly, for the six Londoners and 18 other senior lawyers around its international network who were…