Recent content by Jake Rickman

  1. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Looking at CMS's redundancies

    4 October 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Looking at CMS's redundancies

    Business of Law Firms Looking at CMS's redundancies By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? On 15 September, RollOnFriday reported that UK firm CMS announced it was making 19 associates in its corporate practice redundant, in what was one of the largest waves of redundancies to...
  2. Investment grade corporates move into convertible bond market

    27 September 2023 Investment grade corporates move into convertible bond market

    Investment grade corporates move into convertible bond market By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? Investment-grade corporates, which describe the most highly valued publicly traded companies, have increased the value of convertible debt they have raised this year by more...
  3. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Ince heads towards terminal collapse

    27 September 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Ince heads towards terminal collapse

    Business of Law Firms Ince heads towards terminal collapse By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? Welcome to this week’s The Business of Law Firms. The past few days have seen an avalanche of news surrounding beleaguered firm Axiom Ince (formerly Ince & Co before it was...
  4. The United States announces new "Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation"

    20 September 2023 The United States announces new "Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation"

    The United States announces new "Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation" By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? On Monday, the US government announced its new “Declaration on Atlantic Cooperation”. The announcement amounts to a new transatlantic agreement between countries on...
  5. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Historical A&O and Shearman merger draws nearer

    20 September 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Historical A&O and Shearman merger draws nearer

    Business of Law Firms Historical A&O and Shearman merger draws nearer By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? A monumental deadline for Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling approaches: partners for both firms will begin to cast their votes on 28 September as to if they approve...
  6. Microsoft unbundles Teams from its software offerings to appease EU Commission

    6 September 2023 Microsoft unbundles Teams from its software offerings to appease EU Commission

    Microsoft unbundles Teams from its software offerings to appease EU Commission By Jake Rickman Image Credit: monticello / Shutterstock. What do you need to know this week? As the Financial Times reported this Monday, software and computing giant Microsoft has announced that it will...
  7. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Slaughters adds to its disputes practice

    6 September 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Slaughters adds to its disputes practice

    Business of Law Firms Slaughters adds to its disputes practice By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? The Lawyer reported on Monday that Slaughter and May has seen a dramatic increase in the number of disputes associates it has hired in the last year. The firm’s managing...
  8. Alternatives asset class fundraising dampened in 2023

    30 August 2023 Alternatives asset class fundraising dampened in 2023

    Alternatives asset class fundraising dampened in 2023 By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? The FT published an article yesterday detailing the slowing growth of the so-called alternative investment fundraising market. Fundraising is down 23% across the board compared to this...
  9. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Axiom Ince's troubles continue

    30 August 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Axiom Ince's troubles continue

    Business of Law Firms Axiom Ince's troubles continue By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? We return to the saga of beleaguered City firm Ince Gordon Dadds, which since its acquisition by Axiom DWFM is now known as Axiom Ince. When we last reported on Ince, it was when Axiom...
  10. Corporate Stress Rises in the UK

    23 August 2023 Corporate Stress Rises in the UK

    Corporate Stress Rises in the UK Image credit: William Barton / Shutterstock.com What do you need to know this week? The Bank of England published an article yesterday warning that half of UK companies will struggle to service their corporate debt by the end of 2023. This suggests that...
  11. Google and Universal Music strike a deal over AI ‘deepfakes’

    9 August 2023 Google and Universal Music strike a deal over AI ‘deepfakes’

    Google and Universal Music strike a deal over AI ‘deepfakes’ By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? The FT broke a story on Tuesday that Google’s parent company Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, and recorded music giant Universal struck a deal that governs AI-generated...
  12. Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Dentons and Dacheng formally split

    9 August 2023 Mini Series: Business of Law Firms - Dentons and Dacheng formally split

    Business of Law Firms: Dentons and Dacheng formally split By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? The Lawyer announced on Tuesday that international law firm Dentons is formally splitting from its Mainland Chinese business division. Known as Dacheng (大成), Dentons and Dacheng...
  13. HSBC embarks on year's second share buyback

    2 August 2023 HSBC embarks on year's second share buyback

    HSBC embarks on year's second share buyback By Jake Rickman Image Credit: William Barton / Shutterstock.com What do you need to know this week? Global investment bank HSBC announced that it will undertake its second $2bn share buyback of the year following the results of its most recent...
  14. Regulators move to shake up UK pension funds

    27 July 2023 Regulators move to shake up UK pension funds

    Regulators move to shake up UK pension funds By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? Nausicaa Delfas, the newly appointed CEO of The Pensions Regulator (TPR), has announced that pension trustees must start considering how to diversify pension investments. Specifically, pension...
  15. Revisiting interest rates, bank profits, and savings rates

    19 July 2023 Revisiting interest rates, bank profits, and savings rates

    Revisiting interest rates, bank profits, and savings rates By Jake Rickman What do you need to know this week? In developing your commercial awareness, it is important to stay on top of market developments. That is why this week, we return to the nexus of issues at play related to...

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