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• Taylor Wessing merges with e|n|w|c

  Yesterday Taylor Wessing has merged with Austrian law firm e|n|w|c, gaining territory in the growing central and eastern European market as part of its strategy for... more

• Taylor Wessing shakes up leadership

  May 16 2012 Taylor Wessing has overhauled its management structure in an effort to introduce younger partners into the firm’s leadership. The firm’s trademark, copyright and... more

• UK firm Taylor Wessing expands in Europe with ENWC merger

  May 07 2012 Taylor Wessing has merged with Austrian-headquartered firm ENWC, which offers the UK firm a means of expanding into Central and Eastern Europe via ENWC’s offices in... more

• Top UK law firms see 9.8% jump in revenue

  Dec 09 2011 Deloitte’s latest legal sector survey has reported that the top 100 firms in the UK showed strong growth in the second quarter, with fee incomes rising by an average... more

• Five leading UK firms post double-digit growth

  Nov 11 2011 Many of the largest UK law firms have seen growth in revenues in the first half of 2011-1, with at least five of the top 30 firms set to reveal double-digit increases... more

• Singapore firm RHT boosts disputes practice with lateral hires

  Nov 02 2011 Taylor Wessing’s Singapore alliance firm RHT has boosted its litigation and dispute resolution practices with the hire of two partners from rival Singaporean firms.... more

• Taylor Wessing to launch tech practice in London

  Oct 25 2011 Taylor Wessing is set to boost its technology capacity with the launch of a second office in London. The office, in east London's 'Tech City' will offer expertise in... more

• UK firms struggle with diversity in equity partnerships

  Sep 12 2011 Efforts to remedy the imbalance between male and female equity partners in the UK’s largest firms don’t seem to be making much progress, according to the annual ‘UK... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf boost London PE practice with double hire from Taylor Wessing

  May 23 2011 US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has boosted its UK private equity practice with the hire of two partners from Taylor Wessing. Mark Davis - the former private equity head at... more

• Scottish firm Morton Fraser launches 'league tables' of associate billing

  May 16 2011 Scottish law firm Morton Fraser has announced that it will do away with annual fee targets and adopt a policy that encourages competition between associates instead.... more

• London firm Taylor Wessing encourages 'healthy competition' between associates

  May 09 2011 London firm Taylor Wessing has introduced a novel policy to increase productivity among associates – releasing details of each associate’s recorded hours to their... more

• Pinsent Masons lures funds practitioner from SJ Berwin

  Mar 10 2011 TheLawyer reports that Pinsent Masons has bolstered its funds practice with the hire of a senior associate from SJ Berwin’s fund formation team. Daniel Greenaway... more

• Taylor Wessing promotes 12 to partnership

  May 18 2010 Taylor Wessing has promoted 12 lawyers to the partnership in its annual round of promotions, with the firm’s German offices receiving the majority of the new... more

• Taylor Wessing boosts Life sciences and healthcare practice with Ashurst hire

  Apr 29 2010 Taylor Wessing has hired Ashurst partner Manja Epping, who will join the life sciences and healthcare group in Munich. Epping has worked with Taylor Wessing before... more

• Taylor Wessing relocates Sven-Michael Werner to Shanghai

  Sep 30 2009 Taylor Wessing is relocating corporate partner Dr. Sven-Michael Werner from Munich to its Shanghai office. Werner, who has worked with the firm’s China group for... more

• Taylor Wessing staff in uproar over expensive rebrand

  Aug 20 2009 Staff at Taylor Wessing have been expressing their anger after the firm launched an expensive rebrand - just after cutting salaries and making redundancies in response... more

• Taylor Wessing's UK PEP drops by 30%

  Jul 08 2009 Taylor Wessing's UK profits per equity partner (PEP) fell by 30% in 2008-09, down from £613,400 during 2007-08 to £436,000 for the last financial year. more

• Taylor Wessing makes another cost-cutting move, asking trainees to defer

  Apr 22 2009 After announcing a number of cost-cutting measures including some potential redundancies and sabbaticals, Taylor Wessing now indicates it will ask trainees starting in... more

• Taylor Wessing introduces cost-cutting measures including redundancies

  Apr 21 2009 Taylor Wessing recently indicated that it will introduce a number of cost-cutting measures including a likely 10 associate layoffs, sabbaticals at significant salary... more

• Judge rules that nonhire pacts in law firm merger cannot be enforced

  Sep 24 2008 A ruling in a partner poaching dispute between Nixon Peabody and French law firm Taylor Wessing highlights a significant problem with pacts not to hire each other’s... more

• McDermott hires ex-Taylor Wessing chief Gary Moss

  Sep 05 2008 McDermott Will & Emery has poached Taylor Wessing’s IP partner Gary Moss who had been managing partner of UK firm Taylor Joynson Garrett before and throughout its... more

• Dozen 'Stolen' Taylor Wessing Partners Headed to Nixon Peabody

  Aug 20 2008 The feud between Taylor Wessing's French office and Nixon Peabody is getting nastier. Taylor Wessing's 55-lawyer Paris outpost has sued Nixon, claiming the U.S.-based... more

• Taylor Wessing sues US firm Nixon Peabody for 'poaching' partners

  Aug 07 2008 Taylor Wessing, the City law firm, has sued an American rival for $5 million (£2.6 million) for allegedly illegally poaching several partners from its Paris office.... more

• Taylor Wessing's UK PEP tops £600k

  Jun 19 2008 Taylor Wessing's UK financial results have been finalised and show an increase in average profits per partner (PEP) of around 5 per cent to £614,000. The UK's turnover... more

• Taylor Wessing Bags China IPO First

  Mar 28 2008 Taylor Wessing’s Paris office has picked up the main role on China Corn Oil’s listing on the NYSE Euronext’s Alternext market; the first Chinese company to ever float... more

• Taylor Wessing gets set for Beijing launch

  Mar 19 2008 Europe-focused law firm Taylor Wessing is preparing to open a new office in Beijing, which will build on its existing Shanghai office when its second licence is... more

• Taylor Wessing merges with Dubai associate firm

  Dec 21 2007 Taylor Wessing is venturing out of European borders and launching a Dubai office through a merger with its Dubai-based associated firm Key & Dixon. The merger, which... more