This Month
Another PwC Australia deals partner to leave the firm
Senior partner Sanjiv Jeraj is retiring from the big four firm after almost two decades, and a new partner is helping clients use AI.
- Edmund Tadros
Law firms prep for year ahead by poaching big names from rivals
The big firms have capitalised on a soft professional services market, spending the summer picking off partners and staff for their own ranks.
- Maxim Shanahan
Ashurst expands risk advisory team, adding two new partners
Cybersecurity expert Rachael Falk and KPMG partner Kathleen Conner are joining the division, which now has 23 partners globally.
- Edmund Tadros
January
Senior PwC partner to lead ASX-listed childcare business Nido
Adam Lai had been the firm’s managing partner in Sydney for the past year and a partner at the firm for more than a decade. He will be paid at least $1 million.
- Edmund Tadros
- Aussie Lawyers Overseas
- Legal profession
From billables to barbaresco: An Australian lawyer in Italy
Former Allens lawyer Eleanor Fletcher moved to Italy with her winemaker husband and between work and wine has discovered la dolce vita.
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- Daniel Arbon, Maxim Shanahan and Ciara Seccombe
December 2024
New Deloitte CEO reveals executive team
Incoming Deloitte Australia chief executive Joanne Gorton has kept six executives and added four new members to the team.
- Edmund Tadros
Another Corrs partner follows rebel group to KWM
Corrs property partner Lizzie Knight will follow seven Corrs partners to King & Wood Mallesons, becoming the latest to move between the two major firms.
- Maxim Shanahan
‘Eat what you kill:’ how this consultancy is taking on the big four
Alvarez & Marsal’s remuneration model means managing directors can potentially earn multiples of the average big four partner pay.
- Edmund Tadros
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- Law Partnership Survey
Wave of partner exits unsettles Clyde & Co amid turnaround struggles
The London-headquartered law firm’s entire local cybersecurity practice is leaving, taking to one-third the number of senior departures over the last 12 months.
- Maxim Shanahan
CBA hires Treasury deputy as chief economist
Luke Yeaman is the latest hire for the big banks out of the government department or the Reserve Bank of Australia.
- John Kehoe
Strategy firm hires former Scyne, PwC partner
Oliver Wyman continues to build up its government consulting practice with the hire of Tim Jackson, expanding the team to 25.
- Edmund Tadros
November 2024
Baker McKenzie abandons merger plan after second defeat
The vote failed by a greater margin than the initial ballot and upends management’s strategy for the local division of the global firm.
- Maxim Shanahan
Seven PwC partners join MinterEllison
New partner Nicole Salimbeni said law firms make more natural homes for some advisers than big four consultancies.
- Maxim Shanahan
October 2024
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- Legal profession
US law firms swoop on Sydney tax and deals partners
Senior transactions partners Aaron Kenaman and Jamie Palmer will join White & Case, as Jones Day picks up Baker McKenzie’s tax head.
- Maxim Shanahan
Ashurst, Freehills, Clayton Utz in hiring spree
Top-tier law firms are looking to capitalise on the weakness of the big four, opportunities in the energy sector and the high levels of insolvencies.
- Maxim Shanahan
Collegiality under threat from big-money drive: law firm head
The local head of Bird & Bird, which is celebrating 10 years in Australia, says the partnership ethos is in danger from chequebook-wielding firms.
- Maxim Shanahan
Holding Redlich moves to capitalise on government legal shake-up
The firm says a renewed focus on public sector work will push it towards growth and let it take advantage of procurement priorities.
- Maxim Shanahan
Deloitte partner moves to boutique workplace consulting firm
Tax advisory partner Steve Batrouney is the latest to join the wave of big four leaders moving to smaller firms amid growing client demand for specialist advisers.
- Edmund Tadros
MinterEllison nabs KWM’s former disputes head
Litigator Peter Pether says “the calibre and structure” of Minter’s partnership enticed him to leave KWM.
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- Maxim Shanahan
Former KPMG exec revels in return to project ownership
Charlotte Jordan moved to specialist consultancy TMX Transform from KPMG so she could once again see a brief all the way from start to finish.
- Edmund Tadros