We are delighted to share with you the recording of our recent webinar, ‘Cash, Remuneration and Economic Uncertainty’, in which partnership and regulatory law specialists discuss navigating economic uncertainty and how this can be successfully achieved within professional firms. Robert Millard of Cambridge Strategy Group, David Shufflebotham of Pep Up Consulting and Corinne Staves and Andrew Pavlovic, Partners at CM Murray LLP, explore the important and practical […]
Practice Across The Pond – Episode 1: Introduction to the Regulatory Landscape and Conflict Management
July 15th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
We are delighted to introduce a brand new series of talks, Practice Across the Pond, in which we discuss the regulatory and ethical approaches taken to various matters from both a UK (England and Wales) and US (New York perspective). Watch the first episode above or listen here. In this episode, CM Murray LLP Partners Corinne […]
Professional Services Firms: If They Want To Buy Us, Should We Sell? Ten-Minute Talk
July 12th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
In this second of our two-part series of Ten-Minute Talks, special guest Andy Poole (COO and Legal Sector Partner at Armstrong Watson), Corinne Staves and Zulon Begum (Partners at CM Murray LLP) explore strategies for professional services firms in responding to an offer from an acquirer. How do you assess if the price offered is fair? Should you negotiate it, and if so, how? How […]
What Do Next Generation Lawyers Want? We Asked Them: Ten-Minute Talk
July 10th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
Law firms want and need to attract and retain the best future talent. Law firm leaders rightly therefore devote time to considering how to do this, and how to appeal to those future lawyers. Firms often have to speculate about what the next generation of lawyers want. We have been lucky enough to be joined […]
How Do You Attract and Retain High Flyers? – PPA Webinar – 11 September 2024
July 1st, 2024 by Stuart Smith
How Do You Attract and Retain High Flyers? – Professional Practices Alliance (PPA) Webinar – 11 September 2024 – 9.00am – 10.00am BST
SRA Warning Notice on Law Firm Mergers, Sales and Acquisitions: Ten-Minute Talk
June 28th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
In June 2024, the SRA issued a warning notice on law firm mergers, sales and acquisitions, seemingly in response to the fallout from the collapses of Axiom Ince and SSB. In this Ten-Minute Talk, Partners Corinne Staves, Zulon Begum and Andrew Pavlovic discuss the content and implications of this SRA Warning Notice, with a particular focus on how […]
Cash, Remuneration & Economic Uncertainty: Professional Practices Alliance (PPA) Webinar – 23 May 2024 – 9.00am – 10.00am BST
Professional Services Firms: Will They Buy Us, and How Much Will They Pay? Ten-Minute Talk
April 26th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
In this first in a two-part series of Ten-Minute Talks, special guest Andy Poole (COO and Legal Sector Partner at Armstrong Watson), Corinne Staves and Zulon Begum (Partners at CM Murray LLP) explore strategies for mergers and acquisitions in professional services firms. This discussion will be of particular interest to professional services firms, including founder led businesses, considering merger or sale as a means of […]
HMRC guidance on salaried member tax rules: What are the implications of these changes? Ten-Minute Talk
March 25th, 2024 by Stuart Smith
At the end of February HMRC updated its guidance on the salaried member tax rules. The changes focus on Condition C, in connection with which many firms have asked their fixed share partners to make substantial capital contributions. Many are worried that there may need to be a significant change in approach, particularly for fixed […]