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Sell, sell, sell – what In-Deed tells us about law firm flotation
Friday, 17 June 2011I don’t know much about the financial markets – that’s one of the many reasons I became a solicitor donkey’s years ago. So I don’t quite get how a company like online conveyancing business In-Deed, that with the best will in the world is currently little more than an idea, can float on AIM, have a market capitalisation of £8.6m and within a couple of days see its share price rise a third, from 42p to 56p.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Slater & Gordon, stock market listing
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Profits soar at law firm consolidator
Monday, 16 May 2011The Australian legal business consolidator Integrated Legal Holdings, one of the country’s (and world’s) two stock exchange-listed law firms, has announced a 96% increase in profits, and 18% rise in turnover, for the first half of its financial year.
Tags: Integrated Legal Holdings, Slater & Gordon, stock market listing
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
Australia’s “other” listed law firm resumes acquisition programme
Monday, 20 December 2010The Australian legal business consolidator Integrated Legal Holdings, one of the country’s (and world’s) two stock exchange-listed law firms, has resumed its acquisitions programme almost two years after its last merger.
Tags: Slater & Gordon, stock market listing
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
Lessons from Australia
Monday, 13 December 2010Before we all get too excited by the thought of law firms floating next year (and I’m as bad as the next hack – I would donate a non-essential organ in return for breaking the story of the first firm here to do it), it took Slater & Gordon seven years from starting to look at its options to reach the point of listing. That doesn’t mean every firm would take so long, but it does indicate how deeply firms need to examine it. Has anyone being doing that for nearly enough time to allow them to push the button in the next year?
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, private equity, Slater & Gordon, stock market listing
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Are the Aussies coming? World’s first listed law firm eyes up UK market
Monday, 25 October 2010Australian law firm Slater & Gordon – the first in the world to go public – is keeping a close eye on developments in England and Wales and would consider entering the market, its managing director has revealed. Andrew Grech also gave an insight into the lengthy process they went through to float.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Slater & Gordon, stock market listing
Posted in Alternative business structures, Market monitor, News
Debt or equity – the best funding for you
Wednesday, 13 October 2010In the third part of his look at external investment in law firms, Jeremy Black of Deloitte looks at the kind of funding for you and what lessons there are from other professional services firms.
Tags: ABS, Alternative business structures, Slater & Gordon
Posted in Alternative business structures, News
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Five key issues to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech
As generative AI starts to play a bigger role in our working lives, there are some key issues that your law firm needs to consider when adopting an AI-based legal tech.
Bulk litigation – not always working in consumers interests
For consumers to get the benefit, bulk litigation needs to be done well, and we are increasingly concerned that there are significant problems in some areas of this market.
ABSs, cost and audits – fixing regulation after Axiom Ince
A feature of law firm collapses and frauds has sometimes been the over-concentration of power in outdated and overburdened systems of control.
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