Wake Up Call: Latham, Kirkland Rake in Cash Across the Pond

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

• Nearly half of the UK’s largest law firms are US-headquartered. Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis scored the highest UK revenue totals of US firms last year, followed by White & Case and Baker McKenzie. (The American Lawyer)
• Ashurst is bumping up salaries for newly qualified London lawyers to £115,000 ($150,000) from £105,000 ($137,000). The move comes after the UK firm boosted the salary floor by nearly 17% last year. (The Lawyer)
• Spain’s Caixabank group general counsel Ignacio Redondo died in a motorbike accident. The 47-year-old lawyer had worked for the country’s third-largest financial services company for more than a decade. (Iberian Lawyer)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• Helen Gavaris has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in New York.
• Justine Phillips has joined Baker McKenzie as a partner with the intellectual property and technology practice in Los Angeles.
• Scott Border has joined Winston & Strawn’s intellectual property practice in D.C.
• Sarah Krissoff has joined Cozen O’Connor as a member in the white collar defense and investigations group in the New York office.
• Peter Roberts has joined Ogletree Deakins as a shareholder with the immigration group in Stamford, Conn.
• Kevin Burke has joined Foley & Lardner as a partner in the securities enforcement and litigation practice group in New York.
• Matthew Schnall has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner in the global tax practice in Boston.
• Paul Fuener has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner in Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Farron Curry has joined Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner as part of the newly-opened Seattle office.
• Benjamin Allen has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the litigation section and will practice from the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
• William J. Vigen has joined Venable as a partner in the antitrust group in the Washington, D.C. office.
• Carol Lee has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a partner in the business litigation group in Washington, D.C.
• Timothy M. Kratz has joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in Denver.
• Michael Franzinger has joined Dentons in the intellectual property and technology practice as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office.
• Landon Schwob has joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
• Daron Watts has joined Lewis Brisbois as a partner and will be national chair of the firm’s government affairs and public policy practice in Washington, D.C.
• John Nowak has joined Schulte Roth & Zabel as a partner in the litigation group in New York.