News NEWS Latest news Firm news, deals, comment and updates – from across our international locations Contact our media team Pause carousel Breadcrumb Home News News ADVANCED SEARCH Digitalisation 11/06/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke’s WAVE report identifies Europe’s most important digitalisation trends and challenges for business 'WAVE - Emerging Legal Trends in Digitalisation' can be downloaded at wave.osborneclarke.com International legal practice Osborne Clarke has launched a new publication highlighting the digitalisation trends likely to affect corporate and legal risk, responsibility and capabilities in businesses across Europe... Corporate 24/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises redalpine on EUR 10.3 million Pre-Seed financing round of Lyceum Osborne Clarke has advised redalpine on its investment in the cloud startup Lyceum as part of a EUR 10.3 million Pre-Seed financing round. Innovations require massive compute power. However, in Europe, this is primarily provided by cloud providers from the... Osborne Clarke in the world 25/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke's UK LGBTQ+ network, OC Pride, named Network Group of the Year at the 2025 British LGBT award International legal practice Osborne Clarke's UK LGBTQ+ network, OC Pride, has been named Network Group of the Year at the 2025 British LGBT awards. The award recognises the work the OC Pride committee and network have put into achieving OC... Employment and pensions 11/06/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke advises the Trustee of the Grant Thornton Pensions Fund on its £280m buy-in with Royal London The transaction includes more than 2,200 members Royal London, the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment provider, has secured its largest external Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) transaction to date with a £280 million buy-in completed with the Grant Thornton... Corporate 30/05/2025 3 mins Osborne Clarke announces the winner of the #FindTheOrange Merit Award Bianca Maria Lerma is the recipient of the #FindTheOrange Merit Award established to promote knowledge of Artificial Intelligence tools and their use based on humanistic values. The award ceremony for the #FindTheOrange Merit Award, established by Osborne Clarke for students... Corporate 24/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises Redstone on EUR 25 million Series B financing round of Orus Osborne Clarke has advised Redstone on its investment in the insurance startup Orus as part of a EUR 25 million Series B financing round. Orus, founded in 2021 by Côme Dartiguenave (CEO), Tom Le Bras (COO), and Samuel Rossille (CTO)... Corporate 01/05/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke appoints 10 new UK Partners International legal practice Osborne Clarke announces that 10 lawyers will be made up to Partner and six promoted to Legal Director on 1st May 2025. This reflects the firm's commitment to growth and development of talent. Conrad Davies, UK Managing... Corporate 23/05/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke elects new management team for Germany Osborne Clarke has elected its German management team for the next three years. From 1 August 2025, Nicolas Gabrysch will take over as Managing Partner, with Gereon Abendroth and Anne Wittmann joining him as members of the Management Board to... Corporate 11/04/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises AI-powered risk assessment platform nettle on pre-seed funding round International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised nettle, an AI-powered platform that revolutionises commercial insurance by streamlining risk assessment, on its £1.45M pre-seed funding round. The funding round was led by early-stage tech investor Project A, alongside top angel investors... Corporate 11/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises management team of Wonderbly on its sale to Penguin Random House International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised the management team of independent online publisher Wonderbly on the sale of the business to Penguin Random House. Founded in 2013, London-based Wonderbly has pioneered a direct-to-consumer publishing model that blends proprietary technology... Corporate 10/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke appoints corporate lawyer Richard Porter as partner International legal practice Osborne Clarke welcomes corporate lawyer Richard Porter as partner to its London team. Previously a partner in A&O Shearman’s Singapore office and Shearman & Sterling’s London office, Porter is an M&A specialist in the tech, media and... View all
Digitalisation 11/06/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke’s WAVE report identifies Europe’s most important digitalisation trends and challenges for business 'WAVE - Emerging Legal Trends in Digitalisation' can be downloaded at wave.osborneclarke.com International legal practice Osborne Clarke has launched a new publication highlighting the digitalisation trends likely to affect corporate and legal risk, responsibility and capabilities in businesses across Europe...
Corporate 24/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises redalpine on EUR 10.3 million Pre-Seed financing round of Lyceum Osborne Clarke has advised redalpine on its investment in the cloud startup Lyceum as part of a EUR 10.3 million Pre-Seed financing round. Innovations require massive compute power. However, in Europe, this is primarily provided by cloud providers from the...
Osborne Clarke in the world 25/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke's UK LGBTQ+ network, OC Pride, named Network Group of the Year at the 2025 British LGBT award International legal practice Osborne Clarke's UK LGBTQ+ network, OC Pride, has been named Network Group of the Year at the 2025 British LGBT awards. The award recognises the work the OC Pride committee and network have put into achieving OC...
Employment and pensions 11/06/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke advises the Trustee of the Grant Thornton Pensions Fund on its £280m buy-in with Royal London The transaction includes more than 2,200 members Royal London, the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment provider, has secured its largest external Bulk Purchase Annuity (BPA) transaction to date with a £280 million buy-in completed with the Grant Thornton...
Corporate 30/05/2025 3 mins Osborne Clarke announces the winner of the #FindTheOrange Merit Award Bianca Maria Lerma is the recipient of the #FindTheOrange Merit Award established to promote knowledge of Artificial Intelligence tools and their use based on humanistic values. The award ceremony for the #FindTheOrange Merit Award, established by Osborne Clarke for students...
Corporate 24/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises Redstone on EUR 25 million Series B financing round of Orus Osborne Clarke has advised Redstone on its investment in the insurance startup Orus as part of a EUR 25 million Series B financing round. Orus, founded in 2021 by Côme Dartiguenave (CEO), Tom Le Bras (COO), and Samuel Rossille (CTO)...
Corporate 01/05/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke appoints 10 new UK Partners International legal practice Osborne Clarke announces that 10 lawyers will be made up to Partner and six promoted to Legal Director on 1st May 2025. This reflects the firm's commitment to growth and development of talent. Conrad Davies, UK Managing...
Corporate 23/05/2025 2 mins Osborne Clarke elects new management team for Germany Osborne Clarke has elected its German management team for the next three years. From 1 August 2025, Nicolas Gabrysch will take over as Managing Partner, with Gereon Abendroth and Anne Wittmann joining him as members of the Management Board to...
Corporate 11/04/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises AI-powered risk assessment platform nettle on pre-seed funding round International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised nettle, an AI-powered platform that revolutionises commercial insurance by streamlining risk assessment, on its £1.45M pre-seed funding round. The funding round was led by early-stage tech investor Project A, alongside top angel investors...
Corporate 11/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke advises management team of Wonderbly on its sale to Penguin Random House International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised the management team of independent online publisher Wonderbly on the sale of the business to Penguin Random House. Founded in 2013, London-based Wonderbly has pioneered a direct-to-consumer publishing model that blends proprietary technology...
Corporate 10/06/2025 1 min Osborne Clarke appoints corporate lawyer Richard Porter as partner International legal practice Osborne Clarke welcomes corporate lawyer Richard Porter as partner to its London team. Previously a partner in A&O Shearman’s Singapore office and Shearman & Sterling’s London office, Porter is an M&A specialist in the tech, media and...