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Northern Ireland solicitors Jill Downing and Libby Jackson have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2019. Ms Downing, a partner at Co Antrim firm Magennis & Creighton, has received an OBE for services to children and families and to voluntary work in the community in Northern Ir

Lisa McLaughlin, head of the Belfast office of global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), has been named International Director of Year by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Northern Ireland. Ms McLaughlin, the director of the firm's Alternative Legal Services (ALT) business in the UK, Europe,

Lawyers from Matheson and Herbert Smith Freehills recently addressed businesses on the use of bulk annuities to reduce risk in defined benefit pension schemes. The event, co-hosted by the law firms and consulting firm Mercer, examined how factors including ongoing market volatility, historically low