Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are leading on Legal & General’s sale of its UK housebuilder, Cala Homes. Slaughters is leading for longstanding client L&G as it sells Cala to to Ferguson Bidco, a joint venture between Sixth Street Partners and Patron Capital. Slaughters corporate partner Victoria MacDuff is at the helm of the […]
Greenberg Traurig is leading for Harland & Wolff, the company famous for building the Titanic, as it looks set to appoint administrators. Harland & Wolff posted a notice of intention to appoint an administrator yesterday. Greenberg’s team is led by corporate partner Shashank Krishna, co-vice chair of the restructuring group John Houghton and corporate partner […]
In a bid to expand its intellectual property practice, Addleshaw Goddard is adding five lawyers to its ranks from a specialist City firm. Stobbs’ head of litigation Geoff Steward is joining Addleshaws, along with four lawyers. Steward has worked at Stobbs for nearly six years, and played a key role in developing the firm’s IP […]
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising on the potential purchase of UK property website Rightmove. A team from Linklaters is advising the target Rightmove, led by corporate partners Iain Fenn and Dominic da Gama Campos. Rightmove has been targeted by REA Group, a similar online property business based in Australia. Its majority owner is […]
After months of negotiations, The Spectator Magazine has been sold to hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall, with four firms in action. White & Case led for Marshall and Old Queen Street Ventures (OQS Media) on the acquisition. The acquisition follows a receivership process undertaken last year by Lloyds Banking Group and the acquisition of a […]
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Three firms are at the helm of a new joint venture deal between Barratt Developments, Lloyds and the UK Government to accelerate the delivery of housebuilding across the UK. The arrangement will see the three businesses collaborate as part of the Made Partnership, which intends to act as the master developer for multiple large scale, […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has recruited an in-houser from pension investor PSP Investment, in a move that aims to strengthen its London finance group. Nicola Noël joins the US firm as a partner, having been a senior legal director at PSP. She works on leveraged finance matters, advising private credit funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension […]
Dentons and Reed Smith have taken the leading roles on eSky Group’s purchase of travel business Thomas Cook. Dentons private equity partner Nicholas Plant, along with Michał Wasiak, a partner in the firm’s Warsaw office, were at the helm of the team for Polish purchaser eSky. They were supported by corporate associate Alex Macdonald, IP […]
Slaughter and May is advising longtime client Segro on the property investment company’s purchase of Tritax Eurobox. Corporate partners David Johnson and Sally Wokes are leading for the London-listed warehouse heavyweight, Segro. Meanwhile, the target Tritax is being advised by Ashurst. Corporate partners Karen Davies and Simon Bullock are at the helm of the team, […]