There is an ever-increasing administrative burden placed on today’s companies, particularly those with operations around the world. We have established a corporate secretarial team dedicated to assisting you with subsidiary entity management around the globe. Wherever in the world your companies are located, you need to know that your centralised business decisions are accurately implemented […]
Eversheds has the widest range of experience in the world. This means we offer clients whatever they need in terms of human resources advice: legal expertise, creative thinking and the resources to handle any job of any size. We have genuine specialists in even the most unusual aspects of employment law and have clients in […]
We have in-depth experience of the full range of environmental matters and can provide you with specialist advice and representation wherever you do business. We also work closely with other teams such as regulatory, real-estate planning, construction, shipping, clean energy and sustainability where the legal requirements often interact. Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important for […]
We have a substantial financial services practice with extensive experience of advising insurance companies, intermediaries, corporate finance firms, private banks and the Office of Fair Trading on all areas including asset management, retail finance, white-collar crime, wealth management and MiFID. The financial services industry has never been more complex. Markets and products evolve daily against […]
In today’s financially constrained world the need to have commercial arrangements which both exploit the benefits of your relationships and protect against the down sides has never been more important. An effective and enforceable set of arrangements with both your suppliers and your customers is the bedrock of financial success for any business. The challenge […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has hired Cooley’s financial litigation head Scott Balber to lead its New York dispute resolution practice and establish a US corporate crime and investigation practice. Balber joined Cooley in 2012 after over 10 years at Chabourne & Parke, where he was co-head of the firm’s commercial litgiation practice. HSF’s long-awaited disputes-focused […]
RPC has raided Ince & Co for its Asia insurance and reinsurance group head Iain Anderson. Anderson will join RPC in Singapore, where he has been based since 2010. He is the second partner to join RPC in Singapore. The firm opened a base in Singapore in November 2011 following the hire of legacy Barlow […]
Pinsent Masons has just scooped the sole provider role for Eon just a couple of months after its success winning all of Balfour Beatty’s work. Eversheds has also had long experience of sole provider work, building on its experience with Du Pont and Tyco. But will this approach really take off with in-house lawyers? Pinsent […]
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has cut its legal panel from 27 to 23 firms, in its first major shake-up of legal advisers since it was set up under the Pensions Act 2004. Clyde & Co, Dentons and Wragge & Co are the big winners in the review, all three winning places on the organisation’s […]
Roll over long-lunch panel reviews – the procurement department is now central to the process, so you’d better get used to it It used to be so simple. Perhaps a lunch or even a spot of supper down the club; a quiet chat between chaps in an environment replete with the whiff of panelled oak […]
US litigation powerhouse Boies Schiller & Flexner is handing the reins to Bingham partner Natasha Harrison to head its newly-launched London base, its first non-US office. Harrison, who appeared in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 of 2011 for her work advising bondholders on the restructuring of Polish conglomerate Elektrim (22 October 2010), has been a partner […]
Mayer Brown has ramped up its London partnership in the last two weeks with the hire of four lateral partners, with Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) banking and finance partner Richard Todd the latest to join the firm. Todd, a former director at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) and an ex-Mayer Brown securitisation lawyer, will join the […]