Hogan Lovells is understood to be losing its entire Berlin office to Morrison Foerster (MoFo), marking the most recent raid on its technology and media team. Nine partners including leading M&A lawyer and BskyB adviser Christoph Wagner, are understood to be launching MoFo’s new Berlin team, forcing the German Hogan Lovells office to close. According […]
You’d expect the magic circle to come out top of any M&A rankings. But as our exclusive analysis of City firms’ corporate revenues reveals, it’s Clyde & Co that is the surprise star in this year’s figures table. Intrigued? We are, too. Deals, booted Lawyers vs bankers Firms find most fertile hunting ground in AIM […]
The associate general counsel of Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch, Richard Atkinson, has taken up a general counsel role at New York independent advisory firm StormHarbour. Atkinson has already joined the banking boutique’s London office, working alongside chief legal officer Sheila Hartigan and former BofA Merrill Lynch head of high yield debt Amir Hoveyda. […]
ABS Brilliant Law has completed a private fundraising as part of growth plan to extend its services. The Leeds firm, founded at the start of the year, provides services in helping ABS applicants and business start ups through a fixed-price package (3 January 2013). Investment management company Elcot Capital Management led the fundraising, sourcing money […]
Allen & Overy and Brick Court Chambers have secured victory for the London Legacy Development Corporation in its defence of a judicial review application over the future of the Olympic Stadium. Litigation partner Andrew Denny, instructing Brick Court’s Richard Gordon QC and Andrew Henshaw QC, acted for the corporation – which is responsible for ensuring […]
North West firm Brabners has hired two partners from rival regional firms to take its total partner tally to 79. Lachlan Nisbet joins from Hill Dickinson, which has recently seen a number of partner departures to firms including Gunnercooke (18 September 2013), HLW Keeble Hawson (15 August 2013) and Knights, which bolted on the firm’s […]
It’s that time of year again – when we analyse which 15 law firms bring in more corporate revenue than the rest of the bunch. And it seems that one year can change a lot. For starters, the magic circle has been engaged in a hearty game of musical chairs. Linklaters retains the crown […]
Investors that take stakes in German public companies, including private-equity funds and hedge funds, should be aware of a new decision confirming that shareholders do not have private rights of action to enforce the statutory obligation to make a mandatory tender offer. The German Federal Supreme Court recently held that shareholders can neither claim consideration […]
Michael Mansfield QC’s set Tooks Chambers has announced that it will begin winding up operations from October, with the set saying its dissolution is the “direct result” of legal aid cuts. The set released a statement on its website this morning, confirming that it would formally dissolve on 27 December but would stop taking instructions […]
Amendments to the Croatian Act on Financial Operations and Pre-bankruptcy Settlement Proceedings became applicable on 7 September 2013. The newest changes and amendments regulate the operations of the Financial Agency in a greater detail when handling payment claims in certain situations… Click on the link below to read the rest of the Karanovic & Nikolic […]
DLA Piper has announced the appointment of corporate partners Bryan Pointon and David Ryan to its Australian practice, based in the Sydney office. Pointon is also taking on the role of head of corporate — Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Pointon, a private-equity lawyer, was a partner at Gilbert Tobin. Previously, he worked at Malleson Stephen Jaques and Latham & […]
DLA Piper has advised Eastman Kodak on the worldwide implementation of a chapter 11 restructuring. In the course of the restructuring, the two divisions Personal Imaging and Document Imaging were sold to UK Kodak Pension Plan. Besides Sullivan & Cromwell, which supported Eastman Kodak Company as global counsel during the chapter 11 restructuring, DLA Piper […]