WHEB Ventures’ general counsel Ed Kingsbury is moving back into private practice by joining Dechert’s London office. Kingsbury will join Dechert in January as a senior associate, having been the investment fund’s legal chief for four years. Since 2011, he has been responsible for all legal and compliance matters across WHEB’S infrastructure, private equity and […]
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier, McCarthy Tetrault, Proskauer Rose and White & Case have helped AccorHotels add the Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands to its portfolio in a deal worth approximately £1.9bn. Proskauer Rose advised longstanding client AccorHotels, with a team led by partner and private equity real estate co-head Jeffrey Horwitz in New York. He […]
Browne Jacobson has announced that revenue has increased by 7.5 per cent, from £28.6m to £30.8m, during the first six months of the 2015/16 financial year. Managing partner Iain Blatherwick said that growth had been generated across the business although the firm’s corporate, public, health and educations teams had seen a particularly strong six months. […]
Easyjet’s head of legal and compliance Andrew Winterton is joining start-up taxi app company Karhoo in January as its first legal chief. Winterton’s departure comes just a year after Kyla Mullins joined as group general counsel and director of regulation & corporate governance from Mitie. He joined easyJet in 2007 from Virgin Atlantic Airways, where he […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux DLA Piper has appointed Paul Reeskamp as a partner in its intellectual property and technology group. Reeskamp joins the firm together with associate Marijn van der Wal on 1 January 2016 from Dutch IP boutique Klos Morel Vos & Reeskamp. […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has made up nine partners including one in London. International arbitration lawyer Epaminontas Triantafilou will become the litigation firm’s fifteenth partner in the City. Triantafilou joined Quinn Emanuel in 2012, having previously worked as a legal counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, an assistant to 20 Essex […]
Former Howard Kennedy boss Mark Dembovsky has joined Doughty Street Chambers as chief executive, it has emerged. Dembovsky left the firm in late 2013, less than a year after he orchestrated its merger with Finers Stephens Innocent, creating a £39m firm. He joined Doughty Street in late October, replacing former chief executive Robin Jackson who left […]
Birmingham-based housing association Midland Heart and the Walsall Housing Group have issued a joint tender for a new legal services panel, which is valued at between £10m and £40m. The collaborative framework will provide advice to 20 local authorities and 116 housing providers across the Midlands. These include Birmingham, Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick local authorities. […]
Ashurst, Eversheds and Sullivan & Cromwell all won roles in the bidding war for Xchanging, with Allen & Overy (A&O) client Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) eventually gate-crashing Capita’s deal with the information technology provider. Winning bidder CSC sought advice from A&O partners Richard Browne and Annabelle Croker, with the software provider and outsourcer agreeing […]
John Ilett has joined Consort Medical as group general counsel and company secretary from rival pharmaceutical company Synageva BioPharma. Ilett replaces former general counsel Iain Ward, who left the listed company after a year-and-a-half for the Wellcome Trust, where he is now senior legal counsel. In his new role, Ilett is responsible for all group […]
DLA Piper has boosted its finance practice through the hiring of two partners in the City, who join the firm from Baker & McKenzie and Slaughter and May. Mark Dwyer worked as a partner at Slaughters for 10 years as the firm’s head of derivatives. He advises both banks and corporates on structured financing and […]
A professional negligence claim brought against Clifford Chance over the high-profile Excalibur dispute has ended with the magic circle firm settling out of court for an undisclosed sum. Third party-litigation funders who bankrolled a $1.6bn claim brought by former Clifford Chance client Excalibur Ventures in 2013 launched the professional negligence claim last December following defeat […]