Ashurst is advising IT infrastructure provider Softcat on its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), with the firm becoming the company’s first chief City legal adviser. Softcat, which provides companies with software licensing, networking and data centre infrastructure, has tended to turn to regional firms in the past. Ashurst’s team on the […]
Latham & Watkins has lost its third Munich partner in four months as corporate specialist Kilian Helmreich moves to German boutique Gütt Olk Feldhaus. Helmreich’s move follows the departures of Munich founding partner Jörg Kirchner to Kirkland & Ellis in July and Weil Gotshal & Manges’ hire of private equity partner Volkmar Bruckner in June. […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) bagged a new client this week, winning retirement housebuilder McCarthy & Stonefrom former advisers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Both magic circle firms worked on the company’s intention to float on the London Stock Exchange, but it was A&O that won the mandate representing the company. Freshfields meanwhile worked with the underwriters Deutsche Bank […]
I’d last been to The Clove Club on Valentine’s Day, that passion-killer which ranks up there with New Year’s Eve as top of my nights to stay at home under all circumstances. I was so overjoyed to be able to find that a table was free that I had failed to realize that there was a […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda law advice to Kosmos Energy, a Bermuda company listed on the New York stock exchange over the amendment and restatement of its corporate revolving credit facility. The amendment and restatement includes an increase in borrowing capacity to US$400m, up from $300m, extending the date of maturity by three years […]
Manolete Partners have named Collyer Bristow Partner Jeff Roberts as their Top Insolvency Lawyer. CEO Steven Cooklin said: “When things go wrong – as they do in every company – Jeff Roberts is the man that I call. Whether it’s Friday night, Sunday morning or first thing on Monday, Jeff sits up with me until […]
Former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray has been awarded costs of £108,000 following a private prosecution launched by ex-GFH Capital general counsel David Haigh. Haigh instructed Stephenson Harwood to bring a case against Gray and his former employers GFH Capital executives Hisham Al Rayes and Jinesh Patel, alleging the trio engaged in “human […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has lost two partners in Singapore, with finance partner Tahirah Ara joining Withers and office managing partner Alistair Duffield seeking opportunities elsewhere. Both Ara and Duffield are part of a six-lawyer team which joined BLP from Holman Fenwick & Willan in 2010. In her latest move, Ara will join Withers as […]
Schillings has hired former British Army Major General Tim Robinson as a partner, in its first non-lawyer partnership appointment since becoming a limited liability partnership (LLP). Robinson, who joins the firm at the start of the New Year, will be tasked with helping clients protect their reputations and privacy from a range of threats. Using […]
Westfield GC Leon Shelley talks about his time as a banker, and how he was offered his current job in the back of a cab… Your first legal role was as a trainee at Herbert Smith. Why did you join them? I was young and naïve and fell into my first firm, I did […]
There are driven in-house lawyers and there are driven in-house lawyers. And then there’s Vodafone’s Rosemary Martin.
Stephen Parkinson appeared in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2013, fresh from advising Rebekah Brooks in the early stages of operations Elveden and Weeting.