Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE) has launched its first panel review in an attempt to get better vaue from its external spend. The biotech company is a subsidiary of Indian chemicals giant Tata Chemicals, based in Mumbai. The panel will run for three years but will be “continually reviewed” on the quality, service and costs of […]
Gateley has announced two more appointments to its fast growing Leeds office. David Armitage has joined the firm’s corporate team as a partner in addition to Tamanna Keir, who joins as a corporate solicitor. For more than 25 years, Armitage has focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, UK inward and outward corporate investments, industrial and […]
Every January The Lawyer reveals its Hot 100, in which we applaud lawyers making a difference for their businesses or their clients. Over the last few months we’ve been revisiting the Hot 100 alumni and seeing what they have been doing since receiving their accolade. The Lawyer is currently assembling the 2016 list. If you […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is advising new client McCarthy & Stone on its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), while the retirement housebuilder’s former advisers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted for the underwriters. Freshfields were listed as the company’s main advisers in 2013/14, with the firm acting on McCarthy & Stone’s rights issue and refinancing […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is advising new client McCarthy & Stone on its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), while the retirement housebuilder’s former advisers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted for the underwriters. Freshfields were listed as the company’s main advisers in 2013/14, with the firm acting on McCarthy & Stone’s rights issue and refinancing […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has won a place on Standard Chartered’s global panel for the first time, alongside regular magic circle advisers Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Slaughter and May. The firm had previously advised the bank on a range of transactions, but was limited to having a presence on specialist panels such […]
The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of a strike-out application by British Airways on its mammoth legal battle over air cargo cartel claims. The application sought to remove economic tort claims from the case against BA, which the claimants’ lawyers Hausfeld previously said represents “more than half of the claim value (over £500m)”. […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has picked up the latest mandate from GE Capital, as it sells $32bn (£28.8bn) of assets to Mayer Brown client Wells Fargo & Co in a bid to reduce the size of its financial business. The assets include GE Capital’s commercial distribution finance business, as well as its vendor finance and […]
The number of global corporations implementing new policies to combat corruption when doing deals in jurisdictions such as Mexico, Columbia and Indonesia has soared. A survey of 824 legal and compliance professionals found that 74 per cent of large companies had whistleblowing procedures, up from 42 per cent in 2006. Of the respondents 30 per […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has made a raft of star legal project manager hires from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), including taking head of process improvement Cathy Mattis. Mattis will lead HSF’s legal project management team in the UK, US and EMEA from London. She launched BLP’s Streamline “process improvement” service last October to integrate project […]
General Electric (GE) has announced GE Capital general counsel Alex Dimitrief will replace Brackett Denniston as GE’s legal chief when the latter retires at the end of 2015. Dimitrief will assume the roles of GC and senior vice present from the start of November having served the same roles at GE Capital since 2012. The […]
Two Irwin Mitchell clients duped into accepting “unfair” divorce settlements have won their Supreme Court battles in what will become a landmark ruling on dishonesty in court proceedings in the UK. The unanimous ruling handed down on Wednesday (14 October) found the husbands of Alison Sharland and Varsha Gohil misled them over their wealth. The […]