Shoosmiths advised the sellers on the disposal of Global Group (UK) Ltd, a global healthcare business, to Impellam Group plc for an enterprise value of around £37m. Shoosmiths corporate partner, Sanjeev Sharma, led the deal with support from senior associate Iain Butler, associate Claire Checketts, trainee solicitor Aleksandr Bosch and paralegal James Grinstead. The corporate […]
This page is the 2015 salary survey. For the 2016 survey, click here. The Lawyer’s first salary survey, in partnership with Kinsella Legal, covers lawyer’s pay, base salaries, bonuses, benefits and pay satisfaction. As well as their wider career satisfaction and aspirations, we’ve unearthed eye-opening information about the effects on earnings of location, sector, experience […]
Three members of the management of Swisscanto Vorsorge AG have aquired its advisory service business relating to occupational pensions as part of a management buyout. Swisscanto is a subsidiary of the Zurich Cantonal Bank. The managers have set up a new company named Prevanto AG which will offering these services in Zurich, Basel and Lausanne. […]
The Fairpoint Group has seen its turnover rise 64 per cent for the first six months of the current financial year, largely due to its acquisition of Simpson Millar and Foster & Partners last year. The interim results show Fairpoint’s revenue increased by 64 per cent from £13.9m to £22.9m when compared to the first […]
Reed Smith has hired one partner from Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) in Hong Kong and further two local partners in Singapore, as it looks closely at gaining Singaporean local law capability. In Hong Kong, the firm, locally known as Reed Smith Richards Butler, has taken on capital markets partner Gregory Wang from MoFo. Wang focuses […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Steptoe & Johnson has hired partner Simon Hirsbrunner in Brussels from German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek. Hirsbrunner, who is qualified in both Switzerland and Germany, will work closely with partner Jean Russotto in advising clients on EU regulatory requirements […]
Barclays’ in-house team has undergone a turbulent year with a raft of departures and senior appointments as a result. Last week the latest appointment was that of former Asia-Pacific general counsel Simon Croxford as general counsel for the group centre legal team. Croxford takes over from Michael Shaw, who announced his resignation as deputy general […]
PwC Legal, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ law firm, has pushed up revenue by 15 per cent in the last year with turnover of £41m for the financial year ending 30 June 2015. Growth has accelerated at the firm after it was granted an ABS licence in January 2014. Turnover for the financial year ending 30 June 2014 stood […]
South-East firm TWM Solicitors has become the latest to hire a partner from collapsed Scottish outfit McClure Naismith, hiring Mark Parkhouse as head of insolvency. Parkhouse will be based in the firm’s second London office, which is due to launch in the coming weeks. TWM has taken serviced office space in the iconic Art Deco […]
The Co-operative Bank has launched its first legal panel since its split from parent company the Co-Op Group in 2013, appointing 11 firms to the roster. The panel will sit for three years and was selected to “meet the bank’s needs for full UK coverage, its commercial objectives, demonstrating industry leading best practice and a […]
Olswang partner Fabrizio Carpanini is set to join US outfit Dorsey & Whitney to launch the firm’s private equity practice in London. Carpanini left Olswang after 15 years at the end of the last financial year and will be on gardening leave until 1 November, when he is set to start his role at Dorsey […]
Jenner & Block has hired White & Case partner Charlie Lightfoot as its first lateral hire in London after launching an office earlier this year. Lightfoot’s hire is part of the firm’s strategy to grow its litigation and arbitration practices. He has joined the firm after 16 years at White & Case, where he started […]