Shoosmiths has advised SACO The Serviced Apartment Company (SACO) on real estate matters relating to the development of a new brand of high-specification serviced apartments to be built in Edinburgh and Aberdeen. SACO is one of the UK’s leading providers of serviced apartments with an extensive network of properties in cities around the world. SACO […]
A pair of Israeli lawyers, including former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer associate Jackie Donner and lawyer and marketer Zohar Fisher, have launched the country’s first contract lawyer service, LawFlex. The move follows a wave of similar initiatives launched by law firms around the world. Earlier this month Singaporean firm Rajah & Tann launched its contract lawyer […]
South-East based TWM Solicitors is expanding its presence in London, with new premises in the capital taking the firm’s total number of offices to eight. The office is due to open in Kensington & Chelsea from early September and will focus on enfranchisement, family and private client. It will run alongside the firm’s other London […]
Barclays Bank has appointed Simon Croxford as general counsel for its Group Centre legal team, after the resignation of deputy group general counsel Michael Shaw in June. Croxford has held a series of senior roles at Barclays and its investment bank since joining the bank in 2005. Between 2012 and earlier this year he was […]
Keoghs Solicitors is rumoured to be in talks to acquire defendant insurance firm Plexus Law in a deal which would create a £145m turnover firm. Post-merger the new firm would have approximately 2,400 members of staff with both firms being of roughly equal size in terms of headcount. Despite attempts to contact the firm Keoghs […]
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Hull-based consumer gadgets brand RED5 and The Source Wholesale on the sale of their shares to Menkind Group. As part of the acquisition, Menkind, the UK’s leading multi-channel niche gifts and gadgets retailer, intends to retain RED5’s existing stores, warehouse and offices, plus its 220 staff. The original founders Jonathan Elvidge […]
The Manchester office of Shoosmiths has advised award-winning innovation lab FutureEverything on their £500,000 commission by the government of Singapore to host a week-long digital culture festival in the country this autumn. FutureEverything’s commission in the Far East was highlighted during prime minister David Cameron’s ‘first Northern Powerhouse trade mission’ to Singapore and Malaysia last month. FutureEverything […]
Macfarlanes has hinted that its South Africa base, which has been operating quietly for around 18 months, could become a fully-fledged client-facing office by the end of 2016. The firm, which has no other offices overseas, currently has one partner based in South Africa, with former Baker & McKenzie lawyer Scott Brodsky dividing his time […]
Ashurst has hired Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s former co-head of private equity Shaun Lascelles as a partner in its London office. Lascelles, who was an associate at the UK firm between 1999 and 2002, has been at Skadden for 13 years and joined the partnership in 2007. He was global co-head of private […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have bagged top roles on the possible £5bn sale of RSA to Zurich Insurance, with the latter’s deadline to make a firm offer set to close today. Slaughter and May’s head of corporate Andy Ryde is advising RSA, which noted that Zurich was evaluating a potential offer but […]
The London Boroughs’ Legal Alliance (LBLA) has announced it is retendering its barrister legal framework, which will be valued at between £20m and £25m over four years. Applications are being considered from barristers and solicitors who have attained higher rights of audience. The LBLA, which consists of 12 London Borough councils, is considering both chambers […]
No5 Chambers barrister Tim Jones successfully represented landowners in the High Court (Lear Investments v Welsh Ministers [2015] EWHC 1532 (Admin)), obtaining the quashing of an inspector’s decision that refused planning permission to build housing on employment land. Jones then appeared for the landowners at the remitted s78 appeal (APP/Y6930/A/14/2218029). The appeal was successful and Inspector Alwyn B Nixon granted […]