All the latest partner hires and other appointments within firms and offices in the Asia Pacific region. Australia Allen & Overy has hired Jamie Palmer as a partner in Sydney. Palmer rejoins the firm from DibbsBarker, where he was a partner focusing on private equity practice. Prior to joining DibbsBarker in 2013, he was an […]
White & Case and Dechert’s election results were announced in the last few days, with re-appointments signalling that little changes at the top. Dechert re-elected its chair Andy Levander for a further fourth-year term, while White & Case’s chairman Hugh Verrier is set to take on a consecutive four-year term until 2019. But Dechert looks […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Weil Gotshal & Manges have won top roles on the merger of advisory and broking companies Towers Watson and Willis Group for $18bn (£11.45bn). Gibson Dunn represented longstanding client Towers Watson, with a team including Washington DC partner Stephen Glover and New York partner Eduardo Gallardo. In London, corporate partner […]
Lancashire Country Cricket Club (LCCC) has instructed RPC to bring a legal challenge against NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in relation to an interest rate hedging product sold to the club in 2009. In its claim before the High Court, the club alleged the banks “failed to discharge a number of duties […]
Christodoulos G Vassiliades & Co is co-organising a 3rd July 2015 seminar on ‘The exploitation of hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean and international law’ The Law School of UCLan Cyprus and the Department of International Law of MGIMO, Moscow (University attached to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) are also co-organisers of the event.
Baltic law firm Tark Grunte Sutkiene has appointed Hannes Vallikivi as managing partner in Estonia, effective from 1 June 2015. The present managing partner Aare Tark has been elected senior partner. Hannes Vallikivi joined the firm in 1996. He became a partner in 2002 and currently heads the firm’s banking and finance practice. He has worked on a number […]
Eversheds partner Adrian Toutoungi has commented on the news that Boris Johnson is supporting the formation of a £10bn megafund to support life sciences companies in London. He said: “Boris’ MedCity initiative differs from the BIA in that his focus is on London and the South East – the so-called Golden Triangle of London, Oxford and Cambridge […]
Shoosmiths has hired real estate partner Bhavesh Amlani, who will head up the residential development and social housing team in Birmingham. Amlani joins from SGH Martineau, where he has practiced as a real estate lawyer for the last 15 years, specialising in multi-million pound development projects and investment work and advising national and regional developers, publicly […]
Michael Duck QC, member of No5 Chambers Crime Group, has recently defended Alan Hagan, 48, Liverpool, who denied misconduct in a public office following his dealings with News of the World reporter Lucy Panton. The court heard that Hagan, whilst working at Ashworth Hospital, where Ian Brady has been for 30 years, was paid £1,000 for a story […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) contract lawyer service Peerpoint is continuing to focus on international expansion, with sites in Asia and Europe thought to be in the pipeline. Peerpoint is targeting potential expansion as demand soars for its offering as a “progressive business model”, Peerpoint COO Richard Punt told The Lawyer. How fast can Peerpoint grow? […]
Chivas Brothers, a member of the Pernod Ricard group, is to carry out a panel review of its UK legal advisers with plans to cut the roster from 16 to around seven. Law firms currently on the spirits business’ panel include Macfarlanes, which acted on the £4.5bn acquisition of Absolut Vodka producer Vin & Sprit […]
Pinsent Masons is set to hire additional project managers across its business over the next 18 months and has designed a project manager toolkit to assist the firm’s lawyers. The project managers will be hired on a client bases but TMT disputes partner Clive Seddon predicted the firm would be employing five within […]