Affordable housing provider Alliance Homes Group has named Anthony Collins, Clarke Willmott and Trowers & Hamlins as its new legal panel. As well as legal advice Alliance Homes has looked to gain value added services from the firms it uses aimed at meeting its charitable and social objectives. In response to this each firm will provide […]
On Tuesday this week I had the immense pleasure of spending the day with around a dozen of the UK’s leading in-house lawyers. The reason? To thrash out and forensically analyse and pick apart the entries for this September’s Business Leadership awards and, ultimately, come up with not only the shortlist but also the winners. […]
Healthcare property developer and investor Assura has strengthened its senior team in the UK with the hire of former Brooks Macdonald in-house counsel Orla Ball, who will be the company’s first head of legal and company secretary. Ball’s hire is the start of an expansion phase for Assura, which will kick-start the hiring process for […]
Nabarro has announced its turnover for 2014/15 has grown by 8 per cent from £116.7m to £126m with profitability shooting up by 21 per cent. The strong results are good news for the firm, which saw revenue stall last year. During the 2013/14 financial year the firm’s revenue increased by only 0.3 per cent from […]
Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim to the High Court to sue Leeds United Football Club over £150,000 of unpaid fees. The firm said the club has yet to pay it fees for services provided in 2014. Mishcon mounted a successful appeal for Leeds owner Massimo Cellino last year against the Football League, which […]
As Serbia continues to see investment from the UAE the establishment of a bank from the region seems like an obvious move. The Royal Group from Abu Dhabi was awarded a license from the National Bank of Serbia for the establishment of Mira Bank in February. The advising Karanović & Nikolić team was led by Dejan Nikolićand Darko Jovanović and the new bank will provide […]
Shoosmiths has expanded its transport and infrastructure team with the hire of partner Martin Fleetwood. Fleetwood has provided specialist legal advice to the transport sector for over 15 years, advising on a variety of transport-related projects including Manchester Metrolink, London Underground PPP, Crossrail, Nottingham Tram and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. He has acted for […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised Axovant Sciences Ltd on its successful underwritten initial public offering of 21,000,000 of its shares, including exercise in full of the greenshoe option, for a total fundraising of $315m. Roivant Sciences Ltd., the parent company, retains 75 per cent of the shares. This is thought to be the biggest […]
Tark Grunte Sutkiene has advised Mezzanine Management, an independent investment advisory firm with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe, on the €23.3m investments to support the growth of Mogo Finance, a non-bank car financing provider operating in the Baltics and Georgia. The deal was funded through Accession Mezzanine Capital III, Mezzanine Management’s third investment […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman’s Kevin Butler, head of the Cayman Islands office, has participated in the Who’s Who Legal’s project finance roundtable. Butler has advised on several project finance transactions involving the set-up of Cayman fund structures to support infrastructure, healthcare and energy projects. Cayman is increasingly becoming a popular domicile for project finance work […]
Eversheds partner Fabien Aepli will speak about privacy and confidentiality matters in the banking and finance sector at the 30th Anniversary Conference of Transcontinental Trusts 2015. It takes place at the Hotel Kempinski in Geneva from 16 to 18 July 2015. The conference is organised by Informa, a provider of corporate taxation training, conferences and seminars.
Stephenson Harwood has had its best year ever, with its profit per equity partner (PEP) figure increasing by 42 per cent in 2014/15 from £537,000 to £763,000. Revenue also rose by 20 per cent from £121m to £145m following good years for the corporate and real estate departments, as well as commercial and litigation. The firm […]