JB Eversheds has advised Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company as it sold a property portfolio comprising 1,200 apartments (28 residential properties in 15 locations) to OP-Rental Yield fund. The transaction was one of the largest of its kind in Finland in the 21st century. The JB Eversheds team was led by partner Markus Rämö.
Bangkok-headquartered Tilleke & Gibbins has continued its march across Southeast Asia with the launch of an office in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. The purpose of the launch is to give the firm greater coverage in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region ahead of the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the […]
Alton Towers owner Merlin Entertainments has turned to Kennedys for advice on the rollercoaster crash that left 16 people injured and the park closed for six days. News emerged this weekend that three of the crash victims, Victoria Balch, Leah Washington and Joe Pugh, have instructed Stewarts Law to consider legal action after suffering “life […]
Gateley has raised £30m in capital during its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange, valuing the firm at £100m with the share price hitting a high of 15 per cent above the placing price of 95p. The £30m raised came through the placing of 31,589,93 ordinary shares at an offer price of […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) head of corporate David Collins has resigned from the firm after losing a leadership election in February. Collins stood head-to-head against employment partner Lisa Mayhew who went on to win the election for managing partner (3 February 2015). The election was the first to be contested in 16 years after Neville […]
Mishcon de Reya has sailed “substantially past” the £100m revenue mark in the last financial year, managing partner Kevin Gold has revealed to The Lawyer. The firm has not yet released its 2014/15 financial results to the market, but it is understood the firm has bolstered its turnover to as much as £112m, marking a […]
In-house lawyers feel well-supported by their management teams and are far less likely now than four years ago to want to return to private practice. Exclusive research carried out for The Lawyer In-House Attitudes Report showed that overall, in-housers gave a score of 3.5 out of 5 for how well they felt supported by management. […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has retained its role for the Government on the future of Royal Mail, advising as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) sells its remaining 30 per cent stake in the company valued at around £1.5bn. Freshfields London partners Mark Austin and Julian Makin are representing BIS as it sets about […]
Airfinance Journal recognised four transactions in which Conyers Dill & Pearman acted as offshore counsel, as Deals of the Year for 2014. The firm acted as counsel in the following Deals of the Year transactions: Africa Deal of the Year: Ethiopian Airlines – EDC Loan for four Q400s Conyers acted as BVI counsel to Export Development Canada […]
This week’s most-read briefings writers from TheLawyer.com are drawn from the energy sector. The following excerpts cover pirates, North Sea oil and fracking. 20 Essex Street – ‘Trafigura Beheer NV v Navigazione Montanari SpA (MV “Valle Di Cordoba”) -– fuel oil, pirates and strict liability’ https://www.thelawyer.com/briefings/fuel-oil-pirates-and-strict-liability-trafigura-beheer-v-navigazione-montanari/3031874.article John Emerton and Michael Hunter, Addleshaw Goddard – ‘Budget 2015 […]
Optimism is high say in-house lawyers, with teams growing and management increasingly seeing how the legal function adds value. This is the fourth year The Lawyer has conducted its annual survey of in-house lawyers. The results are presented at the General Counsel Strategy Summit, held in Portugal, each spring. While many trends from last year […]
This week’s issue of The Lawyer is all about the challenges facing in-house lawyers in a continually testing environment. Every year for the past four years we have carried out an extensive survey of in-housers to test their perception of the current market. With more than 500 responses each year from across a wide range of […]