Paul Hastings has hired King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) corporate partner Duncan Woollard to lead the firm’s private funds practice in London. Woollard is the third lateral hire for the firm in the last two months, following the appointment of Ashurst leveraged finance partner Luke McDougall last month (13 April 2015) and DLA Piper legal […]
Pearson general counsel Bjarne Tellmann believes that in-house roles will be the next in line to be targeted by alternative legal service providers. Tellmann, who is currently drawing up inaugural legal panels in the UK, argues that the temporary low-cost manpower provided by firms such as Lawyers on Demand, Axiom or Obelisk have effectively targeted […]
Tesco has appointed Diageo M&A general counsel and ex-Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer lawyer David Berry as its first UK legal director. Berry will take on the newly created role on 1 September. His appointment comes amid a restructure of the retail giant’s legal team following high-profile management changes as a result of its financial restatement last […]
Olswang general counsel Simon Callander is set to take on a partnership secretary and newly created general counsel role at Addleshaw Goddard, The Lawyer can reveal. The Lawyer exclusively revealed that Callander was leaving the firm yesterday (27 May 2015) following a series of management changes. It has now emerged that Callander tendered his resignation to Olswang in […]
Dentons has hired Watson Farley & Williams finance partner Celia Gardiner to build its trade finance practice in London. Gardiner worked in the structured finance practice at Watson Farley since she joined as a partner in January 2008 from legacy Norton Rose, where she was a solicitor for nine years. Her practice consists of international […]
Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has turned to Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in his battle with HM Revenue and Customs over a £1bn tax bill. HSF has drafted in a heavyweight team of five silks to seek permission to bring a judicial review against HMRC, which has reopened a long-running dispute over an Ecclestone family […]
DLA Piper and Latham & Watkins are understood to be advising US company PureTech on its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange. DLA Piper is representing the Boston-based science-driven healthcare company, as it seeks to raise around $160m for the listing. Meanwhile Latham & Watkins is believed to be advising PureTech’s joint bookrunners […]
Kirkland & Ellis is understood to have lost three private funds partners to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, less than a year after the firm’s London head Graham White made the same move. Mark Mifsud, Kate Downey and Alexandra Conroy resigned from Kirkland last week. Their starting date at Fried Frank is yet to […]
Baker & McKenzie has advised Akbank on project financing for the Petlim Terminal. Turkey’s largest foreign investor, received a $212m project finance loan with a 13-year maturity and a three-year-grace period from leading Turkish bank, Akbank, to finance the development of the Petlim container terminal.
Dr Constanze Ulmer-Eilfort has been re-elected managing partner for Baker & McKenzie Germany and Austria Ulmer-Eilfort specializes in IP Law and Media Law and advises clients in the Life Sciences and Media industries. The mother of three children joined Baker & McKenzie in 1994, becoming partner in 1998. She began her career at Baker & McKenzie in […]
Baker & McKenzie has advised Bang & Olufsen on the sale of its Australia and New Zealand operations to Emerald Group Investments. Bang & Olufsen is a luxury Danish consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets and telephones. The Baker & McKenzie team was led by Sydney partner Ben McLaughlin and […]
Lorna Meyer QC and Kirsty Gallacher of No5 Chambers acted on behalf of the respondent mother in the Court of Appeal case of Re K and H (Children). The Lord Chancellor appealed against the order of His Honour Judge Bellamy, directing that the costs of an advocate appointed for the purposes of cross-examination of the […]