Clifford Chance and Linklaters have advised New Look on its £780m sale to South African private equity firm Brait. Clifford Chance advised the fashion retailer, together with its major shareholders Apax and Permira. The team was led by corporate partner Amy Mahon, supported by partner David Pearson, senior associate Toby Parkinson and associates Neil Barlow […]
Cooley has hired Olswang partner Natasha Kaye to join the firm’s London office as its first tax partner. Kaye will join the firm’s London-based business and finance practice after working at Olswang for over 17 years. Her practice is corporate tax advisory and transactional, and she advises UK and international direct and indirect tax issues […]
Travers Smith has announced its largest promotions round in three years with seven lawyers made up to partner. The promotions are spread across five of the firm’s practices with two new partners added to both its pensions and private equity departments. Partners were also promoted within Travers Smith’s corporate finance, investment funds and tax departments. […]
”What do you mean we have to order using an iPad?”, says J, making her mind up in seconds and not in a good way. And the table is only for two hours because we are a party of fewer than five. We get a little “hmmph” before she realises that the iPad thing brings […]
The Government’s ability to have the final say on Freedom of Information (FoI) requests has been “circumscribed, arguably almost to the point of annihilation” in the wake of the ‘black spider letters’ case. The letters, written by Prince Charles to ministers between 2004 and 2005, were subject to a 10-year legal battle between the Guardian […]
Schillings has announced it is hiring 10 new staff, including Hill Dickinson partner Magnus Boyd. Boyd worked as a solicitor at Schillings in 2001 and rejoins the firm, on 6 July, as a partner in its privacy and reputation legal practice. He specialises in data protection and compliance issues and was a partner at PSB […]
Network Rail hit £13.3m in legal costs in 2013/14, with Eversheds and Addleshaw Goddard emerging as top earners in the first financial year after a panel review reduced the roster to eight firms. Network Rail shrunk its full-service legal panel in 2013 from 12 to five firms in 2013, in a list that saw Dentons […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Shearman & Sterling have picked up top roles in the IPO of healthcare business Integrated Diagnostics Holdings, with the company valued at $668m. The transaction was led by Freshfields corporate partner Stuart Grider in London, as well as Dubai partner Pervez Akhtar. They were assisted by partner Christopher Mort and associates […]
Greenberg Traurig has added 12 new lawyers to its Warsaw office through hires from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Norton Rose Fulbright, as part of a strategy to expand its real estate presence in Central Europe. A&O Warsaw head of real estate Radomił Charzyński and Norton Rose Fulbright Warsaw real estate head Agnieszka Stankiewicz have […]
It’s all change at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer this year as the firm gears up to open its second UK office in Manchester and managing partner David Aitman prepares to step down at the end of his brief term at the helm. Front running candidates for the top senior partner job are gathering their potential management […]
East Midlands firm Flint Bishop has announced plans to increase its headcount by 21 per cent with hires expected across all of its departments. The new hires will cover a range of different roles across the firm’s Derby and Ashbourne sites and will include solicitor and paralegal positions. According to Flint Bishop’s website the firm […]
Baker & McKenzie has advised longstanding client Unilever on its acquisition of independent prestige skincare brand Kate Somerville Skincare. The transaction was announced on 6 May and marks the third in a series of recent strategic skincare deals for Unilever, following the acquisitions of the Camay and Zest soap brands and the REN premium skincare […]