Walker Morris has advised on Cleeve Capital plc’s delisting from the Standard Segment of the Official List, acquisition of Satellite Solutions Worldwide Ltd and its admission to AIM. The deal is the second AIM transaction involving a communications company that the Walker Morris corporate team has advised on in a month, having previously advised on […]
The Brussels office of Eversheds has advised Marks & Spencer on the opening of its new store in Brussels, which opened its doors on the 7 May 2015. Eversheds advised M&S on all manner of operational work, including contract reviews, negotiations with suppliers, obtaining the required licenses for the café and food hall as well […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher client the Republic of Djibouti has lost an application to the High Court for permission to seek a new freezing injunction against its citizen Abdourahman Boreh in Singapore. A previous freezing order on $100m (£65m) of Boreh’s assets in the High Court has been at the centre of a high-profile scandal […]
EY Law is to launch a London financial regulatory practice after recruiting a team from Baker & McKenzie and Weil Gotshal & Manges. Baker & McKenzie financial services partner Steven Francis and Weil Gotshal & Manges counsel and head of private funds regulation James Gee will join EY as executive directors in May. They will […]
Osborne Clarke has reported a 15 per cent per cent increase in global revenues for 2014/15, with the firm just shy of breaking the €200m mark. Global revenues for 2014/15 rose from €169m to €195m (£139.8m), while UK revenues increased by 9 per cent to £96.5m (€123.7m). The firm’s average headcount is also estimated to have grown […]
Some three years after the implementation of the Legal Services Act, Gateley has announced its intention to be the first UK law firm to launch an initial public offering (IPO). Following news that Gateley was planning to float (11 May 2015), the firm has now officially announced its planned IPO. The decision became possible after […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Covington & Burling have advised Verizon Communications in its $4.4bn acquisition of AOL, with Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advising the target. Weil Gotshal & Manges’ all-American team was led by corporate partner Frederick Green, tax partner Marc Silberberg, executive compensation and benefits partner Paul Wessel, IP partner Jeffrey Osterman, […]
Fieldfisher is the sole law firm to have been instructed by the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) on its investigation into Tesco’s profit over-statement. Fieldfisher senior partner Matthew Lohn is leading the investigation for the GCA, along with the adjudicator’s in-house team. The investigation is looking into some of the practices associated with the supermarket’s profit […]
Fox Williams has appointed interdealer broker GFI Group’s head of legal EMEA, Nigel Brahams, to its financial services team. The lateral hire sees Brahams join Fox Williams as a financial services partner where he will specialise in non-contentious work. Brahams qualified at Clifford Chance and has held a number of senior in-house roles at financial […]
Sullivan & Cromwell client BNP Paribas was sentenced to five years probation by a US district court last week, following a billion-dollar settlement to end claims that it violated trading sanctions against Sudan, Cuba and Iran between 2004 and 2012. The bank agreed to pay out a further $140m as part of the sentence on […]
Fieldfisher has promoted four lawyers to partnership in its 2015 round marking the lowest number of promotions at the firm in recent years. Emma Spiers has become a partner in the derivatives and structured finance team in London and worked as a senior associate from 2004. Privacy and data protection law specialist Antonis Patrikios has […]
Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners, the member firm of Baker & McKenzie International in Indonesia, has strengthened its corporate & securities practice with the appointment of Mita Djajadiredja as partner. Djajadiredja has more than 20 years’ experience advising on M&A, private equity, corporate alliances including joint ventures, shareholder agreements and strategic business alliances. Her clients include a wide […]