The way a company protects its reputation has a direct bearing on how City analysts and investors determine the value of the business and how they will treat its stock. This is just one of the headline findings stemming from Schillings ’ latest Reputation Resilience report entitled: How the people who value companies value reputation. […]
Ropes & Gray has hired K&L Gates disputes partner Thomas Ross as its first commercial litigation hire since opening in London in 2010. Ross, who had been a partner at K&L Gates for over four years, has particular expertise in banking and finance, asset management and pensions related disputes. He was previously a partner at […]
Earlier this month Baker & McKenzie Asia Pacific head Bruce Hambrett told us that China would present his firm with “big opportunities” in the foreseeable future. With the firm having just received the first Chinese joint operation licence to be granted by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice, it’s obvious what he meant. Like all other […]
Reputation management has a direct bearing on how City analysts determine the value of a company, new research shows. Although 13 per cent of FTSE100 companies describe reputation as an asset in their chairman’s speech, only three per cent of those companies currently have a way of checking that they are managing reputation across their […]
Irish firm Byrne Wallace has appointed Central Bank of Ireland general counsel Joseph Gavin as head of its financial services practice. Gavin was also chief legal adviser to bank governor Patrick Honohan for five years, advising during the post-2008 Irish banking crisis in one of the most significant economic meltdowns of the recession in Europe. […]
Nomad Food’s move for Birds Eye owner Iglo is the latest in a spate of food deals, mostly taking place in the US, that include the multimillion-dollar acquisition of Kraft Foods in March. Iglo is headquartered in the UK and controls a 30 per cent share of the European frozen food market. It’s an attractive […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Round Hill Capital on the £600m sale of its Nido student accommodation real estate portfolio to Greystar Real Estate Partners, represented by Jones Day. BLP head of real estate Chris de Pury led the firm’s multidisciplinary team advising Nido owners Round Hill Capital, alongside tax partner Elizabeth Bradley, corporate […]
Clyde & Co has promoted 13 lawyers to partner and 11 from equity partner to senior equity partner in a firm-wide promotions round that has boosted its insurance platform figures by 11 partners. Clyde & Co’s new additions to equity partners have been spread across projects and commodities, corporate, aviation, insurance, transportation finance, international trade […]
Permira has turned to longstanding adviser Clifford Chance and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom on the sale of Iglo, the frozen food maker behind Birds Eye, to Nomad Foods for €2.6bn (£1.87bn). The deal, which is not yet finalised, is expected to complete this week. The transaction will be primarily cash-funded and Permira will […]
Taylor Wessing has promoted five lawyers to partner in London as part of a UK-based promotions round. Last year the firm promoted three lawyers to partner in an all-male promotions round which favoured Germany (18 June 2014). This year, the firm has promoted two women out of the five total lawyers made up. The real estate […]
Bird & Bird has added a Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) corporate partner to its Singapore team with the aim of upping its expertise across the Southeast Asian region. Ken Cheung, who was a partner at Watson Farley & Williams for 11 years before joining BLP in January 2012, has experience of working in Indonesia, Malaysia, […]
Australian firm Minter Ellison has taken on a Lavan Legal partner to head its Perth-based disputes practice with the expectation of growing its focus on Asian arbitration work. Kevin Stewart was at Perth-based Lavan Legal for almost three years prior to joining Minter Ellison, having started his career at Perth firm Pullinger Readhead Stewart. His […]