Eversheds, in conjunction with Attorneys JB Eversheds, has announced the opening of a new office in Pori, in the west coast of Finland. The office, which opens on 20 April 2015, will be the sixth such opening in Finland, joining the firm’s existing successful practices in Helsinki, Hämeenlinna, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Turku. The firm anticipates […]
At the recent Asian-MENA Counsel awards ceremony, Conyers Dill & Pearman received a Deal of the Year award for the privatisation of Giant Interactive Group Inc. Conyers provided Cayman law advice to Giant Interactive Group Inc on its US$3bn privatisation by way of merger with Giant Merger Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Giant Investment Ltd. […]
The Hong Kong office Eversheds has advised Oriental Patron Asia Ltd and Oriental Patron Securities Limited on the HK$132m initial public offering (IPO) of In Construction Holdings Ltd. In Construction Holdings Ltd is a contractor in the foundation industry in Hong Kong. It engages in foundation and associated works in the private sector construction projects, […]
Latin America’s largest law firm Baker & McKenzie is celebrating its 60th anniversary in the region. The milestone was officially commemorated during the Firm’s recent annual Western Hemisphere leadership meeting, which took place in New York and brought together most of the partners from North and Latin America as well as other regions. Since opening […]
Tim Jones and James Corbet Burcher, part of the No5 Chambers planning group, will be speaking at the UKLEA and PEBA seminar on neighbourhood planning and environmental sustainability on the 20 April 2015 at Eversheds in London. During the evening they will take a look at how the system of neighbourhood planning, introduced under the Localism […]
Schoenherr has advised the financial creditors financing the bauMax group in connection with the divestment of bauMax’s Hungarian operations. bauMax has sold its 13 stores in Hungary to a member of the XXXLutz group in the course of the overall restructuring of the bauMax group. The deal was signed in January 2015 and closed at […]
Dixons Carphone has hired BT Group’s Nigel Paterson as general counsel, less than a year after the companies merged. Paterson, who featured in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 in 2014, was general counsel of BT’s consumer legal, governance, compliance and regulatory team for over a year, and worked for the telecoms group since 2000. His appointment […]
The senior partner race at Freshfields will be fascinating to watch. The magic circle firm is widely recognised to be the only UK outfit to have built a credible top-level US presence, but with increasing competition among the global elite, the new senior partner will need to be an effective ambassador. Freshfields senior partner race: […]
Lloyds Bank head of disputes Philippa Simmons has left the bank amid a shake-up of the in-house legal team that could see around 25 mid-level redundancies, The Lawyer can reveal. The bank announced in an internal memo in March it would outsource the majority of its high-volume litigation work to a third party. Lloyds is […]
Bevan Brittan has recruited DWF employment partner Ashley Norman to head its Birmingham employment team. Norman had been at the firm for over two years. He was previously a partner and national head of employment and pensions at Cobbetts, having joined the firm from Pinsent Masons in 2008.. He has experience providing contentious and non-contentious employment […]
How can longer-serving GCs leave their legacy for the next generation rising through the ranks? Our panel of in-house experts discuss their strategies.
When Gibson Dunn & Crutcher reported itself to the SRA last month it was sending a clear message: we’re acting decisively, quickly and we’re on top of this nightmare. The nightmare centred on allegations, subsequently proved, that Gibson Dunn partner Peter Gray had misled a court by knowingly submitting falsified evidence. The US firm issued […]