Clients of both firms gain an unprecedented platform to serve their international and PRC legal needs. Baker & McKenzie was the first international law firm licensed to practice law in China when it opened in Beijing in 1993. It opened its Shanghai office in 2003. FenXun Partners was founded in Beijing in 2009. FenXun advises […]
Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters and Slaughter and May have picked up the leading roles in Virgin Group and CVC Capital Partners’ sale of 80 per cent of its stake in Virgin Active to South Africa’s Brait for £682m. Slaughters acted for Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and CVC Capital Partners on the transaction. The […]
Walker Morris has delivered for Endless on its FMG investment. A multidisciplinary team of lawyers at Walker Morris advised outsourced management specialist Endless on its investment in the management buyout of incident management and roadside recovery company FMG. FMG specialises in providing outsourced incident management services for a range of clients including insurance companies, corporates and […]
Baker & McKenzie advised MAT Holdings on the acquisition of Federal Mogul’s braking sector for commercial vehicles in Germany and its braking sector for passenger and commercial vehicles in France. The acquisition was structured as an asset deal in Germany and as a share deal in France. Baker & McKenzie advised MAT on contract negotiations as well as on all antitrust law, employment law and tax law issues. “Structuring the transaction required special antitrust expertise,” commented Dr Thomas Gilles, corporate partner at Baker & McKenzie in Frankfurt.
Pinsent Masons has announced that its outgoing managing partner David Ryan will become London office head when he steps down from the firmwide role at the end of this month. Ryan will take over from Martin Roberts as head of the London office. Construction partner Roberts is stepping down after almost 11 years managing the […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Central & Eastern Europe White & Case’s Budapest office is joining Dentons next month in a major boost for the expanding firm’s Central & Eastern European operations (15 April 2015). The entirety of the 50-strong office, including local partners, associates and […]
Ahead of eBay’s split from PayPal in the second half of this year, the company has found a top lawyer to take over – Agilent Technologies general counsel Marie Oh Huber. She will be part of the new management line-up at eBay and replaces Michael Jacobson, who is stepping down after 17 years. With six […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s internal consultation into opening a low cost legal services hub in Manchester has ended, with relocations and a local recruitment drive set to begin by summer. Managing partner David Aitman told The Lawyer launching an alternative office that could provide firmwide legal support was one of the “five key objectives” for his term, […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised the Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon on a Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation that yesterday (15 April) saw the bank slapped with a £126m fine for breaching custody rules. A&O head of banking, finance and regulatory litigation Calum Burnett, banking partner Damian Carolan and counsel Philip Annett provided advice […]
Portuguese firm PLMJ is set to open its doors in London this year with a representative office led by Hugo Rosa Ferreira to capture a greater volume of work from the London legal market. Ferreira, who currently heads the firm’s banking and finance practice, will become the firm’s London managing partner. According to the firm, […]
Mishcon de Reya has hired Proskauer Rose London heavyweight Michael Nouril as a corporate partner in a reverse of the current trend for US firms to hire private equity partners. Nouril joined Proskauer from Jones Day in 2011, leaving his position as European head of private equity to join the US firm in a flurry […]
Suspended Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray will take his fight against the ruling that he deliberately misled the High Court to the Court of Appeal (CoA). Fountain Court Chambers confirmed Mark Simpson QC, Gray’s counsel throughout his cross-examination and conviction, had been instructed to mount the new challenge to Mr Justice Flaux’s ruling. […]