The Lawyer has launched a salary survey to chart the state of lawyers’ pay across the profession. In what is set to be the largest market-wide salary survey, it will cover the whole of the solicitors’ profession, including trainees, paralegals and in-house lawyers, as well as solicitors in private practice. Among the topics covered in […]
Shell’s £47bn swoop on gas group BG Group announced last week is one of the largest takeovers in the oil sector in years, and is largely a consequence of plummeting oil prices globally. Slaughter and May advised Royal Dutch Shell alongside Dutch best friend De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised BG Group. The […]
Ogier Guernsey has advised on the £5.6bn acquisition of Friends Life by Aviva. Ogier Guernsey has advised Friends Life Group, a London-listed Guernsey company, on its acquisition by Aviva, which has created the UK’s largest insurance, savings and asset management firm. The combined group will have some 16 million UK customers – equivalent to about […]
Baker & McKenzie has advised Starbucks on its agreement with one of China’s leading food and beverage producers Tingyi Holding to manufacture and distribute Starbucks’ ready-to-drink products throughout mainland China. The agreement will bring the entire Starbucks ready-to-drink portfolio to customers in China as well as enable product innovation specifically aimed at the China market. Starbucks will be […]
Al-Ajlan & Partners in association with Baker & McKenzie has advised Saudi Company for Hardware (SACO) on its initial public offering (IPO). Approved by the Saudi Capital Market Authority on 31 March 2015, the IPO involved the sale of 7.2 million shares representing 30 per cent of SACO’s share capital. Operating across 12 cities in Saudi Arabia, […]
Brought in to guide DLA Piper through a major strategic shake-up, Tony Angel was never going to win everyone’s favour, but what do the facts say about his legacy? Four years ago DLA Piper made a lateral hire that created shockwaves. That isn’t easy to do these days, but the arrival of former Linklaters managing […]
Rugby star Gordon D’Arcy tried his hand at some alternative sporting activities yesterday to help children’s charity Barretstown drum up support for its annual sports day corporate fundraising event, hosted by Eversheds in Herbert Park, Dublin from 4pm on Thursday, 11 June 2015. The event, which encourages the business community to raise funds for the charity, has been […]
Property developer Empirical Property Group (EPG) has filed a claim to sue Gateley for breach of contract and professional negligence. The total amount of damages claimed is still unclear. EPG claims the firm forged documents and acted dishonestly when it was instructed to work on a series of contracts to do with the development and […]
US firm Goodwin Procter has unveiled plans to launch a private equity practice in its London office as part of its expansion strategy in the City. Goodwin Procter is planning to expand its London-based headcount and offering after posting a 4.4 per cent revenue increase to £521.5m in 2014 (2 February 2015). London managing […]
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has risen by six spots to the top of this year’s global project finance rankings for the first quarter of 2015, while Allen & Overy (A&O) has toppled from first to eight place. A&O knocked Clifford Chance off the top spot with 68 deals worth $94.9bn spanning the full year […]
Paul Hastings has hired Ashurst leveraged finance partner Luke McDougall to join the London office as a partner in its corporate practice. McDougall is leaving Ashurst after working in the firm’s banking practice for over eight years. He was made partner last year in the first firm-wide promotions round since the firm merged with Ashurst […]
Nine partners have been top-rated by Best Lawyers International 2016. The partners, in 12 practices of the Kiev office of Baker & McKenzie, were highly recommended by the 2016 edition of Best Lawyers International. Co-managing partner Serhiy Chorny and partners Viacheslav Yakymchuk and Oksana Simonova were named Lawyers of the Year in Project Finance and Development, M&A, and […]