Baker & McKenzie has been named as Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards, which took place in Milan on 24 March 2015. The award was assigned by an external jury made up of bankers and tax directors of leading Italian and multinational companies. The jury awarded the firm […]
Slaughter and May and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison have advised banking start-up Shawbrook Group on its initial public offering (IPO) on the London stock exchange, valued at £725m. Slaughter and May London corporate and commercial partners David Johnson and Susannah Macknay advised Shawbrook and its principal shareholder Pollen Street Capital, supported by tax […]
A former News of the World journalist, who was the first to be found guilty of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office following Operation Elveden, has had the conviction quashed, with No5 Chambers’ John Butterfield QC on his case. The reporter was given a six-month suspended sentence following a trial at the Old Bailey […]
Risk adviser Willis Group has appointed Travelers’ senior vice president and general counsel Matthew Furman as global general counsel in its New York office. Furman will report to chief executive Dominic Casserley. He replaces Adam Rosman, who moved to First Data Corporation as general counsel in October last year. Casserley said Furman’s appointment will help the […]
US firm Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff is planning to launch a London office through the hire of two Locke Lord lawyers, partner Gavin Coull and consultant Damian Cleary. Both lawyers specialise in insurance and reinsurance, and joined Locke Lord in 2012 from Steptoe & Johnson, where they were both partners (29 May 2012). […]
Shoosmiths has confirmed plans to convert to an all equity partnership structure from 1 May, with eight per cent of the firm’s partners opting out of the new one-tier partnership. A total of 76 of the firm’s partners opted to become members of the LLP as fixed share equity partners. Shoosmiths will have an equity […]
Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla has hosted a Business for the Rule of Law workshop in the UAE. The UAE has become a major player on the global business stage in recent years. Yet the nation still needs to strengthen the rule of law to sustain growth and meet its ambitious targets. In a recent […]
Former Leeds United managing director David Haigh has instructed Stephenson Harwood to bring a case against his former employers and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray, alleging they engaged in human trafficking to lure him to Dubai, where he is now in prison. Haigh, who was also GFH general counsel, has been imprisoned in […]
Law firms that moved to King’s Cross and Southbank for cheaper rents and business rates could see their bills increase by up to 25 per cent following the Government rental valuation assessment, which starts in April. Business rates are expected to reach half of the value of rental properties by 2017 following the revaluation, leading […]
US firms have matched and exceeded the rates charged by their magic circle counterparts for the first time in 2015, with work-hungry partners charging up to £900 per hour and newly qualified lawyers up to £400. Partners in top US firms are charging between £700 and £900 an hour, with the rates at the top […]
Chadbourne & Parke has recruited corporate partner Andrei Baev from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) as its new Moscow managing partner. Baev will split his time between London and Moscow, as he has done previously. He joined BLP in late 2011 from Allen & Overy and spent the past three years working both from the UK and […]
Hogan Lovells has launched an office in Australia with the hire of partners Nicky Lester and Tim Lester from Linklaters’ best friend firm Allens. Hogan Lovells CEO Steve Immelt said that the firm’s Australia launch is focused on an offering that would complement its multi-jurisdictional practice rather than a domestic Australian practice. [continues] Also on […]