Conyers Dill & Pearman has been named Best Law Firm for Offshore Work by China Business Law Journal. Conyers also picked up four deal of the year honours for the third straight year by the same directory.
Barclays has announced the appointment of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Mark Shelton as global general counsel for its investment banking division and regional general counsel for the Americas. Shelton joins the bank after just a year at Gibson Dunn, where he was co-chair of the firm’s financial institutions group (3 March 2014). He joined […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman provided Bermuda law advice to Aircastle Ltd on the offering of $500m of its 5.5% senior notes, due 2022, which completed on 15 January. JP Morgan Securities, BNP Paribas Securities, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Agricole Securities (USA), Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman, Sachs, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA) and RBC Capital Markets acted […]
Shoosmiths is celebrating a national award win for client service after IP partner Gary Assim was named the UK’s ‘Intellectual Property – Copyright’ winner – for the second consecutive year – at the Client Choice Awards, 2015. Assim is national head of the intellectual property and creative industry group as well as leading the retail sector group […]
Mishcon de Reya has become the latest top 50 firm to gain an ABS licence, some six months after lodging its application with the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA). The firm was granted its licence on 12 February. Mishcon has been eyeing ABS conversion for some time, with the possibility mooted as early as 2012 (16 […]
Hogan Lovells and Erskine Chambers have secured a Court of Appeal (CoA) judgment requiring Russian tycoon Sergei Pugachev to disclose information about discretionary trusts established in New Zealand, setting a precedent in cases involving freezing orders. The CoA ruled that Pugachev, who once had close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin, must disclose information about […]
When Kirkland & Ellis’ London head Graham White quit the firm last October to join Fried Frank, there were a few names in the frame to succeed him. Former London chief Jim Learner was not one of them. When Kirkland & Ellis’ London head Graham White quit the firm last October to join Fried Frank, […]
US firm Paul Hastings has posted a 6.3 per cent increase in revenue in its year-end financial results for 2014, growing from $941m to $1bn (£649m). Profit per partner increased by 8.5 per cent, from $2.17m to $2.36m, and Paul Hastings’ revenue per lawyer grew by 8 per cent from $1.06m to $1.1m. The firm’s […]
When Kirkland & Ellis’ London head Graham White quit the firm last October to join Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, there were a few names in the frame to succeed him (13 October 2014). But former London chief Jim Learner was not one of them. The lawyer, who helped to establish Kirkland’s London office […]
M&A activity offshore rose to record levels in 2014, with aggregate deal value up 63 per cent compared to 2013 and deal volume at the third-highest in the last decade. Statistics compiled by Appleby show that deal value for offshore M&A rose to $277bn last year, up from $170bn in 2013. Aggregate deal value was […]
Debevoise & Plimpton executive Howard Rosenberg has been appointed chief executive officer of legal professional services provider FRS Insight, owned by Fox Rodney Search. Rosenberg has joined the company from Debevoise, where he was a business development strategist for private equity for over a year. He previously worked as a chief strategy officer and executive […]
We’d escaped to the Beckford Arms at the weekend, a gastropub with rooms, deep in the heart of the West Country. Run by boys who look like they should be in a Boden catalogue, it’s well worth a visit. We don’t stay in the body of the pub because set in the heart of the […]