We are a pre-eminent employment practice and work with our clients on the full range of domestic and international employment issues. We work with a broad range of blue chip and multinational clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, consumer products, publishing and retail.
Our corporate tax lawyers advise on all aspects of corporate and business taxation and much of our work is of an international nature. Our team, which includes full-time economists, transfer pricing and VAT advisors, frequently work in close cooperation with tax lawyers in other Baker & McKenzie offices in connection with cross-border transactions and the […]
The London corporate department provides a full range of transactional and regulatory advice to corporate, private equity and financial clients. In addition to extensive experience in public and private M&A, corporate reorganisations, joint ventures, major projects and securities offerings, the department offers specialist advice on restructuring and insolvency, environmental markets, financial services regulation and fund […]
Compliance touches all aspects of our clients’ businesses – governance and structure, financial, design and production, distribution, sales and marketing, people and data. By providing a big-picture view of clients’ compliance obligations, our cross-practice compliance team helps clients identify areas of vulnerability and prioritise those areas so they can tackle them first – using resources most effectively […]
Our global immigration and mobility lawyers work in tandem with the 425 lawyers in our global labour, employment and employee benefits and corporate compliance practices They assess projects in conjunction with the relevant employment, benefits, tax and data privacy standards that typically impact cross-border hiring and mobility.
Our banking and finance department covers work in banking and structured capital markets. Our banking team represents financial sponsors, corporate entities and financial institutions and advise on all aspects of financing transactions – from origination, negotiation and documentation to closing. We regularly advise on enforcement situations, workouts and re-organisations. In structured capital markets, we have extensive […]
The Budapest office of law firm Eversheds has appointed Richárd Eördögh as a partner and head of strategy. Before joining Eversheds, Eördögh was chief legal counsel of Chayton Capital and its private equity real estate funds in London, and managing partner of the Hungarian office of Bird & Bird in Budapest.
Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised Sunshine 100 China Holdings Ltd on the issue of $100m 12.75 per cent senior notes due 2017. The firm provided BVI, Cayman and Mauritius legal advice in connection with the issue and sale by the company of 12.75 per cent senior notes due 2017 with an aggregate principal amount […]
US firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has broken through the billion-dollar barrier in its 2014 financial results, posting a 11 per cent boost in revenue to $1.03bn (£677m). Partner profits grew 6 per cent during the 2014 financial year, rising from $3.6m to $3.8m. Paul Weiss’ overall headcount also increased, with a 10 per cent […]
Today’s High Court decision to uphold the Lord Chancellor’s criminal legal aid reforms following a judicial review is disappointing news for the Law Society, which has vowed to take its fight against criminal legal aid cuts to the Court of Appeal. Law Society president Andrew Caplen said the judgment had a “concerning potential effect upon […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) senior associate Ed Coulson has joined claimant litigation firm Hausfeld as a partner in its London office bringing its European partner head count to six. Coulson joins Hausfeld after 10 years at BLP, which he joined as a trainee, working on competition and commercial litigation including advising National Grid on a damages […]