Eversheds has advised Places for People Group (PfP) on its acquisition of ZeroC, a sustainable residential developer active across the UK. ZeroC focuses on designing new and sustainable communities in conjunction with significant landowners, including the Homes & Communities Agency and The Duchy of Cornwall. PfP is one of the largest property management, development and […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has been honoured as Best Offshore Law Firm – Client Services at the third annual MENA Fund Manager Fund Services Awards. This is the third consecutive year the firm has taken home top honours at the event, having received the award for Client Services in 2013 and for Best Offshore Law […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) reduced its debt position in its first full year as a merged firm, although it still ended the 2013/14 year with borrowings of £141m. As the firm in its current form was created via the October 2012 merger of UK firm Herbert Smith with Australia’s Freehills (28 June 2012) the previous […]
Five Conyers Dill & Pearman lawyers have been recognised as experts in aviation finance by Who’s Who Legal Transport 2015 for offshore aircraft finance work. Of the offshore lawyers named for the jurisdictions of Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands, the Conyers lawyers made the substantive majority. Julie McLean, Jason Piney and Stephen […]
Michael Conroy-Harris, construction expert at Eversheds, has commented on figures on the promise of a UK construction jobs boom. Conroy-Harris said: ‘It’s incredibly encouraging news that the recovery in UK construction is being predicted as strong enough to need 200,000 more workers (an increase of nearly 10 per cent) in the next five years. ‘The reality, […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued its series of bold US lateral hires with the appointment of Kirkland & Ellis employment partner Howard Klein to its New York office. Klein will join Freshfields on 2 February after seven years as a partner at Kirkland, practising employee benefits and executive compensation law. He will join the firm’s […]
Simmons & Simmons managing partner Jeremy Hoyland has started the year by setting about drawing up a new three-year strategy and reflecting an economy that has been “defying gravity”. The firm has numerous new initiatives taking hold, such as a newly opened funds practice in Luxembourg, its new contract lawyer offering Adaptive, and the IP […]
Baker & McKenzie has hired a seven-strong team from Houthoff Buruma and Linklaters to boost its M&A, capital markets and private equity offering in Amsterdam. The firm has appointed Linklaters M&A partner Henk Arnold Sijnja and Houthoff Buruma private equity and M&A partners Casper Banz and Mohammed Almarini, along with four associates from Houthoff. Sijnja […]
Reed Smith has advised Sky on an agreement with Telefónica UK to launch its first mobile phone network service next year. Technology partner Angus Finnegan, who joined in July 2014 from Osborne Clarke (2 July 2014), led the Reed Smith team, working closely with Sky’s in-house lawyers Andrew Perry, Karla Ritchie and Andrew Middleton. The deal […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s advocacy head Stuart Isaacs QC has joined King & Spalding’s (K&S) global disputes team as a partner, effective 9 February. BLP appointed Isaacs as an equity partner to develop its in house advocacy unit in October 2011 (27 October 2011). Isaacs, who divided his time between London and Singapore at South […]
CMS Cameron McKenna paid £2.3m to Dundas & Wilson prior to taking the firm over, with the cash being used to cover the cost of a pre-deal restructuring. CMS began talks regarding a Dundas takeover in mid 2013, with the deal going live on 1 May 2014 (12 December 2013). Dundas cut 40 support roles […]
BBVA’s former UK head of legal Joanne Theodoulou has taken up the role of general counsel at NetOTC, an independent platform that deals with over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions. Theodoulou left Spanish bank BBVA in October 2014 after over three years as head of legal for global markets, UK. She led the bank’s UK legal team […]