Let’s go to Roka, says J. It works for the diet and it’s just round the corner. Roka (pronounced Rock-a) has become our local client lunch eatery of choice, in that culinary hotch-potch that is NoMa. What is NoMa, you may ask, unaware that is my desperate one-woman attempt to turn the outer reaches of […]
Squire Patton Boggs has advised on the deal to sell Sheffield Wednesday Football Club to Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri, representing owner Milan Mandaric. Squire Patton Boggs corporate partner David Hull led the firm’s advice to Mandaric, maintaining a long relationship with the businessman originally started at legacy Hammonds. DLA Piper partners Jon Kenworthy and Rob […]
If you were still looking for a way to get your year started properly yesterday then you could have done a lot worse than attend the party to launch the Hot 100 2015. A stellar turnout saw a jamboree of lawyers from every corner of the legal market rub shoulders over a glass or two […]
US firm Chadbourne & Parke has become the latest international player to launch in South Africa, opening a Johannesburg office with the hire of Bowman Gilfillan partner Lido Fontana. Project finance partner Fontana will work alongside London-based partners Agnieszka Klich, Kevin Atkins and Julien Bocobza and Dubai-based Sohail Barkatali, Richard Keenan and Yasser Yaqub. The six partners […]
Claire van Overdijk, member of No5 Chambers Court of Protection group, has co-authored a book titled ‘The International Protection of Adults’, which concerns cross border mental capacity law. Also authored by Richard Frimston, Alexander Ruck Keene and Adrian Ward MBE, the book will be published by Oxford University Press in February 2015. International Protection of […]
Ogierhas recently advised on the £680m sale of the Jurys Inn hotel group to US private equity firm Lone Star. Ogier acted for the seller, Jurys Inn Holdings Limited, which is owned by Oman Investment Fund, Mount Kellett Capital Management, Ulster Bank, Westmont Hospitality Group and Avestus Capital Partners following a significant debt restructuring in […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman is advising AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd on its $11bn (£7.3bn) merger of equals with PartnerRe Ltd. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of 2015, is structured as an amalgamation under Bermuda law and is subject to shareholder approval, regulatory clearance and customary closing conditions. Upon completion […]
Shoosmiths has advised DPE Deutsche Private Equity and its portfolio company OmniaMed on their multi-million pound acquisition of Schofield Healthcare Media and the related equity investment into OmniaMed by one of the sellers. Schofield Healthcare Media is a leading UK provider of medical education and conference services to healthcare professionals. The Shoosmiths cross-office team advised […]
Law firms have always relied on technically brilliant lawyers to help build their reputation. In the future this may well not be sufficient. Firms need to understand how to grow leaders, provide direction and alignment with its values and DNA, and inspire commitment from disparate geographies and practices. Those that prepare their finest partners for […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partners are on the last leg of the firm’s managing partner election this week, with a vote scheduled for Tuesday. In the running are head of corporate David Collins and head of employment Lisa Mayhew, both of whom surfaced among the early contenders last month. Details of their election manifestos have […]
Deutsche Bank’s litigation costs fell by over 80 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013, from €1.1bn to €207m (£155m), helping the bank to a surprise pretax profit. The figures revealed in the fourth quarter report follows news last October that Germany’s largest lender had posted a […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) head of corporate David Collins and head of employment Lisa Mayhew will go head-to-head on Tuesday (3 February), when partners vote in the firm’s first contested managing partner election for 16 years. Incumbent managing partner Neville Eisenberg is set to stand down at the end of April after five consecutive terms […]