Fried Frank’s Asian ambition shuddered to a halt this week as the firm closed its operations in Hong Kong and Shanghai after seven years in the region. The move further reduces the firm’s presence outside the US. Although Fried Frank retains small offices in Frankfurt and Paris, it relocated its last Paris-based partner to London […]
Irwin Mitchell former London head of corporate Andrew Woolf has left the firm to join Fox Williams in London. Fox Williams has also taken on real estate partner Phillip Hope from Dentons to head up the firm’s real estate team and develop its international strategy. Woolf was at Irwin Mitchell for seven years. He was […]
Clifford Chance managing partner Matthew Layton set the tone for his tenure within weeks of succeeding David Childs last May when he overhauled the firm’s constitution, scrapping leadership elections and installing a new executive management team. Less than a year later and the next phase of a grand plan to future-proof the firm is underway. […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has kicked off 2015 with a couple of personnel changes in its Asia-Pacific energy practice, moving global practice head Simon Currie from London to Sydney and regional practice head Vincent Dwyer from Sydney to Singapore. According to the firm the purpose of the changes is to get itself in position to deal […]
Clifford Chance has appointed its first global head of innovation and business change alongside a new chief operating officer (COO), both with specific remits to support an era of transformation under new managing partner Matthew Layton. Layton set the wheels of change in motion as soon as he took on the managing partner role in […]
As global consolidation shows no sign of slowing down, the need for independent firms to find a way of effectively working across borders has only grown. Over the past decade or so, the trend in the global legal market has been just that – globalisation. The likes of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper have […]
Among the first major IPOs to be announced in 2015, infrastructure investor John Laing has outlined its plan to float on the London Stock Exchange. The legal line-up advising on the transaction features some usual suspects. Following a stellar 2014 for its capital markets team, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has begun this year as it means […]
Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have stepped up to advise as infrastructure investor John Laing Group announces plans to list on the London Stock Exchange. The company, which was initially listed in 1953 but taken private by funds managed by Henderson in 2007, is seeking to raise about £130m to fund new infrastructure investments. […]
US firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has called time on its beleaguered Hong Kong and Shanghai offices, with plans to close its Asian operations after seven years in June 2015. Ongoing discussions are thought to revolve around the possibility of maintaining a service office in Hong Kong, which could be an unmanned office […]
The English courts have been the centre for global litigation for some time – but far from decreasing, the international nature of disputes coming to London is merely accelerating. This year’s selection of the top 20 cases to hit the High Court this year is one of the most international ever. While Russia, so long […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has advised Birmingham City Council (BCC) on the sale of the NEC Group to private equity company LDC. The transaction values the NEC Group at around £307m. BCC is retaining the freehold of all of the NEC sites. The sale encompasses all NEC Group businesses, with a 125-year leasehold interest […]
Eversheds has announced the appointment of Maria Hernández, who has joined the Madrid office as a partner, bolstering the firm’s global compliance and crisis management team. Hernández joins the firm from Pentair where she was the head of legal for the Southern European region and chief compliance counsel for European operations. Prior to that, she held […]