Travers Smith is advising the UK’s largest online rail bookings company thetrainline.com as it prepares to go public later this year. Travers Smith corporate head Spencer Summerfield is leading the advice for thetrainline.com owners Exponent, alongside corporate partners Adrian West and Charles Casassa. Herbert Smith Freehills corporate partner Chris Haynes and global head of capital […]
Shoosmiths has advised Renal Services (UK) Ltd, a provider of independent dialysis services to NHS patients, on its £3.1m investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF), which was completed in November 2014. The investment by BGF provides working capital for Renal Services to open and run new centres across the UK, including two new contracts […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Loyens & Loeff has promoted five lawyers to its partnership, bringing the total number of partners to 103. Tax adviser Gerard Blokland, corporate specialists Bastiaan Cornelisse and Michael Scott, tax lawyer and Belgian transfer pricing head Natalie Reypens and competition […]
There’s something of a trend going on for sole-provider deals, and if any firm is at the forefront of this particular fashion it’s Pinsent Masons. Though Eversheds was a sole-provider first-mover through its deal with engineering conglomerate Tyco, Pinsents has won a number of eye-catching mandates in the past two years starting with Balfour Beatty […]
US firms dominated M&A league tables last year as worldwide M&A rose 47 per cent in the strongest year for deal making since 2007. According to Thomson Reuters’ review of M&A last year, the value of worldwide M&A totalled $3.5tr in 2014, up from $2.4tr in 2013. The boost came on the back of an […]
CMS Cameron McKenna is close to completing a modern studio style fit-out of Cannon Place ahead of its move to the new premises early in the new financial year. The new office bridges Cannon Street tube station and will be CMS’s new London headquarters when the lease ends at Mitre House on Aldersgate Street in […]
HealthTrust Europe, a central purchasing body for the health sector, has launched a procurement exercise for its legal services panel review in 2015. HealthTrust Europe set up its current panel in 2011, and extended it until August 2015 last year. The panels agreed this year will provide legal services for three years with the option […]
Midlands-based Shakespeares has hired former Wragge & Co real estate boss Adrian Bland as head of commercial real estate in Birmingham. Bland was head of the property group at Wragge & Co for 10 years having previously been head of property and the senior partner of Eversheds in Birmingham. He retired from the role, becoming […]
DLA Piper has made the following office and regional leadership appointments in the US: – Joseph Silver to managing partner of the Atlanta office, succeeding Robert Crewdson. – John Rattigan to managing partner of the Boston office, succeeding Elliot Surkin. – Karl Dial to managing partner of the Dallas office, succeeding Philip Weller. – Jackie […]
DLA Piper has strengthened its finance and projects team in Paris with the appointment of Eric Villateau as a partner. He has much experience in project financing, particularly within the PPP framework. Villateau has advised numerous banks, investment funds and companies in areas including infrastructure (airports, telecoms, universities), renewable energy, conventional energy and transportation. He was […]
DLA Piper has announced that Adam Sak has joined the firm’s technology transactions and strategic sourcing practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office. Sak focuses his practice on complex commercial transactions, including business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology outsourcing (ITO) transactions, as well as advising companies on other strategic sourcing matters. Prior […]
DLA Piper has hosted a press briefing with lawyers from across Asia region who shared its views on what they see as key market trends in 2015, with a focus on capital markets, real estate and investigations. They predict that 2015 will continue to be another year of opportunity for Asia. In the capital markets […]