Eurostar has delayed its panel review until spring 2015, granting Burges Salmon, CMS Cameron McKenna and Osborne Clarke a four-month reprieve. General counsel Scott Marshall is understood to have postponed the review, due to take place every two years, due to a high volume of work experienced by the train company over the year. The […]
BLM, Clarke Willmott and Penningtons Manches are among the firms to have been newly appointed to the Housing Associations’ Legal Alliance (HALA) refreshed panel. HALA completed the review process and established its second legal panel in September. All the successful firms have been appointed for three years with an option to extend for one year. […]
September saw the beginning of the end for Bingham McCutchen as its London partners decided to jump ship to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Bingham lawyers nervy as London partners mull exit The London office of Bingham McCutchen was under intense speculation in September, with potential offers from Morgan Lewis and Akin Gump Strauss […]
This year has been the year when the promise of local authority alternative business structures (ABSs) finally came good. In August Buckinghamshire County Council and Milton Keynes Fire Authority’s joint venture was the first local authority body to be granted an ABS licence, followed closely by the London Boroughs of Harrow and Barnet, which merged […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has suffered another departure from its Asian practice, with Tokyo corporate and M&A head James Robinson defecting to Morrison & Foerster (MoFo). Robinson joined HSF legacy firm Herbert Smith in 1999 and has been based in Tokyo for the past 10 years. He specialises in advising Japanese multinationals in a range […]
A Hamburg-based Bird & Bird lawyer, and a former partner from the same office, have been drawn into a corruption trial involving one of their clients. Current corporate counsel Ole Brühl and former partner Frank Moerchen, who retired from Bird & Bird on 31 October 2013, had a longstanding relationship with the ex-chief of German […]
Buckinghamshire County Council has tasked its new alternative business structure (ABS) with generating profits of £400,000 over the next five years. The local authority became the first to form an ABS in August when the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) granted it a licence to operate as Buckinghamshire Law Plus, combining with the legal team of […]
Readers remained heated in August, as the storm surrounding marketing professionals’ salaries raged on. Meanwhile, Cooley was busy making informal job offers to a number of Edwards Wildman Palmer partners, and Nabarro began offering fixed fee deals to clients across its litigation practice. £477,00? Maybe we’re worth it In late July, the news that marketing […]
In case you missed it, the big news among US firms in London currently is not only that Kirkland & Ellis debt finance partner Stephen Gillespie is leaving the firm, but that he is off to join Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Gillespie has become the Californian firm’s fifth high-profile recruit this year as the California-headquartered […]
DLA Piper has advised the Hahn Group, an asset and investment manager with a focus on retail properties, on the sale of the Erding shopping centre to the KGAL Group. KGAL acquired the property for an institutional real estate fund. Erding was opened in 2008 and offers a broad range of services and products over a total […]
Janine Alexander, partner in Collyer Bristow’s financial disputes team, was interviewed by the Moneybox programme on BBC Radio 4 regarding Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group’s ‘unconscionable’ double billing of mortgage arrears.
Schoenherr has invited its corporate/M&A specialist Florian Kusznier into the firm’s equity. Kusznier has extensive know-how in advising Austrian and international clients on M&A and private equity transactions, public takeovers, and general corporate law matters. A further focus of his practice is M&A advice to leading medium-sized enterprises and transaction-related employment matters, including board advice.