Australian firm HWL Ebsworth is bulking up its Adelaide offering with the addition of six-partner insurance and litigation firm Lawson Smith Lawyers. The news comes just a day after the firm revealed plans to expand into the Northern Territory via the acquisition of Cridlands MB (3 December 2014) and continues a trend that has seen […]
Nine female lawyers have featured in this year’s Part Time Power list of high-earning successful professionals, which collects 50 people that succeed in part-time jobs across several industries. The legal industry is at the top of the list this year in second place in terms of representation, following the TMT sector. The list includes both […]
Arbitration boutique Three Crowns has hired Covington & Burling partner Carmen Martinez Lopez as a partner in its London office along with senior associates for each of its three bases. Martinez Lopez is the first female partner for the boutique, which launched earlier this year after six partners from Covington & Burling, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, […]
After three years at Hyperion, general counsel and chief risk officer Will Bloomer is warming up for the insurance intermediary’s seventeenth acquisition and couldn’t be more relaxed about it. In this week’s in-house interview Bloomer explains why merger is all in a days work in the insurance sector and how he has established longstanding relationships […]
Clifford Chance is understood to be carrying out a review of its German operations, and is likely to see the departure of a number of partners as a result. The firm elected Peter Dieners as its new German managing partner in July (31 July 2014) and is now examining its capabilities across its three offices […]
Former chief executive of the University of Law (ULaw) Nigel Savage has taken up one of two new non-executive director roles at personal injury firm Fletchers Solicitors. Savage stepped down as CEO of the University of Law in March 2014 after leading the organisation for 18 years (6 February 2014). Savage left ULaw about 14 […]
Flash memory storage company SanDisk has announced the appointment of new chief legal officer Mark Brazeal, senior deputy general counsel at tech company Broadcom. He has replaced former chief legal officer Eric Whitaker, who had been in the role since January 2013. Before his role at SanDisk, Whitaker was general counsel and corporate secretary at […]
DLA Piper has advised EMMVEE Solar Systems, an Indian producer of monocrystalline and polycrystalline photovoltaic modules, on the sale of Solarpark Bronkow Luckaitztal to regional energy provider RheinEnergie. The solar park, located near Berlin, has an installed capacity of 11.4MWp. The project development division of EMMVEE developed Solarpark Bronkow independently and commissioned it in 2012. […]
DLA Piper has advised ASX-listed Mirvac Group on its acquisition of a major retail centre and marina in Sydney. Birkenhead Point Shopping Centre, Drummoyne, and an adjoining car parking facility and marina have been purchased by the group for a total consideration of AUD310m (£166m). The asset was purchased from Abacus Property Group & Kirsh Group. […]
DLA Piper has advised Ping An Insurance on a $4.75bn (£3bn) H-share placing. The placing agreement was signed on 30 November 2014, pursuant to which the sole placing agent, Morgan Stanley, will, on behalf of Ping An, place an aggregate of 594,056,000 new H shares at the placing price of HKD62 (£5), to no fewer […]
Deutsche Bank’s regular global legal panel review has kicked off, and is due to come to a close early next year. The bank reviews its legal roster every two years, with the last reshuffle finalised in September 2012. That re-jig saw firms including Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst, Clifford Chance, CMS, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan […]
Michael Collet QC from 20 Essex Street, instructed by Jackson Parton, has appeared for the claimant in Golden Endurance Shipping v RMA Watanya & Ors. The claimant owners of the mv Golden Endurance were subject to cargo claims in the Moroccan Court brought by the first to third defendant insurers. The owners obtained an interim anti-suit […]