A huge raft of firms flew in to help out travel business Monarch Group on its rescue by Greybull Capital last week. The list of firms advising included Addleshaw Goddard, Bird & Bird, CMS Cameron McKenna, Forsters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kirkland & Ellis, Macfarlanes and Norton Rose Fulbright. But it was Freshfields which played the […]
It’s been over a year since Ashurst partners voted Ben Tidswell into the firm’s newly created chairman role and in doing so ousted Charlie Geffen after four years at the helm. Having trained at the firm, made partner in 1991, proceeded to become head of private equity and then to senior partner in 2009, the […]
Italian corporate boutique Giovannelli e Associati, which was launched last year by a team from Ashurst, has expanded with the addition of another three partners. Andrea Bartolucci and Michele Mocarelli join from D’Urso Gatti e Bianchi and Pavia e Ansaldo respectively, while Liviano Sinopoli is bringing three associates from his boutique Studio Legale Sinopoli & Partners. […]
Payment processing company Worldpay has hired former Barclays Bank lawyer Mark Edwards as its new group general counsel. Edwards replaces Mark Chambers, who held Worldpay’s chief legal role since May 2008. His destination is unknown. Having joined in September, Edwards now heads up Worldpay’s 45-strong in-house legal team which spans the UK, US and Asia. […]
Kennedys is the latest top 50 firm to become an alternative business structure (ABS) after being awarded a licence this weekend. Kennedys has been a legal disciplinary practice (LDP) since 2009 and has two chartered legal executives and two non-lawyer partners. With LDPs due to become obsolete next year, the firm was compelled to move […]
UK lawyer Lucy Wayne has relaunched a practice in Myanmar 12 years after international sanctions placed on the country forced her to pull out. Having qualified at Dentons legacy firm Denton Hall Burgin & Warren in 1989, Wayne moved to Asia in 1992 to become managing lawyer of Ho Chi Minh City-based Indochina Consulting Services, […]
‘I don’t like liars, I don’t like cheats, I don’t like bullshitters, I don’t like schmoozers, I don’t like arse-lickers’ — the immortal words of Lord Sugar explaining his hiring policy. If The Apprentice is to be believed, the rules of getting a job are: give 110 per cent, put your balls on the line […]
Spanish firm Pérez-Llorca has secured the instruction to advise the Spanish airport operator Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) on its upcoming flotation for a fee of just €1. Aena launched a tender process earlier this year with bids from several firms including Garrigues and Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira. It is understood that there was no […]
Of all the regions in the world, the one attracting the most interest for office launches this autumn is Africa. Following Allen & Overy’s launch in South Africa and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s opening in the Ivory Coast, this week has seen a further two significant moves by law firms on the continent. First up […]
DWF has made 15 secretaries, six solicitors, four paralegals, and one analyst from its fraud, intelligence and motor teams redundant following a consultation that kicked off in June. In May the Liverpool-based team was told that up to 37 jobs could be at risk (30 May 2014). DWF managing partner Andrew Leaitherland said: “We are […]
Pinsent Masons has filed a High Court claim for £700,000 plus interest against broker client RP Martin after the company failed to stump up fees for advice relating to its Libor investigation. The Financial Times reported that court filings detail six unpaid Pinsents invoices billed between March 2013 and January 2014. The highest outstanding bill […]
The Solicitors Journal has published an article on civil restraint orders written by Patrick Wheeler from Collyer Bristow. In the article, Wheeler considers Liley in order to identify what constitutes pursuing a civil restraint order.