Walker Morris has advised Symington’s on its acquisition of certain of the business and assets of The Tanfield Food Company for an undisclosed sum. Corporate partner Richard Naish led the law firm’s team. Leeds-based Symington’s manufactures convenience foods under national and international brand names such as Ainsley Harriot, Ragu, Aunt Bessie’s, Jane Asher, Mugshot and The […]
A cross-jurisdictional Ogier team has advised Friends Life Group on the £317m sale of the entire share capital of its wholly owned subsidiaries Lombard International Assurance SA and Insurance Development Holdings AG (jointly Lombard), the company’s pan-European specialist in estate and succession planning solutions for ultra-high-net-work and high-net-worth individuals, to funds managed by Blackstone. The total […]
Eversheds attorney-at-law Vaida Česnulevičiūtė has participated in a meeting that took place at the Austrian Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs to discuss the challenges and opportunities in foreign, security and defence policy that the European Union (EU) is currently facing. Among the topics covered were the EU-Russia relations following the crisis in Ukraine and the prospects […]
Since February 2009, Wierzbowski Eversheds has provided pro bono legal support for the Wybrani w Górach Association in a dispute with Poland’s Ministry of Regional Development. Thanks to a recent win, the association is not required to return funding it received in the EQUAL operational programme and students at schools in the Sudety mountains can […]
Eversheds partner Naeema Choudry has commented on the news that all civil service employees will be entitled to full parental pay from April 2015. She said that the new shared parental leave regime, which will affect parents of babies due from 5 April 2015, ‘marks a bold move away from the current highly gender-based and […]
Eversheds senior associate Richard Franklin will give a presentation on the legal aspects of founding a company in the UK at a target market seminar for companies exporting or planning to enter to the UK market. The seminar, entitled ‘How to succeed at the UK market’, has been organised by the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the […]
DLA Piper has received an ‘Innovator of the Year’ award from the Daily Record for the firm’s expansion of a pro bono legal programme into several Baltimore schools. DLA Piper opened a free legal clinic in 2008 at one inner-city high school in Baltimore and the programme has since grown to include four schools, including elementary, middle […]
DLA Piper has advised Dignity Group on its exchange offer and further issue of secured notes, which was completed on 17 October 2014. The bond issue will be followed by a return of circa £64m to shareholders, equating to £1.20 per ordinary share. Following the transaction, the group’s annual debt service costs are expected to […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda and British Virgin Islands (BVI) legal advice to Landsea Green Properties Co and its two BVI subsidiaries, New Phenomenon Technology and Green Era, in connection with the issue of $100m (£62m) in aggregate principal amount of 9.56 per cent senior secured guaranteed notes due 2017 to Great Wall […]
Ofgem has extended its panel for another two years, giving Burges Salmon, Hogan Lovells, Nabarro and Pinsent Masons along with nine other firms a further term as its advisers. The regulator first named 11 firms on its E-Serve roster in 2012 (12 December 2012). The division is a division dealing with the delivery of government […]
Land Securities’ first-ever general counsel Adrian de Souza has handed in his resignation after over four years at the FTSE 100 property company. De Souza moved to Land Securities from SABMiller in October 2010 (19 October 2010), replacing company secretary Peter Dudgeon who stepped down after more than a decade in the role. De Souza was […]
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