Conyers Dill & Pearman has awarded Christy Li and Even Lai with the 2014 Conyers Dill & Pearman Prize in Commercial Law. Lai is currently working as a senior compliance officer at China Universal Asset Management (HK), while Li is working as a manager in the banking industry. Established in 2010 by the firm’s Hong […]
Hogan Lovells has added the first partner to its Vietnam practice with the addition of an Allen & Overy (A&O) lawyer in Ho Chi Minh City. Although he is the only partner in Hogan Lovells’ Ho Chi Minh City base, US-qualified corporate lawyer Jeff Olson, who was a senior associate at A&O, brings the firm’s […]
Gibraltar is a small place, where everyone knows everyone. Perhaps that is one reason why the collapse of law firm Marrache & Co in 2010 sent such shockwaves through the jurisdiction. The fall of Marrache & Co and its trust company subsidiaries has not simply been a story of a firm shutting its doors. It […]
Italian arbitration boutique Arblit has hired its third partner, bringing on board Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Massimo Benedettelli. Benedettelli joins former Bonelli Erede Pappalardo arbitrator Luca Radicati di Brozolo at Arblit, which was founded just over a year ago (12 June 2013). Former Bonelli associate Michele Sabatini is also a partner at the firm. Benedettelli is […]
Spanish firm Pérez- Llorca has announced the opening of a new office in London, led by corporate and finance partner Fernando Quicios. This will be the first office outside of Spain for Pérez-Llorca, allowing it to gain a place in what the firm describes as “Europe’s finance capital”. The London office will be its third […]
Private equity house Mid Europa Partners has appointed its first legal counsel, hiring White & Case senior associate Jana Philip. Philip will be responsible for corporate legal matters and commercial transactions at Mid Europa, reporting to chief financial officer Manish Mittal. Czech-born Philip began her career at White & Case in Prague, before moving to […]
As we revealed yesterday , Kirkland & Ellis’s London head Graham White has made a significant career change this week, jumping ship to be Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson’s first-ever London managing partner. After two years in the job at Kirkland without the official London managing partner handle but with all the responsibilities, White […]
The first day of November will be one of celebration for King & Wood Mallesons, which will no doubt be cracking out the bubbly to celebrate one whole year since its gargantuan mega-merger. But, as today’s story reveals, in the UK, Europe and the Middle East the occasion also marks the end of an era […]
Alastair Harris, associate in the commercial practice and financial services group at Eversheds, has commented on the news that spending on plastic hit a record high this summer. Harris said: ‘A new digital era for financial institutions is in play. With the proliferation of innovative payment solutions, such as contactless cards and mobile banking, and […]
DLA Piper has advised Synergy Health, a supplier of outsourced services to healthcare providers and other customers concerned with health management, on its recommended combination with STERIS Corporation, a provider of infection prevention and other procedural products and services focused primarily on the healthcare, pharmaceutical and research markets. The transaction values Synergy at $1.9bn (£1.2bn) […]
Shoosmiths has boosted its corporate offering in the north west by bringing in a new senior associate and two further lawyers into its growing Manchester office. Damien Brown joins the law firm as a senior associate specialising in corporate finance, acquisitions and disposals and private investment work. Brown was previously a senior associate in the […]
Pro-democracy protestors may have taken control of parts of Hong Kong but that has not stopped international law firms from pushing ahead with their strategic plans in the region. US firms Debevoise & Plimpton and Kobre & Kim have both converted to local practices in the jurisdiction, meaning they can now offer local as well […]