Gateley has advised on a deal that saw investment vehicle Ensco 1070 invest in Oxford United Football Club. Led by Darryl Eales and former Watford Football Club chief executive Mark Ashton, the deal will add strength to the current management team at the club and provide additional financial resources to help achieve the club’s long-term […]
Eversheds partner Andrew Henderson has commented on the news that the European Central Bank (ECB) is set to establish a whistleblower system to get tips on banks that may be breaking its rules. He said: ‘As EU agencies, such as the ECB, are given more oversight powers, the establishment of a whistleblower mechanism is not […]
Eversheds has been ranked at number 14 in Acritas’s Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index 2014, which is compiled from data derived from 1,185 interviews with respondents in $1bn-plus revenue organisations across the world, who have senior responsibility for buying legal services. All interviews were conducted by telephone in local languages across 55 countries between October […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Cayman law advice to ClubCorp USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ClubCorp Holdings, in relation to the acquisition of the assets of Sequoia Golf, including the entire issued share capital of a Cayman Islands exempted company and the financing of the acquisition. The acquisition of Sequoia Golf will expand […]
Rhory Robertson, partner and head of Collyer Bristow’s cyber investigation unit, has been interviewed live on LBC following sentencing of the Twitter ‘troll’ found guilty of threatening MP Stella Creasy. Peter Nunn, the Twitter ‘troll’, was handed an 18-week prison term. He was convicted for issuing a number of menacing posts including one in which he […]
German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has been one of the fastest growers in Europe in the past few years, adding lawyers and increasing turnover steadily between 2009 and 2013. Last week it added another office, launching in Stuttgart with the hire of an eight-partner team from GSK Stockmann & Kollegen. The move was a […]
Shoppers on the run up to Christmas may find Tesco’s legal team stocking shelves and manning checkouts as part of a new campaign to put them in touch with what is going on inside the supermarket’s shops. Executives and the company’s legal team will be taking time out of their normal schedules to spend time […]
A leading UK-based law firm has suggested it would prefer not to be branded as a ‘Magic Circle’ firm, at least not in the US. Instead it would like to be known as an ‘international elite’ firm. The news, reported in The Lawyer, raises several interesting questions: – Why would any firm wish to give […]
Malaysia’s Zicolaw has continued its march across the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) with the launch of a second office in Vietnam. The Hanoi office, which has been launched with the hire of Mayer Brown JSM finance partner Phuong Nguyen, complements the firm’s existing base in Ho Chi Minh City, where […]
Having appointed former Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) legal head Rob Higgins to director in charge of all business services , the hunt for a new legal chief is underway. Higgins has stepped into one of three new executive positions that opened up following the exit of commercial director Sean Balmer this year. Higgins, who joined […]
Tesco general counsel Adrian Morris and 25 other lawyers based at the supermarket’s headquarters will be sent onto the shop floor over the next three months in a campaign launched by chief executive Dave Lewis. The supermarket giant chief emailed 4,000 staff on Tuesday asking them to work one day a fortnight in stores during […]
DLA Piper has fought off a derivatives mis-selling case for Natwest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) which were found to have given “negligent but not actionable” advice to family property company Crestsign. In the latest in a slew of cases concerning financial instruments which plummeted in value during the recession, 11 KBW’s Tim […]