All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Claimant litigation firm Hausfeld has hired Michelin Group Europe general counsel Laurent Geelhand to launch a Brussels office (1 October 2014). Geelhand joins Hausfeld after 16 years at Michelin. While at the company he focused heavily on antitrust work, turning […]
DLA Piper has represented Pacific DataVision, a provider of mobile workforce management solutions, in a 144A offering of shares of its common stock worth $218m (£134m). The law firm also represented Pacific DataVision in its $100m acquisition of FCC spectrum licences from Sprint Corporation, as well as its licensing transaction of $17.5m by Motorola Solutions. […]
DLA Piper has advised the global alternative asset investment firm Carlyle Group on its acquisition of a majority stake in Expereo Holding. Headquartered in Amsterdam and founded in 2004, Expereo is a global managed network operator and currently operates in 180 countries. Carlyle will be working with Expereo to support the future growth of the […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands (BVI) advice in connection with the issue by Yingde Gases Investment of $250m (£154m) 7.25 per cent senior notes due 2020, guaranteed by Yingde Gases Group Company. Founded in 2001 with its headquarters in Hong Kong, the company and its subsidiaries produce, supply […]
Doughty Street predictably made a big splash this week due to the wedding of George Clooney and human rights barrister Amal Alamuddin . The set was forced to upgrade its website due to a flood in hits after the couple got engaged earlier this year. The chambers also made the news for more traditional reasons, […]
Shoosmiths has elected employment partner Peter Duff as the firm’s new chairman for a three-year tenure with effect from 1 May 2015. Duff is head of the firm’s commercial practice group and succeeds Andrew Tubbs who will step down from the role at the end of April 2015 having occupied the role for four consecutive […]
Former Ashurst senior partner Charlie Geffen has resigned from the firm to join Los Angeles-headquartered Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. He is to be joined at the US firm by fellow Ashurst corporate partner Mark Sperotto, thought to be one of the firm’s most profitable partners. Geffen’s move is the most high-profile trophy hire from a […]
KPMG UK chairman Simon Collins said today that the Big Four firm has no plans to create a standalone legal business as a result of gaining ABS approval from the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The firm claims to be the first multidisciplinary practice to pick up an ABS licence, in contrast to PwC which gained an […]
Parabis has decided to close its offices in Bristol and Colchester following a 40-day consultation, with 41 staff affected. In a statement the firm said the decision had been communicated to all affected staff and individual discussions with those affected were underway. It continued: “Until these are completed we cannot confirm the final position regarding […]
Antonio Garrigues has stepped down from the firm his father founded after sixty years, including over fifty in management roles at Europe’s largest independent practice. At a recent partners’ meeting Garrigues’ managing partner Fernando Vives was named executive chairman of the firm, while senior partner Ricardo Gómez-Barreda was re-elected for another four-year term. The partners […]
KPMG has become the latest ‘Big Four’ professional services firm to be granted an alternative business structure (ABS) licence by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). It is the first of the accountancy firms to be awarded an ABS for its multi-disciplinary practice, rather than for a separate legal entity. KPMG UK chairman Simon Collins said […]
Several Slater & Gordon partners, including legacy Pannone managing partner Emma Holt, have been named as respondents in a two-week unfair dismissal hearing that is due to begin on 20 October at Manchester Employment Tribunal. The claims relates to legacy firm Pannone, which merged with Slater & Gordon in February (17 February 2014). The respondents, […]