Former Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) legal head Rob Higgins has taken up one of the organisation’s three new executive positions following the exit of commercial director Sean Balmer this year. Higgins has been promoted to a new director position in charge of all business services, prompting the hunt for a new head of legal ahead […]
Garrigues, Europe’s largest firm, announced this morning that it had added €600,000 to its turnover last year – growth of 0.2 per cent . The firm’s €332.5m revenue might only be slightly up on 2012/13, but it marks a return to growth after two years of decline . More encouragingly, managing partner Fernando Vives says […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has joined the flood of firms moving into Africa – but rather than go for South Africa or develop a pan-Africa network, the firm has opened an affiliated officein Ivory Coast under the name Orrick RCI. The firm also took on Heenan Paris’ former head of banking and finance Jean-Jacques Essombé […]
DLA Piper has hired Allen & Overy’s (A&O) Spanish senior partner Iñigo Gómez-Jordana in Madrid, just months after he handed over the local managing partner role at the magic circle firm. Gómez-Jordana’s move comes after 14 years at the firm as managing partner of the Spanish branch. He took up the position of senior partner […]
The rumours have been running around the Johannesburg legal market for some time, and today Allen & Overy (A&O) confirmed them – the firm is launching in South Africa with a raid on Bowman Gilfillan’s banking team. As first reported by The Lawyer back in September, A&O is relocating its former banking head Michael Duncan […]
Boris Martor, partner and Africa expert at Eversheds, has commented on the news that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is attempting to increase the number of listings of African companies in the UK. Martor said: ‘This attempt shows the strength and the growth of the African continent on the international scene and also the desire to investigate African […]
Eversheds partner James Hargrove has been invited by the Swiss Arbitration, the Chamber of Commerce and the Geneva Trade & Shipping Association to showcase the Swiss Arbitration alternative rules for commodity disputes. The road show will take place in London on 16 October 2014, discussing the topic ‘Alternative dispute resolution for commodity trading shipping and trade finance (ACT)’.
DLA Piper has appointed Dr Rebecca French as a consultant in its Melbourne office. French joins the firm from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), where she worked primarily in the civil, human rights, review and regulation, real property and retail tenancies lists. Prior to that she was general counsel at the Victorian Government […]
DLA Piper has advised ASX- and AIM-listed Ceramic Fuel Cells on its pro rata renounceable rights issue to raise a maximum of approximately $13.7m (£8.5m). Ceramic Fuel Cells is a developer of generators that use fuel-cell technology to convert natural gas into electricity and heat for homes and other buildings. The capital raised will provide further working capital in order […]
On 25 September 2014, DLA Piper held an international cycle challenge fundraiser across 10 offices in the Middle East and Europe. The event was held as part of DLA Piper’s three-year global partnership with UNICEF to raise $1.5m (£925,000). DLA Piper and UNICEF have established a ground-breaking partnership aimed at strengthening the protection of vulnerable […]
Barrister Tim Jones from No5 Chambers has acted as counsel for Herefordshire Council in a wholly successful compulsory purchase order (CPO) and side roads order (SRO) inquiry that will enable the council to build a road that opens up brownfield sites in the north of central Hereford to 800 new homes, a new transport hub […]
Partners Laura Harper and Karen Proctor from Shoosmiths in Manchester are heading to Washington DC as part of a delegation of top north-west business people to sell the region to US companies. The delegation will engage with more than 60 US FinTec (finance technology) companies looking to bring new banking, payment and finance technology to […]