German firm Luther has reported a 12.4 per cent rise in revenue for the 2013/14 financial year, with domestic turnover breaking through the €100m barrier for the first time. The firm reported total revenue of €114m (£89.6m) for the last financial year, a rise of 12.4 per cent from 2012/13 when Luther produced a global […]
Whether it’s US firms swooping on entire City offices or London-headquartered firms going on hiring sprees in the US, you’d be forgiven for wondering if every story for the last couple of weeks didn’t have a US angle. The mass relocation of Bingham’s London office to Akin Gump is very nearly complete after the firm […]
Clifford Chance global chief operating officer (COO) Amanda Burton is stepping down at the end of the year following a raft of leadership changes at the firm. Burton was appointed global head of business services in 2006 and COO in 2010 and has said she is stepping down at the end of the year to […]
The autumn issue of BQ Baltic magazine featured an article by Eversheds senior associate Milda Jasaitienė Lithuanian titled ‘Lithuanian immigration: what’s new?’ The article deals with the amendments to the new law on the status of aliens adopted by the Lithuanian parliament in June 2014. The amendments, which come into force from 1 November 2014, introduce new rules applicable […]
DLA Piper has advised Blackstone on the acquisition of a pan-European portfolio of 18 logistics assets from SEB Investment, valued at in excess of €275m (£216m). The transaction is the most geographically diverse logistics portfolio to ever be sold in Europe. The 18-property portfolio is spread across eight European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, […]
On 25 September 2014, Shoosmiths, in conjunction with the Music Managers Forum (MMF), is set to host a music industry finance event in Manchester that will examine the various funding options open to musicians, managers and independent labels. Held at the law firm’s Spinningfields offices, the event will feature speakers from the PRS Foundation, Creative […]
The New York IPO of Chinese retail and social media hub Alibaba last week was the largest-ever flotation, raising $25bn (£15.3m). And so the law firms advising Alibaba also picked up a chunky reward, sharing out $15.8m in fees. But one firm was curiously absent from that list. Despite acting on Alibaba’s much smaller Hong […]
Manjit Gill QC, head of the international human rights group at No5 Chambers, is set to chair a Birmingham City University talk titled ‘Meriam Ibrahim: the case that gripped the world’. The talk, to be held at the university on 1 October, will host a panel of international experts to discuss the case of Meriam […]
Alibaba landed on the New York Stock Exchange with an almighty thump last Friday (19 September), becoming the largest initial public offering (IPO) of all time. Its flotation raised $25bn, surpassing the 2010 offering from the Agricultural Bank of China, which raised $22.1bn on its Hong Kong Stock Exchange debut in 2010. The online retail […]
Baker & McKenzie has appointed Gillian Coyle as its London HR director, bringing it closer to its diversity targets and handing it a 50 per cent female board. Former Deloitte consultant Coyle joined the firm in 2010 as head of the firm’s HR business partner team and will be the eighth member of the London […]
Shoosmiths has advised McKay Securities on the purchase of Station Plaza, Theale, a major office development in the heart of the Thames Valley town. McKay is a real-estate investment trust (REIT) specialising in office and industrial property in London and the south east of England. Shoosmiths’ Thames Valley real-estate partner Alan Corcoran and associate George […]
The Turnaround Management Association (TMA) — of which Dejan Nikolic of Karanovic & Nikolic is a member of the managing board — has launched its Serbia chapter with a members’ meeting at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Belgrade. This event opened the new chapter of the world’s largest non-governmental association, which brings together experts in the […]