Planta de Reserva Fría de Generación de Eten, a Peru-based power generation company, has received the Best Infrastructure Bond award from LatinFinance magazine. DLA Piper advised BTG Pactual as arranger and placement agent of the $132.8m (£80m) project bond offering by Eten. The bond offering will finance a 20-year concession to build, develop, operate and […]
Eversheds partner Stephen Hill has commented on the proposed AIM listing of Enecsys. He said: ‘With the UK solar market expanding greatly but also re-focusing to commercial and small-scale projects, the time for innovative component parts is now. There are great opportunities for companies that can raise money quickly and capitalise on the opportunities in […]
DLA Piper has advised Brook Henderson Group on the sale of Asteral to Pantheon Holdco, a company backed by private equity house Permira. The Asteral Group is a UK provider of medical equipment services to the acute healthcare sector, working with 37 hospitals across the country. The DLA Piper team was led by Jonathan Lisle […]
No5 Chambers’ Earl Pinnock has defended in a case that resulted in Luke Burton, 31, and Amelia Horn, 24, being jailed after blackmailing two professional men. Horn, an escort, had sexual activity with two men, referred to as Man A and Man B. She threatened Man A, saying she would tell people what they had done […]
Shoosmiths has expanded its real-estate offering in Edinburgh with the hire of an established senior associate. Sheelagh Cooley joins from Anderson Strathern, where she was a senior associate in the real-estate team specialising in property finance, having acted for many financial institutions. Cooley joined Anderson Strathern in 2003 upon qualification. At Shoosmiths, Cooley will be […]
Last week Ropes & Gray chief Mike Goetz said UK firms needed to be worried about their private equity finance “vulnerability”. Now the magic circle is hitting back. “He would say that wouldn’t he” was the common retort from Allen & Overy’s private equity co-head Stephen Lloyd and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s finance chief David Trott. […]
Pinsent Masons has found itself on the wrong side of the courtroom this month after three former employment lawyers at the firm launched unfair dismissal cases against it. The firm is up against a former employment senior associate in the Manchester Employment Tribunal today. She is bringing claims of unfair dismissal, sex and maternity-related discrimination. […]
New general counsel and in-house lawyers in charge of panel reviews are making their mark in 2014, and it’s largely by chopping advisers off their panels. Research compiled by The Lawyer for our exclusive feature shows that 23 out of the 38 general counsel involved in panel decisions this year were appointed during or after […]
Washington DC-based firm Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner has underlined its ambitions to grow its transatlantic intellectual property practice with the hire of three partners. The firm has recruited RGC Jenkins partner Philip Cupitt, J A Kemp partner Hazel Ford and Boult Wade and Tennant partner Daryl Penny to bring its London office, which […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired former DLA Piper Asia Pacific head Bob Charlton as its new head of Asia and Hong Kong managing partner. Charlton will join the firm in October and move to Hong Kong in January, making him the sixth partner in its office since it launched in 2011 in association with Michael […]
Pinsent Masons is fielding three employment tribunal claims from an employment partner, senior associate and associate stemming from its employment practice restructuring last year. The firm is facing unfair dismissal, sex and maternity-related claims from a senior associate in the Manchester Employment Tribunal tomorrow after the hearing launched last week (8 September). It was listed […]
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati employee Dmitri Braverman was arrested yesterday after allegedly stealing privileged information and selling it for an approximate total of $300,000 between 2010 and 2013. Wilson Sonsini spokesperson Courtney Dorman said in a statement to The Lawyer: “Yesterday’s charges against a staff member are deeply disturbing to say the least. Client confidentiality […]