HBJ Gateley has appointed Jamie Mathewson as head of new business development for debt recovery and enforcement as the firm continues to grow its client base in the sector. Mathewson joins from GPB Solicitors, where he was head of trace and Scottish services. Mathewson has 24 years of experience in the debt recovery industry, 10 […]
William Ballmann has 30 years’ experience of business restructurings, re-financings, rescues and turnaround. He specialises in advising the management of public and private companies where there is some form of financial or organisational under-performance or difficulty. He regularly advises banks, asset-based and other lenders at a senior level. Ballmann is a past president of the […]
Gareth John is senior partner in our Leicester office and heads the corporate team. He regularly advises on a broad range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, disposals and private equity investments. He is also a board member of the Leicestershire Business Voice. As well as advising clients on deals, John is the relationship partner for […]
Andy Matthews is a real-estate lawyer. He has particular experience in acting on investment acquisitions, acting for banks, landlord and tenant work. As well as real-estate investment and acquisitions, Matthews deals with development work too. He also has experience of the sale and purchase of brownfield sites. Successes include: • Acted for East Midlands Development […]
Amrik Sangha is a corporate lawyer who specialises in cross-border corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and foreign direct investments. He has extensive experience in the United Arab Emirates having worked closely with government and private companies on large-scale mega real-estate projects and corporate transactions. Sangha has extensive experience on cross-border corporate transactions which include large-scale investments […]
The shape of US-based restructuring teams in the City looks set to change with Bingham McCutchen’s London managing partner James Roome mulling his options while his firm negotiates a tie-up with Morgan Lewis & Bockius (see our analysis for more details). Initially Roome’s exit was thought to be a direct result of Bingham’s merger talks […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has named litigation partner Alastair Henderson as its new South East Asia head, with incumbent Michael Walter due to retire from the firm next year. Henderson, who heads the firm’s regional arbitration practice, became a partner at HSF legacy firm Herbert Smith in 1999, having first joined the firm in Hong […]
Hogan Lovells has advised London Metal Exchange (LME) on the establishment of LME Clear, which will launch this week after getting the green light from the Bank of England last Wednesday. LME, which trades 80 per cent of the world’s non-ferrous metal contracts, will now clear the contracts through LME Clear rather than LCH Clearnet […]
With his firm understood to be talking merger with Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Bingham McCutchen’s London managing partner James Roome could be set to quit, an exit that could have a major impact on Bingham’s future in the City. Indeed, so seismic is any potential departure of Roome & Co that a school of thought […]
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers has overhauled its management team and added two clerks from Outer Temple Chambers and 1 Garden Court Clerk Lee Johnson has taken up a new role as senior clerk and the set has added Radcliffe Chambers’ director of client care Catherine Calder. The team will continue to be led by chambers director […]
Save the Children International (SCI) general counsel Elizabeth Stephen has left the charity on sabbatical, prompting a hunt for her replacement. The former Hot 100 lawyer joined the charity in 2009 and headed up a team of seven lawyers and two assistants (25 June 2012). She has helped foster strong relationships with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer […]
London’s shining attractiveness as a disputes centre and global jumping off point is showing no sign of dimming, at least according to Andy Sandler, chair of financial services and financial crime boutique BuckleySandler. Sandler’s firm has just opened up shop in the UK with a US law-only offering staffed with a single partner, Jamie Parkinson, […]