Stephenson Harwood has chosen to outsource a chunk of its document production capacity to third-party provider Intelligent Office UK. The decision came as part of a review of the firm’s secretarial and document production services in London, which drew to a close early this year. It culminated in the firm undertaking a “significant reorganisation” of […]
Foot Anstey has posted a revenue rise of 14 per cent for 2013/14 to £27.5m, resulting in cumulative turnover growth of 72 per cent since 2006/07. The West Country firm has achieved positive growth for at least eight consecutive years. After growing by over 25 per cent in the two years between 2006/07 and 2008/09, […]
Deloitte has turned to Latham & Watkins and Taylor Wessing to advise it on potential claims arising from the explosive row between Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Autonomy in the months before the latter’s $11.1bn takeover. The accounting firm has instructed Los Angeles-based Latham partner James Farrell and London-based Taylor Wessing partner Julian Randall over its role […]
Hengeler Mueller has won a victory for ‘sharing economy’ taxi service Uber in a battle over whether the company can continue offering its product in the city of Hamburg. The German firm is advising Uber across the country as the company seeks to roll out its smartphone app into all major cities. The app enables […]
The appellants were former bus drivers once employed by Centre West who TUPE transferred to London United following a route re-allocation. London United required them to be based at a different depot and they claimed that the change of work location amounted to a repudiatory breach of contract and a substantial change in working conditions […]
It’s another private equity goodbye for Travers Smith and this time it really is a big one, with group head Phil Sanderson heading off to Ropes & Gray in what is a major coup for the US firm. Travers is likely to be more than a little shocked. Exits from its prestigious team are generally […]
CVC Capital Partners has been ordered to pay €129m (£103m) to Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB In Bev) in a court battle over a 2009 deal, after turning from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to Allen & Overy (A&O). The private equity house has gone through three firms – having previously instructed Freshfields on the original deal […]
Thread and zips manufacturer Coats has appointed senior Weight Watchers lawyer Richard Reade as deputy general counsel, following the appointment of its first-ever general counsel from Lloyds. Reade was appointed this month from his role as assistant general counsel (international) of Weight Watchers, where he had been for two and a half years (3 February […]
Asset management and funds boutique MJ Hudson has launched in Hong Kong, creating the firm’s third office alongside London and Jersey. The office will be led by new lateral partner hire Simon Fraser, who has joined MJ Hudson from Ogier where he headed its private client offering since 2002. Prior to joining Ogier he spent […]
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is to pursue Deloitte on behalf of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in an escalation of the company’s row with software firm Autonomy over its doomed 2011 acquisition. Wachtell partner Marc Wolinsky told a San Francisco court on Monday that the company would sue Deloitte over its auditing of Autonomy’s accounts prior to […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has advised the owners of Kennet Equipment Leasing on its sale to a new fund raised by European fund manager STAR Capital Partners. As part of the deal, STAR has put in place a total funding line of more than £100m. Kennet Equipment Leasing, a UK equipment finance broker to […]
Ropes & Gray’s hire of Travers Smith private equity star Phil Sanderson is quite a coup for the US firm. Sanderson has been heading up Travers’ prestigious private equity practice since 2008, when he took over the reins from private equity stalwart Charles Barter who quit to join key client Bridgepoint (1 May 2008). Sanderson […]