Scottish firm Brodies has reported a fourth consecutive year of revenue and profit growth, with turnover up 13.2 per cent to £52.1m and profit up 23 per cent to £23.7m for the 2013/14 financial year. The results follow a 7.5 per cent increase in turnover in 2012/13 (8 July 2013). Turnover has risen by 41.4 […]
The big beasts of the insurance market haven’t always had it easy, as our recent data analysis shows. So far DWF has made the running on a national stage, but here comes another North West firm with ambitions. Weightmans used to be categorised as a Liverpool-based firm with a heavy focus on insurance law. But […]
Weightmans is moving from being a Liverpool insurance firm to a true national commercial player. It just doesn’t like to make a fuss. Weightmans is not one of those firms that hogs the limelight. Its leaders rarely make grand statements about their firm’s ambitions. And yet, in its understated way, this is a firm that […]
When I was a baby lawyer, I entertained a fantasy that I would do law for about 10 years, then open up a little neighbourhood restaurant. That was before I realised how much physical work, not to mention financial risk would be involved and I don’t do risk. Less a liberation from the law and […]
The family team at No5 Chambers has welcomed back Juliet Allen. Allen, called in 2005, brings additional expertise to the recently strengthened team. Her core areas of practice are matrimonial finance including cases involving significant assets, cohabitation disputes and private law children cases.
No5 Chambers has announced that Jonathan Shaw is now an accredited mediator. Shaw, who is a member of No5’s professional negligence and technology and construction groups, will now accept appointments on a personal basis as a mediator.
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris, including Debbie Jackson and Rebecca Whitehouse, have advised on the sale of bathstore, a UK-based specialist bathroom retailer, as part of a management buy-out (MBO) led by its chief executive Gary Favell. Bathstore is a £115m business with 172 stores across the UK. This transaction provides an exit for Endless, […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised ING and NN Group on the initial public offering (IPO) of up to 77 million ordinary shares of NN Group through ING (the selling shareholder). This includes the exchange into NN Group shares of €450m (£360m) of mandatorily subordinated notes, and excluding the exercise of the over-allotment option gross […]
Allen & Overy has advised Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE on the issue of a bond with a volume of €500m (£400m). The notes have a term of eight years and bear interest at a rate of 2.125 per cent per annum. The notes were issued under the issuer’s recently updated issue programme and placed via […]
DLA Piper has announced that Hervé Israël has joined the firm’s tax practice as a partner in Paris. Hervé joins from Holman Fenwick Willan, where he was a partner and head of the international tax group. Prior to joining Holman Fenwick Willan, Hervé was head of tax at Hogan Lovells in Paris. Hervé brings with […]
DLA Piper has been recognised for its property strategy implementation by National Grid in its annual property awards, in a ceremony held on 2 July 2014. The award for Best Property Strategy Implementation is intended to recognise projects that have moved on significantly in the previous 12 months, with constraints being removed to prepare the […]
Tomorrow’s Square Mile battle of the bands City’s got Talent (20 June 2014), billed by the organisers as “a mini Glastonbury”, has relocated from Guildhall Yard to the spiritual home of Law Rocks, the 100 Club. The Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf had spearheaded the launch of the music event as part of the […]