Financings
The British Land Company was advised by SJ Berwin & Co in relation to its placing and open offer to raise around u210.7m. The brokers to the issue
The British Land Company was advised by SJ Berwin & Co in relation to its placing and open offer to raise around u210.7m. The brokers to the issue
Medway Power was advised by Norton Rose on the introduction of u160m of financing from the European Investment Bank
Insurance services company Fishers Group, advised by Travers Smith Braithwaite, has reversed into Irish quoted company Celtic Gold, advised by Arthur Cox, in an u11.45m deal.
A HIGH-FLYING Irish solicitor is being held in Dublin’s Mountjoy prison awaiting sentence for fraud. Elio Malocco once mixed with Dublin’s social elite and drove a Mercedes 230, with two Porsches in the family garage. He even attempted to buy a League of Ireland football club. But after a two-week trial in the Circuit Criminal […]
LAWYERS willing to take on a new way of life while practising their profession are being invited to join the army. The Directorate of Army Legal Services is on the look-out for four recently qualified solicitors or barristers in their 20s to join the army’s 50-lawyer department. Directorate head Lt Col Stephen Vowles is holding […]
THE OFFICIAL text of the European Commission’s draft directive on rights for lawyers practising in other member states shows the commission hopes to put new rules in place by the end of 1996. However, legal commentators claim the date is too ambitious, and it is unlikely that establishment will be regulated for some time. The […]
Top fraud defence solicitors welcome the preservation of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as an independent entity and, in particular, the Government’s call to enlarge its role in order to create a more unified way of dealing with such cases. Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell, who put an end to 18 months of speculation about […]
Church Adams Tatham & Co, the London and Reigate practice, has recruited Patric Sankey-Barker as a partner to its company and commercial department. Sankey-Barker, who was previously with Waltons & Morse, is keen to play a major part in the continuing development of the department. Senior partner Gordon Jones, who also heads the company and […]
US FIRM LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae has recruited Wilde Sapte’s head of commercial litigation Peter Sharp to its new multinational partnership. The MNP, formed last week, includes five US lawyers as well as Sharp. More partners are expected to sign up later this year. At present only Sharp and the London office’s head US […]
Powell Duffryn, advised by Booth & Co, has bought shares in Teeside and Humberside Holdings ports group in a u90m deal. The acquisition was partly funded by a rights issue on which Powell Duffryn was advised by Slaughter and May, with the vendors of Humberside being advised by Garrett & Co in Leeds and 3i […]
CARDIFF Law School has launched an innovative telephone service to provide legal advice for gypsy and new age travellers. The pilot is funded by the Law School and a national charity which wishes to remain anonymous but which works to provide access to justice. It aims to offer user-friendly frontline legal advice to travellers. Project […]
Knight & Sons, the Staffordshire-based practice has appointed international commercial law specialist Sebastian Price as an associate in its corporate and commercial department. Price’s appointment fits with the firm’s strategy to expand its legal business service portfolio across Europe and Russia. After qualifying in 1986 Price spent five years working with City law firms before […]