Eversheds construction expert Michael Conroy Harris has commented on news that dispute costs in the construction industry have risen, saying that it is important to deal ‘effectively and innovatively’ with disputes. Conroy Harris noted that Eversheds’ recent report, Companies in Conflict: How commercial disputes are won, showed a general upward trend in major business disputes […]
Eversheds has announced the appointment of HR specialist Moira Slape, who joins the firm as HR director. She joins Eversheds from White & Case, where she was director of HR across the EMEA region. With more than two decades of HR experience, Slape has expertise in the legal sector having worked at White & Case […]
Shoosmiths has appointed partner Laura Harper and associate Carol Isherwood into its intellectual property (IP) and creative industries team in Manchester. Both have joined Shoosmiths from Ward Hadaway. Harper will head up the firm’s developing IP and creative industries team along with Isherwood. She has a range of legal expertise in the field of IP […]
Mergers are tricky to pull off at the best of times, and sometimes there are random and unforeseen consequences. As our links below show, mergers can lead to some big names changing home, or knotty integration issues. Client scrummage begins as Dundas and CMS merger goes live Berrymans Lace Mawer scraps brand as HBM Sayers […]
Heineken is expected to hand its new sole advisory mandate to either Eversheds or Pinsent Masons but neither CMS Cameron McKenna nor Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are expected to be invited to tender for the contract. The drinks giant, which posted £1.3bn in annual revenues for 2013 and owns brands including Bulmers, Fosters and Kronenburg, is gearing up […]
Former Ince & Co litigation partner Denys Hickey has quit the firm for the bar to join 39 Essex Street Chambers. The former oil and gas disputes partner has left the firm after 35 years. Most recently he headed up the firm’s Asia Pacific energy and offshore group based in Singapore and was appointed director […]
Eversheds has hired Moira Slape as its new HR director who joins the firm after four years with White & Case. At her former firm, Slape held the post of director of HR for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where she was responsible for 2,000 people and 250 partners. Prior to joining White & […]
Allen & Overy has been named the De-risking Consultant of the Year at the FT Pension and Investment Provider Awards 2014. The judges were impressed by the firm’s achievement of completing a major pension scheme de-risking transaction for the Trustee of the InterContinental Hotels UK Pension Plan in just 19 days, securing a deal with […]
Allen & Overy has announced the hiring of Attila K Csongrady as counsel to join the firm’s CEE English law banking and finance practice headed by Warsaw-based partner Dan Cocker. Csongrady is qualified in England, Wales and New York and advises commercial and investment banks, private equity houses, sponsors and companies on a range of […]
Collyer Bristow has hired partner Robin Henry to its financial disputes group. Henry has extensive experience in advising on structured finance and distressed debt strategies. Henry brings legal knowledge in these areas, as well as the practical experience gained as a result of having previously worked on the trading floor of a US investment bank. […]
You can picture the scene in the Immelt household. As the CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, slices up the Thanksgiving turkey, older brother Steve lets on that he, too, is to become a chief executive. Jeff gives him an extra slice. Hogan Lovells partners voted Steve Immelt into the top job in December, so […]
Utility company South Staffordshire is having a legal clear-out following the hire of a new general counsel in 2013. Gareth Brewerton, who took over as legal chief last October, has given the company’s 25-strong roster of adviser firms a good going over, leaving it with just four main advisers. Freshfields, Linklaters and Nabarro might not […]