Shearman outflanks CC, Links, Travers Smith for work Shearman & Sterling is making its presence felt in the City, squaring up to magic circle firms and muscling in on key relationships. The US firm is understood to have attracted private equity (PE) house Bridgepoint, an outfit that has traditionally taken advice from Clifford Chance, Linklaters […]
Firms welcome back lawyers as economy perks up Does absence make the heart grow fonder or is it simply that the country is back in growth mode? Several lawyers are returning to jobs they left during the recession. In the past month, Taylor Wessing, Covington & Burling and Mayer Brown have all welcomed back old […]
China Yuchai GC Deborah Foo engineers smooth investor relations and new ventures for an organisation that stretches across four culturally diverse territories and spans activities from building engines to hospitality Bridging the cultural differences between the company’s Chinese business and its foreign investors is an important aspect of Deborah Foo’s job as general counsel of […]
Move of the week Dorsey & Whitney has hired Michael Cashman as a partner in the tax group. Cashman is a solicitor and a chartered accountant, and was previously head of the tax group at Kemp Little in London. UK London A&L Goodbody has hired Claire Morrissey as a partner in the IP and […]
Employment lawyers are shifting their focus to non-contentious areas as the coalition promotes conciliation On 6 April the latest in a raft of recent employment reforms was introduced, compelling prospective claimants to contact the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) before lodging proceedings at the employment tribunal. A month into the regime, which was made […]
We’ve all done something so embarrassing that we’d like to crawl into a hole and disappear. In other words, from time to time we’d all like to invoke the right to be forgotten – or at least for part of our history to be forgotten. But in public policy terms, should we be allowed to […]
On 6 May 2014, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co partners Kieron Dwyer and David Ponsford joined Gilbert Porter and Brad Richards, partners at US firm Haynes and Boone, to host an international webinar entitled ‘Update on shale gas exploration and development’. Porter and Richards opened the presentation by outlining the rise of shale production in […]
Schoenherr has represented Carso Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the América Móvil group (AMX), in a public takeover offer for all shares in Telekom Austria AG not held by Carso Telecom, AMX, Telekom Austria or the Republic of Austria’s state holding company OIAG. The public offer launched on 15 May 2014. The offer was […]
Schoenherr has advised PALFINGER and individual-selling PALFINGER shareholders on the establishment of a mutual capital interlinking between the Salzburg-based manufacturer of hydraulic lifting systems and SANY Heavy Industries Co, a member of China’s SANY group. The overall value of the transaction amounts to approximately €220m (£180m). The mutual capital interlinking was implemented through multiple measures. […]
No5 Chambers barrister Emma Edhem has been received by the prime minister, deputy prime minister, speaker of the house, foreign minister and chief negotiator of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). This was for high-level talks and occured on 12 May 2014.
The magic circle lags behind its peers when it comes to gender diversity at the top, so it’s good to see Allen & Overy attempting to shake off its masculine image with an eye to increasing its female partnership numbers. But there are conflicting views when it comes to quotas, one of the main points […]
Eversheds has won the Clean Energy Project of the Year 2013–14 award for its role in advising on Sierra Leone’s first independent power project. Eversheds advised The Addax and Oryx Group on its €133m (£108m) project finance loan facilities for the construction of an integrated renewable energy and agriculture project near Makeni, Sierra Leone. The […]