Shearman associates, here’s 6.4 per cent more sterling for the year ahead. The firm has gifted its UK-qualified lawyers a tidy pay rise after the firm’s London office recorded 20 per cent revenue growth during 2013. As one of the obvious winners in the US reporting season, it’s no surprise that the pay increase was […]
Shoosmiths has hosted a drinks reception organised by Colmore Business District (CBD) to mark the grand opening of the newly renovated Colmore Square in Birmingham. The event, which saw nearly 100 guests from the city’s business community attend, took place at Shoosmiths’ offices at 2 Colmore Square on 8 May. CBD said the project was […]
Lawyers on Demand’s (LoD) first set of accounts since being spun off from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) reveal that the firm gave LoD a £2.65m loan to allow it to acquire 20 per cent of the business for £2.8m. The BLP loan was omitted from the business’ first accounts filing but included in an amended […]
No5 Chambers recently organised a charity bake-off as part of its fundraising programme in support of Birmingham Citizens’ Advice Bureau (CAB). Sixteen members of staff competed in the event, which raised £524. Emma Cook, head of business development at Birmingham CAB, judged the cakes, pies and pastries. Pete Mottram was awarded ‘Best Looking’ for his […]
Earl Pinnock of No5 Chambers has defended Ahmed Al-Sharif, 53, a prisoner at HMP Birmingham, who has been given an indefinite hospital order after attacking three officers with parts of a broken TV screen. After a trial in January, he was found guilty of two charges of wounding with intent and two charges of assault. The court […]
Karanovic & Nikolic partner Patricia Gannon and technology lawyer Aleksandar Sukiban coached a number of teams at the Startup Weekend at the Royal Palace. Startup Weekend is a global movement of active entrepreneurs learning and teaching the basics of founding start-ups and launching successful ventures.
DLA Piper has acted for the Nuevo Metro de Lima consortium on its winning bid for the $5bn (£3bn) Lima Metro Line 2 project in Peru. The consortium will be responsible for the design, finance and construction of the Metro, as well as the operation and maintenance of the project. The project is one of the largest infrastructure projects […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands legal advice to iKang Healthcare Group on BVI selling shareholders in connection with a $150m (£90m) initial public offering in the US of up to 6,270,286 class A common shares, par value $0.01 per share of the company, in the form of American depositary shares. […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Cayman legal advice to Stonegate Pub Company in connection with the inaugural high-yield notes offering through its subsidiary Stonegate Pub Company Financing of £260m 5.75 per cent senior secured notes due 2019 and £140m floating rate secured notes due 2019. The notes were guaranteed on a senior secured basis by Stonegate and its […]
Allen & Overy has been presented with the 2013 Deal of the Year award by the Export-Import Bank of the US (US Ex-Im) at the bank’s 39th Annual Conference in Washington DC. The firm advised US Ex-Im as lender in the $471m (£280m) debt financing to Kingsbridge, the holding company of Asia Broadcast Satellite’s (ABS’s) group of operating companies, for the procurement, […]
Hogan Lovells is to close its Prague office this summer following a strategic review of the market. Hogan Lovells has been operating in the Czech Republic since 1991. The firm picked up its current Prague managing partner Miroslav Dubovsky when he defected from Clifford Chance where he had been head of corporate in the Czech […]
It’s election time at Nabarro, as managing partner Andrew Inkester looks set to head to the polls for the first time. The July elections will be the first time the firm has voted on a chief following 15 years of board appointments. It isn’t the only change to the process with senior and managing partner […]