Kemp Little founding and senior partner Richard Kemp has resigned from the firm’s partnership to launch his own IT boutique. Kemp, who set up the London TMT boutique in 1997, left the firm on Friday (2 May 2014), having made the announcement to his clients back in March. His new venture, Kemp IT Law, launches […]
Unlike its videos and pictures, which self-destruct after a few seconds, popular image-sharing app Snapchat doesn’t want to disappear. And so the technology giant has taken on some wise advice and “lawyered up” – bringing in its first general counsel in the shape of Hogan Lovells partner Christopher Handman, regarded as one of America’s top […]
New law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co was launched on 1 May. According to the firm’s chief executive David Fennell, the merger of Wragge & Co with Lawrence Graham brings together complementary cultures, locations and practice groups to create a strong and distinctive offer to clients. The new firm offers a broader range of services, […]
Eversheds partner Grégoire Mangeat has been elected as vice-chairman of the Geneva Bar Association Mangeat is a founding partner of Eversheds in Switzerland. His main practice area is litigation, mostly in white-collar crime, legal assistance and asset tracing. He assists and represents clients in national and international legal proceedings.
Walker Morris has announced the internal appointment of six directors and 15 associates in a number of key growth areas. The appointments bring the totals to 29 directors and 74 associates based in Leeds. The six director promotions provide strength in depth across a number of different practice areas and include: Shaukat Ali — competition Justin […]
A team of real-estate, planning and construction lawyers from the Shoosmiths real-estate group have advised on circa £25m of acquisitions of The Mille, Brentford and Ashcombe House, Leatherhead. McKay Securities is a real-estate investment trust specialising in office and industrial property in London and the south east of England. McKay has purchased The Mille from […]
Shoosmiths has announced four new partners in the firm’s May promotions. All promotions take effect from 1 May. The new round of promotions now brings the firm’s total number of partners to 135. They are joined by 14 new senior associates. The new partners are Sean Adams and Jenny Ogden (both recoveries services) based in Manchester […]
DLA Piper has advised EVRAZ on the auction sale of its wholly owned Czech subsidiary EVRAZ Vitkovice Steel (EVS) to a consortium of private investors for a total consideration of $287m (£170m) The DLA Piper team was led by partners Constantine Lusignan-Rizhinashvili (corporate, Moscow) and Julien Hansen (corporate, Moscow), who were assisted by associates Andrei […]
DLA Piper has announced that 45 lawyers have been promoted to the partnership. The promotions are effective from 1 January 2014 in the US and 1 May 2014 for EMEA and Asia-Pacific and were made across a spectrum of practice areas throughout 12 countries. Across the firm’s practice groups globally, corporate saw the largest intake […]
Allen & Overy has promoted 26 lawyers to counsel and PSL counsel. The promotions are within the banking, corporate, employment, international capital markets, dispute resolution and tax practice groups and cover 13 offices across the legal practice’s global network. The counsel promotions are as follows: AfricaCasablancaSylvain Aoust — corporateLamiae El Abbouti — corporateSoumaya Essadaoui — corporate […]
The corporate team at Walker Morris has advised nominated adviser and broker Westhouse Securities in relation to Sprue Aegis’s admission to AIM. Sprue Aegis, a European home safety products supplier, will have a market capitalisation of approximately £90m at the placing price and intends to raise £8m by way of a placing of new shares. […]
If shale gas can cut the UK’s energy dependence, DLA Piper global co-chief executive Nigel Knowles says we must jump hurdles to get at it. Writing in The Lawyer today, Knowles argues that the UK should embrace fracking rather than become any more dependent on the EU, Russia and the Middle East for oil and […]