Ogier Fiduciary Services in Jersey has announced the promotion of Charles Le Cornu to director. In addition, the firm has welcomed new directors Simon King and Jon Barratt to the funds and real-estate teams respectively. Le Cornu joined Ogier in 2006 and has 10 years’ experience in the offshore financial services industry specialising in investment […]
Tim Pole from No5 Chambers has appeared for the prosecution in a case that saw Steve Colson plead guilty to four offences of contravening the Health and Safety Act 1974 after falsely claiming he was a qualified gas fitter. Colson was contracted by the Tingay family in 2010 to move their boiler at their home […]
Lloyds Banking Group has finalised its long-awaited customer-pay panel in what marks the first formal process for its third-party roster. The bank was due to put in place its third-party panel, for which its customers pay the fees, early last year after deciding to split it from its own-account panel but firms were left in […]
News last week from Clifford Chance that seven of its 21 newly appointed partners were sat in Asia once again showed leading UK firms looking East for its then next batch of partners. Clifford Chance had the largest promotions round in the region of all the magic circle with Linklaters making up six out of […]
TLT has targeted a 60 per cent rise in revenues with the aim of producing annual turnover of £80m by 2017 after re-electing managing partner David Pester for a fifth consecutive three-year term with effect from 1 May. Partners endorsed Pester’s continuing leadership in an uncontested election, which according to the firm kicked off in February […]
The partnership model is under attack as firms look for ways to enshrine fairness in a post-crunch world where commitment means less Partnership. The word explodes in a supernova – champagne for some – of possibilities. It can be a great thing for clients and lawyers, but challenges loom that go to the heart of […]
Telecoms and tech have been at the top of the M&A tree so far this year. Who would have thought that the trendy duo would be temporarily eclipsed by a sector trading in Botox and zimmer frames? But, over the past week, global healthcare has well and truly emerged as the sector of the moment. […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped key roles on Pfizer’s proposed multi-billion dollar takeover of UK pharmaceuticals rival AstraZeneca. The transaction would be one of the global drugs industry’s largest-ever deals, and the biggest foreign acquisition of a British company. Skadden is advising Pfizer on both US and UK matters […]
CMS Cameron Mckenna has made up 30 partners in its latest promotions round but Dundas & Wilson has only promoted one ahead of the merger between both firms this week (1 May). CMS included Dundas’ only new partner, real estate consultant Margaret McLean, as part of its own announcement today in anticipation of the tie-up […]
DLA Piper has announced that Ben Boyd and Mary Gately have been named co-managing partners of the Washington DC office. In their new roles, Boyd and Gately will guide the office’s strategic growth and general management. Boyd’s practice encompasses a variety of business litigation, with significant experience defending product liability, mass torts and a host […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands legal advice to Agile Property Holdings in connection with an international offering of the company’s ¥2bn (£190m) 6.50 per cent senior notes due 2017. This is ranking pari passu with all existing notes in issue, banking facilities and unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness but senior […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has relocated its global international arbitration head to Singapore after a host of exits from the team. Partner Lucy Reed is heading to Singapore after locating from New York to Hong Kong in February 2012 (21 February 2012). The firm relaunched in Singapore in 2012 five years after withdrawing from the city […]