Last March Kim Koopersmith became the first female firm-wide chair of Akin Gump and one of the few female lawyers to lead a US firm. Last week Koopersmith popped in to her firm’s London office ahead of the firm-wide partners’ conference, which kicks off next week (1 May) in Washington DC. The Lawyer caught up […]
Eversheds partner Bruce Dear visits West End celeb haunt J Sheekey’s and finds the fish (and wine) in fine form “Sienna steals my style!” said Kate (allegedly). My client and I are dining on the celeb front line. Behind J. Sheekey’s gold-dusted and swirled silver windows, those four little words mean that Kate Moss and […]
Wragge & Co has promoted two of its housing, development and regeneration (HDR) team’s directors, Ed Colreavy and Jacqueline Knox. These promotions take the total number of partners in the team to eight and are effective from 1 May. Colreavy qualified as a trainee 13 years ago and has since then continued to win new […]
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised private equity house Key Capital Partners on its £3.3m investment in Hallam Medical. Based in Sheffield, Hallam is a temporary staffing business focused on supplying the NHS and private healthcare providers in the primary care markets. Chief executive officer Scott Davies and clinical director Alex Munro founded Hallam […]
A team of staff from No5 Chambers will be abseiling from 120ft (37m) inside of One Snowhill on 11 May 2014 to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The abseil will start at 15:00 and friends and family are invited to come along and support the team, which consists of Adam Mountford, Joseph Madden, Rosemary […]
The Dundas & Wilson and CMS Cameron McKenna merger is fast approaching. Boxes are being packed, desks are being moved and the champagne is on ice in preparation for the 1 May deadline. But it looks like some of the removals vans are coming earlier than expected too, as Dundas’ London and Aberdeen partners are […]
The private equity team at Shoosmiths has advised funds managed by Palatine Private Equity on the management buyout (MBO) of Gusto Restaurants and Bars from restaurant group Living Ventures. Manchester-based private equity partner Mark Dawson led Shoosmiths’ advisory team, with corporate advice from private equity partner Kieran Toal, senior associate Alex Lilley and solicitor Kelly […]
Ogier in Cayman and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has acted with Mibank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to represent the the underwriters, led by Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, on the $350m (£210m) initial public offering (IPO) by Nord Anglia Education, a Cayman company and the parent company of the Nord Anglia group […]
Joe Cohen of Collyer Bristow’s intellectual property (IP) team was one of the speakers at the American Bar Association’s 29th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, which took place in Arlington, Virginia, from 2–4 April 2014. Cohen was part of a panel of international lawyers at the session, ‘Shutting down rogue websites: international and domestic solutions’. His […]
Speechly Bircham has made up six partners this year in its biggest promotions round in a decade. Two partners have been added to the firm’s real estate practice, with its private client, corporate, construction and private equity teams being gifted one each. All six of the new partners reside in the firm’s London office. The […]
Dundas & Wilson will exit its Aberdeen and London bases early in preparation for the launch of its merger with CMS Cameron McKenna next week (1 May). Dundas’ Aberdeen and London partners will move out of their current premises and into CMS’ offices in the London and Aberdeen over the May Day bank holiday weekend, […]
The Bar Standards Board has launched an investigation into 39 Essex Street silk Peter Village QC after he allegedly made derogatory remarks about disabled people living in a west Suffolk village. The silk, who was one of 24 barristers to defect from 4 – 5 Gray’s Inn last year to join the set, is alleged […]