Deutsche Bank is hiring Linklaters partner Florian Drinhausen as co-deputy general counsel for Germany and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Drinhausen will join the bank on 1 February 2014, after a decade as a partner at the magic circle firm. He will report to German and CEE general counsel Christof von Dryander, who was hired […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and King & Wood Mallesons have secured roles on Hong Kong Telecommunications’ (HKT) $2.4bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of CSL from Telstra. HKT instructed Gibson Dunn’s Hong Kong corporate partner Graham Winter for the transaction. Winter joined the US firm from Reed Smith Richards Butler in 2011 (3 November 2011). […]
Easy does it now. Lever your head up off the keyboard. We hope you weren’t silly enough to schedule any client calls today. The news that last night was taxi company Addison Lee’s busiest shift for work Christmas parties – and that lawyers out-party everybody in the capital except for fashion industry peeps – should […]
Washington DC firm Patton Boggs and Texas-based Locke Lord are understood to have ended their merger talks, making them the third pair of US firms to kill plans for a tie-up in less than a month. A merger between the two would have gifted Patton Boggs access to Locke Lord’s London office, which was launched […]
London’s lawyers will be among the professionals nursing the sorest heads today, after research from Addison Lee showed that the legal industry was predicted to out-party most of the capital’s workforce. The report from London’s biggest minicab firm showed that only those working in fashion were expected to stay out longer last night, the busiest […]
Eversheds has advised Emperor International Holdings, which through its wholly owned subsidiary Big Right Investment issued its inaugural USD listed notes, raising a total of $110m (£67m). Eversheds acted as the transaction counsel for the joint lead managers for the deal consisting of Emperor Securities, Guotai Junan Securities (Hong Kong) and China Minsheng Banking Corp, Hong Kong […]
Eversheds has announced that Michelle T Davies, head of Eversheds’ clean energy and sustainability team, has been named as one of the most influential people in the wind energy industry for the second year running in the Top 100 Power People report. Davies is only one of two lawyers to make this year’s ranking in the […]
Simpson Marwick and Kennedys entered merger talks early in the year. But it was a rocky road. First the completion date was postponed, and now both firms have announced the deal is off. Kennedys to merge with Scottish firm Simpson Marwick Kennedys’ Simpson & Marwick merger postponed Kennedys to merge with Gates and Partners this […]
Leonie Munro, a senior associate at Eversheds, has commented following the news that India’s upper house of parliament has passed a measure to implement an independent anti-corruption agency, known as a Lokpal. The Lokpal will have powers to investigate and prosecute corruption by senior government officials. Munro said: ‘While the Lokpal law could be seen as a […]
Eversheds has commented on the latest industrial trends survey from the CBI, saying that the resurgence in UK manufacturing has prompted calls for a dedicated government office. Robin Johnson, sector head for diversified industrials at Eversheds, said: ‘The reality is that there is markedly increased confidence within the UK manufacturing community. ‘Through a number of […]
A date has been set for the appeal, by a group of landlords, in relation to unpaid rent following the collapse into administration of the Game group of companies last year. On 26 March 2012, administrators were appointed in relation to Games Station Ltd, as well as various other Game group companies, including the parent […]
Protective costs orders (PCOs) are a mechanism whereby the court can impose a limit on the actual or potential costs liability of a party. They are available in judicial review and statutory challenge proceedings, where a case before the courts is held to involve issues of general public importance and the public interest requires that […]