Norton Rose Fulbright partner David Baylis has become Norton Rose Fulbright’s first regional head of corporate, M&A and securities in the Middle East. Baylis relocated to the region in in order to head up the firm’s Abu Dhabi office in June 2013. The firm currently has 12 corporate lawyers, including five partners, in the region. […]
Irish firm Mason Hayes & Curran has elected litigator Declan Black as its new managing partner, replacing Emer Gilvarry. Black will take up the role in April 2014. He won a contested election for the position, although the firm would not confirm who stood against him. Gilvarry has served six years as managing partner, having […]
Reading firm Boyes Turner has published its first full set of LLP accounts, reporting turnover of £21.7m for the 18 months to 31 March 2013. The figures cover the period from 1 October 2011 to 31 March this year. Boyes Turner incorporated its LLP on 4 January 2011, and transferred the trade and assets of […]
Chinese firm Jun He is being sued by two domestic rivals, Commerce & Finance and Jingtian & Gongcheng, over its adviser role in the Sino-Forest’s independent investigation. Commerce & Finance and Jingtian & Gongcheng have launched a suit against Jun He in the Third Intermediate People Court of Beijing, requesting that it cough up RMB150m […]
Ah, the modern panel review. Such stringent criteria, so few spaces. And as the most recent public sector panel review shows, tenders aren’t getting any easier. The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) review certainly covers all the modern legal trends, most notably intense competition for work and pressure on fees. The body is trimming its […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has hired Zoe Hanson to its Bermuda private client and trust practice. Hanson, who has worked in the trust and corporate management services industry in Bermuda for more than 10 years, began her career practising at Conyers. She returns to Conyers after holding senior management positions in the Bermuda trust industry. […]
DLA Piper has advised BTG Pactual as arranger and placement agent of a $132.8m (£80m) project bond offering by Planta de Reserva Fría de Generación de Eten, a Peru-based power generation company. The offering was to finance a 20-year concession to build, develop, operate and maintain a new thermal cold-reserve power plant, transmission line and […]
Parmjit Singh, India trade expert at Eversheds, has commented following news that exports to India have increased by 20 per cent following UK trade delegations to the continent. Singh said: ‘David Cameron will have been particularly pleased by these latest figures, given his first overseas visit following his appointment was to India. He had initially identified […]
Ben Jones, a principal associate in Eversheds’ tax team, has been interviewed on Bloomberg Television. Jones talked about the decision by Swiss authorities to urge banks to enter a US voluntary disclosure programme aimed at uncovering US tax evaders.
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) could cut its panel by up to 50 per cent in response to complaints from its regional advisers that they were not getting enough work from the regeneration body. Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), DLA Piper, Eversheds and Pinsent Masons won mandates from the HCA when it was first launched […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda law advice to Aircastle on the offering of $400m (£240m) aggregate principal amount of its 4.625 per cent senior notes due 2018, which completed on 5 December 2013. Citigroup Global Markets, Goldman, Sachs & Co, JP Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets acted as joint book-running managers for the […]
DLA Piper has represented EdgeCast Networks in its acquisition by Verizon Digital Media Services. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to customary closing conditions. EdgeCast is a Los Angeles-based content delivery network with more than 6,000 accounts. It serves numerous web brands for global media delivery and acceleration […]