19 November 2007

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Dundas & Wilson guides Donald Trump to planning success

New York magnate and Dundas & Wilson client Donald Trump has scored a major victory in a long-running project to build a £1bn world-class golf development in Aberdeenshire. Earlier in the week, an Aberdeenshire planning committee voted 7-4 in favour of the project, which Dundas & Wilson property partner Allan Wernham has been advising on […]

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Dundas & Wilson guides Donald Trump to planning success

New York magnate and Dundas & Wilson client Donald Trump has scored a major victory in a long-running project to build a £1bn world-class golf development in Aberdeenshire. Earlier in the week, an Aberdeenshire planning committee voted 7-4 in favour of the project, which Dundas & Wilson property partner Allan Wernham has been advising on […]

Lovells hires real estate expert in Madrid

Lovells has made a further hire in its Madrid office with the addition of Carlos Bardavío as a senior associate. Bardavio joins from Portugese shopping centre company Sonae Sierra, where he was head of legal affairs in Spain. He joins Lovells’ real estate practice, which is headed by senior lawyer Emilio Gómez Delgado. Bardavio’s hire […]

Thomas Eggar acquires Penningtons’ Newbury office

Penningtons‘ Newbury office has been snatched by South East firm Thomas Eggar after internal wranglings over the future strategy of the firm, The Lawyer can reveal. The office, home to 84 people, including 10 partners, approached Thomas Eggar after differences with central management over strategy. Penningtons had undertaken a firmwide review and concluded that it […]

Thomas Eggar acquires Penningtons’ Newbury office

Penningtons‘ Newbury office has been snatched by South East firm Thomas Eggar after internal wranglings over the future strategy of the firm, The Lawyer can reveal. The office, home to 84 people, including 10 partners, approached Thomas Eggar after differences with central management over strategy. Penningtons had undertaken a firmwide review and concluded that it […]

Beachcroft technology head quits for Eversheds

Beachcroft has lost its head of technology Nick Holland to rival firm Eversheds. Holland, who will join Eversheds as a partner in January, has quit Beachcroft to take advantage of Eversheds’ wider European offering. Eversheds head of technology Rex Parry said: “Nick advises suppliers of IT kit and his business is pan-European. He aims to […]

Beachcroft technology head quits for Eversheds

Beachcroft has lost its head of technology Nick Holland to rival firm Eversheds. Holland, who will join Eversheds as a partner in January, has quit Beachcroft to take advantage of Eversheds’ wider European offering. Eversheds head of technology Rex Parry said: “Nick advises suppliers of IT kit and his business is pan-European. He aims to […]

Links and CC defy credit squeeze on major buy out

Linklaters’ lateral hiring policy has borne fruit with two new partners securing one of the biggest buyouts since the credit crunch dried up liquidity. The magic circle firm advised Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and new client Quadrangle Capital Partners in the NOK5.8bn (£520m) buyout of Norwegian cable company Get from Clifford Chance’s longstanding private equity […]

Links and CC defy credit squeeze on major buy out

Linklaters’ lateral hiring policy has borne fruit with two new partners securing one of the biggest buyouts since the credit crunch dried up liquidity. The magic circle firm advised Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and new client Quadrangle Capital Partners in the NOK5.8bn (£520m) buyout of Norwegian cable company Get from Clifford Chance’s longstanding private equity […]

Property

An appraisal at the half-year mark suggests a slowdown in the robust growth that the property sector has enjoyed over the past five years. But the picture has certainly not been uniform across the board. Regional firms and those that have hedged through involvement in emerging markets are finding themselves less vulnerable than those City […]

Property

An appraisal at the half-year mark suggests a slowdown in the robust growth that the property sector has enjoyed over the past five years. But the picture has certainly not been uniform across the board. Regional firms and those that have hedged through involvement in emerging markets are finding themselves less vulnerable than those City […]

Mayer Brown reshuffles management in Germany

Mayer Brown has appointed a new managing partner in Germany, with banking and finance partner Jörg Wulfken taking control of the firm’s offices in Frankfurt, Berlin and Cologne. Wulfken will succeed Reinhard Lange as managing partner in Frankfurt and Berlin by the end of the year. He will take over management of the Cologne office […]