Banking and Finance News
Exclusive: Henderson in-house team shrinks amid shift to using law firms more
Henderson Global Investors’ UK in-house legal team has shrunk by nearly 30 per cent in the past year following a shift to farming out more of its lower-level work to law firms.
Barclays deputy GC leads the race in scramble to replace Harding
Barclays deputy general counsel Michael Shaw is understood to be leading the race to replace Mark Harding as the bank’s legal chief.
RBS kicks off Emea panel review ahead of July start
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is carrying out a review of its Emea legal panel that will see it unveil a new roster for the region from 1 July.
Hogan Lovells and Simpson Thacher bite into record $17bn Apple bond
Hogan Lovells and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have advised on Apple’s $17bn (£10.9bn) bond issue, described as the largest corporate bond offering in history.
Mis-selling claims group appoints legal chief with Optima hire
Financial mis-selling claims specialist All Square Treasury has appointed Optima Legal non-standard debt litigation head Melanie Dickinson Denby as legal director.
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Ropes bulks up in City and Hong Kong with Fried Frank duo
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Latham hires A&O capital markets partner in Frankfurt
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CC's Weber-Rey to take up senior role at Deutsche Bank
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Ex-Freshfields chief Mettenheimer to join Rothschild as German boss
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Chinese banking giant ICBC puts legal panel in spotlight
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Burness bolsters banking team with former Lloyds in-houser
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Reed Smith adds to City structured finance team with CC partner
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US firms come out to play on Toys“R”Us debt restructure
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Holland & Knight hires ex-DLA Islamic finance head Agha
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Clifford Chance and Linklaters advise on China Minmetals' RMB bonds
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Linklaters brings ex-Norton Rose Islamic finance star on board
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Man Group picks new GC as hedge fund's legal chief leaves
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Barclays GC pockets £3.6m bonus as retirement nears
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Anderson Strathern picks up Semple Fraser banking team
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Firms on tenterhooks over Lloyds panel revamp
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Ex-Dewey partner sues Barclays over capital loan
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Akin Gump and Skadden advise as Vimpelcom issues $2bn eurobond
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Goodwin Procter picks up Travers Smith property finance partner
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Frontrunners emerge for Barclays general counsel role
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Arthur Cox advises as Irish government restructures bank debt
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Ex-Stephenson Harwood team quits Dundas for Osborne Clarke
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Linklaters picks up banking partner from A&O in Spain
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White & Case and WilmerHale lead on Sberbank JV with search engine
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Barclays panel delayed as bank moves away from biennial reviews
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EMW, Morgan Cole and Shoosmiths install Cambridge software group's MBO
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Leading sets prepare for boom year in litigation as The Lawyer reveals 2013's top cases
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Allen & Overy turns to leading local firm for hire of Hanoi head
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Ashurst and Dechert land roles on Kazakh bond as banks switch adviser
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Gibson Dunn advises UBS on Libor settlements
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Squire Sanders turns to BLP and Wragges for City banking hires
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Travers Thorp Alberga continues hiring spree with Walkers hire
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Latham and Ropes broker $1.1bn deal to refinance Israeli telecoms group
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Lloyds hires FSA's Whittaker as new group general counsel
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DLA Piper makes double German hire from Salans
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Barclays to revamp in-house team after hire of ex-FSA chief Sants
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Freshfields advises HSBC over $1.9bn money-laundering fine
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Freshfields and Linklaters clinch roles as Rosneft issues debut €3bn eurobond
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Simmons hires Hong Kong finance partner from Standard Chartered Bank
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Weil to beef up London high yield with Freshfields partner Strauss
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Magic circle trio advises as HSBC sells stake in Chinese insurer
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Akin Gump and Dechert win roles as Kazakh oil group restructures debt
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Orrick's China chief quits for GC role at Asian Development Bank
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Kaye Scholer plans City structured finance launch with Freshfields hire
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Ashurst, Freshfields and SJ Berwin seal Nomura property sale
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Structural decline
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Cleary joins Slaughters' French ally on Franco-Belgian bailout of Dexia
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Weil and Morgan Lewis among firms on $3.6bn sale of Jefferies
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DLA and Squire Sanders Leeds team lead on financing by GE and Ares
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JPMorgan GC takes Emea role following internal revamp
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Bingham joins local trio on Spanish constructor's €200m debt refinancing
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CMS, Eversheds and Osborne Clarke win spots on slimmed down Lloyds panel
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Cooke Young & Keidan wins right to take Barclays Libor claims to High Court
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Firms vie for places as GE prepares for European panel revamp
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Clifford Chance and Linklaters lead on $1.5bn Sberbank loan amid panel review
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A&O and Bakers steer $1bn Turkish bond issue following Istanbul launches
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Lloyds extends panel appointments as revamp is delayed
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RBS slashes panel appointments by 40 per cent in latest review
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Nationwide gears up for wholesale panel revamp
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Linklaters and Slaughters lead as Santander scraps RBS branches buy
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Linklaters acts as Lehman Brothers edges closer to mass pay-out
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CC, Linklaters and Mills & Reeve lead on Cambridge University bond issue
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Weil beefs up Paris finance practice with Linklaters hire
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Jones Day bolsters Paris finance team with Gide hires
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Walkers expands practice reach with hires from Mayer Brown, Proskauer
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US firms advise on funding round for French advertising group Criteo
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Nomura revamps legal function as wholesale legal chief quits
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Prime Finance adds experts to disputes panel
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Deutsche Bank unveils revamped global panel
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A&O and CC win roles on landmark Malaysian sukuk amid country push
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US trio lands roles on $1.15bn Mexichem bond offering
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Santander taps Uría for legal head as part of team restructure
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K&L Gates poaches three-partner team from Sidley
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Clifford Chance offers voluntary sabbaticals to Singapore lawyers
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Cleary and Linklaters act as Russia's Sberbank poised for London-Moscow SPO
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Paul Hastings raids Clifford Chance for structured finance partner
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FSA to launch first ever investigatory panel
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HSBC adds trio of US firms to expanded global panel
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Ex-Dewey partner claims Citibank conspired to lure laterals
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Clifford Chance on standby to advise Barclays on SFO Qatar probe
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Deutsche Bank hires Cleary's von Dryander as German GC
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Sullivan and Wachtell advise on $3.7bn US bank takeover
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Mayer Brown departures continue with defection to Cadwalader
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Irwin Mitchell wins first Macquarie job with property refinancing gig
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Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Kirkland seal Travelodge debt deal
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Slaughters' Boardman leads on Standard Chartered settlement
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Hogan Lovells, Latham advise on Russian bank's capital markets return
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MAB and 3VB offer first defence in Barclays test case
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Maclays, Norton Rose, Taylor Wessing clinch £209m property finance jobs
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Slaughters joins Sullivan legend Cohen on Standard Chartered advice
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Cooke Young & Keidan acts as first Libor litigation hits court
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Freshfields usurps Hogan Lovells on Biffa's £1.1bn debt restructuring
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Reed Smith wins Co-op relationship with £950m refinancing
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Clifford Chance wins RBS role on IT failure review
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Linklaters targets shadow banking in bid to bolster finance practice
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Freshfields appoints global and London finance chiefs

