London Stock Exchange

Pinsents and Addleshaws score roles on investment platform IPO

Pinsent Masons is shepherding investment platform AJ Bell on its planned flotation on the London Stock Exchange, despite ongoing uncertainty in the IPO market. Partner Julian Stanier and senior associate Alasdair Weir are leading the Pinsent Masons’ corporate team; Stanier joined the firm in 2017 from legacy Berwin Leighton Paisner prior to its US merger […]

Edinburgh

Addleshaws parts ways with Scottish private client practice after team defection

Over a year into its Scottish merger, Addleshaw Goddard has lost a ten-strong private client team to independent firm Morton Fraser. The head of Addleshaw’s private client team in Edinburgh, Gregor Mitchell, will move across to Morton Fraser, alongside legal director Euan Fleming and a team of eight consultants, solicitors, paralegals and executive assistants. The defection comes […]

Scotland

Addleshaws’ Scottish arm “unduly influenced” by Barclays in insolvency row

The family-owned business suing Addleshaw Goddard‘s Scottish arm has accused the firm of a breach of duty by allowing itself to fall under the “informal control” of Barclays during an insolvency process, documents seen by The Lawyer reveal. When Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) entered into insolvency in 2012, Deloitte turned to Addleshaws’ Scottish arm HBJ Gateley for […]

Tarun Tawakley, Deliveroo

As far as tech start-ups go, Deliveroo is one of the most talked about and successful in London right now. The food delivery business has joined competitors in the eye of the ‘gig economy’ storm, meaning head of employment and commercial litigation Tarun Tawakley is handling some of the most innovative and forward-thinking cases in […]