Simmons & Simmons acted for Despa, the German open ended fund, in the £63m sale of its property at 49 Leadenhall Street to the City of London Real Property Company. The building was previously the headquarters of the Institute of London Underwriters. The team was run by property partner Alan Butler while Nabarro Nathanson advised the purchasers.
‘A very regular guy’
Cravath Swaine & Moore’s head of corporate John White may be overshadowed at home by his federal prosecutor wife Mary Jo, but that has not stopped him building up one of the country’s most formidable and profitable capital markets practice. Claire Smith finds out more about this unusually shy New York lawyer John White is […]