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London Legal walk raises £310k for advice centres
More than 3,500 lawyers turned out at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday for the fourth annual London Legal Support Trust sponsored walk.
Latham names new finance chief
Latham & Watkins has today (Thursday 22 May) announced the appointment of David Heller as the new global chair of the firm’s finance department. Heller is currently co-chair both of Latham’s insolvency and Latin American practice groups. A restructuring specialist, Heller has represented senior and junior secured and unsecured lenders in workouts and bankruptcy proceedings […]
Firms wired up for Irish broadband sale
Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice and William Fry are representing NTR and Kilsaran Concrete on the sale of Irish Broadband to Imagine Communications for €47m (£37.35m). The deal will see Imagine, which was advised by Eames Solicitors, enlarged to a company with annual revenues of over €100m (£79.48m). Venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, which holds […]
Law Society under fire for miners stance
Law Society chief executive Des Hudson has been called as a key witness to defend his body’s decision to award £350,000 to miners amid claims that the regulator has a conflict of interest and should not be judging any of the firms involved in the saga. Yorkshire-based solicitors Raleys has claimed that the Law Society’s […]
Appeal Court upholds EAT’s burden of proof decision
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London Legal walk raises £310k for advice centres
More than 3,500 lawyers turned out at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday for the fourth annual London Legal Support Trust sponsored walk.
Latham names new finance chief
Latham & Watkins has today (Thursday 22 May) announced the appointment of David Heller as the new global chair of the firm’s finance department. Heller is currently co-chair both of Latham’s insolvency and Latin American practice groups. A restructuring specialist, Heller has represented senior and junior secured and unsecured lenders in workouts and bankruptcy proceedings […]
Firms wired up for Irish broadband sale
Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice and William Fry are representing NTR and Kilsaran Concrete on the sale of Irish Broadband to Imagine Communications for €47m (£37.35m). The deal will see Imagine, which was advised by Eames Solicitors, enlarged to a company with annual revenues of over €100m (£79.48m). Venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, which holds […]
Law Society under fire for miners stance
Law Society chief executive Des Hudson has been called as a key witness to defend his body’s decision to award £350,000 to miners amid claims that the regulator has a conflict of interest and should not be judging any of the firms involved in the saga. Yorkshire-based solicitors Raleys has claimed that the Law Society’s […]
Clifford Chance leads on $1.15bn Kuwaiti LSE float
Clifford Chance has snared a lead role on a $1.15bn (£580m) Kuwaiti listing on the London Stock Exchange. Clifford Chance partners Simon Sinclair and Robert Trefney led the firm’s team advising Kuwaiti investment company Global Investment House on the listing of global depository receipts in London. This is the first listing of its type for […]
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Former Slaughters partner to carry out Greensill review
Corporate veteran Nigel Boardman has been appointed by the Prime Minister to carry out an independent review into the ongoing Greensill saga. Boardman, who left Slaughter and May’s partnership in 2019, is a non-executive director of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has continued since as a senior consultant at Slaughters, with […]
Latham and Freshfields lead as Darktrace gears up for IPO
Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are acting as cybersecurity start-up Darktrace confirms plans to go public. The Latham team for Darktrace is led by capital markets partner James Inness, with co-chair of the London corporate department Robbie McLaren and partners Josh Kiernan, Shing Yuin Lo and associate Koushik Prasad. Lo, a member of The […]
Freshfields unveils 22-strong promotions round
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a reduced number of promotions in London as opposed to last year, with six making the cut. The firm has promoted 22 new partners, effective from May 2021. It marks a similar number to last year’s promotions, when the firm made up 21 lawyers. Most of the promotions are centred […]
Six make the grade in Mishcon promotions
After last year’s reduced round of just two promotions, Mishcon de Reya has now added six lawyers to its partnership. This includes a total of four new female partners, with the firm bolstering its corporate, family, finance and real estate departments. Head of Mishcon Purpose Alexander Rhodes has also been given the nod, whose role […]
Ince mulls “away days” as firm eases Covid-19 measures
The Ince Group has ended the salary reductions introduced at the height of the pandemic, as it starts to formulate policies around future working arrangements. In April 2020, the firm agreed salary reductions that ranged from 10 to 30 per cent for employed staff and amounted to 30 per cent for members of the plc. […]
Six firms appointed to Transport for Greater Manchester panel
Six firms have won a place on Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) near-£90m professional services framework, after it was delayed due to “exceptional circumstances” last year. Ashurst, Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, Gowling WLG, Squire Patton Boggs and Weightmans have been appointed to Lot 9 (Legal services for major or complex projects) of TfGM’s professional services panel. […]
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