Jersey and Guernsey
Jersey and Guernsey are increasingly popular jurisdictions for the establishment of vehicles issuing structured equity products for retail investors. Jonathan Rigby reports
Sutherland and Freshfields land BNFL roles on £2.8bn Toshiba deal
US firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped instruction from British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) on the pending US$5bn (£2.8bn) sale of its US subsidiary Westinghouse to Japanese congolmerate Toshiba. BNFL’s in-house legal director Alvin Shuttleworth and UK general counsel Sue Quaint have led the deal along with Atlanta-based firm Sutherland Asbill […]
Keeping up with Jones
CBI chief Sir Digby Jones is enthusiastic – and vocal – about the potential for English law firms to flourish in the wake of the white paper on the reform of the profession. By Matt Byrne
Tesco sues Lovells over Czech property deal
Jersey and Guernsey
Jersey and Guernsey are increasingly popular jurisdictions for the establishment of vehicles issuing structured equity products for retail investors. Jonathan Rigby reports
Sutherland and Freshfields land BNFL roles on £2.8bn Toshiba deal
US firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped instruction from British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) on the pending US$5bn (£2.8bn) sale of its US subsidiary Westinghouse to Japanese congolmerate Toshiba. BNFL’s in-house legal director Alvin Shuttleworth and UK general counsel Sue Quaint have led the deal along with Atlanta-based firm Sutherland Asbill […]
Keeping up with Jones
CBI chief Sir Digby Jones is enthusiastic – and vocal – about the potential for English law firms to flourish in the wake of the white paper on the reform of the profession. By Matt Byrne
London brawling
Canada’s largest firm McCarthy Tétrault has faced many obstacles trying to establish itself in the UK with a small three-partner office. But there is one hurdle no other Canadian firm in the City has had to deal with before – the confusion between London, Ontario and London, England. London, England managing partner Rob Bryant recently […]
Exclusive: Axiom weighs up IPO after years of deliberation
Flexible legal resources provider Axiom is considering an initial public offering in a bid to turbocharge the company’s growth, The Lawyer understands. Sources close to the matter claim that the firm’s internal talks are reaching a head after several years of deliberation. An Axiom spokesperson said today: “Axiom does not comment on rumours or market speculation”. […]
Knights boots up for IPO with tech transformation
Knights, which this month announced its intention to become the fifth publicly listed UK law firm, has hired the European IT director at Procter & Gamble to oversee a “technology transformation” as part of the listing. Richard King will join Knights on 1 July as a non-executive director to lead the business’ tech overhaul. Knights’ […]
DAC set to exit “miserable dungeon” with move to Cannon Street
DAC Beachcroft‘s search for its new London office is coming to an end as the firm is understood to have put in an offer for floors of the Walbrook Building near Bank station, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm kicked off its search for a new office last September, instructing commercial estate agents Knight Frank to find […]
Dentons-backed ‘Space Camp’ unveils six new startups
Six European startups have been chosen to join the first round of a SpaceTech startup accelerator backed by Dentons. The nine-week programme called ‘Space Camp’ is being hosted in Dentons’ London HQ and is sponsored by the global firm. The scheme was established by spacetech-focused venture capital fund Seraphim Capital, which claimed that it had […]
Gender pay gap: Freshfields and Slaughters bow to pressure on partner figures as A&O refuses to budge
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have released belatedly their gender pay gap for partners, while Allen & Overy (A&O) has been called out for “refusing to comply” with MPs’ requests for the data. The publication of results follows a long-running inquiry by the UK Government’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee into the […]
Hogan Lovells slashes 54 roles in London as redundancy programme enters final stage
Hogan Lovells has confirmed that 54 people have so far been affected by its London redundancy programme, as the consultation period nears its final stage. The restructuring operation was announced in September 2017, with the firm announcing that 90 roles would be cut or moved to low cost centres. This was made up of 78 […]