Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Sandy Shandro has replaced Peter Bloxham as head of restructuring and insolvency. Shandro has been chairman of the Insolvency Committee of the City of London Law Society for the past two years and co-chaired the INSOL congress in Sydney this year. Bloxham, who has headed the group since its inception six years ago, remains in the restructuring and insolvency group, working alongside Neil Golding and his insurance solutions team. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 18 May
A&O urges large firms to join Law Centre funding scheme
Allen & Overy (A&O) has called on its fellow City firms to join a new scheme in which the interest on client accounts is donated to prop up the increasingly thin civil legal aid budget via the London Legal Support Trust. “We expect this new avenue for raising funds to generate donations from Allen & […]