Legal hub urged for Singapore
Singapore's Economic Review Committee (ERC) has published a report aimed at transforming Singapore into Asia's 'premier legal services hub', thereby attracting foreign lawyers to the region
Singapore's Economic Review Committee (ERC) has published a report aimed at transforming Singapore into Asia's 'premier legal services hub', thereby attracting foreign lawyers to the region
White & Case has hired Hogan & Hartson private equity partner Zdzislaw Wieckowski for its Warsaw office. He advises venture capital clients on investments in Poland, the Balkans, the Baltics, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.First revealed on www.thelawyer.com/lawyernews on 18 September.
Macfarlanes has sealed its first deal for West Private Equity, a mid-market house that generally uses Clifford Chance for its larger European deals. Macfarlanes acted for West on its equity investment in Southern Cross Healthcare Limited. The £80m buyout also saw Eversheds beat DLA to advise the vendor. Allen & Overy had a major role […]
Watson Farley & Williams' Paris office is expected to be free to join US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe as early as November
Money laundering regulation has forced offshore jurisdictions to clean up their acts. Robert Hunter and Liz Sinclair provide the lowdown on the good and the bad
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A senior member of Travers Smith’s corporate group has left for Linklaters, after a string of departures from both firms. Richard Spedding has left the firm for Linklaters after 25 years at Travers, making partner in 2003. Working in M&A and equity capital markets, Spedding was also an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for five […]
NatWest’s general counsel – and Linklaters’ former managing partner – Gideon Moore has left the bank after two years, making way for a new chief. Moore has been replaced by NatWest’s litigation general counsel Will Luker. He has worked at the bank since 2003, became litigation general counsel in 2010 and subsequently managed and integrated […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has drafted in the former M&A head of Shearman & Sterling’s Italian associate firm to rebuild its transactional capacity in the country. Fabio Fauceglia joins the firm from Studio Legale Associato Shearman & Sterling, bringing with him a team of six lawyers, comprising of counsel Leonardo Pinta and five associates. Fauceglia […]
Clifford Chance has hired a structured finance partner from A&O Shearman after the two firms’ merger last week. Daniel Shurman joins Clifford Chance in London from legacy Allen & Overy, becoming a partner in its derivatives and structured products practice. Emma Matebalavu, global head of financial markets, commented: “Daniel’s appointment is a testament to our commitment to […]
Trainees at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May are among the least likely to use LinkedIn, according to data provided to The Lawyer. Research conducted by TBD Marketing has ranked leading law firms according to how often its trainees use their LinkedIn profiles to write posts ranging from quick career milestones updates to long […]
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Search vacanciesThanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
In October 2018, the journalist and critic of the Saudi Arabian regime Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The international reaction was swift. Dozens of major organisations, including HSBC, Ford and JP Morgan Chase, dropped out of the planned “Davos in the Desert” Saudi investment summit. “We are going […]
It’s a 90-minute train journey to London and two hours from Bristol. At £29 per sq ft, grade A office rents are a third of the average £90 per sq ft City firms pay. And it has an abundance of lawyers. Slowly but steadily, Southampton is slipping into the mid-tier consciousness as a city in […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
A senior member of Travers Smith’s corporate group has left for Linklaters, after a string of departures from both firms. Richard Spedding has left the firm for Linklaters after 25 years at Travers, making partner in 2003. Working in M&A and equity capital markets, Spedding was also an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for five […]
NatWest’s general counsel – and Linklaters’ former managing partner – Gideon Moore has left the bank after two years, making way for a new chief. Moore has been replaced by NatWest’s litigation general counsel Will Luker. He has worked at the bank since 2003, became litigation general counsel in 2010 and subsequently managed and integrated […]
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has drafted in the former M&A head of Shearman & Sterling’s Italian associate firm to rebuild its transactional capacity in the country. Fabio Fauceglia joins the firm from Studio Legale Associato Shearman & Sterling, bringing with him a team of six lawyers, comprising of counsel Leonardo Pinta and five associates. Fauceglia […]
Clifford Chance has hired a structured finance partner from A&O Shearman after the two firms’ merger last week. Daniel Shurman joins Clifford Chance in London from legacy Allen & Overy, becoming a partner in its derivatives and structured products practice. Emma Matebalavu, global head of financial markets, commented: “Daniel’s appointment is a testament to our commitment to […]
Trainees at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May are among the least likely to use LinkedIn, according to data provided to The Lawyer. Research conducted by TBD Marketing has ranked leading law firms according to how often its trainees use their LinkedIn profiles to write posts ranging from quick career milestones updates to long […]
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