Leicester-based David Wilson Homes, the homebuilding unit of Wilson Bowden, is considering plans to cut the number of firms it instructs following a benchmarking exercise. David Wilson Homes outsources around 70 per cent of site acquisition work and all plot sales. Most of that work has historically gone to 16 firms across the housebuilder’s 13 […]

Ashurst Morris Crisp’s real estate team has been appointed to advise British Waterways on its major property public-private partnership scheme following a beauty parade in December. British Waterways, the public corporation responsible for the UK’s 2,000-mile waterway network, has invited interested parties to join a joint venture project aimed at establishing the organisation as a […]

The London office of Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) is nabbing a top partner from arch rival Brobeck Hale and Dorr. The San Francisco firm is hiring corporate finance partner Julia Bracewell from Brobeck, where she was the first UK lawyer. Both firms claim to be global technology law firms, although MoFo has been slower to […]