Financing
Ian Clark of White & Case advised petroleum products distributor Dor Energy on its £50m offering on the Tel Aviv and London Stock Exchanges. Ashurst Morris Crisp advised lead underwriter BT Alex Brown. Israeli firms Goldfarb
Cleared ex-B&C director slams Treasury Solicitors and DTI
The Treasury Solicitor’s department has come under fire for its handling of disqualification proceedings it brought against John Gunn, the former chairman of collapsed company British & Commonwealth (B&C). Gunn was last month cleared in court of any wrongdoing and is now seeking hundreds of thousands of pounds of costs from the Department of Trade […]
Flotation
John Ellard of Linklaters advised Coca-Cola Beverages (CCB) on its £1.7bn flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Richard Cranfield of Allen & Overy advised sponsor Warburg Dillon Read. Ashurst Morris Crisp advised the directors of CCB and Slaughter and May advised San Miguel.
Property
Simon Cookson of Ashurst Morris Crisp advised NatWest on the £226m sale of the International Financial Centre, formerly the NatWest tower, to a partnership of three firms: Greycoat, advised by David Paterson of Herbert Smith; Mercury Asset Management, advised by Nabarro Nathanson; and Hermes, advised by Maxwell Batley.
Focus: Art in the Office The art of legal practice
Financing
Ian Clark of White & Case advised petroleum products distributor Dor Energy on its £50m offering on the Tel Aviv and London Stock Exchanges. Ashurst Morris Crisp advised lead underwriter BT Alex Brown. Israeli firms Goldfarb
Cleared ex-B&C director slams Treasury Solicitors and DTI
The Treasury Solicitor’s department has come under fire for its handling of disqualification proceedings it brought against John Gunn, the former chairman of collapsed company British & Commonwealth (B&C). Gunn was last month cleared in court of any wrongdoing and is now seeking hundreds of thousands of pounds of costs from the Department of Trade […]
Flotation
John Ellard of Linklaters advised Coca-Cola Beverages (CCB) on its £1.7bn flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Richard Cranfield of Allen & Overy advised sponsor Warburg Dillon Read. Ashurst Morris Crisp advised the directors of CCB and Slaughter and May advised San Miguel.
Property
Simon Cookson of Ashurst Morris Crisp advised NatWest on the £226m sale of the International Financial Centre, formerly the NatWest tower, to a partnership of three firms: Greycoat, advised by David Paterson of Herbert Smith; Mercury Asset Management, advised by Nabarro Nathanson; and Hermes, advised by Maxwell Batley.
City assistants beat inflation
ASSISTANT solicitors in the City are enjoying average pay increases of four times the rate of inflation, according to a survey conducted by recruiters Michael Page Legal, in conjunction with The Lawyer. The survey, of the top 200 firms in the UK, shows that solicitors are taking advantage of a seller’s market to receive average […]
Recruit legal talent
Get your role in front of over 300,000 legal professionals when you advertise with The Lawyer. Our team of experts provide bespoke solutions to help solve all your recruitment challenges.
Find out more
New Law momentum continues as Axiom gears up for IPO
Flexible legal resources provider Axiom has filed for an IPO after several years of deliberation, in a bid to obtain extra investment for further expansion. The provider has submitted a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, but the filing did not disclose a range for the pricing of shares or […]
CMS’s tech incubator goes global in push for more start-up members
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has expanded the reach of its in-house startup accelerator to about 20 countries, expecting to engage 150 startups worldwide by the end of the year. The programme, dubbed CMS EquIP, provides startups and businesses at various stages of development access to potential investors and discounted legal support from the firm’s fee-earners. […]
Cadwalader to join Freshfields and Paul Hastings in new City HQ
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is to move from its City home in Dashwood House to 100 Bishopsgate when the building is completed. The firm’s London head Greg Petrick has set out a gauntlet for growth, with the US firm taking enough space for 120 lawyers in the new building. The London headcount is currently at […]
DWF grabs mandate on Flybmi’s collapse
Flybmi has become the latest airline to enter into administration, with the company citing Brexit uncertainty as one of the main reasons for its collapse. DWF is acting for the administrators BDO, with a team led by Leeds-based associate partner Matthew Brown. The airline cancelled all flights over the weekend with immediate effect. DWF is understood to […]
Taylor Wessing rules out merger talk as firm seals West Coast alliance
Furthering its reach on the West Coast, Taylor Wessing has entered into a non-exclusive joint relationship with California’s Wilson Sonsini.
Linklaters’ former CMO to destroy documents in swift end to injunction saga
Former Linklaters marketing head Frank Mellish has agreed to destroy documents shared between him and the firm, in relation to matters he said would expose “the ongoing struggle [the firm] has with women in the workplace”.