Khaitan & Co has advised Lightbox Management, which has acquired an interest in a variety of portfolio companies — Future E-Commerce Infrastructure, Kotak Urja, Zoomin Online India, CE Info Systems, Paymate India and Reverse Logisitics Company — from Sheraplo Ventures and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers for approximately $19.2m (£11.5m). Lightbox is among the first India-focused […]
No two panel reviews are the same. And a couple of in-house teams that have unveiled new panels over the past week demonstrate this fact all too well. For starters, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (better known as DCWW) overhauled its legal panel earlier this year. The utilities company categorised its panel into 11 separate lots, […]
Baker & McKenzie, Mayer Brown, Olswang and Slaughter and May have all won spots on Unilever’s inaugural panel. The hard-fought tender process ended last month with 16 out of 25 competing firms winning roles on four separate panels. The review was led by operations legal director Saswata Mukherjee and will be repeated in 2016 (27 March 2014). […]
Shoosmiths is boosting its north-west real-estate team by bringing two new senior associates as well as a solicitor into its Manchester office. Matthew Forrest joins as a senior associate specialising in real-estate litigation working with retailers, developers, investors, utility and telecoms companies. Forrest was previously an associate with Hill Dickinson. He is recommended in legal directory […]
Khaitan & Co has advised Lightbox Management, which has acquired an interest in a variety of portfolio companies — Future E-Commerce Infrastructure, Kotak Urja, Zoomin Online India, CE Info Systems, Paymate India and Reverse Logisitics Company — from Sheraplo Ventures and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers for approximately $19.2m (£11.5m). Lightbox is among the first India-focused […]
No two panel reviews are the same. And a couple of in-house teams that have unveiled new panels over the past week demonstrate this fact all too well. For starters, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (better known as DCWW) overhauled its legal panel earlier this year. The utilities company categorised its panel into 11 separate lots, […]
Baker & McKenzie, Mayer Brown, Olswang and Slaughter and May have all won spots on Unilever’s inaugural panel. The hard-fought tender process ended last month with 16 out of 25 competing firms winning roles on four separate panels. The review was led by operations legal director Saswata Mukherjee and will be repeated in 2016 (27 March 2014). […]
Shoosmiths is boosting its north-west real-estate team by bringing two new senior associates as well as a solicitor into its Manchester office. Matthew Forrest joins as a senior associate specialising in real-estate litigation working with retailers, developers, investors, utility and telecoms companies. Forrest was previously an associate with Hill Dickinson. He is recommended in legal directory […]
“The idea that females are primary carers is archaic – the time has come for male lawyers to embark on a new parental journey.” As the new law on shared parental leave (SPL) makes its final passage through Parliament, the findings of a report of the Law Society on the ‘Diversity profile of the profession’ […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
In a move that furthers the UK firm’s reach on the West Coast, Taylor Wessing has entered into a non-exclusive joint relationship agreement with California’s Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The relationship, which is not exclusive, means Taylor Wessing and Wilson Sonsini can support each other on life sciences and tech deals in particular. Some […]
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”.
After identifying London and New York as key offices for expansion, King & Spalding has revealed that City turnover increased by 12 per cent to over $48m in 2018. King & Spalding’s City figures have been up and down in the last few years, with turnover rising 14 per cent over 2015 only to fall […]
