Pepperfry.com has raised a Series D round of $100m from Goldman Sachs, Zodius Technology Fund and existing investors Bertelsmann India Investments and Norwest Venture Partners. Khaitan & Co advised Zodius Technology Fund in relation to its Series D investment. The core transaction team consisted of Siddharth Shah, partner; Surbhi Kejriwal, associate partner; Abhiraj Krishna, senior […]
Watch the highlights of the night from the extraordinary business innovators who won top accolades at The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards this year. The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards brought together around 500 attendees to celebrate excellence in management and operational work, and saw CMS pick up the Business Leadership Team of the Year thanks to its streamlined strategy […]
Hogan Lovells has ended its relationship with Indonesian association firm Hermawan Juniarto, three years after the tie-up started.
A cross discipline team at Gateley Plc has advised award-winning TV production company Astley Baker Davies on the sale of a controlling stake in the global brand Peppa Pig. Entertainment One (eOne) is increasing its ownership of the preschool franchise Peppa Pig. eOne has entered into an agreement with Peppa Pig co-owners Astley Baker Davies […]
Pepperfry.com has raised a Series D round of $100m from Goldman Sachs, Zodius Technology Fund and existing investors Bertelsmann India Investments and Norwest Venture Partners. Khaitan & Co advised Zodius Technology Fund in relation to its Series D investment. The core transaction team consisted of Siddharth Shah, partner; Surbhi Kejriwal, associate partner; Abhiraj Krishna, senior […]
Watch the highlights of the night from the extraordinary business innovators who won top accolades at The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards this year. The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards brought together around 500 attendees to celebrate excellence in management and operational work, and saw CMS pick up the Business Leadership Team of the Year thanks to its streamlined strategy […]
Hogan Lovells has ended its relationship with Indonesian association firm Hermawan Juniarto, three years after the tie-up started.
A cross discipline team at Gateley Plc has advised award-winning TV production company Astley Baker Davies on the sale of a controlling stake in the global brand Peppa Pig. Entertainment One (eOne) is increasing its ownership of the preschool franchise Peppa Pig. eOne has entered into an agreement with Peppa Pig co-owners Astley Baker Davies […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG) has advised Stan West and the senior management of GSF Car Parts, the UK’s largest independent distributor of car parts, on its sale to HgCapital’s The Parts Alliance. Birmingham-headquartered GSF was established 38 years ago by Chairman Stan West. Andy Lawton Smith, Head of Enterprise Services at WLG, has […]
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Travers Smith has improved its bonus gender pay gap after increasing the amounts awarded to business services staff. For the 2017/18 financial year, Travers upped the rewards handed out to its PAs and business services employees, a move that contributed to the narrowing of its bonus gender pay gap. In the firm’s most recent results, […]
Squire Patton Boggs has closed its Budapest office following a strategic review that echoes the destiny of a number of international firms in the region. The US firm’s five-strong Budapest office, which officially shut in late January, was helmed by managing partner Akos Mester, who previously co-led the office with M&A lawyer Akos Eros as […]
Goodwin Procter’s London office increased its revenue by more than 58 per cent last year on the back of team hires from Dechert and King & Wood Mallesons in 2017. Turnover leapt from $43m in 2017 to nearly $67m in 2018, after a 64 per cent rise in London headcount. The firm’s City presence was boosted by […]
Clifford Chance has retained 46 of its 51 final-seat trainees as newly qualified (NQ) solicitors, a retention rate of 90 per cent. Fifty of the trainees had applied for NQ positions. The result is similar to last spring, when the firm kept on 91 per cent of its qualifiers. Clifford Chance’s result beats Allen & […]
Burges Salmon has been summoned to the rescue of scandal-struck café chain Patisserie Valerie, which has been bought by an Irish private equity company. Corporate restructuring partner Andrew Eaton is acting for Causeway Capital Partners, which has rescued Patisserie Valerie from its administrators KPMG for an undisclosed sum. Prior to joining Burges Salmon in 2016, Eaton […]
