Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired private equity heavyweight Raymond McKeeve in a boost for the firm’s ambitious corporate practice.
Raymond McKeeve
McKeeve left Kirkland & Ellis (K&E) a year ago to pursue a career as an investment professional with property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz, but this week BLP partners voted in of favour of accepting him into their partnership.
It is understood that McKeeve will head the firm’s private equity practice. The hire is a significant coup for BLP, which has been searching for a high-profile hire in private equity for several years.
The move comes after recently re-elected managing partner Neville Eisenberg pledged this week to continue the firm’s push into the corporate market as “an absolute priority” (16 March).
McKeeve and fellow private equity partner Graham White left Linklaters to join K&E in 2006.
Tchenguiz, and his investment vehicle R20, is an established client of McKeeve and White, and followed them from the magic circle firm to K&E.
BLP has been in expansive mood this year, opening a new office in Moscow with a 70-lawyer raid on Russian firm Pepeliaev Goltsblat & -Partners (19 January), and setting up a panel of South American firms as it considers a move into the region (19 January).
What the . . .
Speaking about one exam paper, Walter Cairns has tarnished the reputation of every faculty in MMU.
Instead of bringing the issue up at the time and/or with the relevant people, he has chosen four years later to have his soapbox and 15 minutes of fame; simultaneously dragging down the reputation of his employer and extinguishing job opportunities for the very students he employed to help. What will graduate employers think? Whatever the subject or faculty, he has made opportunities in an ever shrinking job market all the more unattainable. Irresponsible and childish.
If he feels his students are lazy perhaps he should reflect on his teaching methods. I hear nothing but bad reports from Cairns’ students – he does not apply relevant topics when teaching and his criticisms unneccesary and unconstructive; they disperse themselves into groups taught by lecturers they feel to be more competent in the area (which might explain poor attendance to his classes). I find the standards at the Law School to be very high and external reports reflect this. I cannot vouch for other areas of study and, quite frankly, neither should Walter Cairns. The over generalisation that all students are lazy is offensive and inappropriate: he of course is free to voice his opinions on the Business School but has no place to apply that assumption across the board. Appropriate action should have been taken at the relevant level; this is unprofessional, the repercussions will be felt by all MMU students.
McKeeve
Speaking about one exam paper, Walter Cairns has tarnished the reputation of every faculty in MMU.
Instead of bringing the issue up at the time and/or with the relevant people, he has chosen four years later to have his soapbox and 15 minutes of fame; simultaneously dragging down the reputation of his employer and extinguishing job opportunities for the very students he employed to help. What will graduate employers think? Whatever the subject or faculty, he has made opportunities in an ever shrinking job market all the more unattainable. Irresponsible and childish.
If he feels his students are lazy perhaps he should reflect on his teaching methods. I hear nothing but bad reports from Cairns’ students – he does not apply relevant topics when teaching and his criticisms unneccesary and unconstructive; they disperse themselves into groups taught by lecturers they feel to be more competent in the area (which might explain poor attendance to his classes). I would even go so far as to say he has a reputation.
I find the standards at the Law School to be very high and external reports reflect this. I cannot vouch for other areas of study and, quite frankly, neither should Walter Cairns. The over generalisation that all students are lazy is offensive and inappropriate: he of course is free to voice his opinions on the Business School but has no place to apply that assumption across the board. Appropriate action should have been taken at the relevant level; this is unprofessional, the repercussions will be felt by all MMU students.