NHS launches tender for £100m shared business services panel
The NHS has launched the tender process for its shared business services (SBS) panel which could be worth up to £100m of work.
Ropes finance partner exits for Bakers
Ropes & Gray finance partner Matthew Cox is joining Baker McKenzie after being one of the longest-serving lawyers in the US firm’s London office.
Vischer advises CRISPR Therapeutics on 5 million shares public offering
CRISPR Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases, announced on January 4, 2018 the pricing of a public offering of 5 million of its shares at an offering price of $22.75 per share, before underwriting discounts. In addition, an option to purchase up to an additional 750,000 shares that […]
Love and Other Awkward Losses
Seminar: Love and Other Awkward Losses 31 January 2018 No5 Barristers’ Chambers, 38 Queen Square , Bristol BS1 4QS
US managers choosing funds-of-one and PE vehicles to support investors
Jersey likes EU sanctions too – a brief look at implementation
The largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey is a self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom and a well-known financial centre. While not a Member State of the European Union, the island has passed implementing regulations which enter EU sanctions in force, explain Nicola Roberts and Leon Hurd…
GDPR: what your HR team needs to do now
By Rachel Richardson Having survived the weeks leading up to 25 May and the deluge of emails from firms you’ve never even heard of about your mailing preferences, you’d be forgiven for thinking that your GDPR troubles are over. For HR professionals, there are actually far more significant points to consider…
30 years on, the role of semi-contentious practitioners is growing
By Gavin Ferguson and Alice Bricogne In this Q&A Advocate Gavin Ferguson and senior associate Alice Bricogne explain how changes in the industry since the trusts boom in the 1980s and early 1990s have led to the blurring of the lines between contentious and non-contentious practitioners…
Guide to beneficial ownership
By Cline Glidden Five things you need to know and five things you need to do…
Reform of civil forfeiture orders in Jersey
MONEYVAL’s inspection of Jersey’s AML regime in 2015 and its subsequent report issued in May 2016 has focussed the minds of Jersey legislators and regulators to actively prosecute more financial crime and in particular to introduce a non conviction based confiscation regime to apply in parallel with the conviction based system…
NHS launches tender for £100m shared business services panel
The NHS has launched the tender process for its shared business services (SBS) panel which could be worth up to £100m of work.
Ropes finance partner exits for Bakers
Ropes & Gray finance partner Matthew Cox is joining Baker McKenzie after being one of the longest-serving lawyers in the US firm’s London office.
Vischer advises CRISPR Therapeutics on 5 million shares public offering
CRISPR Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases, announced on January 4, 2018 the pricing of a public offering of 5 million of its shares at an offering price of $22.75 per share, before underwriting discounts. In addition, an option to purchase up to an additional 750,000 shares that […]
Love and Other Awkward Losses
Seminar: Love and Other Awkward Losses 31 January 2018 No5 Barristers’ Chambers, 38 Queen Square , Bristol BS1 4QS
Squire Patton Boggs takes Dentons team for Atlanta launch
Squire Patton Boggs has hired a three-partner team from Dentons to launch a new office in Atlanta.
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Dechert recruits Middle East duo from King & Spalding
Dechert has hired its first lateral partner in Dubai for over 18 months, after taking on two real estate lawyers from its US rival King & Spalding. King & Spalding partner Stephen Kelly is joining Dechert. He will be joined by counsel Sarah Mahood who joins as a national partner. Prior to King & Spalding, […]
Freshfields partner swaps private practice for the Bar
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer restructuring partner Nick Segal is switching private practice for the Bar, taking on a new role at Erskine Chambers. Segal is set to join the chambers as a barrister in September, after he has been successfully admitted to the Bar. Segal joined Freshfields in 2006 on his return to the UK from […]
DAC posts double-digit growth across the board with record PEP figure
DAC Beachcroft has posted a strong set of results for the 2017/18 financial year, showing double-digit growth in turnover and profit as well as posting a record-high in profit per equity partner (PEP) of £530,000. An 11 per cent increase in turnover from 2016/17 saw the firm rise from £207m to £230m, while a 21 per […]
Ashurst concludes redundancy consultation with 54 roles lost
Ashurst has cut 54 secretarial roles in its London office, after the firm decided to scrap the position of executive assistants (EAs) in favour of a new role called “practice executive”. The firm revealed in May that 80 roles were at risk as part of the shift, with practice executives set to cover a broader line […]
Clifford Chance posts 77% retention for autumn 2018
Clifford Chance has revealed its retention result for autumn 2018, the first of the magic circle to do so. The firm offered newly-qualified jobs to 36 of its final seat trainees, out of 44 who applied for roles. There were 47 trainees in the cohort in total, meaning the firm’s retention rate is 76.5 per […]
Fountain Court completes new-look Tchenguiz legal team
With less than three months to go to trial, Fountain Court Chambers has been brought in to act for Robert Tchenguiz in his feud with Grant Thornton after he swapped incumbent adviser Stephenson Harwood for Debevoise & Plimpton. It is understood that Fountain Court silks Stephen Rubin QC and Charles Béar QC are now being instructed by […]