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’s offering for UK real estate investors stands up after Vote Leave
By Richard Daggett It is fair to say that, if the UK commercial real estate sector was a glass, it would be very difficult to determine whether it was half full or half empty. Every positive headline about the sector booming has been accompanied with a harbinger of doom regarding its future. For example, with Brexit, […]
New Jersey LLC law strengthens offering to US managers
By Matthew Shaxson Jersey’s new LLC law strengthens the Island’s offering to US managers to build on the £169 billion of US assets and funds already administered here, says Ogier partner Matthew Shaxson. The Island’s legislature gave final approval to the new LLC structure, which largely mirrors the existing Delaware model, last week. With a significant […]
Cayman Grand Court decision on master-feeder fund structures
By Giorgio Subiotto, Tim Cone The Cayman Grand Court has handed down a decision that has significance for Cayman master-feeder fund structures. Funds and their advisers should review the redemption provisions in master fund articles of association and partnership agreements to ensure that, operationally, redemptions are being effected in accordance with such documents. Background In the matter […]
Luxembourg simplifies legal regime for business licences
By Benjamin Devouassoux, Laurent Thailly The Luxembourg law of 2 September 2011 regulating access to the professions of craftsman, trader, industrialist and certain liberal professions, has been amended with effect from 30 July 2018 (the Revised Law) in order (i) to facilitate individuals’ access to certain professional activities and (ii) simplify the process with the Luxembourg Ministry […]
The Cayman Islands Foundation Company- An insight
The Cayman Islands Foundation Company is a unique structuring option in the Cayman Islands used for wealth planning, as well as holding vehicles and special purpose vehicles for commercial transactions and cryptocurrency offerings. Though the Foundation Company may be used as an alternative to a Cayman trust, a number of features specific to Cayman’s trust […]
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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The speed read: the legal world’s key stories of last week
There are three things that keep City managing partners awake at night. First, the US firms. Second, tech and New Law. And third, Brexit. This week saw all three issues in the spotlight. The extent of US firms’ growth in London was shown by the unveiled City 50, The Lawyer’s ranking of US and UK […]
White & Case advises as CVC buys UnitedLex in biggest-ever legal market deal
CVC Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in alternative legal services provider UnitedLex in what is believed to be the largest investment in the legal market ever at $500m. UnitedLex CEO Dan Reed led negotiations in-house. The Lawyer can reveal that CVC was advised by a White & Case team led by New York-based partner […]
Orrick and Latham advise on FarFetch float
Orrick, Latham & Watkins and Fenwick & West have taken the lead advising on luxury online retailer FarFetch‘s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Latham & Watkins is advising FarFetch, with a capital markets team led by New York partners Marc Jaffe and Ian Schuman, and London partner Joshua Kiernan. Orrick is acting for a […]
The 60 second interview: Need new ways to motivate your team? Ask them
GSK’s assistant general counsel talks to The Lawyer about the steps she takes to avoid disappointment in the mentor-mentee relationship.
Revealed: A&O’s IP reshuffle in the wake of Dagg’s Kirkland move
Former Allen & Overy (A&O) head of intellectual property Nicola Dagg was leading on 75 per cent of the firm’s cases in the sector before the announcement of her high-profile move to US firm Kirkland & Ellis earlier this year, data from The Lawyer can reveal. Data gathered for The Lawyer Litigation Tracker Q2 shows that of the firm’s four […]
LOD targets US as future biggest market in growth strategy
Flexible lawyering service Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has laid out its plans for significant growth in the US with hopes that it will become the provider’s biggest market in the next “few years”. In a bid to further its ambitions in the US, LOD co-founder John Knox relocated to the North Eastern state of Connecticut […]