Eversheds and Olswang have acted for the two sides in a tie-up that will see the creation of Europe’s second-largest tissue producer. Olswang advised new client Sofidel on its acquisition of the family-owned LPC Group in a deal that will establish a combined entity with an annual turnover of e1.3bn (£1.1bn). Corporate chief Fabrizio Carpanini […]
Ward Hadaway partner Karen Andrews has helped secure a mandate advising on a £350m schools project two months after arriving at the firm. The firm has been selected by Bedford Borough Council to provide all legal advice on its multimillion-pound Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, which will see the creation of seven secondary […]
Pinsent Masons and Slaughter and May have helped Asda in a major acquisition that could see it become the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain. Asda will acquire 193 Netto stores from the Danish chain Dansk Supermarked for £778m, which will see the Wal-Mart subsidary’s total number of UK stores overtake that of J Sainsbury, while also […]
Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have snared top roles on the proposed £800m flotation of zombie life assurance fund Phoenix Group. Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have snared top roles on the proposed £800m flotation of zombie life assurance fund Phoenix […]
Howes Percival is forging ahead with plans to treble its private client team following the arrival of two lawyers. Solicitor Justine Flack has arrived from Clarkes Solicitors and will be joined by associate partner William Chalk from BP Collins next week. The firm wants to expand the seven-strong private client team to 15 by April […]
Trowers & Hamlins has boosted its local government practice with two new hires. Eversheds projects partner Mike Mousdale has joined the firm’s Manchester office along with Cheshire County Council solicitor and monitoring officer Gerry Budd. Mousdale is an expert on EU procurement, PFI and PPP, while Budd has been the most senior legal adviser to […]
Speechly Bircham is the latest firm to launch a High Court claim against a client for unpaid fees. According to the claim form, which was filed in March, Chesterman Capital, a company set up to sponsor and operate collective investment schemes, owes the firm £37,000. The outstanding bill was built up between March 2007 and April 2009 […]
Will one consultation paper equal a rewrite of the takeover rulebook? Since it was first announced last September, the hostile takeover of Cadbury by Kraft has dominated the M&A market more than any other in recent years. And developments over the past two weeks show that the impact is likely to be felt for some […]
Celebrity lawyer Simon Smith is to launch his own practice in London six months after quitting Schillings. Smith, a former managing partner at Schillings , left the firm last December after winning a controversial injunction for golfing superstar Tiger Woods. His shock departure from Schillings was shrouded in mystery, with the firm’s business director Christopher Mills insisting that Smith […]
Construction giant Bovis Lend Lease is facing an age discrimination and unfair dismissal claim from a former in-house lawyer. Lawyer Anthony Philpott, who worked for the company for 11 years, alleges he was unfairly dismissed in June last year because of age discrimination and victimisation claims he had launched a year earlier. The redundancy process used by the […]
Prudential has launched a revamp of its UK legal team with the creation of a new head of legal role. The new role marks the first time the insurance giant will have a dedicated legal chief, who has still to be recruited, for its domestic arm Prudential UK. A nine-strong legal team will move from the […]
The Telegraph Media Group has hired Associated Newspaper’s group litigation adviser to work alongside its most senior lawyer Arthur Wynn-Davies as he prepares for retirement. It is understood that new joiner Adam Cannon will eventually succeed Wynn-Davies, who is in negotiations with the company over a departure date. Cannon said: “There are very few of […]