Commercial insurer QBE has promoted Esther Felton to head of legal replacing Adrian Williams, who is set to join Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice. Felton joined the in-house legal department in 2006 from Norton Rose, where she was a lawyer in the non-contentious insurance practice. She will head the insurer’s European legal operations. QBE said […]
Two employment partners are leaving Wragge & Co for Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC). Andrew Hodge and Patrick Brodie join RPC’s five-partner employment, pensions and incentives group, which covers both contentious and non-contentious work. Hodge became a partner at Wragges in 1998, having previously worked at Allen & Overy. Brodie became a partner at Wragges, where […]
Stephenson Harwood corporate partner Andrew Edge has scored his first major deal since moving from Ashurst earlier this year after advising India’s Piramal Healthcare on the $3.7bn (£2.57bn) sale of its pharmaceutical unit to Abbott Laboratories. Baker & McKenzie acted for longstanding client Abbott on the deal, with Chicago M&A partners Pablo Garcia-Moreno and Olivia […]
As director of litigation and special investigations, Jonathan Peddie has seen off the OFT and implemented major changes at Barclays Global Retail and Banking. But that was only the beginning, writes Andrew Pugh Name: Jonathan PeddiePosition: Director of litigation and special investigations, Global Retail and Banking (GRB)Company: Barclays Bank Industry: Financial servicesTurnover: £31bnNumber of employees: […]
LEWIS Silkin has begun outsourcing sophisticated disputes work to litigation partners at a law firm in New Zealand. The top 100 firm has given high-level sports and employment work to Minter Ellison, the Australian-headquartered firm that is carrying out outsourced work for UK firms (The Lawyer, 17 May 2010). In what could be a first for the […]
TWO SCOTTISH local authorities have completed panel reviews, with a mixture of Scottish and UK firms winning places. Midlothian Council has hired Anderson Strathern on debt recovery, judicial reviews and licensing appeals work. It takes over from Morton Fraser. Brodies has been retained for employment, construction, planning and litigation work that cannot be carried out in-house. Both firms are appointed for three years. Midlothian […]
CLYDE & Co has made a trio of partner hires across its transatlantic practices, with Peter Whalen and Edward Kirk joining the firm in the US, while Addleshaw Goddard corporate insurance partner Ivor Edwards has joined in London. Insurance litigator Whalen joins the firm’s San Francisco office from Duane Morris, where he co-chaired its re-insurance and […]
US firm Reed Smith has snared seven real estate lawyers from the Pittsburgh office of Pepper Hamilton. The group comprises four partners and three associates, including former Pepper Hamilton executive committee member and real estate co-chair Dusty Kirk. She is joined by partners Sharon DiPaolo, Jeffrey Mills and Alan Sable, and associates Peter Kogan, Paul […]
Three Payne Hicks Beach private client partners will leave the firm next month to set up a boutique private client practice. Louise Stoten, a partner at Payne Hicks for the past 10 years, will set up New Quadrant Partners along with partners Marcus Parker and Jane Bennett, who both joined the firm last year. They […]
PINSENT Masons is hiring a team of six lawyers that together form the bulk of the life sciences boutique Roiter Zucker. Equity partner Clare Tunstall will join the equity at Pinsents, bringing senior associates Anna Feros and David Bloom and three associates with her. They start on 1 June and are expected to contribute a book of business in excess […]
Coming into the election, there were clear dividing lines between the parties on bank regulation – Labour thought that the existing mechanism worked well and wanted to keep it; the Conservatives wanted to remake the regulatory system; and the Liberal Democrats wanted to remake the banking system. The triumph of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats […]
The call for more openness in healthcare is understandable, but as Katie Costello points out, making it work in practice is not quite so straightforward It is not hard to see the force of the public clamour for more openness from healthcare organisations and the individuals who work in them. After all, it is what […]