Fladgate is advising the Cardiff Marine Group in its £60m Bayscape marina development, where construction is set to begin on Wales’s tallest building. A cross-department team advised the group on its corporate restructuring and refinancing. It also represented the company in its 25-year management agreement with Wyndham Hotels, which will take up residence in the […]
Hammonds has been instructed by vocational training provider Melorio to advise on its £99.3m takeover approach from Pearson. Corporate partners James McKay and Giles Distin led the team advising Melorio, which is considered among the UK’s biggest vocational training groups and employs around 1,100 people. Pearson, the world’s leading educational publisher which also owns the […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has strengthened its bankruptcy and restructuring department with the hire of heavy-hitting Kaye Scholer partner Margot Schonholtz. Schonholtz was a former super-point partner at Clifford Chance, where she was head of insolvency and restructuring, until joining Kaye Scholer as part of a five-partner team in 2005 (21 February 2005). At Kaye […]
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 […]