DLA Piper, Halliwells and Herbert Smith have won places advising troubled retailer JJB Sports on the sale of its gym business and restructuring package. DLA Piper, Halliwells and Herbert Smith have won places advising troubled retailer JJB Sports on the sale of its gym business and restructuring package. Halliwells represented JJB alongside Hebert Smith during […]
Premier Oil has agreed to buy Oilexco North Sea for $505m (£344m), rescuing it from administration and leading to mandates for Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and Slaughter and May. Premier Oil has agreed to buy Oilexco North Sea for $505m (£344m), rescuing it from administration and leading to mandates for Allen […]
Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) partner Nick Young will be licking his wounds this week after a being on the receiving end of a major High Court loss that could cost his client more than £1bn. Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) partner Nick Young will be licking his wounds this week after a being on the receiving […]
Salans is offering a four-day working week to staff in some departments, becoming the latest firm to propose flexible working in response to the economic downturn. Salans is offering a four-day working week to staff in some departments, becoming the latest firm to propose flexible working in response to the economic downturn. The firm has […]
Clifford Chance has boosted its Middle East offering by relocating London real estate partners Andrew Rolfe and Catherine Cook to Abu Dhabi. Clifford Chance has boosted its Middle East offering by relocating London real estate partners Andrew Rolfe and Catherine Cook to Abu Dhabi. The firm opened its Abu Dhabi branch in September 2008 with […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its Moscow-based international transactions practice with the addition of Allen & Overy partner Varun Gupta. Gupta joins as a US partner and head of the Russian capital markets practice and will focus on international capital markets transactions, cross-border M&A transactions and general corporate matters. He has been […]
King & Spalding has opened a base in Moscow after hiring a team of lawyers from Hogan Lovells and White & Case. The office is being driven by the firm’s energy practice and will have particular ties with King & Spalding’s lawyers in the Middle East, Singapore, Houston, London and New York. Of the new […]
Dewey & LeBoeuf has advised online auction site eBay on its acquisition of its Turkish counterpart Gitti Gidiyor Bilgi Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi. Silicon Valley M&A partner and technology specialist Keith Flaum led the transaction for the US firm. Fellow Silicon Valley partner John Brockland and Los Angeles M&A partner David Smith also […]
Shearman & Sterling has hired five partners and around a dozen associates from Howrey’s Brussels office, including former head Trevor Soames. The partners also include Stephen Mavroghenis, the English-qualified lawyer who took over from Soames as managing partner of Howrey’s Brussels office last month (20 January 2011). The three other Howrey partners joining Shearman are […]
K&L Gates has opened an office in Brussels with the hire of two partners from McDermott Will & Emery. The launch brings the total number of offices in the firm’s network to 37. Corporate partner Patrice Corbiau and competition specialist Philip Torbøl join K&L Gates today with the intention of building up the firm’s presence […]
Linklaters has confirmed that French M&A star Thierry Vassogne has died at the age of 59 after suffering a heart attack. Vassogne joined Linklaters in 1998 as co-managing partner of the firm’s Paris office. He was recognised by many in the French market as a leader in corporate transactions and had a stellar client list […]
Norton Rose has raided Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for the firm’s Russian dispute resolution chief Yaroslav Klimov. Klimov, who was a counsel at the magic circle firm’s Moscow office, has been made partner at his new firm and will lead its own Moscow dispute resolution team, which had previously been fronted by senior associate Nane Oganesyan. […]