Pinsent Masons is launching a property practice in Dubai with the arrival of two associates, bringing the total number of lawyers in the office to 16. Pinsent ;Masons ;is launching a property practice in Dubai with the arrival of two associates, bringing the total number of lawyers in the office to 16. The firm has hired Philip […]
Simmons & Simmons has built up its Middle East practice by hiring former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer counsel Eric Milne as a partner in Dubai. Milne, who will head Simmons’ banking and finance division in the region, helped set up Freshfields’ Dubai office in 2005 alongside partner Joseph Huse. Milne said of the move: “We have […]
Brabners Chaffe Street has emerged as the busiest law firm in football, advising nine clubs on a total of 33 transfers during the summer transfer window, which closed last Monday (1 September) at midnight. Brabners concluded a busy deadline day advising trophy client Manchester United on the £30.75m purchase of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur, […]
Jones Day has bulked up its cross-border litigation expertise in the USA, seconding a London litigator to the New York office. London partner Stephen Pearson will be resident in New York for two years to strengthen the firm’s transatlantic litigation team. Jones Day New York litigation partner, Jay Tambe, said: “We have an excellent litigation […]
Mishcon de Reya has become embroiled in a row that has ended with the firm being forced to trot out its star lawyer, Anthony Julius, to defend its reputation in the Royal Courts of Justice. Mishcon is being sued by the former chief executive of charity Jewish National Fund UK (JNF), Simon Winters, who is […]
Reed Smith has recruited real estate lawyer Stéphane Illouz for its Paris office. He joins the property group from local firm De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, along with two associates, Nadia Chatraoui and Pauline Lefevre. Illouz has experience in real estate transactions and also in corporate law, M&A, restructurings of companies and property sector debts. Reed […]
Eversheds is to make as many as 33 lawyers firm-wide plus support staff redundant, and is closing its Norwich base in response to the downturn in property work. Eversheds to axe 33 lawyers; Norwich to close” />Eversheds is set to make as many as 33 lawyers across the firm plus related support staff redundant, and […]
Brown Rudnick has become the latest firm to benefit from a string of departures from fallen banking giant Bear Stearns. The US firm’s London office has taken on former Bear in-house lawyer Sonya Van de Graaff as a partner in the bankruptcy and corporate restructuring group. Brown Rudnick has now hired three new partners in […]
A team of three real estate partners has left Halliwells’ London office for the legal arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). London real estate head Simon Hardwick (pictured) has moved on, together with Adam Perry and Tim Hart. A spokesperson for Halliwells said: “Simon, Adam and Tim have decided to take on a new challenge and we […]
Bingham McCutchen has recruited two former Bear Stearns lawyers to beef up its international securities practice. Kenneth Kopelman, the former Bear fixed income and derivatives legal head, and the bank’s managing director of legal, Gerald Russello, will join Bingham in New York as partner and of counsel respectively. While at Bear, Kopelman managed legal and […]
Reed Smith has bolstered its French arm with the hire of a three-lawyer shipping team from local Paris firm Bouloy Grellet & Godin. The firm has hired name partner Luc Grellet and two associates to work on matters including insurance disputes and marine casualties. His practice already shares clients with Reed Smith’s shipping department, such […]
Clifford Chance taps Linklaters for NY hire” />Clifford Chance has turned to magic circle rival Linklaters for its latest New York partner hire, signing up tax lawyer Robert Thornton Smith. The hire of Thornton Smith, who joined Linklaters from White & Case 10 years ago, brings Clifford Chance’s New York tax partner headcount to six. […]