McGrigors has scored a coup for new client OPG Power Ventures, floating the Indian power plant business on AIM. Corporate partner Martin Finnegan said McGrigors won the instruction last year following a beauty parade that featured the likes of LG, Lovells and Osborne Clark. Finnegan said he was asked to pitch by nominated adviser Cenkos […]
Three US firms won roles on UK private equity house Lion Capital’s $600m (£303.58m) purchase of Russian Alcohol. Weil Gotshal & Manges corporate partner Ian Hamilton, London managing partner Michael Francies and tax partner Sarah Priestley represented Lion Capital. Russian Alcohol instructed Hogan & Hartson Paris corporate partner Xenia Legendre, while the Central European Distribution […]
Cravath Swaine & Moore and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison snared lead roles on Time Warner’s $9.25bn (£4.68bn) spin off of its cable television operations. Longstanding adviser Cravath advised Time Warner on the deal, which has separated the media conglomerate from Time Warner Cable. Corporate relationship partner Richard Hall led the team. Paul Weiss […]
11KBW is defending Islington Borough Council in a discrimination?claim brought by a Christian registrar who refuses to marry same-sex couples. Ormerods partner Mark Jones has instructed James Dingemans QC of 3 Hare Court on behalf of Lillian Ladele, who brought the claim on grounds of religious discrimination. Adrian Lynch QC of 11KBW was instructed by […]
Allen & Overy‘s (A&O) Amsterdam office has scored a lead role on one of the biggest corporate deals to hit the Netherlands this year, advising Corporate Express on its e1.7bn (£1.35bn) takeover of wholesaler Lyreco. Amsterdam corporate partners Martin Muller and Charles Honée and competition partner Paul Glazener are advising office products supplier Corporate Express. […]
New law makes employers liable for the harassment of staff by third parties. How will this affect the legal profession? Rachel Dineley reports
Bird & Bird has emerged as one of the fastest growing technology and media outfits in the top 100 UK firms, outstripping its peers with a 24 per cent increase in turnover to reach £143m. The firm added more than £27m onto last year’s haul of £115.6m, posting its highest revenue growth in three years. […]
The London office of US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has advised the first vehicle to list on the Specialist Fund Market, the London Stock Exchange’s public capital market for alternative investment vehicles. Akin Gump landed an instruction from alternative investment company Da Vinci Capital Management, with investment funds partner Simon Thomas and […]
Pfizer has snared DLA Piper’s co-head of its class action practice group to be its vice president and global general counsel. Amy Schulman will join the pharmaceutical group next month to lead the group’s executive leadership team replacing former general counsel Allen Waxman who left the company in March this year for personal reasons. At […]
A group of local authority legal teams are set to split from their authorities in a radical bid to create the UK’s first standalone public sector legal practice.
North West-based firm Brabners Chaffe Street is contemplating lay-offs in its construction and property finance groups after gloomy predictions for 2008. It is understood that four assistants in the Liverpool office have been told their jobs are on the line. Managing ;partner Michael Brabner refused to comment on redundancies, but said: “We’re looking at requirements […]