DLA Piper and Travers Smith have played major roles in the AIM listing of veterinary service provider CVS Group, which entered the junior market via a private equity exit. A Travers Smith team, led by corporate finance head Spencer Summerfield and associate Toby Newman acted for the nominated adviser to the deal, Panmure Gordon & […]
Eversheds‘ real estate funds group has represented the Henderson UK Shopping Centre Fund on its £253m acquisition of Canterbury’s White Shopping Centre from Land Securities. Eversheds secured the appointment after it advised Henderson on the establishment of the fund. The fund was set up as an offshore vehicle within three weeks of being given the […]
The Companies Act 2006 promises some big changes for limited-liability partnerships. Tina Williams and Daniel Sutherland report Corporate lawyers have been in a flurry, attending seminars, reading articles, updating precedents and generally getting ready for the upheavals the Companies Act 2006 will bring to their clients. Of course, as lawyers rarely practise in limited companies, […]
Olswang has advised new client Czech Property Investment (CPI) on a Eu89m (£62m) hypermarket portfolio refinancing in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Olswang clinched the instruction through the deal manager, Bridge Capital Partners, which it previously assisted with a German deal. The Thames Valley office advised on all aspects of English law and was led […]
Norton Rose‘s strategy of targeting Turkey-based deals has paid off, with the firm landing a lead role on Turkey’s biggest private equity transaction to date. The top 15 firm advised the shareholders of Turkish shipping company UN Ro-Ro in their sale of a 97.6 per cent stake to US private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts […]
Matrix Chambers is to lose founding member Nicholas Blake QC to the bench. Matrix Chambers is to lose founding member Nicholas Blake QC to the bench. Blake, who was called to the bar in 1974 and took silk 20 years later, will be taking up his judicial post in the Queen’s Bench Division after being […]
Personal injury boutique Greenwoods is gearing up for aggressive growth after launching an office in Manchester. Greenwoods has recruited Beachcroft partner Mike Suddards to head its Manchester office, who leaves after 25 years with the firm. Suddards, a catastrophe personal injury (PI) specialist, joins Greenwoods with two members of his Beachcroft team: catastrophe PI specialist […]
McDermott Will & Emery has suffered the loss of its London head of IP, Larry Cohen, who has defected to US rivals Latham & Watkins. The firm has suffered a high number of high profile departures recently including former corporate head, William Charnley, who moved to Mayer Brown earlier this month and former head of […]
Clifford Chance has succeeded in its attempt to secure a stay of execution for Jack Alderman, the US’s longest-serving death row prisoner. On Wednesday (17 October), Alderman was moved to the execution building in his Georgia jail. He was being prepared for execution when news of the stay came through at 4pm eastern time yesterday […]
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has raided the New York office of Weil Gotshal & Manges, hiring patent litigation partner Steve Rizzi. Rizzi, who joined Thelen on Tuesday (16 October), will look to spearhead the growth of his new firm’s East Coast patent litigation group. Thelen’s group also includes IP trial lawyers in New […]
Heineken and Carlsberg have turned to traditional advisers Allen & Overy (A&O) and Norton Rose respectively to assist in their potential joint hostile takeover of Scottish & Newcastle (S&N). A&O corporate partners Alan Paul and Alun Eynon-Evans are leading the team acting for Heineken, while Norton Rose M&A partners Andrew Phillips and Philip Mellor are […]
Olswang has acted for longstanding client REIT Asset Management on its $814m (£400m) acquisition of a property portfolio from Evans Property Group. Real estate partner Simon Kanter, who led the deal together with corporate partner Michele Michaelson, said REIT came up against considerable obstacles in its efforts to close what was its biggest deal yet […]