DLA Piper and Kent Law School’s pro bono clinic are going head-to-head in a legal battle between supermarket giant Tesco and a group of employees. Kent Law Clinic is representing 27 Tesco employees who it claims were left out of a deal on redundancy pay struck between the supermarket and Tesco staff belonging to the […]
Simmons & Simmons has won the mandate to become the sole legal adviser to the Government’s new Energy Technologies Institute. The institute, which the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is hoping to launch before the end of the year, is a public-private project designed to encourage research and use of low-carbon energy in businesses. […]
Latham & Watkins completed London’s first major listing of a foreign company this year with the IPO of Russian technology group Sitronics. The $352m (£180.69m) float, which valued Sitronics at £1.16bn, was London’s largest technology IPO in the last five years, highlighting the US firm’s hold on Russian companies in London. Moscow-based corporate partner Varun […]
Addleshaw Goddard and Allen & Overy (A&O) have broken new ground in tax law, advising on the first publicly listed securitisation structure under new regulations. The Taxation of Securitisation Companies Regulations 2006, introduced on 1 January 2007, allows UK-domiciled onshore companies to issue securitisations and be tax-competitive with offshore jurisdictions. Addleshaws advised privately owned North […]
Mexico’s public security and criminal justice system has been slammed in a new report by Amnesty International. Entitled ‘Laws Without Justice’, the report published earlier this month highlights the absence of the ‘presumption of innocence’ clause in the Mexican constitution and claims that this has contributed to a lack of confidence in Mexican justice. The […]
Rising private equity star Jonathan Wood is leading on his biggest deal since joining Weil Gotshal & Manges from Lovells last year. Wood, who joined Weil with Marco Compagnoni from Lovells in February 2006, is advising on the A$1.87bn (£740m) takeover of APN News & Media. Wood is leading the team advising affiliated private equity […]
Macfarlanes is advising longstanding client Smith & Williamson on its potential IPO. The advice is being led by partner Tim Lewis. The investment manager and accountant is considering a £300m float later this year. The float will be watched closely by senior partners at UK law firms, which will also be allowed to float once […]
M&A rainmaker Tim Emmerson has landed his first deal since jumping ship from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy to US rival Sullivan & Cromwell. Emmerson is leading the Sullivan team advising Thomas Cook on its merger with MyTravel. Goldman Sachs, advising Thomas Cook with Citigroup, recommended Emmerson. Goldman Sachs asked Emmerson to join Sullivan a […]
DLA Piper helps African farmers set up carbon-trading deals” class=”inline_image inline_image_left” src=”/pictures/web/images/7371_11_probono.gif” />DLA Piper’s international pro bono affiliate New Perimeter has begun work on a project helping subsistence farmers in Africa to sell carbon credits created by tree-planting projects. Working with the International Small Group & Tree Planting Programme (TIST), the firm is advising small […]
DLA Piper and Wragge & Co have won significant new instructions from Birds Eye Iglo, the frozen food manaufacturer that was spun out of Unilever for £1.16bn in November last year. DLA Piper is advising Birds Eye, a business with an annual turnover of around £1bn, on a major IT procurement following the company’s acquisition […]
Hammonds scored the first advisory role for retail entrepreneur John Shannon’s newly formed company, which has bought Adams childrenswear. Shannon instructed Hammonds national head of business recovery and insolvency John Alderton for the first time after building bonds with the firm through corporate and real estate work with his colleagues, including M&A partner Simon Gordon. […]
Travers Smith has scooped a major role on the £185m sale of manufacturer and retailer Jimmy Choo to private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners, reinforcing the firm’s ongoing relationship with the luxury shoe business. The deal also generated instructions for SJ Berwin and Chicago-based firm Kirkland & Ellis. Travers corporate partners Philip Sanderson and Andrew […]