Osborne Clarke’s head of technology media and telecoms (TMT) Simon Rendell has been appointed Vodafone’s acting UK head of legal.The unusual move to one of his key clients is a result of former UK head Ian Robino moving to head the information technology/intellectual property (IT/IP) department at Vodafone Group, the central legal team for the […]
Masons has scored an important new client with its appointment to advise OGCbuying.solutions on commercial and EU procurement issues. The firm won a beauty parade of three firms picked from OGCbuying.solutions’ L-Cat legal panel. “For the law firm this is an important strategic award. It may not be fantastic monetarily, but the public sector will […]
Lovells litigation partner Andrew Foyle is set to face questioning over five key areas of British American Tobacco’s (BAT) document destruction policy after losing an appeal against an order forcing him to give evidence. In US v Philip Morris & Ors, the US government is alleging that since 1953 the companies have deceived the US […]
Jones Day London loses legacy Gouldens partner” />Jones Day’s London office has suffered the loss of its first legacy Gouldens partner since the two firms merged over a year ago. Real estate and structured finance partner Christopher Berry is joining the London office of Hogan & Hartson. Berry, who has been a partner at Jones […]
Taylor Wessing in Paris raid on Richards Butler” />The former joint managing partner of Richards Butler’s Paris office has quit to join the fledgling French team at Taylor Wessing. Pascal Roux, who was Paris corporate head before becoming joint managing partner, leaves with his three-person team. Roux was relieved of his managerial duties at the […]
Gibraltar’s sixth-largest firm in bid to climb property league table with £300m East Side instruction
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is assembling a crack anti-fraud panel, tasked with offering advice to victims of commercial deception, money laundering and cybercrime. The ICC’s commercial crime department said it was identifying and inviting suitable law firms from across the world to participate. The initiative, called Fraudnet, would especially help victims to prosecute […]
Macfarlanes, Pinsents on Bermudian mega-deal” />Two UK law firms have won work as principal advisers on one of the largest transactions in an offshore jurisdiction so far this year. Bermuda giant Bank of NT Butterfield has chosen City law firm Macfarlanes as its principal adviser on its £54m buyout of London-based private banking and investment management group Leopold […]
Swedish firm Vinge has poached one of Mannheimer Swartling’s brightest stars, marking the firm’s first lateral partner hire from its closest rival. M&A/private equity partner Johan Winnerblad is set to join Vinge once an exit date can be agreed with Mannheimer. Lateral partner moves are rare in Sweden and virtually unheard of between the country’s […]
An extraordinary dispute taking place in the Isle of Man, over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or two Cypriots has the right to $250m (£135.4m) of alleged defrauded money, has now widened to include Guernsey. For three years the SEC’s lawyers, City firm Herbert Smith and leading commercial barrister Murray Rosen QC of 11 Stone Buildings, […]
The general counsel of Alcatel’s communications, information and telecoms division, Marc Jany, has quit the French company to join Framatome ANP. Jany, who has worked at Alcatel for 15 years and has held various posts, left Alcatel last Friday (26 March). He is due to join Framatome as general counsel and deputy general counsel of […]
Lawrence Graham steps in on Londis as Baker Tilly sidelined” />Lawrence Graham has scooped instructions from new client Londis Holdings Limited on the sale of the mutually-owned convenience store chain. The controversial deal has also seen Londis replace its financial adviser Baker Tilly with KPMG. The top 50 City firm won the mandate following a […]