Piper Rudnick has bolstered its rapidly expanding California practice by adding two high profile real estate partners to its San Francisco office. Stephen Cowan, the former managing partner of O’Melveny & Myers’ San Francisco office, and Caryl Welborn, the former senior partner at Morrison & Foerster joined Piper Rudnick last week. They were joined by […]
Sweden’s Vinge has poached one of Mannheimer Swartling’s brightest stars, marking the firm’s first lateral partner hire from it’s 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 two leading […]
Jones Day’s London office has suffered the loss 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 Day since 1986, has extensive experience in advising […]
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has turned to the magic circle for its deputy director of competition enforcement, taking on an associate from Clifford Chance. Competition lawyer Ali Nikpay’s appointment completes a series of moves which last year saw the former director of competition enforcement Margaret Bloom go to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Bloom was […]
He survived the takeover of his company and now he’s become invaluable. Husnara Begum meets Petro-Canada’s Sean Rush
Ashurst-McKee alliance aids Nomura in momentous CDO” />Ashurst has introduced its new transatlantic alliance partner McKee Nelson to Nomura, allowing the pair to celebrate their referral relationship by completing the first ever cash arbitrage collaterallised debt obligation (CDO) offering for the bank. The firms jointly advised Nomura, the arranger, in relation to H2 Finance which, […]
Nabarro Nathanson has won Numis as a client, after advising the broker on the unusual demerger and AIM listing of Moneybox. Corporate partner Iain Newman led on the deal which saw Moneybox demerge from parent company Ambient, raise £47m in an AIM listing and then spend the money on expansion with the acquisition of G2 […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Ashurst are defending companies found to be part of the vitamin cartel in the first ever damages claim to be heard by the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT). Freshfields clients Hoffmann-La Roche and Roche Products and Ashurst client Aventis are being sued for damages in the CAT by egg and poultry company […]
Life at Clifford Chance is full of ups and downs – quite literally. When it emerged that the firm’s New York-based global head of securities Kevin Kelley was leaving, Clifford Chance’s management understandably scrabbled to stop his departure. Unfortunately, Kelley’s new home was Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, which it turns out shares the same office […]
Any lawyer who has visited Mipim will know that getting a taxi outside the Martinez Bar at 4am can be nigh on impossible. But perhaps next year they can follow the lead of one banker attending the conference this year. Apparently, the aforementioned banker, desperate to get home, had to take drastic measures. He approached […]
The rumour mill in the US is awash with gossip that Microsoft is funding the SCO Group in its litigation against IBM and others over the free software system Linux. This was fuelled further by a leaked email from an SCO consultant to SCO Group vice-president Chris Sontag and SCO chief financial officer Bob Bench. […]
Is it possible to leave a big City firm but still handle big cases? Emma Vere-Jones meets a poster boy for the litigation boutique