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Sector focus: The press gang
The legal movers and shakers behind our national newspapers are the Fleet Street lawyers, who despite their power like their anonymity. Naomi Rovnick blows their cover
All clear ahead
Spain has a new regulation creating more transparency in corporate governance. Fernando Vives and Javier Ybañez report
Citigroup executive returns to O’Melveny fold
O’Melveny & Myers has welcomed back Citigroup’s former chief operating officer (COO) as senior partner of its New York office more than a decade after his departure from the firm. Michael Masin is returning to O’Melveny after taking on a number of high profile executive roles that most recently saw him as vice president and […]
Ryanair flies in Weil to aid A&L in Brussels case
Ryanair has turned to Weil Gotshal & Manges for extra help against the European Commission over a state aid case involving the cut-price carrier and Brussels’ Charleroi Airport. Although Ryanair has previously instructed the firm’s Frankfurt and Paris offices, this is the first time it has used its Brussels practice. Irish corporate firm A&L Goodbody […]
Linklaters secures wind farm instruction from RWE Innogy
Linklaters secures wind farm instruction from RWE Innogy” />Linklaters has cemented its number one position with RWE Innogy, winning one of the company’s first sizeable deals since RWE acquired Innogy in 2002. The magic circle firm is advising RWE Innogy on a £400m refinancing of its wind farm portfolio named Zephyr Investments, in which the […]
Dickson Minto lands BC Partners’ Baxi acquisition
Dickson Minto’s single biggest client BC Partners has finally made a major UK acquisition following a protracted three-year dry spell. The private equity house concluded a £660m secondary buyout of UK boilermaker Baxi last month. The acquisition, led by Dickson Minto senior partner Alastair Dickson and supported by Michael Barron and Martin McNair, saw private […]
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LMA: one leveraged loan document to rule them all
But with minimal input from borrowers, can it get off the ground? By Catrin Griffiths
Finance deals round-up
Ashurst (Philip Broke) advised UK stockbroker Panmure Gordon on the £14.3m rights issue and cash placing by ML Laboratories. Stringer Saul (David Smith) represented ML Laboratories. Linklaters (Phil Charlton) acted for ABN AMRO Bank as arranger on the €3bn (£2.05bn) programme for the online issue of retail notes into the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Allen […]
Firm profile: Wortley Byers
One of Wortley Byers’ straplines sums up its philosophy: ‘Life isn’t always black and white. For the grey areas, you need clarity, fairness and understanding.’ The firm aims to provide a service that unravels the complexities of law, shedding light on the grey areas so that if they do not quite end up being black […]
Opinion
On 11 November last year the Court of Appeal struck what may be a knockout blow against film director Roman Polanski’s libel action against Vanity Fair. In doing so, it removed a threat to defendants in libel cases from litigants afraid to face the legal music in this country. Surprisingly, Polanski sued Vanity Fair in […]
Lawyer posse rounds on Govt retirement age limit
Two retired tailors fighting a cutting-edge employment case against the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will not pay a penny for their Court of Appeal claim, thanks to a cabal of barristers and solicitors working on the matter free of charge. John Rutherford and Samuel Bentley are challenging the UK Government’s assumed retirement […]
For the record…
I was very surprised to read in The Lawyer: “To add to FLAG’s financial woes, in August 2002 the Office of Fair Trading started an investigation into anticompetitive practices by cable-lending operators in the UK, including FLAG.