KLegal has won the first joint instruction from Granada-Carlton to advise on a multimillion pound technology deal with BT. Technology partner Chris Hoyle won the instruction ahead of the panel firms of the two companies, which include DLA, Herbert Smith, Lovells, Olswang and Slaughter and May. The deal is a coup for KLegal, which has […]
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has appointed Citigroup’s general counsel for global corporate and investment banking Richard Ketchum to the newly-created role of chief regulatory officer. Ketchum was with Citigroup from June 2003 and is due to join the NYSE in June. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at NASD, a private sector provider of financial and regulatory […]
Sorin, the medical technology company recently spun-off by Italian conglomerate Snia, has appointed Oppen-heimer Wolff & Donnelly partner Bryan Sheridan as its new head of legal.
Lovells’ Hamburg office has lost competition and intellectual property (IP)/technology, media and telecoms (TMT) partner Walter Scheuerl to Wragges’ German best friend Graf von Westphalen Bappert & Modest. Scheuerl pointed to the fee structure at Lovells and other international law firms as a key reason behind his move. Scheuerl told The Lawyer: “It’s an obvious and […]
One of RadcliffesLeBrasseur’s senior property partners Michael Higginson has quit for Trowers & Hamlins. Higginson has been a partner since 1987 and was the former head of property at Radcliffe & Co, before the merger with Le Brasseur J Tickle in 2001. The firm has had a difficult time since the merger, losing a number […]
Three Weightman Vizards lawyers have left the 78-partner firm to form a new commercial boutique. The new firm, PFK Legal opens for business today (12 January). It is the brainchild of Mark Forman, Neil Kelly and James Powell. It will focus on commercial, media and intellectual property work out of offices in Oriel Chambers, Liverpool.
Eversheds PFI/projects partner Jason Poole is set to join the Cambridge office of Mills & Reeve as a partner later this year. Poole specialises in advising public and private sector clients on a wide range of PFI/public private partnership schemes, project financings and outsourcings. Pooles recent transactions include advising on a £250m refinancing of nine […]
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Sullivan & Cromwell litigation partner John Warden is advising newspaper baron Conrad Black in his increasingly acrimonious negotiations with Hollinger International. Lord Black is currently engaged in talks with his newspaper empire about the repayment of compensation that was paid out to Black and a number of executives connected to Hollinger International. Herbert Smith is […]
Asda legal director Denise Jagger (left) has left to take up partnership at Eversheds. The firm has appointed Jagger to further develop the firm’s client relationship management programme and other services offered to in-house counsel. Jagger will also work with managing partner David Gray in developing the firm’s corporate values and staff development. Asda will […]
Japanese investment bank Nomura has completed a 12-month search to replace its third head of legal in just over three years. Former Linklaters managing partner for the Americas Terence Kyle, who retired from the firm in July last year, started work as general counsel in charge of Europe on 5 January. He replaces David Mee […]
Sullivan & Cromwell has emerged as counsel to embattled newspaper baron Conrad Black in his increasingly acrimonious negotiations with Hollinger International. Litigation partner John Warden is acting for Lord Black who is currently engaged in talks with his newspaper empire about the repayment of compensation that was paid out to Black and a number of […]