Washington DC firm Arnold & Porter is ramping up its high-tech litigation practice with the hire of two senior lawyers. Michael Songer is joining as a partner from the DC office of Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, where he is a partner, and Robert Jones Worrall is joining as of counsel from Howrey Simon Arnold & […]
New York giant Shearman & Sterling has nearly doubled the size of its asset management group with a team from local rival Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman. The group of two partners and 12 other lawyers, the bulk of Swidler Berlin’s practice, takes Shearmans’ asset management group up to around 40 lawyers. Swidler Berlin is a […]
One of the leading structured finance teams in the US is leaving newly-merged Sidley Austin Brown & Wood to join Ernst & Young’s law firm McKee Nelson Ernst & Young. The team of five partners, believed to be the biggest structured finance team in the US outside New York, is the first to desert the […]
The City office of DLA is strengthening its litigation practice with the recruitment of a litigation partner from Stephenson Harwood. Matthew Saunders joins on 1 June after 10 years at Stephenson Harwood. He specialises in banking litigation and cross-jurisdictional disputes and fraud work. DLA’s litigation practice is split along sector lines, but national head of […]
At the deal table former Biddle senior partner Martin Winter is renowned for his aggression and drive. But is he really just a cuddly little pussy cat? It is the start of Martin Winter’s third day at Taylor Joynson Garrett and he’s having trouble with the coffee pot. That’s the trouble with moving jobs – […]
Clifford Chance is launching an international assault on the technology market, creating a global communications, media and technology group. Although the firm has worked along sector specific lines before, until now its group has been focused on London. Now the group will have its own global chairperson and will focus on the international market and […]
It’s never easy learning the in-house all-rounder approach, but when you’re head of legal for The Economist Group Oscar Grut and you’re taking on media mogul and heavyweight politician Silvio Berlusconi in a libel case, you know you’ve got your work cut out. Perry Thakrar reports The Economist Group is one of the leading sources […]
Niche media firm Crockers Oswald Hickson has been swallowed up by City firm Farrer & Co. The merger will create a 52-partner firm which will retain Farrers’ name and management team. The merged firm will have a six-partner media team headed by Farrers’ head of media Robert Clinton and Crockers’ senior partner Rupert Grey. Crockers […]
Bird & Bird has taken on a partner from Andersen Legal’s Paris arm SG Archibald to advise on competition work in the IT sector. Olivier Fréget, who joined the firm last week, was a partner in the intellectual property/IT group at SG Archibald and also head of competition and European Union work. He advises major […]
Wragge & Co has won a beauty parade to advise Slough Borough Council on a multimillion pound regeneration project. Invitations to tender for the role of legal adviser on the “Heart of Slough” scheme were issued in January. The project involves the development of a 29-acre town centre site for creative, media, information and communication […]
Linklaters & Alliance has reaffirmed its relationship with top client British Telecommunications (BT) and advised on its mammoth rights issue to raise £5.9bn. Linklaters advised BT on the deal – the UK’s biggest ever rights issue – even though the client has strayed in the last year, calling in Allen & Overy (A&O) to advise […]
North West firm Davies Wallis Foyster (DWF) has hired leading personal insolvency lawyer Mark Davies from Hillyer McKeown. Davies was senior partner for the nine-partner regional firm and was the firm’s sole insolvency partner. Based in DWF’s Manchester office, Davies will manage the expansion of DWF’s bankruptcy, individual voluntary arrangment (IVA) and insolvency practice. He […]