Transport (Including aviation and shipping)

Lime’s Sarah Binder: “No GC needs the budget they want”

Fighting referendums and interfacing with nearly 300 cities is all in a day’s work for Sarah Binder. Relocating from London to San Francisco, she joined the legal team at micromobility company Lime in May 2021, which now comprises 20 lawyers and eight paralegals. Since then, Binder has celebrated some major wins. She led Lime in […]

Piraeus Greece

WFW and HFW score new recruits from Ince’s Piraeus office

Teams from Ince & Co’s Piraeus office are joining the Greek operations of Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) and Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW). The moves follow the collapse of Ince last year, after it was bought out of administration by Axiom DWFM, which subsequently became Axiom Ince. WFW is hiring partners Jamila Khan, Aris Moschopoulos […]

Limassol, Cyprus

Hill Dickinson snaps up Ince team for office launch

Hill Dickinson has launched an office in Limassol in Cyprus with a shipping team from Ince. The firm has formed an association with shipping partners George Zambartas and Ester Toumpouris to establish a new base on the island that will be known as Hill Dickinson in association with G Zambartas LLC. G Zambartas LLC formerly […]

red bull racing

Red Bull Racing doubles in-house team after F1 growth

Red Bull Racing more than doubled the size of its legal team last year, as a result of increasing  regulations in Formula One and focus on the sport. Headcount size grew 150 per cent from four at the start of 2023 to 10 members one year on. The technological arm of the Oracle Red Bull […]

Wikborg Rein follows up Ince hires with office launch

Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein has taken another growth step in 2023, as it looks set to open its third domestic office. The Norwegian Big Five firm is expected to launch in the energy hub of Stavanger after hiring corporate partner Per Kristian Ramsland from Norwegian rival Arntzen de Besche. Ramsland joined the firm in early […]

Three firms, three decades: FirstGroup’s external firms have stayed close

When it comes to talking about transport companies, there’s a danger of using too many puns. Describing FirstGroup’s principal legal advisers, general counsel Christy Baker explains “we hitched our wagon to Burges Salmon right at the start of privatisation”. The privatisation of the railways started in 1994 meaning FirstGroup’s relationship with Burges Salmon now spans […]

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Euro 100 firm pounces on Axiom Ince for 17-strong team

Partners continue to defect from ailing Axiom Ince, as a 17-strong shipping and insurance team leaves to join the London office of a major European law firm. The team, which includes seven partners from the legacy Ince business, has moved to Norwegian Big Five firm Wikborg Rein. The arrivals will boost the Nordic outfit’s shipping […]

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UK top 50 firm is latest to mull Ince deal

Potential suitors continue to emerge for the Ince Group, which was placed into administration this month, with a UK Top 50 firm the latest to consider a deal. The Lawyer understands that Hill Dickinson is lining up an offer for the law firm, with its interest primarily in Ince’s shipping division, as well as the […]

Aston Martin

Magic circle duo lead on Aston Martin’s capital raise

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bagged the top role for client Aston Martin Lagonda on its £653.8m capital raise. The firm has fielded lead partner Mark Austin for the car manufacturer. He was aided by partner Andrew Hagan in the US capital markets team. Linklaters was the firm at the helm for the financial sponsors, brokers […]

Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover hires new GC

David Berry leaves legal director role at Tesco to join Jaguar Land Rover as its GC. Having trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and qualified into its antitrust team, Berry spent 10 years as senior counsel in global antitrust, sales and corporate relations at Diageo. He was promoted to SVP and assistant GC for two years […]

Rachel Ford, Gatwick

Gatwick Airport appoints new GC

Gatwick Airport has hired a new general counsel from London-based consulting company Capita. Rachel Ford previously spent more than three years at Capita and held the role of chief of staff and group legal director. She spent a decade as in-house legal counsel at Thomson Reuters and served as the business’ assistant general counsel and […]