Sainsbury’s loses mammoth credit card fee battle against Visa
Blackstone Chambers, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and Linklaters have successfully defended Visa in its anti-competitive credit card fees battle against Sainsbury’s.
Sainsburys appoints 11-strong legal panel after delayed review
J Sainsbury’s has appointed 11 law firms to its first legal panel, eight months after the company first launched its tender process.
Travers wins Steinhoff mandate as it battles Sainsbury’s for Home Retail
Travers Smith is advising South African retail chain Steinhoff International in its bidding war with Sainsbury’s for Home Retail Group. Steinhoff lists a number of firms as its main legal advisers, including Linklaters, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr and Werksmans. However, Linklaters partners Owen Clay and Nick Garland are already working with the target Home Retail, with […]
Clifford Chance acts for Sainsbury’s in bid for Linklaters client Home Retail
Clifford Chance has won the lead advisory role for Sainsbury’s in its potential offer for Home Retail Group, while the latter sought counsel from the supermarket’s long-standing lawyers Linklaters. Linklaters is the main legal adviser for both Sainsbury’s and Home Retail, with partner Iain Fenn serving as the magic circle’s firm relationship partner for Sainsbury’s. […]
City trio lead the way as Sainsbury’s confirms £10bn ASDA deal
Sainsbury’s loses mammoth credit card fee battle against Visa
Blackstone Chambers, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and Linklaters have successfully defended Visa in its anti-competitive credit card fees battle against Sainsbury’s.
Sainsburys appoints 11-strong legal panel after delayed review
J Sainsbury’s has appointed 11 law firms to its first legal panel, eight months after the company first launched its tender process.
Travers wins Steinhoff mandate as it battles Sainsbury’s for Home Retail
Travers Smith is advising South African retail chain Steinhoff International in its bidding war with Sainsbury’s for Home Retail Group. Steinhoff lists a number of firms as its main legal advisers, including Linklaters, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr and Werksmans. However, Linklaters partners Owen Clay and Nick Garland are already working with the target Home Retail, with […]
Clifford Chance acts for Sainsbury’s in bid for Linklaters client Home Retail
Clifford Chance has won the lead advisory role for Sainsbury’s in its potential offer for Home Retail Group, while the latter sought counsel from the supermarket’s long-standing lawyers Linklaters. Linklaters is the main legal adviser for both Sainsbury’s and Home Retail, with partner Iain Fenn serving as the magic circle’s firm relationship partner for Sainsbury’s. […]
Ropes names new global managing partner in latest leadership shakeup
Ropes & Gray is continuing to refresh its leadership team, naming real estate transactions head David Djaha as the firm’s next managing partner.
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Listed law firm brought in for KPMG on Patisserie Valerie collapse
KPMG has appointed a UK law firm to advise it on the administration of Patisserie Valerie, months after the café chain became embroiled in a scandal over accounting irregularities. Gateley, led by Birmingham restructuring partner Daniel French and Manchester partner Stuart Tait, is working with the Big Four accountant on the process. Patisserie Holdings confirmed yesterday that it has […]
Ten career-break lawyers welcomed back to the City as part of first Reignite Academy cohort
The Reignite Academy, a programme aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the workplace back into the fold, has finalised its first intake, with 10 women signing on to work across four different firms. The women have a diverse range of experiences and range from those who have taken a complete […]
Slaughters and HSF dropped from eight-firm FSCS panel
Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith Freehills have been replaced by Clifford Chance and Addleshaw Goddard on The Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) revamped £12.6m panel. The FSCS, the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of authorised financial services firms, has appointed eight firms for a four-year term on its latest legal panel, which is divided into three […]
Simmons shifts to larger Bristol premises after headcount gains
Simmons & Simmons is recruiting for new roles to bring its Bristol base to a headcount of over 200, following its move into a new, larger office. This week, the firm moved into a new office in Finzels Reach from its former base in Temple Quay, increasing its office space from 16,000 to 27,000 sq ft. […]
Clydes raids Ince for new Hamburg office
A total of 16 lawyers from Ince & Co’s Hamburg office are to join Clyde & Co, nearly a year after the latter announced it was launching in the German city. The team are joining four former Ince partners, who made the same move to Clydes in February 2018. However, the quartet are understood to […]
An insight into managing partners’ minds: competitive pressures, technology and the B-word
There is both relief and nervousness in the upper management floors. Relief that 2018 turned out to be a year in which law firms were busier and more profitable than ever, and yet an inescapable feeling that financial stability could be jeopardised by two things: the prospect of a no-deal Brexit and a possible recession […]