Pinsent Masons corporate senior associate Amie Norris’s 2017 began with a four-month secondment to the firm’s London office. Norris’s work on Lyceum Capital Partners takeover of Timico Technology took up the vast majority of those four months before she headed home to the North West. However, while in the capital Norris developed a range of […]
Making partner six years ago, Amy Jacks has risen through the ranks to play a pivotal role in the development of DLA Piper’s core financial sector team, arguably one of the most strategically important areas to the firm. Key clients As head of DLA Piper’s City restructuring practice, Jacks was particularly busy during 2017 on […]
Promoted to partner in 2016, Charles Hayes is a rising star in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s corporate department. CVC Hayes has developed a particularly strong relationship with CVC Capital Partners. He acted on a multitude of deals for the private equity giant in 2017, including closing CVC’s £3.6bn sale of Formula One in January 2017. Since […]
Emma Danks, who joined Taylor Wessing as a partner in 2010, may be one of the firm’s most successful ever laterals – a firm reason for including her in The Lawyer Hot 100 2018. And 2017 was quite a year for the Taylor Wessing corporate partner. She was appointed head of private equity, making her […]
DLA Piper partner James Kerrigan is Manchester’s private equity king. Indeed, he is one of the most active private equity dealmakers in the UK, leading on cross-border transactions that involved both partners in the UK and the rest of the DLA network. Kerrigan has benefitted from a wave of private equity activity into Manchester over […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Elizabeth Bradley has elevated tax-related matters from a niche area to the top of her firm’s agenda. She has been at BLP for 18 years, and made her practice of critical strategic importance. Bradley leads a tax team of more than 138 practitioners internationally, with the firm expanding its […]
Last year Charlie Tee successfully advised a former UK non-dom individual on obtaining the first resident non-dom status in Italy. It demonstrated the private client and tax partner’s expertise in the UK non-domicile tax area. The successful application came shortly after Italy introduced a new, favourable tax regime for non-domiciled residents in 2017. It provides […]
Olga Galazoula is a dedicated member of Ashurst’s small but busy restructuring team. She won a role on one of the highest-profile restructurings of 2017 when PR firm Bell Pottinger went into administration. Her main focus, however, has extended to non-performing loan (NPL) deals in South East Europe, an area she has carved a niche […]
Daniel O’Gorman joined Walker Morris a little over two years ago after previously working at Travers Smith and DWF. Since then he has taken a leading role on some landmark matters. Simultaneously, he has made a significant contribution to the Yorkshire firm’s ambition of extending its corporate practice internationally. As the relationship partner to many […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang media partner Victoria Gaskell is on a mission to put her media, technology and entertainment group on the map. After the tripartite merger with her former firm (legacy Olswang), Gaskell scoped out the potential of CMS’s international network, and the options for clients. She led efforts to encourage CMS and Nabarro associates […]
Making partner in 2014, Slaughter and May’s Susannah Macknay has quickly made a name for herself working on the firm’s big-ticket international transactions as well as a raft of smaller deals in the private equity sphere. Taking control of the firm’s relationship with Palamon Capital Partners from practice lead David Wittmann, Macknay last year completed […]
Clifford Chance corporate partner Chris Sullivan has had a bumper first year as a magic circle partner. Sullivan’s professional relationship with Clifford Chance heavyweight Jonny Myers has helped to close upwards of £10bn worth of deals for some of the firm’s core private equity clients. In particular, Sullivan’s relationship with the private equity firm Cinven […]