Linklaters, Ashurst and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have all landed roles on Japanese electronics company Brother Industries’ acquisition of UK technology company Domino Printing Sciences for £1.03bn.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s decision to jump on the near-shoring wagon with its first low-cost services hub in Manchester is on a scale larger than its peers, with up to 800 support service jobs being transferred – a move which is unsettling some at its Fleet Street headquarters.
As patents for pioneering biotech drugs near expiry, life sciences companies are hunting new and controversial products. Can law firms help clients win the race? For those close to the biotech industry, the events of a 2006 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital in London are etched firmly in the memory. In what was later …
Internal worries as firm’s new low-cost hub could affect up to 800 roles Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s decision to jump on the near-shoring wagon with its first low-cost services hub in Manchester is on a scale larger than its peers, with up to 800 support service jobs being transferred – a move which is unsettling some …
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s co-chair of its financial institutions Mark Shelton is leaving the US firm to join Barclays Investment Bank as its global general counsel (GC) and the regional GC for the Americas. He leaves private practice after one year to return to the world of in-house in which he has over ten years’ …
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Jaishree Kalia assesses the winners and losers as the US reporting season kicks off The broad-based economic recovery in the US proved a boon to many leading advisers in 2014, with firms enjoying a resurgence in corporate work, and robust levels of disputes and regulatory activity.
Early 2015 has seen key deals take place as the insurance sector consolidates, with Canada’s property and casualty insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings being the latest to gain a significant presence in London with its takeover of speciality insurer Brit for £1.2bn. Within a year of being listed on the London Stock Exchange, FTSE 250 insurer …
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The Spanish capital markets showed signs of improving last month as US firms Mayer Brown and Davis Polk & Wardwell won roles advising the world’s largest airport operator Aena on its €4.3bn float on the Madrid stock exchange. The Spanish government’s disposal of its 49% stake in Aena, which operates some 47 airports worldwide, including …
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If you wanted to do litigation, there was no better place than Herbert Smith. I have no idea why but it was always going to be litigation. It was all I saw on TV and in books, there were no books written about M&A lawyers. Suddenly the City just couldn’t get enough lawyers – if …
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher referred itself to the Solicitors Regulation Authority last week [6 March] after it was alleged that disputes partner Peter Gray submitted incorrectly dated documents to the UK courts in a case between the Djibouti government and one of its wealthiest citizens Abdourahman Boreh.
