Building the team: Cooley hires Reed Smith life sciences partner duo
Cooley has made more recruits to its newly launched London office with the hire of Reed Smith life sciences partner duo John Wilkinson and Nicola Maguire.
Dealwatch: Linklaters, A&O and HSF win places on Sabadell’s £1.7bn TSB offer
Linklaters, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) have all been instructed on the high profile £1.7bn takeover offer for TSB by Spain’s Banco Sabadell, in a bid made less than a year after Lloyds floated the bank.
An 11-strong panel: Ashurst and Addleshaws lose out as Carillion finalises adviser review
Construction giant Carillion has finalised its legal panel review, with Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard losing spots and Irwin Mitchell gaining a place for the first time.
A $40m award: Clyde & Co client Glencore loses High Court fraud case
Withers‘ client, Romanian oil company OMV Petrom, has succeeded in its high profile dispute against natural resource giant Glencore at London’s High Court, with Glencore, represented by Clyde & Co, ordered to pay out just over $40m for fraudulently shipping oil of a lower than supposed quality to Romania in the 1990s.
An opportunity to ‘build something’: KWM’s City litigation head Alex Leitch leaves for Covington
US firm Covington & Burling has bolstered its European disputes capabilities with the hire of King & Wood Mallesons London head of litigation, Alex Leitch (pictured), to its City office, as its plans to bulk up the practice this year.
Good sports – the in-house counsel getting on the pitch in top-flight sports
Tough regulation and increasingly lucrative commercial deals have allowed in-house lawyers to flourish in sport. Legal Business scouts out the most promising performances Trying to pin down an interview with the in-house counsel at a sports organisation is like trying to tackle Eden Hazard in full flight. Despite repeated attempts, requests for interviews with legal …
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Mishcon gains ABS licence to include non-lawyers in partnership
Mishcon de Reya has become the latest firm to acquire an alternative business structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), a move that was prompted by bringing up to four key employees into the partnership. Having applied for the licence last July, the firm was granted approval on 12 February and will become …
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Branching out: RPC, Eversheds and Bird & Bird create new consultancy offerings
The recent push by major UK firms into non-legal services looks set to continue, with Bird & Bird and RPC both unveiling moves into non-legal consultancy, while Eversheds further expands its pioneering service. Sticking with its technology, media and telecoms specialism, Bird & Bird in February established an IT project consultancy, Baseline, in a joint …
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Withers leads way in major tie-up as Singapore rush continues
HSF, KWM and DLA Piper invest in key South-East Asia hub Highlighting continued law firm interest in the Singaporean economy and its potential as a hub for South-East Asia, were the announcements in February by a host of Legal Business 100 firms of plans to enhance their presence. Most notably, Withers established a formal law …
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Winning work: Cooley’s London office acts alongside Slaughters on £168m shale gas deal
US firm Cooley is underway on making good on its ambitious City plans, winning a mandate from IGas, the UK’s biggest shale gas explorer, on a £168m farm out and purchase agreement with Swiss company INEOS, which was advised by Slaughter and May.