Former BHS owner Sir Phillip Green criticised Olswang and other advisers as he faced questions today (15 June) over the sale and contentious administration of the retailer.
Fieldfisher, which recently released new a strategy homing on in three sectors, has posted a 7% increase in firmwide revenues for 2015/16, up to £121.5m from £113.3m. The result comes after the firm posted an 8% rise in revenue at the half-year point in November.
The fashion is for UK firms to announce good results early and first out of the blocks this year have been Osborne Clarke (OC), Forsters, TLT and Browne Jacobson all posting robust results for the financial year 2015/16. OC was the first of the Legal Business 100 to release figures this year, with a 23% …
Victoria Young talks to veteran chief David Kerr about growing pains and going even more global There’s no doubt chief executive David Kerr has overseen a rapid extension of Bird & Bird’s international reach, with additions ranging from a major takeover in Australia, to acquisitions in Denmark, and associations around the Asia-Pacific region. But for …
Echoing its trademarked ‘virtuous triangle’ strategy of the past, Fieldfisher has picked three sectors to ‘turbocharge’ as it rolls out its latest three-year business plan, dubbed ‘Our Future Refocused’.
Top-25 firm DAC Beachcroft has signed a three year ‘best friends’ agreement with Belfast’s McKinty and Wright in a bid to expand its network.
After failing to secure further consolidation in the UK recently, Addleshaw Goddard has turned to the US for a potential merger partner to achieve its aim of becoming a £250m-lawyer firm, and is believed to be in talks with Virginia-based Hunton & Williams.
Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy have all won advisory roles as US company General Atlantic has taken a majority stake in Argus Media. The deal, which values Argus Media at £1bn, will see the Nasmyth family exit the business they founded in the 1970s.
In this week’s appointments round-up, Nabarro and DLA Piper have made important tech hires in the City, while Bird & Bird has brought on a media GC, and Ashurst has made a private equity appointment in Germany.
Teams from Magic Circle firms Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have advised on the financing for the development of one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms, the Dudgeon windfarm off the east coast of England.
