The partner exits at King & Wood Mallesons‘ (KWM) City office keep coming, with former Europe head of finance, Jeremy Cross, set to join Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Latham makes double real estate finance play with hires from GE Capital and Dechert
Latham & Watkins has boosted its real estate finance practice in the City, hiring Quentin Gwyer, who was executive counsel at GE Capital Real Estate. The appointment follows the hire of Jeremy Trinder from Dechert who started at the firm this week.
Magic Circle meets big four – A&O teams up with Deloitte for pioneering JV targeted at banking giants
In the first marquee joint venture between a Big Four accountant and a Magic Circle law firm, Allen & Overy (A&O) has teamed up with Deloitte to create a tech-driven service to help banks handle post-Lehman regulation.
Banking on change: bonuses still centre stage
Tapestry’s Janet Cooper on regulatory developments affecting pay in financial services.
Since 2009, regulators around the world have been issuing regulations and guidance on how and what employees in financial services firms should be paid. For lawyers working in the area, staying on top of the changes is challenging; making sense of them and applying them in a global context is complex.
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‘Making a splash’: Ashurst hires RBS executive in syndicated loans push
In a bid to market itself more innovatively to clients, Ashurst has hired RBS head of EMEA loan markets Dave Rome to a newly-created position of strategic director of corporate lending.
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Here come the accountants: PwC Legal hires former Milbank partner to head City finance division
PwC Legal has hired former Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy partner Laetitia Costa to run its banking and finance team in London.
Gowling WLG boosts banking and projects ranks with appointments from Dentons and HSF
Gowling WLG has made a double partner hire, appointing Dentons’ Matthew Harvey in banking and finance and former Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) Abu Dhabi head Andrew Newbery in projects. The appointments are the first UK lateral hires the firm has made since its merger went live earlier this year.
‘Too good to pass up on’: Former Addleshaw banking head Papworth joins gunnercooke
Richard Papworth, who served as head of banking and finance at Addleshaw Goddard until retiring last May, has joined corporate and commercial law ABS gunnercooke.
Deal watch: Corporate activity in April 2016
FORSTERS AND SLAUGHTERS LEAD ON TATA STEEL SELL OFF
Forsters and Slaughter and May acted on Greybull Capital’s rescue deal to buy Tata Steel’s European long products business, which includes the Scunthorpe steel works employing 3,500 people. Slaughters advised Tata, while Forsters acted for family office Greybull.
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Fountain Court boosts finance bench with arrival of Outer Temple silk Lissack
Fountain Court Chambers has bolstered its bench of finance silks after attracting banking heavyweight Richard Lissack QC (pictured) from Outer Temple Chambers.
Set to join the elite commercial and chancery set on Tuesday (3 May), Lissack is one of London’s most established finance silks. Called to the Bar in 1978 and taking silk in 1994, Lissack’s practice covers a broad range of advocacy across finance, regulatory, white collar crime and professional negligence. Continue reading “Fountain Court boosts finance bench with arrival of Outer Temple silk Lissack”