Weeks after losing a senior tax partner, Travers is set for a double partner exit – this time from its pensions team. Pensions partners Andy Lewis and Dan Naylor are the latest to leave the firm. Lewis, who has been with the firm for over eight years, is set to join Sackers. He joined Travers […]
Goodwin Procter has hired two partners from DLA Piper to strengthen its sports finance offering. Partners Paul Gray and Lewis Gaut are set to join Goodwin’s real estate finance practice in the London office. Gray joined DLA from Sidley Austin in 2014 and has been a partner at the firm for over 10 years. His […]
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Morrison Foerster and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are leading for longstanding client Visa in its acquisition of Cambridge-headquartered fraud-fighting outfit, Featurespace. MoFo is leading for Visa on the corporate side of the deal, while Skadden is advising on antitrust matters. MoFo’s deal team is led by London managing partner Andrew Boyd and corporate […]
Returning from secondment, Lewis Silkin lawyer Amy Nevins pitched an idea of setting up a new practice within the firm. Here’s how she did it.
Addleshaw Goddard has entered the £100,000 club after hiking City salaries for newly qualified solicitors (NQ) by over 5 per cent. The firm’s rate for junior lawyers in London has increased from £95,000 to £100,000. The last time Addleshws raised its NQ salary was in September 2022, when the firm implemented a 16 per cent […]
Pinsent Masons is representing its longstanding client Everton FC on its sale to Friedkin Group. Blue Heaven Holdings has agreed to sell its 94 per cent stake in the Merseyside club, subject to approvals. Pinsents is leading for Everton FC, while Northridge is advising the seller and Proskauer Rose is on call for The Friedkin […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]
Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are leading on Legal & General’s sale of its UK housebuilder, Cala Homes. Slaughters is leading for longstanding client L&G as it sells Cala to to Ferguson Bidco, a joint venture between Sixth Street Partners and Patron Capital. Slaughters corporate partner Victoria MacDuff is at the helm of the […]
Greenberg Traurig is leading for Harland & Wolff, the company famous for building the Titanic, as it looks set to appoint administrators. Harland & Wolff posted a notice of intention to appoint an administrator yesterday. Greenberg’s team is led by corporate partner Shashank Krishna, co-vice chair of the restructuring group John Houghton and corporate partner […]
In a bid to expand its intellectual property practice, Addleshaw Goddard is adding five lawyers to its ranks from a specialist City firm. Stobbs’ head of litigation Geoff Steward is joining Addleshaws, along with four lawyers. Steward has worked at Stobbs for nearly six years, and played a key role in developing the firm’s IP […]
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising on the potential purchase of UK property website Rightmove. A team from Linklaters is advising the target Rightmove, led by corporate partners Iain Fenn and Dominic da Gama Campos. Rightmove has been targeted by REA Group, a similar online property business based in Australia. Its majority owner is […]