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 […]
After months of negotiations, The Spectator Magazine has been sold to hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall, with four firms in action. White & Case led for Marshall and Old Queen Street Ventures (OQS Media) on the acquisition. The acquisition follows a receivership process undertaken last year by Lloyds Banking Group and the acquisition of a […]
Paul Hastings is expanding once more in London, hiring a partner from Davis Polk & Wardwell’s capital markets team. Dan Hirschovits joins Paul Hastings after 12 years at Davis Polk, where he was promoted to its partnership in 2017. Prior to that, he was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Hirschovits works on equity capital markets […]
Cooley has bulked up its emerging companies and venture capital practice with a partner trio joining from three different firm. Angus Miln, Ali Ramadan and Helen Pantelides have joined the firm, adding to its offering for private companies and investors in high-growth, disruptive industries. Miln joins from Taylor Wessing, where he has been head of […]
Three firms are at the helm of a new joint venture deal between Barratt Developments, Lloyds and the UK Government to accelerate the delivery of housebuilding across the UK. The arrangement will see the three businesses collaborate as part of the Made Partnership, which intends to act as the master developer for multiple large scale, […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has recruited an in-houser from pension investor PSP Investment, in a move that aims to strengthen its London finance group. Nicola Noël joins the US firm as a partner, having been a senior legal director at PSP. She works on leveraged finance matters, advising private credit funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension […]
Dentons and Reed Smith have taken the leading roles on eSky Group’s purchase of travel business Thomas Cook. Dentons private equity partner Nicholas Plant, along with Michał Wasiak, a partner in the firm’s Warsaw office, were at the helm of the team for Polish purchaser eSky. They were supported by corporate associate Alex Macdonald, IP […]
Slaughter and May is advising longtime client Segro on the property investment company’s purchase of Tritax Eurobox. Corporate partners David Johnson and Sally Wokes are leading for the London-listed warehouse heavyweight, Segro. Meanwhile, the target Tritax is being advised by Ashurst. Corporate partners Karen Davies and Simon Bullock are at the helm of the team, […]
Private equity house TDR Capital has promoted Emma Gilks to the top general counsel role after David Holdsworth returned to private practice last month. Gilks has been at TDR Capital since 2015 when she joined as a legal counsel from Reed Smith. Having qualified at Reed Smith in 2012, Gilks worked in the firm’s corporate […]
Two of Sidley Austin’s private equity team are moving to A&O Shearman as the latter continues to grow out its City practice. Dan Graham and Paul Dunbar are moving to the magic circle firm after three years at Sidley. Before then, the pair worked at Vinson & Elkins together from 2016 to 2021. Dunbar is […]
Latham & Watkins has hired a partner from Baker McKenzie to bolster its corporate practice and life sciences groups. Melanie Howard joins Latham after seven years as a partner at Bakers. Before Bakers, Howard was a senior associate at Clifford Chance for ten years. She is also qualified to practise in Australia, having spent three […]
Shortlisted in the corporate category at this year’s The Lawyer Awards, Stephenson Harwood is a new entrant on the private capital scene, capitalising on referrals from US firms.