BT is extending its legal panel until 2024, with its 15 law firms remaining on the roster for another year. The panel was meant to be reviewed this year, but will now remain in place until March 2024. The telecoms giant previously trimmed down firms from 37 to just 15 in 2020, with the likes […]
Three firms have been selected to work on chipmaker Arm’s highly anticipated IPO, The Lawyer can reveal. A team from Morrison & Foerster will be working on the issuing side in the US, with Slaughter and May allocated to the UK component. Davis Polk & Wardwell has landed the mandate on the underwriting side for the […]
The Competition & Markets Authority has relaxed its stance on Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Activision Blizzard for nearly $69bn, in what will be welcome news for the IT giant’s antitrust lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges. Last month, the UK regulator said that the deal raised competition concerns in relation to both console gaming and […]
Harry Borovick started life as the son of a textile market trader in Berwick Street. “I’m not from a family of lawyers,” he discloses. “My family were textile market traders for a number of generations, and I worked at my family’s business while at law school. I think that early interest in commerciality and how […]
Rachel Chapman has joined telecoms giant BAI Communications as its new general counsel for UK and Ireland. She replaces Amanda Moore, who has been BAI’s general counsel for over two years after moving over from Serco. Moore is set to relocate out of the UK, though her next move is not yet public. Chapman joins […]
Software analytics company Fico has hired its new head of legal EMEA from software rival Databricks. Max Garth joins the business having spent only 16 months in his previous role. He replaces Simon Elsom, who has retired after 14 years at Fico. Garth trained as a solicitor in-house at recruitment agency Robert Walters, during which […]
Pursuing big goals requires innovative thinking; enter BT’s director of transformation and projects, Prash Mehta.
Ten months ago, James Thurgood moved from challenger bank Metro Bank to Elliptic: a tech start-up providing intelligence on crypto to ensure customers get compliant with regulation. Going from a highly-regulated sector to a tech scale-up that is evolving at the same time as regulation presented a new challenge for Thurgood – and one he […]
This week marked a year since the Supreme Court’s decision in Lloyd v Google in which a multibillion-pound data protection claim brought against the tech giant was thrown out. The immediate aftermath saw a long pipeline of data claims dropped in a flash. But 12 months on and claimant firms are anticipating a bounce-back. Here are […]
Mishcon de Reya’s lawyers will be able to use Taylor Vinters’ office in the City of London, plus two regional bases, once the merger launches next year. Taylor Vinters’ offices will be available in Oxford and Cambridge. Real estate is central to Mishcon’s long-awaited “strategic combination” with the life sciences firm, which will proceed as MDR […]
SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) has appointed a new general counsel to replace Spencer Collins, who left to join Arm this year. Amanda Sanchez-Barry has been promoted to general counsel at SBIA, having been a partner within the company since 2018. Sanchez-Barry, was hired as a partner in October 2018 from Linklaters, where she was a […]
Vodafone Group has hired a new general counsel from another FTSE giant, as Rosemary Martin prepares to retire after more than decade at the telecommunications business. EasyJet’s legal chief Maaike de Bie has been appointed to the role of general counsel. De Bie is herself a FTSE in-house veteran, having been group general counsel for […]