Rachel is deputy editor (City) of The Lawyer and primarily covers corporate and the City
Slaughter and May continues to lead corporate client rankings, notching up more stock market clients than magic circle rivals Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. According to the latest data published by Adviser Rankings, the firm had a total of 119 stock market clients in the second quarter of 2015, a slight drop on its 122 […]
Shearman & Sterling has partnered with Saudi Arabia’s Abdulaziz Alassaf & Partners, meaning the US-founded firm can now operate in Riyadh, Jeddah and Al-Khobar. Shearman has been looking to increase its presence in the Middle East for some time (4 March 2015) and recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its office in Abu Dhabi. Abdulaziz Alassaf […]
In 2008, Tim Emmerson was a senior partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s M&A team in London. Two years later, he became head of European M&A, tasked with building the firm’s corporate transactions practice in the UK and Europe. In 2008, Tim Emmerson was a senior partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s M&A team in London. Two […]
Move of the week Fried Frank is hiring a banking partner from Hogan Lovells to become the firm’s first head of finance in London. Hogan Lovells banking partner Stuart Brinkworth is joining Fried Frank’s London office as head of the financial team from 1 September. Brinkworth, who has been a partner at Hogan Lovells since […]
Baker & McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have all taken lead roles in data centre operator Equinix’s £2.3bn offer for London-based rival TelecityGroup. Slaughter and May partners Richard Smith and John Papanichola advised Equinix on UK public company aspects of the acquisition, along with partners Mathew Tobin, Philippe Chappatte, Jonathan Fenn and […]
Ashurst has appointed London corporate partner James Wood from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was the partner in charge of the firm’s Australian relationships and a key player in the firm’s energy and mining team. Wood originally trained and qualified in his native Australia before joining Freshfields as an associate in 1996. He was made […]
At the beginning of this year, Osborne Clarke welcomed in a new UK managing partner after Simon Beswick stepped down after a 12-year run. Now entering his sixth month in the role, Ray Berg explains how he intends to continue Beswick’s legacy. “One of my main aims in my first year is for a smooth […]
Arthur Cox and Kerman & Co are working with Dublin-based Applegreen, as the petrol forecourt retailer set out its intention to float on Aim and its Irish equivalent, the Enterprise Securities Market (ESM). Arthur Cox is advising the company on Irish aspects of the listing, with a team led by Dublin-based chairman Ciarán Bolger, head […]
Paul Hastings has hired King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) corporate partner Duncan Woollard to lead the firm’s private funds practice in London. Woollard is the third lateral hire for the firm in the last two months, following the appointment of Ashurst leveraged finance partner Luke McDougall last month (13 April 2015) and DLA Piper legal […]
DLA Piper and Latham & Watkins are understood to be advising US company PureTech on its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange. DLA Piper is representing the Boston-based science-driven healthcare company, as it seeks to raise around $160m for the listing. Meanwhile Latham & Watkins is believed to be advising PureTech’s joint bookrunners […]
Kirkland & Ellis is understood to have lost three private funds partners to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, less than a year after the firm’s London head Graham White made the same move. Mark Mifsud, Kate Downey and Alexandra Conroy resigned from Kirkland last week. Their starting date at Fried Frank is yet to […]
Barclays’ former general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) investment has joined alternative fund management company BlackRock. Erica Handling started at BlackRock’s London office earlier in the month, as EMEA general counsel. She replaces James DesMarais, who retired from the company at the end of December 2014. DesMarais spent 10 years at […]