Development company Arup’s general counsel is moving back to private practice after 10 years in-house. James Pratt leaves Arup to join Mantle Law as a partner in its London office. Mantle launched in London in 2021. It is an international boutique firm with a focus on construction-related arbitration and disputes. Prior to joining Mantle, Pratt […]
Gowling WLG has recruited Ashurst real estate partner Nicolas Deuerling to join its 40-strong Frankfurt office, which opened in May last year. Deuerling was a longstanding Ashurst partner, and specialises in advising national and international clients on complex real estate transactions, along with property finance and project development. He is leaving Ashurst together with his […]
Macfarlanes has hired a new partner from Freshfields for its private equity real assets team. Victoria Hills previously worked at Freshfields, where she was a corporate real estate partner. Hills joined Freshfields as a trainee in 2003 and was made partner in 2016. In her time at Freshfields, Hills gained experience in private capital and […]
BDB Pitmans has lost an eight-partner team to TLT, The Lawyer can reveal. It is understood that Sarah Clark, Nick Evans, Tom Henderson, Mustafa Latif-Aramesh, Richard Marsh, Duncan O’Connor, James Ross and Angus Walker have all resigned from the partnership and are set to join TLT. The majority of the eight partners work in the […]
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 […]
Dickson Minto has made a rare dip into the recruitment market with the appointment of a real estate partner from Walker Morris. The former group head of Leeds-based Walker Morris’ real estate practice Jeremy Moore has joined Scotland’s Dickson Minto as a partner with immediate effect. Moore will be based out of Dickson Minto’s London […]
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, […]
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, […]
Ward Hadaway is set to transform both its Newcastle offices into open-plan spaces to enhance hybrid working and maximise occupancy. The firm has been operating out of both Sandgate House and Keel Row House by the River Tyne for years, with teams split across the two buildings. Keel Row House is the more modern of […]
Ethnic minority lawyers have expressed fear and defiance as far-right protests continue across the country, with some choosing to work from home for safety. Riots and clashes between far-right groups and the police are expected to take place again tonight, with immigration law firms and asylum centres listed as possible targets. Lawyers from ethnic minority […]
As Sir Keir Starmer settles into Number 10, so law firms must adapt to the new political order. With that in mind, it is worth taking note of a couple of lateral moves that have taken place in the mid-tier in the last couple of weeks. Alex Madden, the head of planning at South West […]
Danish big five firm Accura has made a handful of redundancies in its real estate team, citing sustained macroeconomic pressures that have supressed deal flow. The firm declined to specify how many lawyers in its team had left the firm, instead calling the move a “minor adjustment of the real estate organisation to the current […]