Record breaking $49bn Verizon bond issue sees Debevoise and Davis Polk secure lead roles David Stevenson Debevoise & Plimpton and Davis Polk & Wardwell have landed roles on Verizon Communication’s record breaking $49bn US bond issue. The deal…
Revolving Doors: September ushers in hires for Bakers, Clyde & Co, Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Irwin Mitchell David Stevenson A return to business as usual this September has brought a wave of lateral hires including 4,000-lawyer Baker & McKenzie’s…
Don’t blame your shareholders for tax avoidance decisions, Farrer & Co report warns FTSE 100 bosses David Stevenson Company directors facing scrutiny over their low corporate tax bill are not able to effectively blame their decisions on their…
Compliance drive – BLP’s financial services partner joins Barclays investment arm as EMEA head David Stevenson As leading retail and investment banks bolster their internal compliance functions it has emerged that Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) financial services…
Takeover potential – Linklaters & Simmons lead on Amec’s £700m bid for Kentz David Stevenson Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons‘ longstanding corporate relationships with Amec and Kentz have gifted them with a potentially lucrative takeover bid…
BLP loses head of private equity Raymond McKeeve to Jones Day David Stevenson With all eyes on Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) the news that corporate finance partner and global head of private equity…
Revolving Doors: Linklaters hires former Herbert Smith Asia head as Clayton Utz and Norton Rose make key hires David Stevenson Herbert Smith Freehills recent internal confidence that its run of post-merger exits had come to an end has been dashed after…
Wall Street in London: Weil Gotshal and Davis Polk lead on $1.6bn takeover of UK’s Edwards Group David Stevenson As British industrial technology firm Edwards Group is today (19 August) bought out for $1.6bn by Swedish engineering group Atlas…
Private equity: CVC gifts Clifford Chance and Cleary Gottlieb with two major European mandates David Stevenson Followers of the tussle between UK and US private equity practices for European mandates were this week rewarded with an…
Finance: Slaughters, Cravath and De Brauw secure Shell DCM work as Irwin Mitchell wins Wells Fargo as new client David Stevenson European corporates are showing greater reluctance than last year to tap into the debt capital markets but Royal Dutch Shell…
Deal Watch: Dentons & King & Spalding act on HR Owen hostile takeover bid as Freshfields and Skadden secure Asian M&A roles David Stevenson While the traditional August lull in corporate work may have seen Asia relax, the giant is far from asleep and…
Asia round-up: Bakers ushers in new Singapore head as MoFo and Taylor Wessing plot regional growth David Stevenson Aside from the big Asia Pacific news this week of SJ Berwin’s tie-up with King & Wood Mallesons, other major…
What’s in a name? SJ Berwin and King & Wood Mallesons seal union David Stevenson Forming a ground-breaking union between a leading City firm and an Asia powerhouse, King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) partners confirmed…
Deal watch: Latham and Wachtell lead on largest public deal of the year David Stevenson In what remains a gloomy cross-border deal market, US leaders Latham & Watkins and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have…
Do you need to think about tougher tax rules for your partnership? Er, probably David Stevenson Does abuse of tax rules for partnership require a major clampdown by the taxman? That’s the £300m question and the…
Ropes & Gray lands marquee role in GSK Chinese bribery investigation David Stevenson Even in an age in which corporate investigations have become some of the most sought after work for legal advisers,…
Deal watch: M&A activity picks up as A&O, Linklaters and Hogan Lovells secure key roles David Stevenson With Q1 2013 reported as one of the slowest starts to the year M&A-wise for a decade, the deal market…
One trick pony – BLP to retain MLS in wake of partner departures David Stevenson ‘Two people leaving doesn’t mean the whole business collapses,’ says Neville Eisenberg, Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) managing partner of 14…
Resurgence in debt and equity capital markets sees Allen & Overy claim top spot for issuer and manager roles David Stevenson Allen & Overy (A&O) has topped Thomson Reuters’ table of legal advisers on global debt and equity capital markets work for…
Financial results 2013: BLP confirms bad year as revenues drop by 5% David Stevenson It appears today (19 July) is a good day to try and bury bad news. With Dundas & Wilson earlier…
