‘A true asset’: Travers Smith private equity star Phil Sanderson set to join Ropes & Gray Legal Business City firm Travers Smith has lost heavyweight private equity partner Phil Sanderson who is set to join US firm Ropes…
Sidley Austin and Linklaters lead on Bank of Cyprus €1bn capital raise Sarah Downey The London teams of both US firm Sidley Austin and Magic Circle firm Linklaters have scored heavyweight roles advising on…
Taylor Wessing and Macfarlanes advise on £350m RBS credit facility deal Legal Business Anglo-German firm Taylor Wessing and City-firm Macfarlanes have both landed leading roles on a major refinancing deal as the real…
Weil Gotshal heads H1 global private equity table as DLA Piper enters top 20 Legal Business Weil Gotshal & Manges has come out on top of the latest H1 private equity league tables in a top 20…
Guest post: Good news for the SFO in Innospec – jury convicts former CEO and sales director Legal Business Dennis Kerrison and Miltiades Papachristos were found guilty [on Wednesday 18 June] at Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to commit…
Back in the machine: A&O strengthens high yield practice with Cahill Gordon hire Jaishree Kalia With competition between US and UK firms for dominance in key European finance markets intensifying each month, Allen & Overy…
Whose money making machine? Not all law firms will be richer in a bank-lite world Legal Business Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
Back in the machine – opportunity and threats amid much-changed debt markets Jaishree Kalia After years in the post-Lehman doldrums, the finance markets are springing back to life. Legal Business assesses the forces powering…
Further BLP banking departures as real estate finance duo set to join Hogan Lovells Sarah Downey Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has lost another two City banking partners, with real estate finance duo Andrew Flemming and Jo Solomon…
RBS litigation: Bird & Bird’s head of dispute resolution criticised for £500m fluctuation in value of claim Legal Business The highly complex Royal Bank of Scotland 2008 rights issue litigation has seen Bird & Bird’s dispute resolution head Steven Baker…
Investment funds: Schulte Roth to grow London practice with move to bigger City premises Jaishree Kalia Schulte Roth & Zabel’s (SRZ’s) 80-strong top-tier transatlantic funds practice is set to grow after the US firm announced this week…
Financial squeeze – Morgan Stanley declares a hit to net income due to $1.2bn in legal costs Legal Business Morgan Stanley is the latest major financial institution to declare that it has been hard hit by litigation and the…
Punch above weight – the finance teams aiming to take on the City’s heavyweights Legal Business As confidence begins to re-emerge at City finance teams, Legal Business profiles the mid-market players intent on challenging the Square…
Shearman settles controlling stake in Co-operative Bank for US hedge funds David Stevenson Behind the scenes of the first-ever creditor bail-in of a bank in the UK. Last month The Co-operative Group’s £1.5bn…
Guest post: Independence matters – banking and big law in the news Richard Moorhead Lawyers and banks are in the news again. Lawrence Tomlinson, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Department for Business, Innovation and…
High yield, high stakes – DLA Piper makes key investment in deal finance with hire of ex-CC partner Legal Business It’s historically proved one of the hardest practice areas for City firms to break, proving often impenetrable for even elite…
UPDATED: BLP launches independent review of finance practice after team head departs David Stevenson Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s (BLP’s) head of banking and finance Matthew Kellett is to leave the firm, it was confirmed today…
Deutsche Bank profits dive amid €1.2bn legal provision as pressure builds on finance leaders Legal Business If anyone still doubts the mounting legal burdens now falling on the world’s largest finance houses Deutsche Bank has this…
Increased scrutiny of finances by insurers as 185 firms fail to get PII by first cut off Legal Business Insurers are joining banks in upping their scrutiny of law firm finances in light of recent insolvencies as 185 law firms…
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…
