Cutting the cord – Allen severs Ropes ties to focus on new role as DLA Piper continues finance push Kathryn McCann Raconteur, rainmaker and serial legal entrepreneur Maurice Allen is to phase out his ongoing role with Ropes & Gray to focus…
The Finance View – A&O’s new practice chiefs on repositioning the City’s top finance shop Madeleine Farman Victoria Young and Madeleine Farman talk to new heads on the US, high yield and China. While in recent years…
Q&A: Ropes’ private equity player Phil Sanderson on US firms, Travers Smith and Maurice Allen Legal Business Legal Business discusses working in a US firm and predictions for the market with Ropes & Gray‘s star private equity…
Private equity: Advent and Bain return to Weil for latest payments acquisition Legal Business Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Hogan Lovells have taken key roles as Advent International and Bain Capital Private Equity have…
Maurice Allen to advise DLA Piper while remaining consultant at Ropes Kathryn McCann Maurice Allen, Ropes & Gray‘s UK office founder and former senior partner is to join DLA Piper on 1 February…
‘Additional depth’: Kirkland recruits from Freshfields again for real estate finance partner Birks Legal Business Kirkland & Ellis has returned to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for another finance recruit, taking Jonathan Birks.
‘Significant in the post-Brexit market’: Shearman and Latham lead on Thomas Cook €750m high yield offering Legal Business Shearman & Sterling and Latham & Watkins have advised Thomas Cook and the underwriting banks in the global travel specialists’…
UK projects teams earn their stripes as MoD makes key changes to army deal Madeleine Farman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna reprised their advisory roles as the Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a £1.1bn…
Finance view – White & Case reinvents its London banking practice with some success Madeleine Farman Madeleine Farman and Victoria Young assess the firm’s reboot after a tough post-2008 run Traditionally a strong lender side practice…
The Finance View: Global firms jostle for position in panda bond market Legal Business Victoria Young reviews how global firms are positioning themselves to cash in on a market on the cusp As the…
The M&A Report: Private equity offers the clients for all seasons Multiple Authors Market turbulence looks likely to only send the private equity bandwagon spinning faster… for those who can get on board…
Green shoots: Global firms jostle for position in panda bond market Legal Business Victoria Young reviews how global firms are positioning themselves to cash in on a market on the cusp As the…
Eversheds defends £100m Northern Rock claim over allegations of professional negligence Kathryn McCann Eversheds is being sued by Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM) over allegations of professional negligence, in a claim worth £100m.
Allen & Overy fills finreg gap with Herbert Smith Freehills Bradbury Victoria Young Six months after financial regulatory head Bob Penn quit for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Allen & Overy (A&O) has…
Fintech boost: Simmons picks first recipients of free legal advice Legal Business Simmons & Simmons has announced credit-investment platform Alterest Investment Technologies, hourly car-insurance provider Cuvva, banking platform RailBank and invoicing firm…
Shearman exits continue as Paris duo follow global head out the door Legal Business Goodwin Procter announced today (5 October) that a team from Shearman & Sterling will be joining their private equity practice…
Recasting finance at Freshfields: high ambition married with gently lowered expectations Victoria Young Victoria Young and Madeleine Farman analyse the changes in Freshfields’ finance practice ‘I could have spent another ten years punching…
Q&A: Allen & Overy’s Scott Zemser talks leveraged finance, lockstep and competing in the US Madeleine Farman Legal Business caught up with Allen & Overy’s (A&O) new global co-head of leveraged finance, Scott Zemser.
Proskauer makes major LevFin play with Reed Smith partner Ben Davis Legal Business US firm Proskauer Rose has hired leveraged finance partner Ben Davis from Reed Smith as it ramps up growth of…
Making it in Manhattan: A&O pulls off four-partner finance hire to boost US presence Matthew Field Allen & Overy (A&O) has made a major addition to its US finance practice with the lateral hire of four…
