Irwin Mitchell replaced by Shakespeares on National Grid’s UK panel after review Legal Business Top 30 UK firm Irwin Mitchell last month lost its place on energy giant National Grid’s legal panel to Shakespeares,…
Virgin Media completes leadership reshuffle with new legal head as Weight Watchers unveils its new GC Legal Business Home entertainment company Virgin Media has completed an overhaul of its executive following its £15bn acquisition by Liberty Global in…
Power struggles – the challenges facing counsel in the $5trn oil and gas industry Francesca Fanshawe Legal Business talks to lawyers on the frontline of the controversial and risky oil and gas business to explore the…
Tom Kilroy re-joins Misys in chief of staff role as financial market speculates over ‘eventual flotation’ Legal Business After a five month stint at biotechnology company Genus as general counsel (GC), Tom Kilroy has returned to banking software…
Profile: Andrew Whittaker and Kate Cheetham, Lloyds Banking Group Legal Business The bank’s group and deputy GCs discuss the split of Lloyds and TSB, and helping Lloyds’ efforts to rebuild trust…
Transatlantic private equity house GI Partners appoints new general counsel Legal Business Transatlantic mid-market private equity firm and UK pub owner GI Partners has announced the appointment of new general counsel (GC)…
Barclays to offer 80 work experience places as high street bank mulls apprenticeship scheme Francesca Fanshawe Barclays’ in-house legal team is to offer around 80 work experience placements to students from socio-economic groups under-represented in the…
Burges Salmon’s head of corporate takes the National Express’ top legal role Francesca Fanshawe National Express has appointed Burges Salmon’s head of corporate and financial institutions Sandra Forbes as group general counsel and company secretary,…
Bonus time: four months on, Barclays GC Hoyt gets £700k in shares in reduced round of payouts Jaishree Kalia He may have only replaced Mark Harding late last year but Barclays‘ recently appointed group general counsel Bob Hoyt has…
In-house: Virgin Media completes leadership reshuffle with new general counsel as Weight Watchers unveils its new GC Legal Business Home entertainment company Virgin Media has completed the overhaul of its executive following its £15bn acquisition by Liberty Global in…
In-house moves: QBE Insurance Group appoints new group general counsel Legal Business Rated as one of the world’s top 20 insurance and reinsurance companies, ASX-listed business underwriters QBE Insurance Group have appointed the…
In-house: US government agency adds to its senior lawyer ranks with AOL and Google hires Legal Business The former deputy general counsel at both AOL and Google are set to become colleagues, having separately joined the US…
Pfizer maintains business-as-usual for legal alliance as Rosenthal latest GC to depart Legal Business It was recognised at its 2009 inception as the most radical attempt to carve up the way bluechips instruct their…
RBS share sell-off in Direct Line gifts Allen & Overy with £1bn deal David Stevenson Just under a year earlier than expected by some in the City, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) this week (26…
Lessons learned – will bluechip legal teams ever take training seriously? Francesca Fanshawe While the in-house profession has come of age, the number of home-grown trainees remains tiny. Legal Business assesses whether in-house…
Sochi over, the World Anti-Doping Agency brings in new GC as it looks to tougher 2015 code Legal Business As the excitement surrounding the successful albeit controversial Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi fades, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will…
Profile: Alison Kay, National Grid Caroline Hill The energy giant’s group GC discusses the overhaul of its legal function When the in-house legal team of a large…
MasterCard appoints Murphy as GC as Hanft steps down Legal Business UBS and HSBC see key in-house moves The start of 2014 has seen almost as much in the way of…
Hires in London for MoFo and O’Melveny as Paul Hastings brings in Pfizer’s assistant GC Legal Business US firms have announced a number of senior hires in the last few days as Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and…
FTSE 100 leadership: BG Group’s Vinter takes over as head of GC100 as Centrica’s Dawson steps down Legal Business Recognised as a heavyweight among in-house advisory and lobbying groups, BG Group’s general counsel (GC) Graham Vinter has taken over…
