Linklaters City corporate head Stuart Bedford quits to join LeapFrog Investments Legal Business Stuart Bedford, former City corporate head at Linklaters, is set to join emerging markets private equity house LeapFrog Investments as…
Tokyo deal wave anticipated following SoftBank’s £24.3bn ARM takeover Legal Business Lawyers working on the £24.3bn ARM Holdings takeover by Tokyo-based telecoms group SoftBank expect more M&A deals to come out…
Q&A: David Collins – Dentons UK corporate head on a fresh start, deals gone wrong and life after BLP Legal Business After his move from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) to Dentons as the new head of UK corporate and co-chair of…
Macfarlanes gets the gig as firms line up on Verizon’s $2.4bn purchase of Fleetmatics Legal Business Just days after the headline grabbing acquisition of Yahoo!, Goodwin Procter, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, A&L Goodbody and Macfarlanes…
Record year for Linklaters as strong M&A run pushes firm over £1.3bn revenue boundary Legal Business Revenue at Linklaters has crossed £1.3bn for the first time, up 3% in 2015/16 to £1.31bn, as profits per equity…
Linklaters leadership shuffle: Senior partner candidate Comiskey made corporate head Legal Business Less than two months after missing out on the coveted senior partner role at Linklaters, Aedamar Comiskey has been made…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in May 2016 Legal Business SULLIVANS AND WACHTELL ADVISE ON $62m BAYER DEAL Sullivan & Cromwell, Allen & Overy (A&O), and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &…
Revolving doors: DWF makes major corporate City hire as A&O and Stephenson Harwood make international appointments Legal Business DWF has appointed a new London head of corporate while Allen & Overy (A&O) and Stephenson Harwood have both made…
White & Case hiring spree continues with appointment of Ashurst capital markets partner Tom Moore As White & Case aims to build a 500-lawyer practice in the City by 2020, its recruitment spree has continued…
Ashurst corporate partner Clare quits for Stephenson Harwood Jaishree Kalia Stephenson Harwood has hired Ashurst corporate partner and board member Anthony Clare who is leaving the firm after 14 years.
Freshfields and Linklaters advise as competition issues threaten stock exchange merger Legal Business Börse/LSE tie-up raises regulatory concerns As Europe’s two largest financial market operators, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Deutsche Börse,…
The last word – Swoop to conquer Legal Business With the publication of our annual Global London report, leading figures at US law firms in the City weigh up…
Comment: Shifting the Overton window – Panama Papers will change the consensus on tax (and boost corporate law firms) Legal Business The leak of 11.5 million documents from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca has reheated a debate about tax and transparency…
Allen & Overy and Wachtell take leads on Deutsche Börse spin-off Victoria Young Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken a lead role acting for Deutsche Börse as it spins off…
Corporate is king as Dejonghe and Ballheimer win vote to lead Allen & Overy until 2020 Jaishree Kalia After a four-month election, Allen & Overy (A&O)’s C-suite for the next four years was revealed last month with corporate…
Wall Street elite go head to head in largest ever Chinese acquisition Sarah Downey Continued interest in European assets by Chinese investors peaked last month, as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Davis Polk &…
Beneficial ownership in Swiss PE acquisitions Legal Business Bär & Karrer’s Christoph Neeracher and Luca Jagmetti advise on the new rules. As part of a new Swiss legislation…
Filling the void: DLA Piper makes key investment funds hire with senior Nabarro appointment Legal Business DLA Piper has appointed Nabarro’s head of alternative investment funds, Andrew Wylie (pictured), to lead growth in its City investment…
City corporate push: Dentons makes M&A play with Pinsent Masons partner Levy Legal Business Dentons has made a corporate play in the City with the hire of Stephen Levy, who departs Pinsent Masons after…
BPP Law School changes hands in $1.1bn private equity deal Legal Business The dean of BPP University Law School Peter Crisp (pictured) says its ‘business as usual’ as the education provider has…
