US expansion: Clifford Chance boosts Washington office with Bingham structured finance team Legal Business Clifford Chance has recruited a five-strong team from beleaguered US firm Bingham McCutchen to its Washington DC office, led by…
Bringing a ‘new dimension’: King & Spalding hires Linklaters securities partner Legal Business Linklaters’ partner Tom O’Neill has swapped Silk Street for Old Broad Street with King & Spalding making a double hire to…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in October 2014 Jaishree Kalia MAGIC CIRCLE DUO TAKE KEY ROLES ON MULTIBILLION TRAIN LEASE COMPANY SALE Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted for the sellers, a…
Constructing continents – the clients and advisers targeting Africa’s booming infra market Michael West In August this year, President Obama hosted the largest US-Africa leaders’ summit ever, with the heads of nearly every African…
Banking Litigation Insight: ‘The worst case scenario is £200m – litigation is containable’ Legal Business An unprecedented wave of global enforcement has pushed risks facing banks to once unthinkable proportions. In the follow-up to our banking…
‘It was necessary to be present in the financial capital of Europe’: Spain’s Pérez-Llorca set to launch London office Sarah Downey Spanish firm Pérez-Llorca has made a key investment into the City and is set to launch a London office at…
Offshore: Putting funds back on the map Legal Business With transactional work picking up globally, offshore funds are back in vogue. We assess the most active offshore firms and…
‘Huge experience of growing a business’: DLA Piper’s Knowles lands chairman role at investment banking firm Zeus Capital Legal Business Sir Nigel Knowles, who is set to step down as co-CEO and managing partner at DLA Piper later this year,…
Cadwalader grows London team as Ashurst capital markets partner returns to the firm Sarah Downey US firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has made a key hire to its global capital markets practice with Ashurst partner…
Weil boosts finance practice with Ashurst hire in New York Jaishree Kalia US firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges continues to boost its global finance practice with the hire of Ashurst banking partner…
Jones Day hires Paul Hastings’ Neil Hamilton as it builds its London capital markets practice Legal Business Within a week of hiring high-yield partner Jonathan Bloom from Ropes & Gray, Jones Day has expanded its securitisation capability…
A chance to turn the corner for the SFO but a high-stakes test on ‘blockbuster’ cases could define its fate Legal Business Michael West assesses the prospects for the agency after settlement of the Tchenguiz claims He was always going to have…
Freshfields wins Deutsche Bank $243m pay out from Sebastian Holdings Tom Moore The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that investment fund Sebastian Holdings must pay Germany’s Deutsche Bank $243m after losing…
Olswang’s head of real estate finance quits for Dechert Legal Business Olswang’s head of real estate finance Eleni Skordaki has quit the firm after nearly ten years to join Dechert’s City finance…
Guest post: Snake Hall – the games tax lawyers have played Richard Moorhead I recently finished Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, a truly brilliant novel about the ascent of Thomas Cromwell to political…
FCA sets aside £1.7m for Clifford Chance’s insurance industry probe Legal Business The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set aside £1.7m for the independent inquiry being conducted by Clifford Chance (CC) into the…
Ashurst finance partner Simon Thrower latest to leave with move to Simmons Jaishree Kalia Ashurst finance partner Simon Thrower has quit to join Simmons & Simmons’ City practice within days of the announcement that corporate…
Comment: 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…
Loss and gain: Ashurst loses City corporate partner as KWM finance partner joins in Sydney Jaishree Kalia Ashurst yesterday (12 May) saw both sides of the lateral hiring coin as it announced the hire in Sydney of King…
Behind the veil – Can Islamic finance live up to the sales pitch? David Stevenson ‘You can’t be a credible financial centre without having a credible Islamic finance programme,’ says Qudeer Latif, head of Clifford…
