Royal Mail Group Legal Business General counsel: Neil Harnby. Team headcount: 27 lawyers. The legal team at Royal Mail has had a busier few years…
Carillion Legal Business Director of legal services and company secretary: Richard Tapp. Team headcount: 19 lawyers in the UK, four in Canada, two…
The Crown Estate Legal Business Director of business operations and general counsel: Vivienne King. Team headcount: five lawyers. The Crown Estate is governed by an…
Real estate: Macfarlanes and Clifford Chance take the lead on £370m Legal & General acquisition Legal Business Real estate heavyweights Macfarlanes and Clifford Chance (CC) have landed leading roles on one of the New Year’s first major…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in November 2014 Legal Business BATTERSEA POWER STATION SEES BAKER & MCKENZIE AND NRF TAKE THE LEAD In one of the largest real estate financings…
‘A testament to our strategic direction’: Naunton and Jones ditch real estate boutique dream to join King & Wood Mallesons Legal Business Senior Eversheds partners William Naunton and Clive Jones, who handed in their resignations at the start of this year with plans…
Comment: Magic Circle real estate withdrawal isn’t a myth, but it’s not that simple Legal Business In a 2011 piece on the decimated real estate market in the City, we noted that few senior property partners…
The Last Word – Hot property Legal Business Renewed interest from international investors leading to increased deal flow means real estate practices are back in favour again. We…
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…
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…
Greenberg Traurig hires Dentons London-based co-head of global real estate Legal Business Greenberg Traurig has hired Dentons London-based co-head of global real estate Eric Rosedale as its co-chair of international real estate.
Deal watch: Nabarro and Addleshaws take the lead on £800m Hermes/Co-Op regeneration joint venture Sarah Downey While major real estate deals are hard to come by, the usual suspects continue to take the lion’s share of…
Crown Estate halves coastal and rural property panel with appointment of Burges Salmon and Bond Dickinson Caroline Hill The Crown Estate has halved its rural and coastal portfolio and Windsor Estate legal panel from four to two, re-appointing Burges…
Deals: CC, Taylor Wessing and Ashurst act on infra and real estate deals Legal Business Advisers benefit as investors target industrial assets The shift towards global industrial real estate portfolios as an asset class last…
H1 2013/14: Nabarro points to pick up in corporate and real estate amid flat half year results Sarah Downey Nabarro has posted flat half year (H1) revenues for the 2013/14 year, with figures rising by a marginal 0.3% from…
Panel review: Taylor Wessing and KWM SJ Berwin secure spots on property developer Essential Living’s ten-strong panel Legal Business Newly-formed rental property developer Essential Living has appointed a ten-strong panel of law firms to its roster as it focuses…
Key real estate and construction hires for Macfarlanes, Taylor Wessing and Withers Legal Business Property and construction lawyers are taking advantage of being back in vogue with a number of high profile moves in…
Deal Watch: sporting metaphor alert as Dechert, HSF and DLA Piper score high-profile football roles David Stevenson The balance sheets of most English clubs may be shakier than Villa’s back four, but when it comes to raising…
Deal Watch: Nabarro and Ashurst act on sale of LSE HQ as King & Spalding secures repeat European M&A for GSK David Stevenson Ashurst and Nabarro‘s real estate teams have secured a role on the sale of another landmark London building, while King…
