Filter This View

  • February 14, 2012 |

    DLA Piper continues global growth with Mexico office launch

    DLA Piper has today (14 February) opened a new office in Mexico City with the hire of a four-partner team from the local arm of US law firm Thompson & Knight. The team joining DLA includes tax partner Manuel Rajunov, projects partner Miguel de Erice, capital markets partner Guillermo Uribe and corporate partner Carlos Valencia, who specialises in telecoms, media and technology.

    1 minute read

  • February 9, 2012 |

    Legal Services Act sees law firm LBO first as PE house secures Parabis deal

    "Parabis is already a very successful company and all of the stakeholders have done well out of it. The primary motivation was not cash out but to grow the business. The only change will be that it has now got access to deep-pocket capital for investment..."

    1 minute read

  • February 8, 2012 |

    Mayer Brown City real estate chief joins US rival as London office head

    US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman has hired Mayer Brown City real estate head Peter Sugden as its new London managing partner. The firm said the appointment had come as part of its expansion plans in its core areas of real estate and financial services. Sugden is taking on the role one year after Katten saw its former London head, funds partner Martin Cornish, depart for K&L Gates in early 2011. Finance partner Edward Black has headed up the office in the interim period.

    1 minute read

  • February 7, 2012 |

    A&O grows Washington IP team with Orrick partner hire

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has strengthened its US intellectual property (IP) litigation practice with the hire of Steven Adkins from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Adkins has joined the firm's Washington DC office as a partner in the US litigation and global IP practice. He specialises in Section 337 investigations and trials before the International Trade Commission (ITC) involving patent infringement and other unfair trade issues.

    1 minute read

  • February 5, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Norton Rose, Orrick, Salans and Gide

    Former Slaughter and May partner Lucy Wylde has been appointed as general counsel of the Government's Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG). Wylde left Slaughters in April last year to take up a position as GC of the Asset Protection Agency, which was set up by HM Treasury in the wake of the credit crunch to stabilise financial institutions affected by the downturn.

    1 minute read

  • February 2, 2012 |

    Jones Day and Covington recruit for London white collar crime teams

    Jones Day and Covington & Burling have become the latest US law firms to bolster their white collar investigations practices in London, making hires from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Baker Botts respectively. Jones Day is bringing in Glyn Powell, who has headed up the fraud business area at the SFO since 2004.

    1 minute read

  • January 31, 2012 |

    Here come the Aussies - Slater & Gordon kicks off Legal Services Act era in earnest

    "Let the transformative change of RJW begin – it has been clear for a long time that the firm was itching to do something big and it now has the backing to realise its ambitions. RJW's rivals will no doubt be watching very closely..."

    1 minute read

  • January 31, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: a round-up of recent moves including SJB, Eversheds and BLP

    SJ Berwin has added another energy partner to its London headquarters with the hire of Stuart Jordan from Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM). Jordan, who has been at GTM since late 2010 when he joined from DLA Piper, is an engineering and construction specialist who handles both contentious and non-contentious work.

    1 minute read

  • January 25, 2012 |

    Weil's London office seals hire of Hogan Lovells finance partner

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has strengthened its London finance practice with the hire of international finance partner Mark Donald from Hogan Lovells. Donald, who handed in his notice this week and will join the US firm's City base later in the year, focuses on domestic and cross-border leveraged and acquisition finance, real estate finance and fund financing.

    1 minute read

  • January 23, 2012 |

    Links, White & Case and Skadden make SocGen's French line-up

    Societe Generale has drawn up a roster of law firms to provide advice in France, with Linklaters, White & Case and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom among those making the cut. CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre; Linklaters; White & Case; De Pardieu Brocas Maffei and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel have all been selected to provide general legal advice to SocGen in France.

    1 minute read